The Story Teardown

Find out how far ahead your product really is.

In under a week, we'll show you which story your company isn't telling, what that's costing you, and the one reframe that changes how customers see you. It's recorded, made for your brand, and yours to keep.

$2,500 · 3–5 days · fully credited if you keep going
What you get

A diagnosis. Not a sales call in disguise.

A recorded walkthrough of the story you're telling now, the gap we see, and where we'd take it. It's clear enough to act on whether or not you ever hire us.

20–30 min

A recorded walkthrough, made for your brand only

1 page

The gap, the reframe, and three moves

3–5 days

From go to delivered

Credited

Every dollar counts toward what you build next

The work, not a pitch

Here's the thinking you'd get, on brands you know.

Two real teardowns, two different gaps, the same method.

Terra Kaffe
A founder story, replaced by a changelog
What they say now

An About page that could describe any startup — "founded by a group of former baristas, coffee farmers, chefs, designers, and technologists" — and a content feed made entirely of firmware notes.

The gap

The founder, who built the machine because he couldn't find one worth owning, tells that story on podcasts. It isn't anywhere on their own site.

The story we'd tell

"Not a smarter appliance. The machine a founder built because nobody else would."

Read the full Terra Kaffe teardown →
Stix
Selling the clubs when the product is a feeling
What they say now

A product, a partnership, a philosophy and a scorecard: four pages, four headlines. The belief is on the site. No one's face is.

The gap

Stix has named what keeps people out of golf: exclusivity, intimidation, hype. It has never shown a single person getting in.

The story we'd tell

"Not simpler clubs. Golf without the gatekeeping, from your first round to your hundredth."

Read the full Stix teardown →
This is for you if…

The product is winning. The story isn't.

You sound like everyone else

You lead with specs and features because your whole category does, so you blend right in.

The good stuff is buried

There's an origin, an obsession, a way of making things nobody can copy, and your customers never hear about it.

You want a number, not a mood board

You've paid for beautiful work that moved nothing. This time you want to know what it did.

How it works

Three steps. Under a week.

01

You ask

Tell us the brand and send a few links. No long calls, no forty-question intake form.

02

We dig

We meet your story the way a customer does, then record the gap, the reframe and three moves.

03

It's yours

Keep all of it. If you decide to build it within 14 days, the full $2,500 comes off whatever you build next.

The investment

Risk-free if you keep going.

The hard part of hiring a storyteller is trust, not price. This is the quickest way to find out whether we see something others missed, and if you decide to build it, the whole fee comes back to you.

$2,500
one-time · per brand
  • A 20–30 min recorded story walkthrough
  • A one-page note: the gap, the reframe, three moves
  • Delivered in 3–5 days
  • Yours to keep, and to build with anyone
Request your Teardown
The full $2,500 is credited toward any Gibeon engagement booked within 14 days of delivery.
Where it goes from here

Start small. Prove it. Then keep going.

01 · Find the gap
Story Teardown
$2,500 · 3–5 days

The diagnosis: the gap, and the one reframe that changes everything.

You are here
02 · Close it
The Brand Film
$20k · 90 days · owned use

One story, and the film that carries it, built to move one number you already track.

03 · Put money behind it
Brand Film + Campaign
$30–40k · adds paid media

Same story, same shoot, plus a :60 and two :30s you're licensed to run for twelve months.

04 · Keep pace
Story Playbook → Story Engine
Priced with the plan

Six months planned, then run: a campaign each quarter, six to eight pieces a month, and a report on what moved.

Who's behind it
A

Hey, I'm Aaron.

Twenty-five years behind the camera taught me the footage is never the point. The story underneath it is. The Teardown is that instinct in its smallest, sharpest form, and every one of them comes from me.

How far ahead is your product?

One recording, one reframe, delivered in under a week.

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