Built, shipped, and run for you
- of the martech stack goes unused Market stat — Gartner MarTech Survey
- 51%
- a week lost to manual admin Market stat — industry benchmark
- 16 hrs
- returned per $1 spent on automation Market stat — industry benchmark
- $3.70
For marketing agencies
Stop drowning in tools. Get your time back.
You pay for 40-plus tools, half of them barely used, and your team still rebuilds client reports by hand every month. We find the one bottleneck costing you the most hours, build custom software to remove it, then run it for you — so your people work on clients, not workarounds.
Tell me your problem See what we build
Free Bottleneck Audit — a 30-minute teardown of your stack. You walk away with a written game plan that ranks your highest-payoff fixes, yours to keep even if we never work together.
The real problem
What we hear from Agency owners
Real frustrations from real owners, in their own words. We've heard them all — and built past every one.
40-plus tools, half of them barely used
57% of marketers are feeling overwhelmed by the number of martech platforms available
You're paying for a stack your team only half-touches. Every new platform promises to connect everything and adds one more login instead. The bill grows; the busywork doesn't shrink.
Manual client reporting eats days
Every month, your analysts pull numbers from a dozen dashboards and assemble reports by hand. It's hours of skilled time spent copy-pasting — time that should go to the client work that actually renews accounts.
Nothing integrates
35% of marketers suffer from having multiple technologies that don't integrate properly
You've bought add-ons just to make tools talk to each other, and they still don't. Your team spends more of the week on workarounds than on the strategy clients are paying for.
The system lives in people's heads
If someone new joined tomorrow, could they understand how this works? If the answer is no, the system still lives in people's heads
If someone new started Monday, could they run your workflows without a week of shadowing? When the answer is no, your operation walks out the door every time someone leaves.
Burned by consultants who don't ship
Consultants overpromised, and we discovered they really also had no idea how to do these things
You've paid people to read a report and hand it back as a recommendation. You don't need another deck. You need someone who builds the thing, puts it in production, and stays to run it.
Every one of these has a fix. Here's what we build — then automate.
What we build
From problem to a system that runs itself.
Representative outcomes from systems we build. Your numbers depend on your starting point.
One connected stack
- a week back, per person
- 10+ hrs
Before Paying for 40-plus tools and moving client data between them by hand all week.
After A connected core where data flows on its own — built around the tools worth keeping, the rest retired.
Reporting that builds itself
- less time on reporting
- 80%
Before Analysts burn days each month pulling data and assembling client reports by hand.
After Live reports build and send themselves on schedule — accurate, on-brand, zero manual assembly.
Content that ships faster
- throughput, same team
- 2x
Before Production stalls on manual research, briefs, and revision cycles that push campaigns late.
After Research, briefs, and first drafts move through a system your team reviews — not one it builds from scratch.
Leads routed the moment they land
- to first response
- 5 min
Before Inbound sits in a shared inbox for hours. No scoring, no routing — hot leads go cold.
After Leads are scored and routed in real time on intent and fit, so the right person follows up fast.
Free 30-minute teardown. No pitch, no pressure.
In their words
What clients say
What sets Signal & Story apart is that they don't just do what you ask... they find the gaps you're too busy to see. They ask the hard questions, challenge your thinking, and build systems that actually help your business grow.
I am a software developer by trade and I didn't think AI could do as much as he was using it for in our business use cases at such a rapid pace, but he showed me that it could be done.
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Find out exactly where you're losing time and money — in 30 minutes, free.
No pitch, no pressure. We'll pinpoint the busywork draining your week and rank the highest-payoff fixes. You walk away with a written game plan that's yours to keep — even if we never work together.