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People Stories

Where to find it

On your Home page, there's a “Collect People Stories” action tile — “Gather videos, photos, and written responses from your people.” A “Curate Campaigns” tile is also visible, marked Coming Soon.


Step 1: Create a Project

From Stories Home, you have two entry points: Create project (collect videos, written stories from people, or upload from your local drive) or Build on-brand story (repurpose existing responses into content — covered in Step 6).


Clicking Create project opens a modal with three collection methods: Collect (invite-based, live today), Upload videos (live), and Upload written responses — bulk-upload from other tools (Coming Soon).


Step 2: Choose a Starting Point

Selecting Collect opens Create New Project, where you either start with Create blank project or browse category presets under Employer Brand: Candidate Attraction, Onboarding, Learning & Development, Internal Mobility, Benefits, Culture Values, Early Career Programs, Social Responsibility, Business Outlook, and Marketing. Prefer AI assistance? Toggle “Turn on AI mode” to browse prompt-based suggestions instead.

Step 3: Select Response Formats & Add Questions

Under Edit Response Formats, choose one or both formats — both can be selected together, live today: Video (set Orientation and Video length) and Written (respondents can also upload photos with their submission). Below that, add your Questions — AI-generated or custom, with a 350-character limit per question, plus Add question / Generate more options.

Step 4: Finalize & Invite

On Finalize Project, configure Sender name on invites, an optional sender introduction video, and your Invitation message (rich text editor, 350-character limit).

You can also require contributors to review a consent agreement before participating — manage consent requirements in Account Settings.

A live preview always reflects your current settings. Click Invite to send, or Save and close to finish later. Invitations can go out via email, shareable link, or QR code.

Step 5: Track Projects & Responses

Head to Projects to see response count, activity, and People Stories generated per project, plus account-wide totals. Each project has a quick-actions menu: Edit project, Share / Add invitees, Copy invite link, and Archive.

Step 6: Turn Responses into On-Brand Content

From Stories Home, click Build on-brand story to repurpose collected responses. Video format is live today; Written format using CLEO and Widget (embeddable story-collection forms) are both Coming Soon.

Selecting Video format walks you through: (1) Select aspect ratio — Portrait, Landscape, or Square, and (2) Add one or more scenes, then Create video. This opens the video editor, where you can upload media, apply templates, add text, captions, shapes, illustrations, logos, audio, and transitions on a scrubbable timeline before exporting.


Step 7: Discover & Reuse Templates

Once you've selected a video template (or started a new video story), you land in the video editor canvas. Click the + in the center of the frame, or "Click to upload / Or drag and drop files here," to add your first clip, image, or media asset.


The left-hand toolbar gives you everything you need to build the video:

  • Uploads — your previously uploaded files, ready to drop into the canvas

  • Templates — pre-built video layouts to start from including Intros and Outros

  • Texts — add and style text overlays

  • Media — stock footage, images, and video assets

  • Shapes — geometric elements for design accents

  • Illustrations — icon and illustration assets

  • Captions — auto-generated or manual captions for accessibility

  • Videos — insert additional video clips

  • Logo — drop in your brand logo

  • Audios — background music or voiceover tracks

  • Transitions — scene-to-scene transition effects

  • Custom — your own saved/uploaded custom assets

At the bottom, toggle Show Timeline to reveal the scrubbable timeline, where uploaded media appears as draggable clips. From here you can Delete, Split, or Clone clips, play back your edit with the transport controls (00:00 / 00:00 counter), and zoom in/out on the timeline for finer control. A download icon on the far right lets you export your work in progress.


Once your edit is ready, click Next (top right) to move to the following step.

Quick summary — what's live vs. Coming Soon

Feature

Status

Collect video responses

● Live

Collect written responses + photos (via invite)

● Live

Invite via email / link / QR

● Live

Build video stories from responses

● Live

Bulk-upload written responses from other tools

○ Coming Soon

CLEO AI auto-polish for written responses

○ Coming Soon

Embeddable widgets for your career site or job postings!

○ Coming Soon

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