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How to build a story AI can't replicate

Hosted by Elliott Rayner and Joe Lazer

Thu, Sep 24, 2026

5:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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The Product Storytelling Cohort
Elliott Rayner
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What you'll learn

Why AI made storytelling more valuable, not less

Why the skills AI automates fastest are the ones that used to set you apart, and why one skill is left standing.

The neuroscience of what actually earns trust

What happens in an audience's brain when a story lands, and why most business communication misses it.

How to build a story AI can't replicate

Practical frameworks for a message that cuts through when every pitch, post, and email starts to sound the same.

Why this topic matters

AI can write, summarise, and generate content faster than any person alive. What it still cannot do is build trust, change a skeptical mind, or move a team to act on a shared idea. Joe Lazer spent eight years building the content marketing industry at Contently, then turned his research toward a harder question: why storytelling survives when everything else gets automated. His answer sits in neuroscience, not talent.

You'll learn from

Elliott Rayner

20 years turning complex products into compelling narratives.

Elliott Rayner is a Fractional Head of Storytelling, helping product & marketing teams turn complex products into clear, compelling product narratives. His work is grounded in the science of storytelling and a background in neuroscience, combined with 20+ years of experience across global brands and high-growth scale-ups. The frameworks Elliott developed along the way now power his course, book, and workshops — helping teams craft clear, compelling strategic narratives. He was recently recognised as one of the UK's top product marketers, ranking 7th on the list of most influential in the field.

Today, as a fractional head of storytelling, he helps teams transform complex ideas into clear, compelling strategic narratives.

Joe Lazer

Bestselling author of Super Skill and The Storytelling Edge.

Joe spent eight years building the content marketing industry at Contently, working with a network of 200,000 journalists to help Fortune 1000 companies break through as publishers. Along the way, he ran groundbreaking neuroscience research into how stories build trust, change minds, and drive action. He later spent four years as a CMO inside two AI startups, seeing firsthand what separates the teams that thrive from those that flounder. He is the bestselling author of The Storytelling Edge and Super Skill, and his newsletter on storytelling in the AI age reaches over 185,000 readers.

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