Your startup’s story is costing you funding
When employees explain your company differently, investors get confused, campaigns stall, and new hires lose confidence.
Our 4-hour workshop gets your leadership aligned around one clear story investors understand, customers believe, and your whole company can rally behind.
Hi! I’m Max.
In another life, I spent 8+ years working with AXOR, Trendyol, DEDON, Philips and others, taking complex ideas and turning them into stories that sell.
Somewhere along the way, I noticed something:
External messaging breaks when the internal story is misaligned.
I founded Talkwerks to give leaders the systems, space, and language to lead story from the inside. Instead of outsourcing another deck rewrite, you co-create a story everyone can stand behind: investors, customers, and employees included.
“Max's tailored copy really reflected our brand, tone of voice and values. His perspective enabled us to improve how we communicate.”
- Ian Harper, co-founder of CP Creatives
"Max’s natural ability for storytelling means his writing always carries a strong and emotive narrative. Chatting with him about the creative process has been very beneficial and thought-provoking."
- Alexander Rennie, content specialist at Kuehne+Nagel
Your team doesn’t understand your brilliant ideas and accompanying metaphors
Product is preaching one message, marketing focuses on another
Brand guide is no longer relevant
You’re stuck translating five versions of the story into one message.
Product still doesn’t sound like brand
You feel like you’re holding your story together with duct tape, just as everyone else is pulling in different directions. That’s exhausting, and your work is invisible. Besides, it shouldn’t be your job alone!
Raise your hand if this sounds familiar:
Unless leadership agrees on the same story, nothing will stick...
…and this comes at a cost.
$8.9 trillion
The global cost of disengaged employees due to poor internal communication and misalignment.
68%
Percentage of consumers who have stopped dealing with a company and moved to a competitor due to poor communication.
33%
Proportion of businesses reporting that brand consistency has helped them boost revenue by 20% or more.
The solution ?
A Narrative Sprint
The Talkwerks Narrative Sprint™ draws on battle-tested frameworks used by some of the world’s most effective teams.
In just half a day, you’ll get one story your investors, customers, and team can believe in.
The Talkwerks Narrative Sprint unites your leadership team around one powerful narrative, driving outcomes where it matters most: funding, growth, and retention.
Unlike generic “storytelling workshops,” this Sprint is built for scaling startups facing messy communication, fast growth, and investor pressure.
You’ll walk away with a shared answer to:
What do we do?
Who is it for?
Why does it matter?
How do we talk about it?
Here’s what that unlocks:
✅ A single narrative mapped directly into your pitch deck, campaigns, and onboarding
✅ Investors finally hearing one confident story, not five conflicting ones
✅ Campaigns that get approved faster, with fewer rewrites
✅ New hires who understand the mission from day one
✅ Leadership alignment that survives pivots and growth
In one afternoon, you fix what weeks of rewrites and agency decks can’t: a story your whole company stands behind — and knows how to tell.
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If every exec gave the same 2-minute version right now, would it sound identical? Most teams are shocked at how much drift shows up once you put the versions side by side.
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Yes. Studies show that including an origin story in a pitch significantly increases the probability of obtaining funding.
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Most people don’t, but ask yourself: are we already burning more time in rewrites, stalled campaigns, and confused pitches? This Sprint forces alignment in one go, so you get those hours back.
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An outsider can polish slides, but if leadership isn’t aligned, the story will unravel again next month. Facilitation locks the alignment inside the team.
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Perfect timing! The earlier you align, the fewer months you’ll spend re-explaining who you are to investors, hires, and partners. Clarity compounds.
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The Sprint isn’t a static tagline but a repeatable process. You’ll have a framework to realign quickly after any pivot.
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If you’re reading this, you’ve probably tried. The problem isn’t intelligence, it’s facilitation. Teams loop because no one is holding the room and guiding the debate.