Our Story

We built the systems we wished existed when we were doing the work ourselves.

Who you'd actually be working with

Matt Payne

Matt Payne

Founder, StoryPros

I spent nearly a decade selling medical devices. I started as an international account manager in Shanghai, then ran worldwide sales, then sales and marketing. I lived in China for six years and I still take meetings in Mandarin.

I started building AI workflows for my own sales teams on the OpenAI API, before ChatGPT existed. I'd been selling long enough to know exactly where the time went. Research took longer than the call it was for. The outreach never matched what the buyer actually cared about. And the only way to book more meetings was to hire another person to run the same lookups.

I've been building custom AI systems for sales, marketing, and operations teams ever since, in SaaS, e-commerce, financial services, and healthcare. I also spent three years as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, and I've run a healthcare technology company since 2018.

StoryPros came out of that. Most AI agencies are engineers first. They wire up a few APIs, call it an automation, and nobody in the room ever asks who the buyer is or what the message should be. We're salespeople who learned to build, so we start with the buyer and work backwards to the system. That's the whole difference.

If you want to see what that actually looks like, the agents we've built are on the homepage. Or email us at automate@storypros.io and tell us what you're trying to fix.