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Real businesses. Real stories. Field Storytellers is Notion's program for emerging Internet filmmakers and creators who capture & tell stories about how small businesses around the world run.

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✍️ About the program


The world runs on millions of small businesses that never make the news. The bakery juggling wholesale orders on sticky notes. The family engineering firm that builds stadium roofs. The florist whose wedding season lives in her head. Their stories are specific, funny, stressful, and real, and almost nobody is telling them.

Notion's Field Storytellers changes that. We pair creators with small businesses around the world, document one real problem in the founder's own words, and show the solution that fixed it.

Field Storytellers are independent creators who work with Notion to find, film, and publish short documentary-style videos about small and mid-sized businesses. You bring the format, the taste, and the interviewing skill. We bring the subjects, the product depth, the workflow reviews, and the distribution muscle.

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This is not an ad program. The person and the business hold the spotlight. Notion plays the supporting character. This is a paid opportunity.

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✨ The stories we're after


A taste of what's out there, waiting for someone to capture:

Every one of these is a before-and-after story with a problem, climax, and ending.

🎬 What you'll make


Field Storytellers publish within a recurring format so audiences know exactly what an account is about. Example formats:

  1. Documentary. 60-second founder confessions and 3 to 5 minute docu-style shorts. The before, the breaking point, the after.
  2. Setup & tour. "Show me your setup in 60 seconds," shop tours with direct questions, and man-on-the-street interviews with real operators.
  3. Building & how-to. Build something useful fast, and hooky end-to-end workflow stories like "how I stopped answering the same email 40 times a week."
  4. Big swings. Work the subject's job for a day, then help improve it. Business swaps. Operator hot takes.