A studio for the curious.
We create stories of modern systems.
StrideNote is a research-based technology and media studio. We research, test, and learn the systems shaping our world, then turn them into stories so you understand how they change you.
Who we are
A research-based technology and media studio built around one question: how are the systems and tools we use daily, and the people who build them, changing us? We publish investigations, playbooks, and short films across YouTube, the website, Substack, and social. The studio runs a newsroom, an investigative channel, a blog, whatever the work calls for. The format is free to vary; the mission and the goal are the constant.
Our mission
We create stories of modern systems. Our goal is to learn, inform, educate, and help you understand how these systems affect you. The vision: a tech hub that informs you about modern systems with facts, not hype, and the evidence to understand how they affect you.
The two sides
StrideNote runs on a single foundation of research. The stories, investigations, playbooks, and films are independent and evidence-first, free to follow. Alongside them, we test tools and LLMs, create production-grade media, and help businesses understand the systems reshaping their work. The research is shared; the judgment is not. No client shapes a story, and commercial work never sets the agenda.
We research, ask, test, learn, create, educate, and inform. So you understand how these systems change you.
Research
Read the document. Pull the filing. Trace the language. Primary sources, named and dated. When a story needs it, we investigate deeper: the people, contracts, and decisions behind the systems.
Ask
Start with the question. About what changed, who decided it, and what it means for the people not in the room.
Test
Try the tools before we say anything about them.
Learn
In the open, alongside the people watching. What we figure out, we pass on.
Create
Make things. Playbooks, films, templates, sometimes the tools we wished existed. On the studio side, we build and test the tools too.
Educate
When explaining a tool helps someone use it well, we explain. Clearly, calmly, without condescension. We report what we found and hand over the evidence so people can see it for themselves.
Hillary
If I can impact one person a day, that is better than an algorithm. In a world of machines, I want to be a human soul. I read what the powerful are writing, so you don't have to, and bring it back.