We’re gearing up for two big product releases based on the publishing tasks we see users trying to get done. Not new features. New products. Each built around the magical Shorthand editor, with thoughtfully designed AI sitting at the heart of it. 1️⃣ Shorthand for WordPress Launching for real this week. Shorthand for WordPress brings immersive visual storytelling directly into WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS. That means editorial teams can create gorgeous narrative content without leaving their existing workflow — and without wrestling with page builders. Writers write. Designers design. Stories look the way they should. Shorthand for WordPress ships with our AI Creative Companion. All those repetitive, fiddly design and layout tasks that used to take time? Creative Companion handles them in a snap. A preview version of Shorthand for WordPress is available now. Let me know in the comments if you’d like access. 2️⃣ Serial The Shorthand you know and love is optimised for self-contained feature stories and reports that you publish into an existing website. Flagship content. Your most important stories. But over the years our customers started doing something else with it. They began using Shorthand for regular publishing. Blogs. Digital magazines. Newsletters. The editor works beautifully for creating individual stories. But recurring publishing needs more than just a story editor. You need a publication. Homepages. Categories. Editions. Search. A way to grow and manage an audience. So we built Serial. Think of it as a platform for everything from plain articles like you see on Substack, Beehiiv or Ghost to immersive feature stories like those on the BBC or the New York Times, all made easy for brands and builders. Instead of publishing stories into another platform, Serial is where your whole publication lives. With Serial, you can just publish things, with purpose. We’re using Serial internally already, and we’ll make it broadly available soon. Two new products. Two distinct publishing scenarios. The Shorthand editor is evolving from being the whole product to the editing component inside multiple products, each carefully designed to do a specific job. These two new products are just the beginning.