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Tech Story Studios is a San Diego-based AI-augmented fractional CMO and executive storytelling practice founded by Jessica Ann in 2011. The studio embeds inside engineering- and product-led B2B technology, energy, and infrastructure companies, leading brand strategy, integrated marketing, go-to-market, and executive narrative for founders and leadership teams.

A fractional CMO is a senior marketing executive who serves as your embedded marketing leader on a part-time, ongoing basis - owning strategy, brand, and execution without the cost of a full-time hire. Companies typically engage a fractional CMO at scale inflection points, pre-acquisition, or when an engineering- or product-led team needs senior marketing leadership before a full-time CMO is justified.

Tech Story Studios works with B2B technology, energy, infrastructure, and deep-tech companies - typically engineering- and product-led teams at the scale or pre-acquisition inflection point. Past engagements include Google, Adobe, SAP, Verizon, SiriusXM, Synaptics, MagicLeap, and StorEn Technologies, among 100+ companies served since 2011.

Tech Story Studios is not an agency. Engagements function as embedded staff-level marketing leadership inside the client's executive team - partnering with engineering, product, BD, PR, and the founder or CEO. The deliverables are not campaigns alone but the underlying brand, positioning, GTM, and executive narrative that those campaigns are built on.

Engagements include fractional CMO leadership, brand strategy and rebrands, integrated campaign development, go-to-market and product launches, technical product marketing, executive thought leadership and ghostwriting, pre-acquisition narrative and investor storytelling, and spokesperson and keynote development for founders, engineers, and senior executives.

Tech Story Studios is based in San Diego, California, and serves clients across the United States and globally. Most engagements are remote-first with on-site presence as needed for executive workshops, leadership offsites, customer events, and trade shows including CES, SXSW, and industry conferences.

Yes. Tech Story Studios specializes in pre-acquisition narrative, brand integration after acquisitions, and rebranding for new business lines. Notable post-merger brand integration work traces back to the founder's leadership role in the Sirius-XM corporate merger and the subsequent consolidation of two formerly competing brands.

Jessica Ann is the founder of Tech Story Studios. She is a marketing executive and technical storyteller with 15+ years leading brand and marketing for B2B technology, energy, and infrastructure companies. She is the author of Humanize Your Brand and host of The Art of Humanity podcast, and has delivered keynotes at Google NYC, SXSW, and CES.

Yes. Tech Story Studios is an AI-augmented studio - human strategists working alongside AI specialists across research, copy, content production, and analytics. The model lets a senior team operate at the speed and scale of a much larger agency, without losing the executive judgment and brand voice that B2B tech, energy, and infrastructure companies actually need.

AI is embedded across the workflow rather than bolted on as a tool. Specialists use AI for prospect and competitive research, content scaffolding and rapid drafting, asset variation and localization, performance analysis, and pattern recognition across campaigns. Every output ships through senior human review - strategy, narrative, and final voice are owned by experienced marketers, not models.