• No scripts.

    No crews.

    Pure stories. 

    The Portable Story Lab is a unique blend of hardware, software, services and AI that allow hard-to-reach teams to tell exquisitely crafted and truly genuine stories. It's so unique, in fact, that we have a patent pending on our approach to pure storytelling.

  • Everyone has a story

    The Portable Story Lab is a project of Wellcome Leap, born out of collaboration Uplifting Design, and includes both IP and a compelling approach to ethnographic storytelling. It all started with a question:

     

    What if any team with a story to tell could quickly and easily capture it at the highest production levels? Computationally-controlled gimbals, motion timelapses, flow-stabilized POV footage, studio quality audio, globablly distributed editing, AI tooling, adaptive remote interviewing, self-ethnography, and most importantly a level of genuine vulnerability that's impossible with a film crew? The Portable Story Lab is the breakthrough that makes all this possible. See how it transformed the narrative for a global network of advanced scientific labs.

  • Behind the Scenes

    Here's how the Portable Story Lab was born.

    The Prototype

    It all started with an inspired CEO pulling in a designer and a filmmaker to rethink how to tell scientific stories.

    The First Voyage

    A successful prototype led to over a dozen portable story labs sent across the world to 28 teams in 6 weeks.

    The Showcase

    Globally distributed and transcript-based editing, AI tooling, and a bit of energetic music works magic.