Cinematic tours + curated locals
Bring your city's stories to the next generation.
GenStory transforms archives and local knowledge into cinematic, self-guided mobile tours — making community stories more immersive, accessible, and relevant to younger audiences.
Along the way, visitors discover the museums, venues, and businesses carrying those stories forward.
A self-guided documentary, experienced in place.
Film, audio, archival media, and location-aware routes turn a visitor's phone into a window on the city.
At the story's location
Stops reveal the people, events, and decisions tied to the place around them.
In a format that holds attention
Short films, audio, photography, and text make every stop easy to enter.
At the visitor's pace
Routes work while walking, biking, or driving — and can be downloaded before the day begins.
Bring stories to the street — and visitors deeper into the city.
Give people a reason to explore longer, move beyond familiar landmarks, and direct attention toward local businesses.
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Make community stories discoverable in place
Turn oral histories, photographs, research, and local knowledge into stories visitors encounter where they happened.
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Guide visitors beyond the obvious
Connect landmarks to overlooked neighborhoods, museums, districts, and cultural destinations.
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Support the places carrying the story
Credit and link local organizations and businesses through profiles, offers, and trackable coupons that invite the next stop.
Visitors fund the tour.
Local partners share in the value.
Visitors buy annual access. Cities and local partners promote tours through trackable links and QR codes—earning revenue while guiding people toward participating places.
Visitor access
- $15
Single tour
Annual access to one city tour, available on site or from anywhere.
- $60
All-access pass
Annual access to every GenStory tour.
Partner revenue
- 10%
Standard affiliate
Earned on tour purchases generated by a partner's trackable QR codes or links.
- 5%
Recruitment affiliate
An additional share on sales generated by businesses an organization brings into the program.
2026 partnership opportunities
Apply to become an America 250 Featured City.
Selected communities will receive professional production and funding for their GenStory Tour. You pick the sites. We create the experience.
You bring local knowledge.
GenStory puts it in people's hands.
Your team identifies the stories, people, and places that matter.
We shape them into a polished public experience.
What we bring
GenStory handles:
Story synthesis and creative direction
Research, narrative direction, scripting, and a city-ready story framework.
Cinematic production
Finished video, audio, and integrated archival media.
Mobile experience and launch
A published flagship route, on-location testing, and launch support.
Partner activation and reporting
Credited profiles, offers, QR codes, and engagement and sales reporting.
What you bring
Your team provides:
Goals and priorities
The audience, goals, and stories your community wants to share.
Source material and access
Archives, experts, locations, and trusted local relationships.
Review and local connections
Feedback at key moments and introductions to organizations and businesses to feature.
Launch participation
Help share the tour and invite local organizations and businesses into the affiliate program.
You identify the stories, people, and places that matter.
We shape them into a compelling experience.
How it gets built
GenStory leads every step—from idea to launch.
Your team contributes local context, access, and focused review. We handle the strategy, research, production, publishing, and improvement.
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Discover
You share priorities, source material, and local context. GenStory turns that input into a focused route plan.
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Shape
GenStory researches, synthesizes, writes, and maps the experience—with focused review from your team.
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Produce
GenStory films, records, edits, and builds the complete mobile tour.
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Launch & improve
GenStory tests, publishes, measures, and refines the route. Your team helps introduce it locally.
FAQ
Learn more
What do we need to prepare?
Bring your priorities, source material, candidate places, and local relationships. You do not need a finished script, route, or production plan.
How does the affiliate program work?
Cities, museums, hotels, and local businesses earn 10% on tour purchases generated by their trackable QR codes or links. Organizations that recruit participating local businesses earn an additional 5% share on sales those businesses generate.
How much does it cost?
A limited number of qualifying city and cultural partners can launch in 2026 without upfront city funding. We confirm eligibility and partnership terms in a follow-up conversation.
What can GenStory measure?
Reporting can include link and QR scans, tour purchases, tour engagement, route completion, destination interactions, and redeemed coupons. Coupon redemptions provide a conservative signal of visits to participating businesses.
What happens after launch?
GenStory can track engagement, update the experience, and add new routes or stories as the partnership grows.
