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Alexander  • Declassified
A premium storytelling platform with proprietary sync technology

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Client since 2020

Challenge

Refine App to Redefine Reading

Providing a transformational form of entertainment, Alexander wanted to reinvent the classic storytelling experience. The team created a platform and service to house high-quality stories, written by world-famous writers and voice narrators, paired with beautiful videos and imagery with famous actors and actresses that would result in a one-of-a-kind digital solution. L+R was brought in to guide product strategy, technology design, and mobile development.

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Solution

Technology-Enabled Design

The L+R team crafted the Alexander app to deliver high-quality, long-form content stories to readers. Besides creating the content management system, database, registration and subscription system, L+R refined the digital customer experience through micro-interactions and animations. The solution was built to scale for long-term functionality and growth.

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Voice Of Our Customers

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The L+R team's problem-solving skills have helped us to deliver our content in ways that nobody has done before.

Cameron Lamb

CEO   •   Alexander

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Cameron Lamb

CEO   •   Alexander

Impact

Enhancing Storytelling With Experiences

Alexander is now working with the best storytellers in the world like Helena Bonham Carter to publish these next-generation stories. Enhancing superior long-content format, the app will enhance a user’s experience and broaden the accessibility and depth of each story. Alexander will successfully combine omni-channel content based on strong storytelling at its core.

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The Bottom Line

Alexander reimagined long-form storytelling as a rich mobile entertainment experience. The broader business challenge is making content, technology, and interaction feel like one coherent product. For L+R, the advantage is not technology by itself, it is strategy, execution, and craft working together, with AI applied only where it improves the application. If your next platform depends on both emotion and performance, bring it to our team.

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