UPTALES
Our Story

We built this for the expert who ran out of hours

One conversation, one very cumbersome Google Doc, and one realisation about what happens to people who are extremely good at what they do.

I was onboarding an expert onto Uptales. Back then we were a marketplace, a place to find world-class people in marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, and creative work.

Somewhere in that call he stopped talking about joining and started talking about his actual problem. It was not finding clients. It was everything that happened after.

I knew the feeling, because I had just been through it myself. My own pitch deck lived in a Google Doc. The hook and the narrative got brainstormed on a Miro storyboard. The whole thing sat inside a Circle app. It was a cumbersome process for me, and it was a cumbersome process for him.

I had already built a storytelling product. I had the mechanics to make this better.

What we found when we went looking

Expertise-led creators are trapped by their own success. The whole business runs on their shoulders, one call and one client at a time.

Coaches, consultants, LinkedIn experts, solopreneurs. The cost is real: abandoned projects, lost clients, revenue left on the table. Their ceiling is their calendar.

Then a GTM expert I met in San Francisco told me that what we were building was exactly what he had hoped someone would build. And then he paid us to bring him onboard. Then another did. Then more.

That was the moment I stopped wondering whether the problem was real.

Our first Master proved it

RajNATION

Business Story Master. He mapped his pitch method into a canvas.
"This changes my entire business model. Instead of muscling every sale from scratch, I basically have a SaaS I can offer upfront to filter for higher-value clients downstream."
Why Me

I have been on both sides of this problem

Twenty years in boardrooms across fifteen countries, and over a billion dollars in enterprise deals closed. That is the seller. I also run a 250,000-member writing community and I am writing my own novel. That is the creator.

So I have been the person with a method to sell, and I have been the person who badly needed someone else's. This has cost me from both ends, which is why I am not guessing at it.

Co-founder & CEO

Anubhav Srivastava

$1B+ closed across 15 countries. Runs a 250K-member writing community. Fiction writer, currently finishing his first novel.

Our first product, VocaTales, is already in more than a thousand hands, including Columbia, Seattle University, and the LA Film School. I am a second-time founder, and I am carrying every lesson from that into this one.

And no algorithm decides who becomes a Master here. Every expert on Uptales has sat across from me and walked me through their method. If they are on this platform, I know them.

Where this goes

Picture one person with something worth saying and no way to make it pay. Her best thinking lives in a messy Google Doc, scattered across Notion pages and Zoom recordings. Impossible to find. Impossible to sell. She knows she is sitting on value. She just cannot get it out of her head and into the world in a form anyone will pay for.

With us she builds it once, on a canvas where the thinking and the structure come alive. It is organised the moment she makes it. She shares it with one click. And because it was born sellable, it earns while she sleeps.

She still sells her time. She just sells it for more, to people her method already convinced. That is the part most people miss about this. The product does not replace the expert. It qualifies the room before she walks in.

Right now the people who win are the loudest, the best funded, and the best connected. When what you make is ownable, organisable, and sellable, the quiet expert can outearn the loud one.

Knowledge stops dying in documents and starts compounding into livelihoods. That is the whole idea. Not a better place to store your files. The place where what you create is born ready to earn.

You can always reach me directly at anubhav@uptales.com.

I read every note, and I respond to most.

Anubhav
Anubhav Srivastava, Co-founder & CEO

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