Connectors

The last mile, wired in

Connectors give Narrative a native presence in every system you already run — warehouses, CDPs, DSPs, activation tools, and more. Data moves between them the way it should have all along.

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The modern stack doesn’t actually talk

Every tool promises interoperability, but the last mile — wiring them together — still falls on your team.

Custom by default

Every new platform is another bespoke pipeline to build, monitor, and maintain

Data stuck in place

Whatever lands in the warehouse stays there; whatever leaves still needs reformatting

The loop never closes

Activation runs in one system, measurement in another, and the round-trip is on you

What changes when every system speaks

Here’s what the stack looks like when the connections are already made and the data is already normalized.

Skip the custom work

Pre-built connectors handle authentication, formatting, and delivery across every source and destination — no engineering backlog

Data where you need it

Move data out to ad platforms, DSPs, and CRMs, or bring it in from your cloud, clean and ready on both ends

Close the loop

Activation and measurement run on the same normalized foundation, connecting reach to outcome

Stop repeating work

Ready for deployment the moment you need it, without custom code, custom monitoring, or custom maintenance

THE SOLUTION

Your stack. Fully wired.

Connectors deliver pre-built integrations in and out of the platforms that power your business. Because data is already normalized, every connector just works the moment it’s deployed — activation, measurement, and enrichment all running on the same foundation.

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How it works

Plug in, not patch in

Connectors run as managed integrations between Narrative and the systems in your stack. Pick your data, a destination, and Connectors handle it from there. When new data lands, downstream workflows trigger automatically.

Different categories, one hub

Data, skills, connectors, providers, packages, and workflows — listed, typed, versioned, and queryable under one Listings API, with media, availability, and bundle relationships in-line.

Marketplace of providers

Source the exact raw data your use case requires — governed, normalized, and ready to query.

Unified contracts + Access Rules

Buy or monetize on your own terms. Access Rules manage every transaction, governed and tracked end to end — so procurement drag disappears, and so does monetization drag.

AI-Ready

The same skill runs inside Narrative, inside Claude, or in any MCP-compatible harness your team already uses. Install once. Run anywhere.

AI-Ready

Your stack. Different teams. One flow.

Put a fully connected stack to work under a single governance layer.

For marketers

Activate everywhere, from one place.

Push resolved audiences and enriched data to any destination without filing an engineering ticket or waiting for the next sprint. The campaign runs where the customer is.

Point-and-click Query Builder

Reach meets outcome — finally.

Bring signal in from across the stack and send data back out to where it’s needed. Activation and measurement run on the same normalized foundation, so the feedback loop finally closes.

For engineers

Skip the custom work.

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WHY IT’S DIFFERENT

Connector Truths: The Principles Behind Modern Data Flow

Pre-built beats custom-built

Most “connectors” hand you a starting point and leave the rest to engineering — auth flows, schema mapping, error handling, recovery logic. Narrative Connectors are pre-built end to end, and because data is already normalized when it arrives, nothing has to be massaged on the way in or out. Every connector just works the moment it’s deployed.

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Normalization is the integration.

The hard part of an integration was never the API. It was making the data on the other side actually usable. Because Narrative normalizes data on arrival, every Connector inherits that work: whatever you push to a destination lands ready to use, and whatever you pull in from your cloud is ready to query. The translation tax disappears because it’s paid once, in normalization, not at every endpoint.

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Reach should always meet outcome

Activation in one system, measurement in another, and the round-trip handed off to a spreadsheet — that’s the loop most stacks never close. Normalized data means activation and measurement run on the same foundation, so every campaign reports back where the work happens, and every signal informs the next decision.

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Open beats opaque

An integration you can’t see inside of is an integration you can’t trust. Every Narrative Connector exposes its mapping, logic, and configuration, so your team can audit what’s moving, customize what needs to be, and extend where it fits. Your stack, fully visible.

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Proven results

Wired in to dial up the possibilities

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pre-built integrations across the modern stack

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pipelines to maintain in-house

99.9%

uptime across managed connectors

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Dennis O'Donnell, Head of Ad Product

The Weather Company

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Domenic Venuto, Chief Product & Data Officer

Horizon

“Traditional commerce media models often expose brands to unnecessary privacy risks by moving data into third-party environments. Our work with Narrative eliminates that risk while unlocking sophisticated audience-building capabilities that deliver real outcomes.”

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customer questions.

Most teams are normalizing live data within days of connecting their first sources — not months. There's no multi-quarter implementation, no professional services dependency, no bespoke build required. You connect your sources, define what coherence looks like for your use case, and Narrative does the translation work. The timeline question is usually less about setup and more about how quickly your team can act on data that's finally consistent.

Those tools move data and act on it. They don't normalize it. They're built on the assumption that the data arriving is already clean, consistent, and semantically coherent — and in most real-world data partnerships, it isn't. Narrative is the layer that makes your existing collaboration and activation infrastructure work the way it was designed to. The teams getting the most from their data stack are typically the ones who've solved normalization first.

Most teams do, at first. The problem isn't the initial build — it's everything after. Every partner schema change breaks it. Every new data source requires rebuilding it. Every team transition means relearning it. The engineering debt compounds faster than the business value accrues. Narrative replaces a perpetual maintenance burden with infrastructure that's designed to absorb that complexity so your team doesn't have to.

Data and analytics teams at companies where external data is a core business input — not a supplement. Typically organizations that are buying data at scale, monetizing their own data assets, or running structured data partnerships with other companies. If your team is spending meaningful engineering time just making external data usable, that's the problem Narrative is built to eliminate.

AI models don't tolerate inconsistency. When a "user" in one dataset isn't recognized as the same "user" in another — different schemas, different taxonomies, different identifiers — your models train on noise and your outputs reflect it. Narrative normalizes data at the source so the AI layer above it is working with signal. Garbage in, garbage out isn't an AI problem. It's a normalization problem.

Your warehouse stores data. Your CDP activates it. Narrative normalizes it — resolving the semantic inconsistencies that make data from different sources incompatible before it ever reaches those tools. We don't replace your stack. We fix the layer underneath it that your stack assumes is already solved.