You can use an integration like Zapier or our API [1] to automatically generate stories based on some external event. As already mentioned you can update the state within the story dialog, or using our GitHub integration you can partially automate the process by setting up rules like so:

- When pull request is opened on master, move story to Ready for Review

- When branch is merged to master, move story to Ready for Deploy

We use these rules ourselves, and they not only reduce process overhead, they make your cycle time data more realistic vs. doing these steps manually.

[1] https://clubhouse.io/api