Proposal

Reducto
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Saint Beaumont Creative

Embedded Creative Partnership

2026
How We Think

We find the story first.
Everything else follows from that.

A short intro from our co-founder
Selected Work

A few things we've made.

Brand Film
Feature Documentary
See More Work on Our Website
01 / The Ask

You're hiring for video.
Here's why a studio beats a solo hire.

Your Creative Video Producer posting asks one person to own concept through final cut across product launches, customer stories, developer content, and culture, filming and editing everything personally while also building the systems a video function needs to run. An embedded studio already has that bandwidth.

Two paths forward

Path A: Make the Hire
Timeline
At least three months, start to finish: the search, the hire, and the ramp to full output.
Bandwidth
One person owns everything, concept to final cut, with no backup when volume spikes.
All-in cost
$207,000 to $274,000 a year, plus equity, for one person
  • Salary, $130,000 to $160,000 base
  • Benefits, payroll, and gear: about $47,000 to $60,000
  • Extra crew, lighting, or motion graphics support for events, off-sites, and bigger productions: $2,500 to $4,500/month
Path B: Saint Beaumont Creative
Timeline
First shoot in a week. Content live in two.
Bandwidth
A full studio that scales on demand, never one person.
All-in cost
$180,000 to $300,000 a year, for a full team
  • Team, production, and gear included
  • No benefits, payroll, or overhead
One point of contact, not five
Hiring Solo
Editor, motion artist, 3D specialist, agency, and the hire coordinating all of them.
Full creative team, one point of contact.
With Saint Beaumont Creative
02 / The Approach

Build the engine.
Stock the library.

Shoot
Content Engine
Content Library
Track One

The Content Engine

We concept, script, and produce every piece in-house, then ship it on a consistent cadence and repurpose it across the rest of your channels.

  • Product launches
  • Customer stories & case studies
  • Developer & technical content
  • Culture & behind-the-scenes
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Track Two

The Content Library

Every shoot is captured, logged, and organized into a library you own, footage that compounds into a moat competitors can't buy.

  • All footage logged and organized monthly
  • Customer and engineer interviews banked for future launches and technical content
  • A growing library of product and culture footage

Your creative team

Core Embedded Team
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham
Creative Director
On-site direction and filming
Speaks English, Portuguese
Elliott Roche
Elliott Roche
Executive Producer
Vision, strategy, and partnership
Marat Pinchuk
Marat Pinchuk
Post-Production Editor
Motion, social cuts, and short-form edits
Speaks English, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish
Alex McKie
Alex McKie
Graphic Designer
Brand and marketing graphics, Figma
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Scale on Demand
On Call, Anywhere
No hiring, no ramp-up, just more hands when you need them
03 / What We'll Make

Four formats.
Real proof for each.

01

Product Launches

"Technical capabilities, made compelling."

Product launches concepted, scripted, and produced end to end, built to make Reducto's document intelligence capabilities land with people who aren't reading the changelog, with motion graphics and VFX support where the mechanics need it.

  • Full launch film plus vertical and social cutdowns
02

Customer Stories & Case Studies

"Why they picked Reducto."

Customer stories built by working directly with your customers, real teams talking through how document processing actually changed their workflow, the kind of proof that moves enterprise buyers more than another feature list.

  • Customer interviews built into short, credible spotlights
03

Developer & Technical Content

"Built with the people who ship it."

Technical explainers, demos, and interviews produced alongside engineering and dev relations, walking developers through how extraction and parsing actually work, paired with motion graphics so the detail lands without losing the audience.

  • Sit-down technical walkthroughs paired with custom motion graphics
04

Culture & Behind-the-Scenes

"Life inside the build."

Employee profiles, founder content, and behind-the-scenes looks at life at Reducto, captured at your office, off-sites, and the industry events your team already shows up to.

  • Team and founder features, off-sites, and event coverage
04 / Investment

Two formats.
One creative team.

The numbers below are a guide for what it takes to get us working together, not a fixed quote. The deliverables are entirely malleable, and we're happy to work out a different package based on what you actually need.

Quarterly contract, cancel within 30-days.

Foundation
$15,000 / month
$180,000 / year, all-in
Shoot Days
  • 2 shoot days per month (back-to-back)
  • Verite and b-roll captured every shoot day
Deliverables
  • 1 Customer Story or Case Study
  • 1 Developer/Technical Explainer
  • 2 Culture or Behind-the-Scenes Features
  • Social cuts from every piece of content
  • Organized monthly content library
Cadence
  • Weekly check-in, monthly review
  • Ad-hoc asks as they come up
  • Priority access to our team
Full Studio
Recommended
$25,000 / month
$300,000 / year, all-in
Shoot Days
  • 4 shoot days per month (back-to-back)
  • Verite and b-roll captured every shoot day
Deliverables
  • 2 Customer Stories or Case Studies
  • 2 Developer/Technical Explainers
  • 4 Culture or Behind-the-Scenes Features
  • Social cuts from every piece of content
  • Monthly content library
Cadence
  • Weekly all-hands, monthly review
  • Ad-hoc asks as they come up
  • First-priority scheduling. You lead our production calendar.
Standard travel and accommodation are built into both packages.

The First 90 Days

Week 1
Kickoff. Brand voice and priorities locked.
Full immersion in product, team, and customers. Shoot days back-to-back, in the can by Friday.
Week 2
First content live.
Published days after the shoot. Performance tracked from the first post.
Month 1
Library organized, next shoot booked.
The full shoot library logged and handed over. Month two calendar locked.
Month 2
Full weekly cadence.
Output running across your priority channels. Series rhythm established.
Month 3
Review and optimize.
Measure against engagement goals. Double down on what works, cut what doesn't.
More Detail
How We Operate +
Reach
We plug into Marketing, Engineering, and Dev Relations, the same way a full-time hire would.
Tools & Workflow
Notion for planning, Slack Connect for real-time updates, Frame.io for timestamped review, Dropbox for final delivery. Previsualized storyboards and AI-assisted editing keep turnaround fast without cutting corners on the real thing.
Production
Shot on Sony FX cinema cameras, cut in Premiere Pro, animated in After Effects and Cinema 4D, graded in DaVinci Resolve.
On-site & Remote
We fly in for shoots, launches, and events. Everything else runs remotely, no daily presence to manage.
Where This Goes +
Signature Series
A recurring flagship show built around your team and category, shot and cut as a season.
The Documentary
A feature-length film on the category and the company powering it, built from a year of banked footage.
Product Launch Film
For flagship releases beyond the standard cadence: full shoot day, multi-cam, leadership on camera.
Conference Coverage
Embedded on-site. Recap delivered within 24 hours.
Category Explainer
A 60 to 90 second animated explainer of what you do and why it matters.
Funding Content Package
Founder story, product demo, customer proof, the investor deck in motion.
Already Proven

Our client NationGraph faced this exact choice: they'd posted for a Founding Director of Media. We convinced them to embed our studio instead. It's going so well they just signed for a full year.

Kimia Hamidi, Co-Founder and CEO of NationGraph, endorsing the team on X
Kimia Hamidi, Co-Founder & CEO, NationGraph, posted on X
05 / Next Steps
  1. Choose your tier
    Foundation or Full Studio.
  2. Sign and start
    Simple agreement, quarterly contract.
  3. Week-one deep dive
    Voice, priorities, and calendar locked.
Telling stories that move markets.
Get in touch
+44 7926 484334 michael@saintbeaumont.com