Proposal

Motive
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Saint Beaumont Creative

Embedded Creative Partnership

2026
01 / The Ask

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

Your Video Editor & Motion Designer posting asks one person to own every edit and animation, from customer stories to brand campaigns to event content, but it never asks them to pick up a camera. Editing and motion design alone don't cover the shoot days that feed them. An embedded studio already has both, no separate production vendor required.

Our client NationGraph originally 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.

Two paths forward

Path A: Make the Hire
Timeline
About three months to your first piece. Search, then ramp.
Bandwidth
One editor, no shooter. Someone else still has to capture the footage.
All-in cost
$160,000 to $243,000 a year, for one person
  • Salary, $89,000 to $122,000 base, as listed in your own posting
  • Benefits, payroll, and gear: about $35,000 to $49,000
  • Freelance videographers and lighting: $3,000 to $6,000/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
$144,000 to $240,000 a year, for a full team
  • Team, production, gear, and travel included
  • No benefits, payroll, or overhead
02 / The Approach

Build the engine.
Stock the library.

Every engagement runs two tracks at once: the content that ships this week, and the library you own forever.

Track One

The Content Engine

A high-velocity system that ships consistently on the channels where your audience pays attention. We do all of it, so your team doesn't have to.

  • Customer stories, the proof that wins the room
  • Founder and team stories for culture, hiring, and investors
  • Motion design that brings the brand to life
  • Event and product launch coverage where your category shows up
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Track Two

The Content Library

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

  • All footage logged and organized monthly
  • Customer and founder interviews banked for future series
  • Event and culture coverage stockpiled for recruiting and brand
  • A long-form documentary that charts the rise as it happens
The Documentary
Every shoot day banks footage toward it. No separate shoot days needed, it's built from the footage we're already capturing, ready when you want to tell that story.

Your creative 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
More crew, anywhere you need it
03 / The Content Plan

Four formats.
One content engine.

01

Customer Stories

"Shot in the field, not the studio."

Customer stories shot on job sites and out in the field with real operators. Their challenge, their numbers, their win, captured where the work actually happens.

  • On-site cinematography with real operators, not actors
  • Full cut plus vertical and social cutdowns
  • Micro to medium-form documentary craft
The Proof From the Field
Real operators, real job sites. Let the people using your product every day make the case for you.
Watch the example
02

Motion Design & Animation

"A consistent motion language."

Motion graphics, typography, and animation that bring Motive's brand to life, whether that's a product walkthrough, a campaign spot, or a social cutdown.

  • Motion graphics, typography, and animation built into every edit
  • A consistent motion language across campaigns, social, and web
  • Explainer and walkthrough animation when the story needs it
Explain the Category
Value that's invisible until you show it. Animation makes the mechanics land in seconds, not paragraphs.
Watch the example
03

Brand Campaigns

"Real emotional weight."

Brand work with real emotional weight. The films that make people feel something about Motive, not just understand what it does.

  • Cinematic brand storytelling
  • Full cut plus vertical and social cutdowns
  • Built for real emotional weight, not just polish
More Than a Feature List
Some films need to make people feel something, not just understand a spec sheet. This is that register.
Watch the example
04

Event Coverage

"Where your category shows up."

Live coverage of the conferences, launches, and moments where your market gathers. Captured, cut, and live while the room is still talking.

  • Polished recap plus social cuts
  • LinkedIn, YouTube, X
  • Same-week turns
Own the Room
Show up everywhere your category does, and be the brand that documented it.
Watch the example
04 / Why Us

We've built this.
For companies like yours.

Motion Design & Product Animation
Motion Design & Product Animation
Brand Campaign
Brand Campaign
Event Coverage
Feature Documentary
18+
Clients across crypto, AI, and finance
3M+
Views on a single campaign
3
Continents, one embedded team
A few of the teams we've worked with
Coinbase Kraken Solana Kalshi Legion NationGraph Share Starknet
See Our Work Across Projects
05 / How We Operate

Embedded, not
at arm's length.

Reach
We plug into Product Marketing, Content, Customer Education, and Customer Success, the same way a full-time hire would.

You're not handing work to a vendor. We run on your stack and inside your workflow, the same way we run NationGraph's media function today.

Planning
A shared Notion hub: editorial calendar, shoot plans, scripts, and a content tracker where every published piece is one click to re-share.
Communication
A shared Slack Connect channel, a weekly sync, and a monthly review with leadership. We're in your day-to-day, async.
Content Review
Every cut lands in Frame.io with timestamped notes. Feedback in context, on your own time, no long email threads.
Storage & Delivery
Final files in an organized Dropbox that's yours. The library compounds month over month.
Production
Shot on Sony FX cinema cameras, cut in Premiere Pro, animated in After Effects and Cinema 4D, graded in DaVinci Resolve. The full professional pipeline.
On-site
We can fly in for shoots, launches, and events. The rest runs remotely, so there's no daily presence to manage.
06 / 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
$12,000 / month
$144,000 / 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
  • 1 Motion Explainer
  • 1 Brand Campaign
  • 1 Event or Launch Recap
  • 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
$20,000 / month
$240,000 / 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
  • 2 Motion Explainers
  • 2 Brand Campaigns
  • 2 Event or Launch Recaps
  • 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. Anything more extensive gets scoped with you before you commit.
07 / Where This Goes

The retainer builds
the foundation.

Natural next chapters, ready when the time is right.

Signature SeriesFlagship
A recurring flagship show built around your team and your category. Shot and cut as a season, then distributed as appointment viewing.
Scoped per season
Cheaper with Full Studio
The Documentary
A feature-length film on the category and the company powering it. Every retainer shoot day feeds the library, so by the time we cut, a year of story is banked.
Scoped separately
Cheaper with Full Studio

Months of embedded footage and brand knowledge mean these ship faster and cheaper than anything built from scratch.

Product Launch Film
For major releases. Full shoot day, multi-cam, leadership on camera.
Conference Coverage
Embedded on-site. Polished recap plus same-week social cuts.
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.
Recruitment Film
Why join the team. Culture, craft, and the category worth building.

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.
08 / Next Steps

Let's get
to work.

  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.
  4. First content live
    Within two weeks. Guaranteed.
Telling stories that move markets.
Get in touch
+44 7926 484334 michael@saintbeaumont.com