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Studio servicesS1 / S2 / S3

Founder time commit is the constraint that decides the tier, not budget, not ambition. Pick the row you can actually hold up, every week, for the length of the engagement.

Below: a side-by-side comparison, then full detail on each tier.

01 · CompareThree tiers, side by side

Three tiers
at a glance.

S1

Brand Spotlight

Founder time
2–3 hours per week
Contract
3 months. No auto-renewal.
Best for
Brands in early traction that take content as part of the product. Want a small, named team running the engine every week instead of a rotating list of freelancers.
Key included
  • Weekly cadence on one channel
  • One monthly shoot day
Full S1 detail

S2

Most clients sit here

Brand Engine

Founder time
4–6 hours per week
Contract
6 months, then month-to-month.
Best for
Brands at scale that want a pod-run system without hiring six people in-house, or growing brands with a content lead who needs operational support.
Key included
  • Weekly Mon→Fri rhythm
  • Dedicated Account Lead
  • Quarterly brand calibration
Full S2 detail

S3

Brand + Growth

Founder time
6–8 hours per week
Contract
12 months, then month-to-month.
Best for
Brands ready to attribute. Either an existing Brand Engine client moving up, or a brand with mature content who needs the growth layer added to a system that already runs.
Key included
  • Everything in S2
  • Embedded paid-ads operator
  • Attribution layer + cohort views
Full S3 detail
S1

Brand Spotlight

A three-month run that builds a consistent brand-content cadence and lights up one priority channel. The point is to see if the operating model fits before either side commits to a longer engagement.

Founder time commit
2–3 hours per week
Who it’s for
Brands in early traction that take content as part of the product. Want a small, named team running the engine every week instead of a rotating list of freelancers.
Contract
3 months. No auto-renewal.

What’s included

  • One monthly shoot day
  • Weekly cadence on your priority channel (LinkedIn, short-form video, podcast snippets, or owned email)
  • 4–6 brand-content pieces per month
  • Shared Account Lead across the pod
  • Monthly pod review with you

Not included

  • Paid ads of any kind
  • Dedicated Account Lead embedded in your team
  • Performance-creative pipeline or attribution
  • Brand strategy beyond the content engine
Apply for an audit to see what fits.
S2Most clients sit here

Brand Engine

A pod runs your content on a fixed weekly rhythm across owned channels, brand, community, email. You get a Pod Manager who owns delivery, a Strategist who owns voice, and an Account Lead who sits inside your operating reviews.

Founder time commit
4–6 hours per week
Who it’s for
Brands at scale that want a pod-run system without hiring six people in-house, or growing brands with a content lead who needs operational support.
Contract
6 months, then month-to-month.

What’s included

  • One to two shoot days per month
  • Weekly rhythm: Monday plan, Tuesday capture, mid-week edits, Friday ship
  • Brand, community, and owned-email content as one calendar
  • Dedicated Account Lead in your operating reviews
  • Quarterly brand voice calibration with you

Not included

  • Paid-ads operator inside the pod
  • Attribution layer with cohort views
  • Performance creative split-tested at scale
  • Replacement of an in-house marketing leader
Apply for an audit to see what fits.
S3

Brand + Growth

Everything in Brand Engine plus a paid-ads operator inside the same pod, a performance creative pipeline, and an attribution layer with weekly cohort views. The numbers sit next to the work that produced them.

Founder time commit
6–8 hours per week
Who it’s for
Brands ready to attribute. Either an existing Brand Engine client moving up, or a brand with mature content who needs the growth layer added to a system that already runs.
Contract
12 months, then month-to-month.

What’s included

  • Everything in Brand Engine
  • Paid-ads operator embedded in the pod (Meta, Google, plus one platform of your choice)
  • Performance creative pipeline, split-tested ad iterations as a standing workstream
  • Attribution layer with weekly numbers and cohort views
  • Monthly growth review with you and your finance lead

Not included

  • A full-funnel marketing strategy beyond content and creative
  • Media buying as a stand-alone agency engagement
  • Brand strategy delivered as a deck without execution
Apply for an audit to see what fits.
Add-onsAlongside a tier, never instead

Sat alongside a tier, never instead of one.

Add-ons are scoped to a specific moment in your brand. They sit on top of a tier; they do not replace one. Pricing is per engagement, discussed inside the audit.

  • 01

    Shoot day

    A standalone production day for a launch, a campaign, or a creative reset. Pod planning, capture, and delivery inside seven days.

  • 02

    2-week campaign sprint

    A concentrated burst of brand content built around a single moment, a sale, a drop, an announcement.

  • 03

    Founder podcast launch

    Six episodes shipped in eight weeks. Format, guest list, production, and distribution, handled end-to-end.

  • 04

    4-week product launch sprint

    Pre-launch teases, launch-day execution, and post-launch community follow-through across owned channels.

What’s not in the roomThe honest list

The honest list.

Saying no protects the work for the brands we do take. Here's what we turn down, even when the brief is interesting.

  • 01No paid-ads-only engagements, ads sit inside a system, not next to it.
  • 02No one-off projects under three months. The engine compounds; below that, it doesn’t.
  • 03No agency outsourcing, we don’t take work to dispatch to other shops.
  • 04No brand strategy delivered as a deck without execution.
  • 05No equity-only or revenue-share-only deals.
05 · The auditFree. Capped monthly.

Start with an audit.
Decide after.

An audit is the first conversation. It's free, capped monthly, and ends in a written proposal designed for your situation. No obligation to engage after, you leave with a clearer read on your current content than you walked in with.

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