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Saint Beaumont Creative
Embedded Creative Partnership
We find the story first.
Everything else follows from that.
As the technology gets more complex, we've found people have a harder time describing what it actually does, so instead of focusing on the technology, we focus on the value it brings. The result is a human, organic feel in everything we produce.
We focus on substance over style. When every company is making content, understanding where each piece fits into your broader pipeline is what actually sets the work apart. We work quickly and efficiently, and plug in as a genuine extension of your team.
You're hiring for video.
Here's why a studio beats a solo hire.
Your Video Host & Producer posting asks one person to be the on-camera face of the brand, shoot their own footage solo on location, run production end to end, and direct the craft edit, color, sound, and motion graphics, all at once, with contractors brought in only occasionally for bigger projects. An embedded studio already has that full production bandwidth, no ramp time 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
- Salary, $110,000 to $160,000 base
- Benefits, payroll, and gear: about $41,000 to $60,000
- Contractors for bigger projects: $1,500 to $3,500/month
- Team, production, gear, and travel included
- No benefits, payroll, or overhead
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.
The Content Engine
A high-velocity system that ships consistently on the channels where your audience pays attention, YouTube first, then repurposed everywhere else. We do all of it, so your team doesn't have to.
- Host-led explainers that make complex money topics simple
- Feature interviews that earn the story its runtime
- Brand films built for trust, not just polish
- Social cuts and multi-channel distribution, wherever your audience watches
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
- Interviews banked for future feature series
- A growing library of social and multi-channel cuts
- A long-form documentary that charts the rise as it happens
Your creative team
Four formats.
One content engine.
Host-Led Explainers
Scripted explainers that make complex money topics feel simple and human on camera. Built from your own scripts, with motion graphics and B-roll woven in so the craft never gets in the way of the trust you're building.
- Medium-length scripted explainer videos
- Motion graphics and B-roll support
- Built to make complex topics feel human, not corporate
Feature Interviews
Interview-driven feature videos for the stories that need more than a script alone. Real conversations, cut for pacing, that make people trust the person walking them through their money.
- On-location or studio interviews
- Full cut plus short-form social versions
- Built to earn trust before the next explainer
Brand Films
Brand films with real emotional weight. The films that make people trust River with their money, not just understand the product.
- Cinematic brand storytelling
- Full cut plus vertical and social cutdowns
- Built to earn trust, not just look polished
Social Cuts & Every Channel
Every host-led explainer and feature interview cut down for the channels where your audience actually watches, YouTube first, then repurposed everywhere else.
- Short-form cuts from every long-form piece
- Built for YouTube, then repurposed everywhere else
- Consistent presence across every channel, not just one
We've built this.
For companies like yours.
Embedded, not
at arm's length.
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.
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.
- 2 shoot days per month (back-to-back)
- Verite and b-roll captured every shoot day
- 1 Host-Led Explainer
- 2 Feature Interviews
- 1 Brand Film
- Social cuts from every piece of content
- Organized monthly content library
- Weekly check-in, monthly review
- Ad-hoc asks as they come up
- Priority access to our team
- 4 shoot days per month (back-to-back)
- Verite and b-roll captured every shoot day
- 2 Host-Led Explainers
- 4 Feature Interviews
- 2 Brand Films
- Social cuts from every piece of content
- Monthly content library
- Weekly all-hands, monthly review
- Ad-hoc asks as they come up
- First-priority scheduling. You lead our production calendar.
The retainer builds
the foundation.
Natural next chapters, ready when the time is right.
Months of embedded footage and brand knowledge mean these ship faster and cheaper than anything built from scratch.
The First 90 Days
Let's get
to work.
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Choose your tierFoundation or Full Studio.
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Sign and startSimple agreement, quarterly contract.
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Week-one deep diveVoice, priorities, and calendar locked.
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First content liveWithin two weeks. Guaranteed.
