Proposal

Runlayer
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Saint Beaumont Creative

Embedded Creative Partnership

2026
01 / The Ask

You need motion, not a movie shoot.
Here's a team built for both.

Your Creative Director posting asks for launch videos, product explainers, and demo content, explicitly not high production live action. That's exactly the output an embedded motion and animation team ships fastest, without a full-time hire needing months to ramp.

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. With them we have produced motion graphics, founder portraits, event highlights and a documentary.

Two paths forward

Path A: Make the Hire
Timeline
About three months to your first piece. Search, then ramp.
Bandwidth
One person only, with a limited skill set, and no backup when they're out.
All-in cost
$271,000 a year, for one person
  • Salary and equity, roughly $165,000 base, a typical market rate for a role like this
  • Benefits, payroll, and gear: about $46,000
  • A production budget and contractor costs: about $5,000/month
Path B: Saint Beaumont Creative
Timeline
First explainer in a week. Content live in two.
Bandwidth
A full motion and edit team that scales on demand, never one person.
All-in cost
$180,000 to $300,000 a year, fully loaded
  • 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.

  • Brand and customer stories, the proof that wins the room
  • Founder and team stories for culture, hiring, and investors
  • Product and motion explainers that make the complex simple
  • Event and 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

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.
Motion-led, not shoot-led.

Matched to a Creative Director posting that wants motion and animation first, live-action second.

01

Product & Motion Explainers

"Push pixels, not paperwork."

Animated launch videos, product walkthroughs, and demo content built for a hands-on, motion-first brief, the same craft your posting asks a single Creative Director to produce solo.

  • Animated product and feature explainers
  • 60 to 90 second launch videos
  • Social motion graphics and transitions
  • Static graphic design and marketing assets, Figma
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Explain the Category
Enterprise AI is abstract until you animate it. Motion makes MCPs, Skills, and Agents legible in seconds.
02

Case Study Production Support

"The external vendor you already planned for."

Your posting already calls for overseeing external vendors on customer case studies. We're that vendor, embedded enough to move fast, external enough that you're not managing headcount.

  • Customer interview shoots and edits
  • Full cut plus social versions
  • Sales and customer-marketing ready assets
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The Proof Side
Customers like Gusto, Instacart, and Cursor already trust Runlayer. Let their story do the selling.
03

Launch & Campaign Motion

"Every release, visually consistent."

Motion graphics for product releases, features, and campaigns, building the reusable visual language your posting wants established as the team scales.

  • Reusable motion templates and brand transitions
  • Campaign-specific animated assets
  • Consistent visual language as marketing grows
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Systems, Not One-Offs
A motion language built once compounds. Every future release ships faster because the system already exists.
04

Founder & Team Stories

"The people behind the platform."

Lighter-touch team and culture content for recruiting, investors, and the moments worth putting a face to, in the same in-office register your posting is hybrid around.

  • High-cadence, rapid turnaround
  • LinkedIn and social-native cuts
  • Founder portrait cinematography included
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For Team and Investors
A 35-person team at an inflection point has a story worth telling, not just a product worth explaining.
04 / Why Us

We've built this.
For companies like yours.

Runlayer's posting is explicit about wanting motion and animation over live-action production. Our NationGraph motion design work (linked below) is the closest thing in our reel to that exact brief, product-in-motion animation for a technical, enterprise audience.
Feature Documentary
Brand Film
Event Coverage
Off-Site & Event Recap
Motion Design & Product Animation
Brand Film
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
NationGraph Coinbase Solana
See Our Work Across Projects →
05 / How We Operate

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.

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
Most of this work ships remotely. We're on-site only when a live shoot is genuinely part of the mix.
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.

3-month initial trial term. 12-month thereafter. Cancel with 30 days' notice.

Foundation
$15,000 / month
$180,000 / year, all-in
Production Days
  • 2 production days per month
  • Split between animation sprints and any live capture needed
Deliverables
  • 2 Product & Motion Explainers
  • 1 Case Study Production Support
  • 1 Founder or Team Story
  • Graphic design and Figma work as needed
  • 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
Production Days
  • 4 production days per month
  • Split between animation sprints and any live capture needed
Deliverables
  • 4 Product & Motion Explainers
  • 2 Case Study Production Support
  • 2 Founder or Team Stories
  • Graphic design and Figma work as needed
  • 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, 3-month trial term.
  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