These usually live in three different companies, which is why strategy so rarely survives contact with the camera. Here they don't. One team sets the direction, writes the story, and is there when it gets made.
What gets worked on, in what order, and how you will know it worked. Fifteen years running delivery inside large organisations, most recently as VP of Operations for an agency carrying roughly fifty retained clients.
What the brand says, who it says it to, and why anyone should care. Positioning and narrative first, then the scripts and hooks that carry it. Two years of Meisner training, so performance gets directed from the inside rather than from a monitor.
Getting it made. Disney, Paramount and NBCUniversal taught us how a real set runs. The last two years taught us how to get the same result on a phone, on a deadline, for a fraction of the budget.
Fractional CMO leading channel strategy across TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, building the creator program and agreement framework, and standing up paid media with attribution.
Fifteen years in entertainment production at Disney, Paramount and NBCUniversal, then agency operations.
Tempered Studios exists because the same thing kept turning up inside brands spending real money: plenty of output, nobody owning the decisions, and no way to tell what was working. Usually because the people setting strategy had never had to make anything, and the people making things were never told why.
We do both. That is the whole idea.
Tempering is the heat treatment that makes steel hard without making it brittle. Pressure applied deliberately, so what comes out holds up.
Tell us what you're making and where it's stuck. You'll get an honest answer about whether we're the right help.