The studio health platform
A diagnostic platform for creative studio leaders. Budget health, culture health, ecosystem mapping, and a prioritised action plan. Built for the people running the place.
Business
Organisation Setup
Departments
Intake
Intake Questionnaire
Department Scores
Tech Stack Audit
Diagnostic
Ecosystem Map
Decision Flow
Action plan
Exec Summary
Dashboard
Action plan
Next Steps
Dashboard
Task focus
Flatten Approval Chains
If more than 2 people need to approve something, redesign the chain. Three approvers is two too many.
$
63k
-
$
126k
Recovered in decision speed costs with implementation
24pts
▲
Decision speed
Medium
Effort
4
Steps
View full action plan
Department focus
Live Ops
The highest adjusted spend ratio in your organisation.
$
42k/year
$7k
Per health point
28/100
28
Clarity
22
Speed
30
Alignment
35
Standards
Based on a team of
150 people
at avg
70,000 salary
with a budget of
1,000,000
View full action plan
Organisation snapshot
Operational health across every department. Where decisions flow and where they stall.
Meridien Games
68/100
Fundamentally healthy but leaving performance on the table. The foundations are solid — now tighten the gaps and accelerate.
Quick insights
▲
2pts
Tech stack: 2 overlapping tools
▲
3pts
Decision flow: 2 no-value steps
7
Departments
3
Critical departments
Standards
31
Weakest pillar
$
453k-1.4m
Est. annual cost
Strategic moves
Chip title
Redesign Approval Architecture
Map all approval chains, implement tiered authority model
▲
5pts
Name
▲
30%
Faster delivery cycles
1-2 months
Chip title
Build Brand Operating System
Decision frameworks, templates, and governance docs
▲
5pts
Name
▲
5pts
Name
2-3 months
Chip title
Stakeholder Interview Program
3-5 interviews per quarter to surface misalignment early
▲
5pts
Name
▲
5pts
Name
Ongoing
Clarity
62
Decision ownership is unclear in most teams.
▲
2pts
Industry avg
64
Speed
53
Significant bottlenecks across the approval chain.
▲
3pts
Industry avg
56
Alignment
73
Teams align when they have to. Not before.
▲
13pts
Industry avg
60
Standards
31
Rules are in place but loosely enforced.
▲
24pts
Industry avg
55
Meridian Games is operating with significant structural friction. Decisions that should take days are taking weeks, and your most experienced people are spending their time on approvals rather than the work that needs their judgment.
Business
Organisation Setup
Departments
Intake
Intake Questionnaire
Department Scores
Tech Stack Audit
Diagnostic
Ecosystem Map
Decision Flow
Action plan
Exec Summary
Dashboard
Action plan
Next Steps
Dashboard
Task focus
Flatten Approval Chains
If more than 2 people need to approve something, redesign the chain. Three approvers is two too many.
$
63k
-
$
126k
Recovered in decision speed costs with implementation
24pts
▲
Decision speed
Medium
Effort
4
Steps
View full action plan
Department focus
Live Ops
The highest adjusted spend ratio in your organisation.
$
42k/year
$7k
Per health point
28/100
28
Clarity
22
Speed
30
Alignment
35
Standards
Based on a team of
150 people
at avg
70,000 salary
with a budget of
1,000,000
View full action plan
Organisation snapshot
Operational health across every department. Where decisions flow and where they stall.
Meridien Games
68/100
Fundamentally healthy but leaving performance on the table. The foundations are solid — now tighten the gaps and accelerate.
Quick insights
▲
2pts
Tech stack: 2 overlapping tools
▲
3pts
Decision flow: 2 no-value steps
7
Departments
3
Critical departments
Standards
31
Weakest pillar
$
453k-1.4m
Est. annual cost
Strategic moves
Chip title
Redesign Approval Architecture
Map all approval chains, implement tiered authority model
▲
5pts
Name
▲
30%
Faster delivery cycles
1-2 months
Chip title
Build Brand Operating System
Decision frameworks, templates, and governance docs
▲
5pts
Name
▲
5pts
Name
2-3 months
Chip title
Stakeholder Interview Program
3-5 interviews per quarter to surface misalignment early
▲
5pts
Name
▲
5pts
Name
Ongoing
Clarity
62
Decision ownership is unclear in most teams.
▲
2pts
Industry avg
64
Speed
53
Significant bottlenecks across the approval chain.
▲
3pts
Industry avg
56
Alignment
73
Teams align when they have to. Not before.
▲
13pts
Industry avg
60
Standards
31
Rules are in place but loosely enforced.
▲
24pts
Industry avg
55
Meridian Games is operating with significant structural friction. Decisions that should take days are taking weeks, and your most experienced people are spending their time on approvals rather than the work that needs their judgment.
We’ve spent 15 years working with studios that love their craft
Save money
Identify tool redundancy, reduce rework, cut approval overhead. The fundamentals of business tracked and improved.
Save money
Identify tool redundancy, reduce rework, cut approval overhead. The fundamentals of business tracked and improved.
Save money
Identify tool redundancy, reduce rework, cut approval overhead. The fundamentals of business tracked and improved.
Retain talent
Build a culture score that tracks whether your team believes in how the place works and perform better with stronger connections.
Retain talent
Build a culture score that tracks whether your team believes in how the place works and perform better with stronger connections.
Retain talent
Build a culture score that tracks whether your team believes in how the place works and perform better with stronger connections.
Protect craft
Remove the work around the work. When decisions move and teams trust each other, creative quality follows.
Protect craft
Remove the work around the work. When decisions move and teams trust each other, creative quality follows.
Protect craft
Remove the work around the work. When decisions move and teams trust each other, creative quality follows.
Studios waste money and lose people for the same reasons.
The problem
Studios waste money and lose people for the same reasons.
Decisions stall. Teams work in silos. Budget flows toward the wrong things. By the time it's visible, it's already expensive.
Health overview
A clearer picture of your studio’s health
Budget Health and Culture Health. Scored against your industry. Get a clear picture of how you’re operating at a high level before diving deeper into the culture and budget. Updated as you act on the plan.
Health overview
A clearer picture of your studio’s health
Budget Health and Culture Health. Scored against your industry. Get a clear picture of how you’re operating at a high level before diving deeper into the culture and budget. Updated as you act on the plan.
Financial review
See where the money is going
Budgets don’t tell the full story. Calculate your team’s cost per health point to identify key focus areas. Rework, delays, duplication, attrition - each broken down by cause. Then maps it against where your budget is going.
Financial review
See where the money is going
Budgets don’t tell the full story. Calculate your team’s cost per health point to identify key focus areas. Rework, delays, duplication, attrition - each broken down by cause. Then maps it against where your budget is going.
Department ecosystem
Discover where connections break down
Every department. Every connection. Rated by strength. The ecosystem map makes visible what everyone in the building already knows, but can't articulate: which relationships are working, which are fractured, and how dysfunction spreads from one team to the next.
Department ecosystem
Discover where connections break down
Every department. Every connection. Rated by strength. The ecosystem map makes visible what everyone in the building already knows, but can't articulate: which relationships are working, which are fractured, and how dysfunction spreads from one team to the next.
Decision flow mapping
Understand how your process really works
Build out your project processes and understand where opportunities lie in improving the speed, quality and output. Benchmark your steps to see what difference these could make.
Decision flow mapping
Understand how your process really works
Build out your project processes and understand where opportunities lie in improving the speed, quality and output. Benchmark your steps to see what difference these could make.
Action plan
Know what to do first and where to focus
Prioritise the steps to a more healthy business. You get a brief you can take into your next leadership meeting, and clear actionable next steps to improve. A comprehensive guided list of improvements for your business. Each broken down by their impact to overall score, intensity and time estimates.
Action plan
Know what to do first and where to focus
Prioritise the steps to a more healthy business. You get a brief you can take into your next leadership meeting, and clear actionable next steps to improve. A comprehensive guided list of improvements for your business. Each broken down by their impact to overall score, intensity and time estimates.
Pricing
A model designed around your studio
Pricing
A model designed around your studio
Diagnosis
See your organisation clearly. Takes 20 minutes.
Single user
Business health score
Department mapping
Connection ratings
Ecosystem map
Budget overview
Executive summary
$0
/ mo
Single user
Business health score
Department mapping
Connection ratings
Ecosystem map
Budget overview
Executive summary
Diagnosis
See your organisation clearly. Takes 20 minutes.
Single user
Business health score
Department mapping
Connection ratings
Ecosystem map
Budget overview
Executive summary
$0
/ mo
Best Deal
Prescription
Everything in Diagnosis, plus the tools to act on it. The score goes up as you do the work.
Up to 5 connected accounts
Live updating Health Score
Decision flow mapping
Department deep-dives
Tech stack audit
Guided action plan
Full task list
$200
/ mo
Best Deal
Prescription
Everything in Diagnosis, plus the tools to act on it. The score goes up as you do the work.
$200
/ mo
Up to 5 connected accounts
Live updating Health Score
Decision flow mapping
Department deep-dives
Tech stack audit
Guided action plan
Full task list
Best Deal
Prescription
Everything in Diagnosis, plus the tools to act on it. The score goes up as you do the work.
Up to 5 connected accounts
Live updating Health Score
Decision flow mapping
Department deep-dives
Tech stack audit
Guided action plan
Full task list
$200
/ mo
Treatment
Everything in Prescription, plus hands-on implementation support from our team.
Dedicated support
Stakeholder interviews
Action plan implementation
Process mapping
Brand operations tooling
Quarterly reviews
Score monitoring
Scoped to requirements
Treatment
Everything in Prescription, plus hands-on implementation support from our team.
/ mo
Dedicated support
Stakeholder interviews
Action plan implementation
Process mapping
Brand operations tooling
Quarterly reviews
Score monitoring
Treatment
Everything in Prescription, plus hands-on implementation support from our team.
Dedicated support
Stakeholder interviews
Action plan implementation
Process mapping
Brand operations tooling
Quarterly reviews
Score monitoring
Scoped to requirements
FAQ
All You Need to Know
FAQ
All You Need to Know
What is Vitals?
Who is it for?
How long does the Diagnosis take?
What does the diagnosis include?
Is this just a survey?
How is VITALS different from Culture Amp or Lattice?
What happens after the free Diagnosis?
Does Vitals replace a consultant?