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

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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

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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

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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

$0

/ mo

See your organisation clearly.
Takes 20 minutes.

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Single user

Business health score

Department mapping

Connection ratings

Ecosystem map

Budget overview

Executive summary

Diagnosis

$0

/ mo

See your organisation clearly.
Takes 20 minutes.

Get Started

Single user

Business health score

Department mapping

Connection ratings

Ecosystem map

Budget overview

Executive summary

Diagnosis

$0

/ mo

See your organisation clearly.
Takes 20 minutes.

Get Started

Single user

Business health score

Department mapping

Connection ratings

Ecosystem map

Budget overview

Executive summary

Best Deal

Prescription

$200

/ mo

Everything in Diagnosis, plus the tools to act on it. The score goes up as you do the work.

Get Started

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

$200

/ mo

Everything in Diagnosis, plus the tools to act on it. The score goes up as you do the work.

Get Started

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

$200

/ mo

Everything in Diagnosis, plus the tools to act on it. The score goes up as you do the work.

Get Started

Up to 5 connected accounts

Live updating Health Score

Decision flow mapping

Department deep-dives

Tech stack audit

Guided action plan

Full task list

Treatment

Scoped to requirements

/ mo

Everything in Prescription, plus hands-on implementation support from our team.

Contact Us

Dedicated support

Stakeholder interviews

Action plan implementation

Process mapping

Brand operations tooling

Quarterly reviews

Score monitoring

Treatment

Scoped to requirements

/ mo

Everything in Prescription, plus hands-on implementation support from our team.

Contact Us

Dedicated support

Stakeholder interviews

Action plan implementation

Process mapping

Brand operations tooling

Quarterly reviews

Score monitoring

Treatment

Scoped to requirements

/ mo

Everything in Prescription, plus hands-on implementation support from our team.

Contact Us

Dedicated support

Stakeholder interviews

Action plan implementation

Process mapping

Brand operations tooling

Quarterly reviews

Score monitoring

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?