How Meetinghouse Turned a $1M Overrun Into 10% Profit—With Half the Staff

Case Study

The Challenge

2024’s Six-Month Overrun

In 2024, Meetinghouse Productions faced a full-scale post-production breakdown:

Six months over schedule and over budget on a 60-episode order.
Costs ballooning toward a $1M loss from overstaffing and inefficiency.
A post team stretched to 6 AEs plus additional post supervisors per show—and still falling behind.
Approvals scattered across ad hoc email threads, making status nearly impossible to track.
Duplicated effort, unclear ownership, and missed steps across departments.
Despite the size of the team, deadlines slipped and visibility was minimal. Meetinghouse needed a structural overhaul—fast.

The Solution

Post-as-a-Service—Audit → Provision → Run

Audit, fast. We interviewed the full chain and traced where approvals, assets, and time were leaking—no forms, no rebuild.

Provisioned clarity, not setup. We replaced ad-hoc email chases with structured Slack channels and a SAMEpg-managed source of truth. Leaders got role-specific “what’s due/at risk” views with one-click actions.

Execution that sticks. Requests became tickets with auto-routing and live status. Research/Clearance was standardized into a usable 20K-clip library. Dozens of behind-the-scenes automations cut approval lag and removed manual follow-ups.

Net effect: fewer chases, fewer misses, predictable delivery—so the schedule (and budget) held.

Audit, fast. We interviewed the full chain and traced where approvals, assets, and time were leaking—no forms, no rebuild.

Net effect: fewer chases, fewer misses, predictable delivery—so the schedule (and budget) held.

Audit, fast. We interviewed the full chain and traced where approvals, assets, and time were leaking—no forms, no rebuild.

Net effect: fewer chases, fewer misses, predictable delivery—so the schedule (and budget) held.

The ROI

2025’s Turnaround—Same Volume, Half the Staff, On Time

In less than one year, by mid-2025, Meetinghouse’s post operation went from costly and chaotic to lean and profitable:

$1M loss eliminated—replaced with a 10% profit margin.
Delivered 3 concurrent series (56 episodes total) on schedule.
Half the post staff: management + 3 AEs vs. last year’s 6 AEs and additional post supervisors for each show.
Key team members gained instant visibility into at-risk items, drastically reducing approval lag and missed steps.
Every department—from research to delivery—operated from a single, structured source of truth.

$1M

Loss Eliminated

Performance Disclosure: All Meetinghouse figures are drawn from internal cost, staffing, Airtable-database, and payroll records covering three unscripted series handled by SAMEpg between 1 January 2025 and 31 August 2025. Against the same three series’ 2024 season, the 2025 slate eliminated an approximately US $1 million post-production overrun and recorded a 10 percent net profit margin (net profit ÷ net production revenue). Within the same eight-month window SAMEpg delivered 56 episodes—40 ≈30-minute and 16 ≈60-minute shows—using a lean crew of one management lead and three assistant editors, versus the prior season’s average staffing of three post supervisors and six-to-nine assistant editors, with materially lower overtime documented in payroll logs. The 20 000-clip library figure represents the number of unique records in Meetinghouse’s Airtable research/clearance base as of 31 August 2025. All cost-savings, episode-delivery, and staff-reduction metrics reflect historical results for Meetinghouse Productions and are sourced from the company’s Airtable instance, cost-reporting workbooks, and payroll data; outcomes for other productions may differ.

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