Prestyj vs
In-House Creative Team
Building an in-house creative team means a videographer, editor, scriptwriter, and creative director on payroll — $300K-$600K+ all-in annually before they ship a single ad. Prestyj is one flat batch fee, 300-1,000 finished ads in 24 hours, and the only person on camera is you.
Pricing Comparison
See how our pricing stacks up against In-House Creative Team
Prestyj
- 300-1,000 unique vertical video ads per batch
- Scripts written for you
- You record once in 15-20 min
- 24-hour turnaround
- Hook + body + CTA variations
- Your real face — no hires, no managers
- Month-to-month, no long-term contract
- Error revisions included
In-House Creative Team
- Full creative control and IP ownership
- Always-on team for ongoing brand work
- Compounding institutional knowledge over time
- Recruiting, onboarding, and management overhead
- Ramp-up time before first ads ship (months)
- Fully variable output — turnover resets everything
- Volume bottlenecked by 1-2 humans
Feature Comparison
Compare Prestyj with In-House Creative Team feature by feature
| Feature | Prestyj | In-House Creative Team |
|---|---|---|
Time-to-first-ad | 24 hours | 3-6 months (hire, ramp, first usable output) |
Monthly output capacity | 300-1,000 ads per batch | 10-40 finished ads (one editor's realistic ceiling) |
Fully-loaded annual cost | Flat batch fee × however many batches | $300K-$600K+ (salaries + benefits + gear + software + PM overhead) |
Scripts researched for your vertical | Depends on hire quality | |
You record once and we handle everything In-house = ongoing creative meetings, briefs, reviews, revisions, 1:1s | ||
Management overhead | Zero | Hiring, 1:1s, performance reviews, PTO coverage, turnover |
Output continuity through turnover | 100% | Resets every time someone leaves |
Hook / CTA variation engineering at scale | Bottlenecked by team capacity | |
Cost per finished ad at 1,000/yr | ~$3-5 | $300-$600+ per ad (loaded cost ÷ realistic output) |
Pause / resume flexibility | Pause anytime | Layoffs, severance, recruiting again to restart |
Why Hiring an In-House Creative Team Loses the Math
An in-house team makes sense at enterprise scale or when video IS the product. For 99% of owner-operated service businesses, the loaded cost and ramp time aren't recoverable.
Fully-loaded cost is 1.4-1.6x salary
A senior video editor ($90K-$130K) plus a scriptwriter ($70K-$100K) plus a creative director ($150K-$220K) plus benefits, equipment, software licenses, and PM overhead = $300K-$600K+ annually. That's before they ship one ad.
Months of ramp before usable output
Recruit (1-3 months) → onboard → learn your offer, brand, and ad accounts (1-3 months) → first usable ads. Prestyj's first batch lands in 24 hours of kickoff.
Volume bottlenecked by human capacity
One full-time editor realistically ships 10-40 finished ads per month. Modern Meta and TikTok creative testing needs 50-200/week. The math doesn't work — you're paying $300K+ for an output that can't feed the algorithm.
Turnover resets institutional knowledge
Average creative-team tenure is 18-24 months. When the editor or scriptwriter leaves, you re-recruit, re-onboard, and the next person rebuilds the playbook. Prestyj's system is in our team, not in any one hire.
No flexibility to pause or scale
A bad quarter means layoffs, severance, morale damage, and recruiting again to restart. Prestyj is month-to-month — pause when you don't need it, scale when you do.
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Skip the $400K Hire. Just Record.
An in-house team takes months to ship and 6-figures to keep. Prestyj ships 300-1,000 ads in 24 hours — for the cost of one editor's monthly salary.
One-time payment. No subscription. 24-hour turnaround.