The room is the easy part.
Anyone with capital can buy four cameras. The work is what gets recorded inside them. Our job is to make the conversation worth listening to, not to point at the gear.
Index 04 / About Founded January 2025
Built by someone on both sides of the lens.
KRYSTIAN SWIERK FOUNDER / DIRECTOR
Founder
Krystian Swierk
Krystian has been making video for a decade and producing podcasts for half of that. Before The Hive, he ran his own production work for clients across creative, real estate, and small business. The studio is the version of the room he kept wanting to rent and could never find in the suburbs.
He runs every session himself or hands it to a senior engineer he has worked with personally. That is on purpose. The people who pay $249 an hour deserve the person whose name is on the door.
How we work
Three things we believe.
We are not the only studio in the Northwest Suburbs and we will not be the cheapest one. What we are is the studio that thinks about what you are recording before you walk in.
Production happens in advance.
Every detail we settle before you arrive is a detail you will not be solving on camera. The right talking points, the right format, the right guests.
A live cut leaves with you.
You should not need to wait three weeks to see if the session worked. The cut is in your inbox the same day.