Reviewed by Tim Kay, Founder & Director · Updated
Discreet, high reliability production for the rooms where the minutes matter more than the applause. Secure signal, a small footprint, and a senior team that has done this often enough to stay out of the way.
A board meeting and an investor day look similar from the outside. Both are a room, a screen, a microphone and a small number of people whose time is expensive. Almost everything else about them is opposite.
One is private, often privileged, and usually should not be recorded at all. The other is a disclosure event that has to be captured, transcribed and published for everyone at the same time. Getting those two defaults the wrong way round is not a production error. It is a legal one.
Argus HD produces both from 214 W. 29th St. in Manhattan, with crews who know the difference before anyone has to explain it. When the stakes are high, we are the team behind the team.
Everything below sits inside one scope, written in plain language after a technical discovery call. Whatever falls within it, we own end to end.
Quiet, low footprint production for the boardroom, run by a crew that understands privilege, executive session, and when the right move is to leave the room.
A disclosure event produced properly. Stage, webcast, synchronized slides, moderated analyst Q and A, and a replay and transcript published on your schedule.
Hard start times tied to the market, redundant delivery, and a rehearsal that happens well before the numbers are anywhere near the room.
In person, virtual or hybrid shareholder meetings with controlled access, orderly question handling and a clean record for your corporate secretary.
Small, senior audiences in hotels and private rooms, produced without the trade show apparatus that usually arrives with a production company.
SKO and all hands events for a room and a distributed workforce, built so the content still works for the people watching it a week later.
Directors joining from elsewhere on a controlled link, with clean audio in both directions so nobody has to ask for anything twice.
Gated, domain restricted or single sign on protected delivery for the times when the audience list is part of the compliance question.
Searchable transcripts, captioned replays and an archive prepared to the standard your IR team and your counsel already expect.
This is the most consequential decision on the run sheet, and it usually ends up being made by whoever happens to be holding the laptop. It should not be.
Counsel generally advises against it. A recording gives a fuller account than anyone's memory, which makes it unusually powerful evidence if the meeting is ever litigated. Minutes are the corporate record for good reason, and minutes are drafted rather than captured.
Board discussion carries no automatic legal protection. Once a recording travels beyond the people it was made for, privilege can be waived by the sharing itself. Anything that does get captured needs a defined custody path, not a folder on somebody's desktop.
Most states require one party consent and some require everyone present to agree. On a call with directors sitting in several jurisdictions that becomes a real question, and it is one that gets answered before the meeting rather than during it.
Here capture is the entire point. Materials reach the whole market at the same time, the webcast is recorded, and a searchable, captioned transcript follows it. Under recording that event creates a problem just as surely as over recording a board meeting does.
Your counsel and your corporate secretary own these calls, not your A/V vendor. Our job is to raise the question early enough that it gets decided on purpose, then build the technical side so it supports that decision rather than quietly working against it.
Every vendor says they are discreet. These are the parts you can actually check before you hire anyone, ours included.
Investor days fail on the calendar far more often than they fail on production. This is the shape of a well run one, drawn from how IR teams actually plan them.
IR guidance commonly puts speaker preparation at three months or more before the day, because aligning messaging across a leadership team takes longer than anyone budgets for. If you are eight weeks out, the production is the easy part of what is left.
Presentations, agenda and speaker information get posted publicly through your standard disclosure channels before the event begins, so the whole market has them simultaneously. Your IR team and counsel own that timing. We build the delivery to match it.
Synchronized slides, a clean audio feed, redundant delivery and viewership data afterwards. This is a disclosure channel, which means the standard is higher than a marketing livestream and the tolerance for improvisation is lower.
Dry runs with every speaker, a plan for text questions arriving from virtual attendees, and separate handling for journalists and analysts where that is appropriate for your company.
Not a walkthrough. A rehearsal in the actual room, on the actual system, with the actual deck. Every investor day that runs smoothly had one of these behind it.
An on demand replay, a searchable transcript reviewed by IR, closed captions, and translations where your investor base needs them. These are expected, so they get scoped rather than improvised afterwards.
Redundancy usually means more gear and more people. In a boardroom that is the wrong trade, so we build it a different way.
A recurring quarterly board meeting does not need what an investor day needs, and you should never be priced as though it does.
In live production there are no second chances. In these particular rooms there is also no appetite for a story afterwards.
We do not drop off gear. The same senior team that scoped your meeting is the team in the room during it, so the person who found the risk in planning is the person handling it if it ever appears.
You get one point of contact, a scope written in plain language, and problems solved before you see them.
Four stages, one senior team, no handoffs between them. The person who wrote the plan is the person in the room.
Every production starts with a technical discovery call. We map the room, the audience and the signal path, and we raise the recording and disclosure questions before anything gets quoted.
NDAs, crew list, file handling, delivery gating and custody of anything recorded, all agreed in writing with your team rather than assumed on either side.
A full rehearsal in the real room on the real system, then a small, quiet crew running the meeting from load in through to wrap.
Deliverables handed over exactly as you specified, working files wiped on your schedule with written confirmation, and a short debrief.
Scopes get vague when a vendor wants room to add charges later. Ours are written to be read by your corporate secretary as easily as by your budget holder.
Argus HD has been producing live broadcasts since streaming was still figuring itself out. Our founder worked the crew on one of YouTube’s very first live events back in 2008, the Katy Perry show, and later helped bring Facebook’s early F8 developer conferences to a live audience online.
We have been doing live at scale for as long as the platforms have existed, which is why nothing happening in your boardroom is being attempted for the first time.
Productions where a visible failure would have become the story. None of them did.
Executive A/V support for private university leadership meetings, where discretion mattered as much as picture quality.
Two days at The Times Center with livestream and a podcast studio running alongside it.
A large scale developer event in Brooklyn with broadcast and global livestream production.
Live podcast production for The New York Times with multi platform distribution.
These two sit at very different points. A recurring quarterly board meeting in a room we already know is a modest and predictable line. An investor day with a stage, a webcast, analyst Q and A, transcripts and translations is a full production carrying a full production budget.
We scope it on a technical discovery call and put it in writing in plain language, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
A recurring board meeting in a familiar room is a modest, predictable line. An investor day with a stage, a webcast, analyst Q and A and transcripts is a full production. We scope it on a technical discovery call and put the number in writing before you commit.
That is a decision for your counsel and your corporate secretary, not for your A/V vendor. Legal guidance generally cautions against routine recording, because a recording gives a fuller account than memory and can become powerful evidence in litigation, and because privilege can be waived if it travels beyond the people it was made for. We raise the question early so it gets decided deliberately, then build to whatever you decide.
Yes, and we agree what happens before the day rather than during it. In most cases the crew moves to an operating position outside the room with the systems already set, so nobody has to be asked to leave in the middle of a conversation.
Yes, as standard, and we will work to your paper rather than ours. We can also supply a crew list in advance if your security or legal team needs to review who will be in the building.
Decks and documents live on our own controlled drives rather than personal accounts, signal paths avoid unapproved cloud services, and working files are wiped on a schedule you set with written confirmation once it is done.
Synchronized slides, clean audio, redundant delivery, an on demand replay, a searchable transcript with captions and, for many companies, translations. Materials are posted publicly through your standard disclosure channels before the event begins so the whole market receives them at once. Your IR team and counsel own that timing and we build the delivery around it.
IR guidance commonly puts speaker preparation at three months or more, because aligning messaging across a leadership team takes longer than expected. Production can move faster than that. The content usually cannot.
Always. For an investor day that means a full rehearsal the day before, in the actual room, on the actual system, with the actual deck. Every one of these that runs smoothly had one behind it.
Yes. Remote directors join on a controlled link with clean audio in both directions and a return feed, so the conversation does not slow down every time somebody offsite wants to speak.
Yes. Unlisted delivery, registration gating, domain restriction and single sign on protection are all available. Tell us who is allowed to watch and we will match the platform to that.
Start with a technical discovery call. We will map the room, raise the recording and disclosure questions early, and put a scope in writing you can take to your counsel and your budget holder.
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