Operator-led consultancy for the games industry
You can hire anyone to advise you. Almost none of them have shipped a game.
Vivrato is the first video game industry focused consultancy. We are operators. People who have run studios, launched platforms, published games and made the hard calls, advising the people doing it now.
Why Vivrato
Games are not just products.
You can hire a strategy firm. They will build you a good model, run a clean process, and hand you a deck. What they cannot do is tell you what happens to a team in month fourteen of a slipping project, or which publisher actually pays on time, or why a great build still misses.
That is not analysis. That is having been there.
Operators run every engagement
Everyone on this team has carried a shipping title, a P&L or a studio. We give advice we have had to live with.
Creativity and sustainability
A great game and a viable business belong in the same plan. We refuse the premise that you have to pick one.
Relationships first
Decades of trust across studios, publishers and platforms. That network is why we can open a door rather than describe one.
Built on hope
Layoffs, cancellations, uncertainty. We started this because the people making games deserve better odds.
Who we work with
We have sat on every side of the table.
Indie through AAA, and the people who fund them. The advice changes depending on which chair you are in, so we start by working out which problem is actually yours.
Developers and co-dev
Leadership, production health, greenlight decisions, external team integration, and the pitch you take into a publisher meeting.
Publishers and platforms
Portfolio calls, launch execution, monetisation that respects players, developer relations, and partnerships that hold when a project moves.
IP and rights holders
You own something people love and want it to live in games. We map what the IP can carry, what it should not, and who is worth talking to.
Investors
Diligence from someone who can read a build and a burn chart. Venture, private equity, banks and independent investors.
What we do
Four places we make a measurable difference
Most engagements start in one of these and end up touching two. We scope to the problem, not to a retainer.
People and leadership
- Empowering leaders and teams
- Organisational design and collaborative culture
- Succession planning and knowledge transfer
IP, growth and partnerships
- IP and franchise strategy, licensing and portfolio roadmaps
- Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships
- New revenue streams and market expansion
- Middleware and engine collaborations
Market positioning
- Industry benchmarking and trends
- Project-specific risk and cost-benefit
- Long-term sustainability and scalability
Sustainability and negotiation
- Smart contract and scope management
- Business development and client success
- Pitch development and financial oversight
Named engagements
Defined pieces of work with a defined output. Each one has a scope, a timeline and a price.
The adoption ladder
Six rungs. No judgement.
Every organisation we interview lands on one of six rungs. Refusing counts. So does rebuilding the whole pipeline around it. The ladder places you without telling you where you should be.
Find your rungBar heights illustrate the ladder, not the distribution. The real distribution publishes with the report.
Intelligence and strategic research
We do not guess. We ask.
Vivrato runs primary research across the industry. Confidential, one to one, senior. Structured interviews with the people who sign off on the decisions, aggregated into something you can act on.
Explore our researchEveryone has an opinion about AI in games. We went and asked the people actually making the decisions, on the condition that nobody's name is attached to it.
Adam Boyes, Founder, Vivrato
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C-suite interviews
The Vivrato AI Adoption Index
- Confidential interviews with C-suite and studio leadership
- Indie, AA and AAA. North America and Europe. PC and console.
- Forty-five structured questions, asked the same way every time
- Adopters and refusers both in the data
Gaming Decoded
A games business podcast by Vivrato
Hosted by Andrea Rene. The business of games, explained by the people running it. Deals, launches, studio economics and the decisions behind the headlines.
The conversations we would be having anyway
We started a podcast for the same reason we started the consultancy. The most useful knowledge in this industry lives in people's heads and rarely makes it out. Gaming Decoded gets it on the record.
Who you actually work with
Operators you can trust
The person who pitches you is the person who does the work. Behind them sits an advisory bench we bring in when a problem needs them.
Tell us what is actually going on
Send us the real problem: the slipping project, the deal you are unsure about, the team that is not working. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.
contact@vivrato.comWould rather talk? Book 30 minutes with Adam.
Send us a note
Four fields. A person reads it, not a queue.
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