AGI Studios

What AGI Studios does

AGI Studios is a privately held commercial visual content production studio founded in 1988 and headquartered in a 7,000-square-foot facility in Miamisburg, Ohio (Dayton metro). The studio was acquired in 2019 by Chris Mathews, who joined the firm in 2007 as a production assistant and now serves as President; his wife Kristie Mathews runs studio operations. Under current ownership, the company transitioned from a photography-only agency into an end-to-end visual production house offering still photography (architecture, food and beverage, healthcare, industrial, lifestyle, and product), motion/video production, FAA-licensed aerial drone capture, 360-degree product photography, 360 virtual tours, motion graphics and animation, stop motion, in-house retouching, and post-production services. Its core delivery model combines a five-person in-house creative team with specialized craft capabilities (decades-experienced photographers, FAA Part 107 drone operators, and a Columbus College of Art and Design-trained retoucher) and an on-site workshop for prop design and build.

AGI serves a B2B client base that includes large enterprises (Microsoft, Pepsi, Marriott, Midmark, Yaskawa, Hobart, Meijer, Crown Equipment), small businesses, and creative agencies. The company states that most clients work with AGI for 10+ years and that it has served clients globally (from Albany to Amsterdam), though its physical footprint remains a single Ohio studio. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: custom project-based quoting, direct phone/email contact, an Instagram presence, a Vimeo portfolio, and an email newsletter form the primary marketing surface. No pricing is publicly disclosed, no funding rounds have been raised, and the firm operates without external investors or parent company ownership.

Name

AGI Studios

Legal name

AGI Studios

Website

https://agicreative.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AGI Studios is a privately held, Ohio-based commercial photography and video production studio offering still, motion, aerial, 360, and animation services to enterprise clients, small businesses, and creative agencies on a project basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Photography Services

NAICS

Motion Picture and Video Production (512110), Motion Picture and Video Production (51211), Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (512)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Photofinishing Laboratories (7384)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Studio & Creative Resourcing (In-house/Embedded Teams) (BPAFAIAJ)

Keywords

• Commercial photography
• Video production services
• Aerial drone photography
• 360 product photography
• Photo retouching services

Headquarters

HQ city

Miamisburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commercial Photography Services: Project-based commercial photography services across architecture, food, healthcare, industrial, product, and lifestyle categories. End-to-end services from storyboarding through editing and retouching.
2. Video and Motion Production: Video production services including testimonial videos, commercials, product videos, animations, motion graphics, and post-production services.
3. 360 and Aerial Services: Object 360 photography, 360 virtual tours, and FAA-licensed aerial drone photography services for still photos, video, and 360 content.
4. Retouching Services: Photo and video retouching services, including work for imagery collected by other photographers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

AGI Studios is a full-service visual content agency delivering end-to-end commercial photography, video production, FAA-licensed aerial drone imagery, 360-degree product and virtual tour photography, motion graphics, animation, and in-house retouching services. Operating from a 7,000-square-foot studio in Miamisburg, Ohio, the studio manages projects from initial storyboarding through final editing for enterprise, mid-market, and creative-agency clients across verticals such as architecture, food and beverage, healthcare, industrial, product, and lifestyle.

Product overview

AGI Studios is a full-service visual content agency offering a comprehensive portfolio of image and video production services from its 7,000-square-foot studio in Miamisburg, Ohio. The company's core offerings include Still Photography (covering architecture, food and drink, healthcare, industrial, lifestyle, and product categories), Motion/Video Production, Aerial Drone Photography, Object 360-degree product photography, 360-degree virtual tours, Motion Graphics and Animation, Stop Motion, Retouching, and Post-Production services. The studio delivers end-to-end visual solutions from storyboarding through editing and retouching, serving long-term partnerships with corporate clients, small businesses, and creative agencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commercial Still Photography

Quantifiable outcome

• Most clients work with AGI for 10+ years, indicating high satisfaction and retention

Named customers13 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• LPK: Cincinnati-based brand design and creative agency. Shares AGI's Ohio geography and serves similar enterprise clients with brand and visual content offerings, though with a broader strategic brand-design focus.
• Innis Maggiore Group: Canton, Ohio advertising and brand agency. Shares AGI's Ohio geography and B2B enterprise client focus, with overlapping content and creative production services.
• Marcus Thomas LLC: Cleveland-based independent advertising agency. Comparable sized Midwest independent agency competing with AGI for similar enterprise content and creative budgets in Ohio.
• Resource/Ammirati: Columbus, Ohio-based creative and brand agency. Direct Ohio geographic competitor with overlapping B2B client base and content production capabilities.
• Hitchcock Fleming & Associates: Akron, Ohio-based advertising and creative agency. Direct Ohio geographic peer to AGI with overlapping B2B enterprise clients and content production services.

Broad incumbents

• The Tombras Group: Knoxville-headquartered independent creative agency with full-service capabilities including video, photography, and content. Comparable as a mid-size independent agency with similar enterprise client profile.
• Barkley: Kansas City independent creative agency with full-service capabilities including content production, video, and photography. Comparable as a similarly-sized independent Midwest agency serving enterprise clients.

Emerging players

• Shutterstock Custom: Commercial photography service from Shutterstock that matches brands with photographers for custom shoots. Overlaps with AGI's commercial photography offering but at a more distributed, platform-mediated scale.
• Curiosity Studios: Commercial content studio focused on photography and video production for brands. Comparable in service mix (photo, video, content) though smaller and more digitally-native than AGI.

Direct peers

• EPIC Creative: Midwest full-service creative agency headquartered in the Midwest offering brand, video, and content production. Closely comparable to AGI in regional positioning, multi-discipline service mix, and B2B enterprise client base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/agistudios
• Facebookfacebook.com/agicreative
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agi-studios

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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