What cicospace.com does

Cicospace is a privately held, bootstrapped video production house based in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded in 2021 by Aaron Knipp after he left a career in wealth management. The company exclusively serves professional keynote speakers and thought leaders, producing assets designed specifically to meet speaker bureau evaluation criteria rather than general marketing video. Its core service offering centers on Demo Reel Production, Keynote Filming, and Event Sizzles, supplemented by Theater Production, Simulated Stages, Interview Style Footage, Speaker Bureau Assets, Full Keynote Replays, and Keynote Samples.

The underlying production capability is conventional: on-location and studio video capture of live keynotes, theater-based controlled shoots, and post-production editing by a small specialized team. The portfolio spans more than 40 named speaker projects across diverse event types and venues. There are no proprietary AI/ML components, software platforms, or technology products disclosed; the value sits in domain specialization and human production craft applied to the speaker-bureau evaluation workflow rather than in a scalable software asset.

Commercially, Cicospace operates a direct-to-consumer, sales-led model with quote-based project pricing and no publicly disclosed rates. Booking is handled via a Calendly link on the website, supplemented by founder-led outreach through LinkedIn and Instagram, and an educational blog targeting top-of-funnel speaker awareness. Revenue is project-based professional services income. The company has not raised external funding, maintains a network of partner relationships with organizations including the National Speakers Association, Speakr, APG, Speakerflow, Thinkific, Kiln, and GoLive, and operates from a small team of approximately 10 people across Scottsdale and western US studio locations.

Name

cicospace.com

Legal name

Cicospace

Website

https://cicospace.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cicospace is a Scottsdale-based, bootstrapped video production house that exclusively serves professional keynote speakers and thought leaders, producing bureau-ready demo reels, keynote filming, and event sizzles via a small specialist team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Scottsdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Video Production Services: Project-based professional services revenue from creating demo reels, keynote filming, event sizzles, theater productions, and other video content exclusively for keynote speakers and thought leaders.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cicospace is a content production house that creates video assets exclusively for keynote speakers and thought leaders. Its core offerings include Demo Reel Production, Keynote Filming, and Event Sizzles, supplemented by Theater Production, Simulated Stages, Interview Style Footage, Speaker Bureau Assets, Full Keynote Replays, and Keynote Samples. These bureau-ready assets are engineered to address speaker bureau and event planner evaluation criteria around stage performance, audience response, and reliability.

Product overview

Cicospace is a content production house that offers an integrated suite of video production services exclusively for keynote speakers and thought leaders. The portfolio centers on Demo Reel Production, Keynote Filming, and Event Sizzles, supplemented by Theater Production, Simulated Stages, Interview Style Footage, Speaker Bureau Assets, Full Keynote Replays, and Keynote Samples. These services are designed to function together as a development-first pipeline: production services capture real stage performance and audience response, while bureau-specific assets are engineered to meet speaker bureau evaluation criteria, helping speakers build credibility and secure bookings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Demo Reel Production
• Keynote Filming

Quantifiable outcome

• Demo reels designed to reduce booking risk and increase trust with speaker bureaus and event planners

Named customers15 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• SpeakrminorGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic brand partnership for collaborative work. Speakr is referenced as a premier brand partner that Cicospace is honored to work with.
• APG (Amplify Publishing Group)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerStrategic publishing partnership. APG is listed among Cicospace's notable brand partners.
• NSAminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNational Speakers Association partnership. NSA is listed as a premier partner organization.
• SpeakerflowminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSpeaker platform partnership. Speakerflow is listed among Cicospace's notable partners.
• ThinkificminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCourse platform partnership. Thinkific is listed among notable Cicospace brand partners.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Vidyard: Vidyard is a video creation, hosting, and analytics platform for sales and marketing teams. It addresses the broader business-video category that Cicospace operates in, but as a SaaS platform rather than a custom production house — a different business model with overlapping end-buyer intent.
• Descript: Descript is a video and podcast editing platform used by creators and thought leaders to produce their own content. It competes indirectly with Cicospace by enabling speakers to produce demo reels and sizzles themselves, though it lacks Cicospace's on-location filming and theater production capabilities.

Direct peers

• Wyzowl: Wyzowl is a video production agency producing animated explainers, brand videos, and customer testimonials. It shares Cicospace's reliance on a published portfolio as a primary acquisition channel and operates a comparable project-based, sales-led model.
• Switch Video: Switch Video is a corporate video production agency producing brand, recruitment, and thought-leadership content. Its thought-leadership video work for executives and subject-matter experts is the closest comparable to Cicospace's keynote-speaker niche within a larger production portfolio.
• Demo Duck: Demo Duck is a video production agency specializing in demo and explainer videos for B2B brands and SaaS companies. Like Cicospace, it sells project-based video production tailored to a specific buyer-evaluation use case, demonstrating that a niche production positioning can scale.
• Epipheo: Epipheo is a video production agency focused on explainer and storytelling videos for brands. It shares Cicospace's project-based production model and emphasis on producing assets engineered for a specific audience decision (in Epipheo's case, conversion; in Cicospace's, bureau booking).
• Lemonlight: Lemonlight is a B2B video production agency that produces branded video content (testimonials, explainers, social content) for businesses and thought leaders. It mirrors Cicospace's professional-services production model and target buyer profile, differing mainly in vertical breadth (general business vs. exclusively keynote speakers).
• Explainify: Explainify is a video production agency focused on explainer and brand videos for B2B clients. Its project-based production model, published portfolio, and emphasis on videos that drive a specific business outcome are structurally analogous to Cicospace's bureau-ready-asset positioning.

Emerging players

• Lumen5: Lumen5 is an AI-assisted video creation platform that turns text and existing assets into short-form marketing videos. It targets the same 'speaker produces own promotional content' workflow that competes with Cicospace's sizzle and reel services, especially for budget-conscious speakers.
• Content Allies: Content Allies produces thought-leadership content (video, podcast, written) for B2B experts and executives. It overlaps with Cicospace on the thought-leader buyer persona and video production service, but operates with a broader content-format portfolio rather than Cicospace's exclusive focus on keynote-stage footage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cicospace
• Instagraminstagram.com/cicospace

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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