Reel Health

What Reel Health does

Reel Health (legal entity Reel Inc., d/b/a "Reel") is a privately held professional services and technology firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California. The company specializes in production risk management for the entertainment industry, delivering integrated consulting across four practice areas: production safety (advisors, safety plan development, risk assessment, crew training), production security (talent protection, global threat monitoring, IP protection), production sustainability (environmental compliance, climate change risk management, sustainable supply chain), and production health (advisor support for cast and crew on and off set). Services are sold through direct enterprise field sales to film, television, and streaming studios, with dedicated Client Success Managers and on-demand consulting teams delivered via the Reel Time Advisors sub-brand. The firm also operates a proprietary digital workflow platform, the Reel Apps Platform, providing custom studio applications for digital workflow standardization, central communication, data management, and production crime reporting.

Underlying technology consists of custom studio applications built around interoperability and configurability, enabling uniformity across productions and creating a historical data store that supports realtime oversight and hazard remediation. The company maintains physical offices in five major US production hubs (Los Angeles, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York), an embedded presence across all 50 US states, and a European hub opened in 2022 at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. Twelve named enterprise customers span the major studio landscape — including Netflix, Walt Disney, Sony Pictures, Universal, Paramount, Marvel Studios, HBO, Hulu, NBC, Showtime, Focus Features, and BET — establishing a tightly concentrated but high-quality enterprise client base within a narrow vertical segment. Revenue is generated via quote-based professional services engagements; no publicly disclosed pricing tiers exist.

The company's go-to-market relies on direct enterprise sales supported by content marketing (Reel Insights blog, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube), with no public funding history or ownership disclosure. Founded in 2020, the firm has reached 51-100 employees within roughly its first five years, a meaningful scaling milestone that reflects both account wins among top-tier studios and incremental build-out of the geographic and product surface. The Reel Apps Platform represents a productization vector beyond pure billable-hour consulting, and the addition of sustainability advisory indicates intent to extend the firm into a more regulation-driven sub-vertical.

Name

Reel Health

Legal name

Reel Inc.

Website

https://reelhealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Reel Health provides integrated safety, security, sustainability, and health risk-management consulting — supported by a proprietary digital workflow platform — to film, television, and streaming productions for major studios including Netflix, Disney, Sony, Universal, Paramount, and HBO.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sherman Oaks

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Safety Consulting Services: Production safety advisors, safety plan development, risk assessment and mitigation, and crew safety training and instruction for film productions
2. Security Consulting Services: Production security advisors, talent support and protection, global threat monitoring, and IP protection
3. Sustainability Consulting Services: Production sustainability advisors, environmental compliance, climate change risk management, and sustainable supply chain services
4. Health Consulting Services: Production health advisors to help film productions keep cast and crew healthy and safe on and off set

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Reel Health (operating as Reel Inc.) delivers risk management consulting services to film, television, and streaming productions through four integrated practices: production safety, production security, production sustainability, and production health. Services include safety plan development, risk assessment, talent and IP protection, environmental compliance, climate risk management, and on-set crew health advisory. Reel complements its advisory practice with the Reel Apps Platform, a proprietary digital workflow system providing central communication, document storage, real-time oversight, and production crime reporting.

Product overview

Reel offers a consulting services platform combined with a proprietary digital apps platform for the entertainment industry. The core offering consists of four consulting practices (Safety, Security, Sustainability, and Health) delivered through ReelTime Advisors, complemented by the Reel Apps Platform which provides digital workflow tools including custom studio management, central communication, data storage and access, and production crime reporting. Services include consulting on-demand, dedicated Client Success Managers, and 24/7 support, with operations across all 50 US states and international offices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Reel Time Advisors: A division providing on-demand consulting services for production safety, security, sustainability, and health advisory services to the entertainment industry.

Products and services

• Safety Consulting Production safety advisors, safety plan development, risk assessment and mitigation, and crew safety training and instruction for entertainment productions.
• Security Consulting Production security advisors, talent support and protection, global threat monitoring, and intellectual property protection services for entertainment productions.
• Sustainability Consulting Production sustainability advisors, environmental compliance, climate change risk management, and sustainable supply chain services for entertainment productions.
• Health Consulting Production health advisors who help film productions keep cast and crew healthy and safe on and off set.
• Reel Apps Platform Digital workflow platform featuring custom studio uniformity, central communication, data storage and access, and crime reporting capabilities for entertainment productions.

Named customers12 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

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Entertainment Safety Solutions: Niche production safety consultancy providing on-set safety advisors and training for film and TV. Directly comparable to Reel's safety consulting offering, though smaller in scale and geographic reach.
• WrapPro Insurance Services: Production insurance and risk services platform focused on entertainment industry clients, with growing safety and compliance capabilities. Adjacent competitor expanding into the same outsourced production risk space as Reel.
• Firemark: Risk and insurance advisory focused on film, television, and live-event productions. Overlaps with Reel's risk management practice, particularly on production insurance and loss-control advisory.

Others

• ProductionHUB: Industry marketplace and services directory connecting productions with vendors including safety and security crews. Indirectly comparable as a discovery channel where Reel's buyers also source adjacent production services.

Direct peers

• International Security Management (ISM): Specialist entertainment security firm providing talent protection, set security, and IP protection services to film/TV productions. Comparable to Reel's security consulting practice and serves overlapping Hollywood customers.
• EP Risk Management: The risk-management arm of Entertainment Partners, providing production safety, security, and insurance/risk services to film and television productions. Closest direct peer to Reel in bundled production risk services for entertainment clients.
• Carl Brouwer Company: Long-standing production safety and risk management consultancy serving film and television productions. Directly comparable to Reel's safety consulting line and shares the same studio customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Arthur J. Gallagher (Entertainment): Global insurance and risk management firm with an entertainment industry practice serving studios and production companies. Comparable to Reel on production risk consulting, scaled through a broader brokerage platform.
• Aon (Entertainment Practice): Global insurance and risk broker with a dedicated entertainment practice providing production risk advisory and loss-control services. Overlaps with Reel on safety/security consulting but as part of a much broader brokerage portfolio.
• Marsh (Entertainment Practice): Major global insurance broker with an entertainment industry vertical offering production risk advisory. Competes with Reel for studio-level risk management mandates, often bundled with insurance placements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/reelhealthllc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/reel-health
• Instagraminstagram.com/reelglobal/?hl=en

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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