About us
We built it during a production that could not stop
Perch started inside a post house that had to keep forty artists working when nobody could come to the building.
Origin
Six weeks, forty artists, one deadline
Sending workstations home was not possible — the machines were loud, expensive and full of a client's unreleased film. Streaming them was the only option, and everything available at the time was built for office desktops rather than for someone grading at 10 bits with a tablet in their hand.
- Colour and pen latency treated as primary requirements, not extras
- Project data stays in the facility by design
- Sizing guidance published, including when to say no
An emergency deployment
Forty artists, six weeks, one deadline.
10-bit colour pipeline
Grading remotely becomes credible.
Dedicated peripheral channel
Tablets stop feeling wrong.
On-premise deployment
Session layer on customer hardware.
Studios in 21 countries
Across post, VFX and industrial design.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.