The bench at Mafak is small on purpose. Ten people on staff, the same ten on the brief, the same ten on the shoot, the same ten on the final review. There is no layered ownership. The producer on the call is the producer on set. The director on the treatment is the director on the floor.
We have run the model for long enough now to know what it costs and what it earns. The cost is breadth. There are jobs we cannot take. There are weeks we are full. There are clients who want a studio of sixty because the org chart reassures them.
The earnings are the work. Every project ships with one producer, one director, one editor, one designer on the lead, and nobody touches the cut who was not in the room when the brief was approved. That is hard to replicate at scale and easy to replicate at our size.
The bench will grow when the work grows. It will not grow in front of the work. The studios we have watched scale too fast all hit the same wall. The team gets larger, the ownership gets thinner, the work loses its edges. We would rather stay sharp.