Short-form editing for agencies, cut to each client's style.

Probably, if you're a US social media or content agency that posts short-form video for several client brands each month, in any vertical. We're set up for agencies of about 3 to 50 people. We edit the short-form styles agencies post most: talking heads, day-in-the-life and lifestyle vlogs, behind-the-scenes, events, product, UGC and creator-style, podcast clips, and restaurant and food & beverage. We also cut hook and CTA variations for paid social teams. We're not a fit if you need filming, scripts, posting or animation-heavy work.

Tandemcut is a registered assumed name (DBA). Its owner also runs a marketing agency. Our editors already edit short-form content every week, including food & beverage brands. Because Tandemcut's owner also runs an agency, the protections for your clients are in writing: a non-solicitation that covers Tandemcut and every affiliated company, a conflict check before work starts, and a rule that nothing we learn through your work goes to any affiliated company's sales or marketing. Ownership details are shared on request. Read the partner policy.

No. We don't contact your clients unless you ask us to in writing, and we copy you on any contact. Neither Tandemcut nor any affiliated company will pitch, accept work from, or market to your clients during the partnership and for 12 months after it ends. If any of your clients already worked with us or an affiliated company before the partnership, we tell you during onboarding, before any work starts.

Once they're paid for, final videos belong to your agency, or to your client if your contract with them says so. We use your footage only to deliver your work. We never show it in a portfolio without your written permission. Project files are available on request: $25 per project on Starter, included on Growth and Scale. They can reference fonts, music or stock that need your own licences. We keep working files for 30 days after approval, then archive them. Archives are deleted 90 days after approval unless you ask us to keep them longer. If you cancel, we export the files you request within 10 business days, then delete them.

A set number of standard shorts each month: 12 on Starter ($1,190), 24 on Growth ($2,090) and 40 on Scale ($3,290, by application). You get 2, 4 or 6 client brands, each with its own style profile and folders. Your plan also sets your weekly pace: we start up to 3, 6 or 10 new shorts a week. Every short includes English captions, sound cleanup, a music bed, basic color correction, your brand's text styles, a logo bug, an end card, up to 3 callouts, 2 aspect ratios, 2 revision rounds and a QA check. Every plan includes email support, a shared request board and a weekly status note. Growth adds a monthly 20-minute planning call. Scale adds a monthly call and a named backup editor for each brand. Unused shorts roll over for one month, up to half your allowance.

One finished video concept, up to 60 seconds long. It's edited from up to 15 minutes of organized footage (or timestamps from a longer recording), with up to 2 speakers and 2 camera angles, and exported in up to 2 aspect ratios. A short counts as 2 if it runs 61–120 seconds, needs 16–45 minutes of footage reviewed, has 3 or more angles or speakers, needs LOG grading, or is a multi-scene UGC ad matched to a script. Anything over 2 minutes, or animation-heavy, is quoted separately. The conversion table covers every case, with worked examples.

Every client brand gets its own style profile. It covers logo, fonts, colors, caption style, music direction, end card, CTA wording and a do-and-don't list. Editors work from the profile, and a second person checks every short against it. Each brand also has its own folders and its own notes on the request board, so files and feedback stay separate.

Yes. Our Editing styles page shows three real edits cut by our editors: a 40-second talking-head walkthrough, a 6-second day-in-the-life and a 14-second restaurant cinematic, each labeled "Real edit". The other formats are shown as edit outlines, and each one says so. Work we do for partner agencies belongs to them and their clients, so we don't show it without written permission. The best test is your own footage: the $199 pilot gets you 3 finished shorts for one of your client brands.

Put the footage in the brand's folder and the brief on the request board. Anything in by 12:00pm CT counts as received that business day. Within 1 business day, we accept the brief or come back with questions. The short then joins your weekly queue in your priority order. The first draft is due within 3 business days of the short entering production, and a second person checks it before you see it. The draft is delivered into your own shared folder, with no Tandemcut branding. You send one consolidated, timestamped list of notes per round on the request board, then approve. Final files land in the same folder within 1 business day of approval.

Within 3 business days of a short entering production. That target applies to each short within your weekly pace (3, 6 or 10 new shorts a week). A batch of 24 is scheduled across several weeks, not drafted in 3 days. For the pilot, all three drafts arrive within 5 business days of accepting the brief. Rush is available when capacity allows: the first draft arrives the next business day if you ask before 12:00pm CT, and it counts as 1 extra short.

Each short includes 2 revision rounds. Send one consolidated list of notes per round, and the revision comes back within 2 business days (1 for minor fixes). If the mistake is ours, fixing it is free and doesn't use a round. A third round on the same short counts as 1 more short. A new direction, a new message, or footage added after editing starts counts as a new short. So do changes after you've approved a short (our errors are still fixed free). Business days are Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm CT, excluding US federal holidays and Dec 24–Jan 1.

If a first draft is more than 2 business days late for reasons within our control, we credit you 1 standard short in the next cycle. Late footage, missing brief details and holidays don't count as our delay. Credits are capped at 25% of that month's shorts. This credit is our only remedy for late drafts. There are no cash refunds and no open-ended guarantees. The credit applies to monthly plans.

Yes, and we ask you to. The music bed uses a licensed track your agency supplies, and your licence needs to cover your client's use, including paid ads if the short runs as an ad. If you'd rather add a trending in-app sound when you post, say so in the brief and we'll leave the music bed empty. We don't use CapCut's music library for client work, and we don't cut in audio downloaded from social apps.

Footage your agency or your client shot and has the rights to. It can be from a phone or a camera, vertical or horizontal. For a standard short, send up to 15 minutes of organized footage, or timestamps from a longer recording, with up to 2 speakers and 2 camera angles. For talking heads, clear audio matters most. LOG footage that needs grading counts as 2. If footage won't work, we tell you at intake, before any editing starts.

Start a $199 pilot. You get 3 standard shorts for 1 client brand, with first drafts within 5 business days after we accept the brief and 2 revision rounds per short. If you subscribe within 14 days of final delivery, the full $199 comes off your first month. If we can't accept your brief, we refund you in full before starting. Once editing has started, there's no refund. There's one pilot per agency.

Fill in the pilot form. It has 8 questions and no payment step. We reply by email within 1 business day to set up a 15-minute fit call, or to answer your questions by email if you prefer. If it's a fit, we check for client conflicts and send a $199 invoice.

No. We edit footage you supply. Filming, scriptwriting, strategy, posting and community management stay with your agency. If you write the hook lines, we'll cut them.

Yes. Plans are month-to-month. You can cancel anytime, as long as we get notice at least 7 days before your next billing date. The cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid month, and we finish any work in progress. There are no refunds for partial months. You can pause once every 12 months for up to one billing month, with 7 days' notice before renewal. Rollover balances are held during a pause.