Production Consulting · Fractional Leadership

Your game ships when
production works.

Production leadership and consulting for studios at every stage, from first-time indie founders to established AAA teams. The Production Lab builds the systems, processes, and clarity your team needs to execute and ship.

What Gets Done

Hands-on production leadership without the full-time hire.

Embedded directly with your team to build the operational foundation most early studios are missing. No overhead, no ramp-up delay. Just a seasoned production lead working alongside your people.

Fractional Production Lead

Embedded hands-on leadership that stands up workflows, communication structures, and team cadences from scratch.

Production Planning

Milestone frameworks, roadmaps, and realistic scope-setting that your team can actually hold to.

Studio Operations

Day-to-day operational structure covering tools, processes, and rituals so your team stops improvising and starts executing.

Founder Partnership

Strategic support for early-stage founders building their first team and production system at the same time.

Who This Is For

Built for studios at every stage of the journey.

Every studio is different. Whether you're shipping your first title or running a large production with entrenched process problems, there is an engagement model built for where you are.

Indie and Early Stage

Build it from the ground up

You're talented but stretched thin. The production layer gets built so your team can focus on making the game.

Solo founders and small teams
2 to 15 people
Pre-funding through Series A
First-time studios with no production infrastructure

AAA and Established Studios

Fix what's slowing you down

Large teams come with large process overhead. The Production Lab helps established studios identify bottlenecks, modernize workflows, and get productions back on track.

Mid to large studio teams
Multi-project or multi-team coordination
Pipeline audits and process redesign
Production recovery and replanning

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Solo Founders

Wear fewer hats without losing control of your project.

Small Teams

Turn the chaos into momentum before it becomes a crisis.

Funded Startups

You have the runway. Build a production system that scales with it.

AAA Studios

Targeted consulting for large teams hitting recurring production walls.

How It Works

From first call to fully operational, fast.

Studios at every stage can't afford to wait. Here's what working together looks like:

Discovery Call: 30 minutes, free

A conversation about where your studio is, what is breaking down, and whether this is the right fit for what you need right now.

Production Audit

A focused assessment of your current workflows, team structure, and milestone plan to identify exactly where to start.

Embedded Engagement

Alongside your team from day one. Not in a deck, not in a slide. In your tools, your standups, your production pipeline.

Handoff and Continuity

Built to last without outside support. When the engagement ends, your team is further ahead than before.

About

The person behind the process.

Zach Gonzalez

Principal Consultant / Coach / Mentor

Zach Gonzalez is a seasoned game producer with 15+ years across AAA console, PC, VR, and mobile. No two teams are the same, and no single methodology fits all of them. The Production Lab exists because production should fit the team, not the other way around. Blending frameworks like alchemy, drawing from Agile, Kanban, Waterfall, and processes that actually work for your team, in order to build systems that ship games.