Studio Pod
Badging & Security

On-demand badge photos that security teams trust at a glance.

Studio Pod replaces the photographer, the scheduling spreadsheet, and the manual file-renaming pipeline with a self-serve studio your team uses on its own time. Every photo lands compliant, consistent, and on the right server.

300K+ Professional portraits delivered
41K+ Unique subjects photographed
10 Roadie units · nationwide fleet
The problem

Coordinating badge headshots shouldn't be hard.

Whether you're running security at a hospital, a government office, a corporate HQ, or a multi-building campus, the same three problems keep showing up:

Inconsistent photos

Inconsistent photos undermine access control

Mixed lighting and backgrounds make IDs harder for security staff to verify at a glance - and harder for facial-recognition systems to match.

Manual cropping

Manual cropping eats a security admin's week

Sorting, naming, cropping, and exporting photos by hand is hours per batch and prone to errors that show up as failed badge prints.

New-hire badges

New-hire badges become a bottleneck

Booking a photographer around an onboarding cohort means delays - and new hires walking around without proper credentials.

The solution

Meet Studio Pod: the self-serve studio your security team will actually like.

Two form factors, one consistent output. The portable Roadie ships UPS to your office and sets up in five minutes. The S1 and S3 installed pods live in your lobby year-round. Both run the same DSLR + studio-light + AI-retouch stack - same uniform photo, every subject.

  • No photographer needed - unlimited retakes. Pods are fully self-serve. Employees and visitors capture badge photos whenever necessary. Retakes cost nothing and take seconds.
  • Consistent, compliant results across the team. Multi-source studio lighting + a Canon DSLR produce uniform photos that meet standard badge-print specifications across every subject in every room.
  • Instant cropping + delivery. AI-driven cropping outputs photos already sized to your badge-print software's requirements. Files land in inboxes (or on your file server) the moment the session ends.
  • Scales from one hire to a thousand. Studio Pod has delivered 300,000+ headshots to date. The throughput holds whether you're onboarding a single executive or running an annual all-hands refresh.
  • API + portal integration. A corporate portal handles named exports, auto-cropping to badge specs, and SAML SSO. Photos route to your HRIS, badge printer, or directory service automatically.
  • Brand controls, lighting locks. Lock the backdrop color, lighting recipe, and crop ratio to your brand standards once. Every photo across the org matches.
FAQ

Common questions, answered.

Do the photos meet our badge-print software's spec?

In every case we've tested. Studio Pod outputs sized + cropped files that match the standard badge-print formats (Brivo, HID, Lenel, AMAG, S2, Salto, etc.). If your software needs a non-standard crop, the corporate portal handles it server-side without changing the capture process.

Where does the data live?

Studio Pod uses encrypted storage in the US. Your organization retains full rights to every photo. We never sell or share image data. Photos can be auto-deleted from our servers after delivery if your security policy requires it.

Can the booth integrate with our HRIS / badge system?

Yes. API access ships with every enterprise install - photos can be auto-named to employee ID, sized to your badge-print spec, and pushed to your HRIS / Active Directory / badge printer of choice.

Does a security guard need to supervise the booth?

No. Studio Pod is fully self-serve and runs unattended. The on-screen flow walks each subject through a five-minute session. Most clients add a "no walk-up" badge requirement (must scan-in to use the booth) which the corporate portal supports natively.

How fast is the photo turnaround?

Instant. The subject sees their photos on the touchscreen as they're taken. The chosen final lands in their inbox before they leave the room. No multi-day editing queue.

Can we cap retakes?

Yes - admins can set a maximum-retake policy per user, or leave it unlimited (the default). Every retake is logged in the audit trail.

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Next step

Ready to retire the badging photographer?

Studio Pod ships nationwide. A 30-minute call covers footprint, install timing, and badge-software integration for your specific environment.