When we founded CLAi we made a decision to stay small, control quality and creativity, and work very closely with a small number of clients - to provide outstanding personal service to each, and retain the flexibility to tailor unique and appropriate solutions on every project.

IBM, Nokia, ABC, Ford, Renault, Midland Bank, BMW, the BBC, Big3, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, United Way, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Mercedes, Citibank, eBanc, Granada, Rue, Barclays, Honda, NBC, Conoco, Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson, Xerox, the Veterans Administration, British Airways, Merck, Motorola, Audi, Cigna, Kodak, Bank One, Black & Decker, FTI, Verizon,Equifax, British Steel, Hertz, Hong Kong Bank, Glaxo, Island Records and Head Start...

...are just a few of the organizations with whom CLAi have worked to create precisely targeted programs of excellence for many years, recognized on their behalf by New York Film Festivals, Communicator, Telly and Advertising Federation awards, amongst others.


Chris Layhe Associates, Inc. is a video production company that has been producing award winning video programs for business and broadcast for over twenty five years. We are an independent company dedicated to producing high quality and cost effective marketing, advertising, communications, education, PR and broadcast documentary programs.

Santa Cruz, on the San Francisco Bay, California is our home, but our project work has taken us around the world to get the right footage, and so as well as our San Francisco base we have a presence in Tampa Bay and London to facilitate this.

Our services include video production including project management, concept and script writing, directing, design, single and multi-camera video shooting HDCam on Sony HDW-F900 and Sony HDW-700A Cameras, DVCPro50 on Panasonic AJ-SDX900 and HDV on Sony HVR1U videography, sound, lighting and gaffer services, 2D and 3D animation and digital compositing, video editing and post-production Final Cut Pro HD and Avid digital video editing on HDCam, DVCProHD, DVCPro50, Betacam SP, graphics creation and sound design and audio production, and DVD authoring Scenarist interactive DVD or CD-ROM production, encoding and video compression for DVD, CD, or Web.

Chris Layhe Associates Inc. : award winning corporate and broadcast video production. San Francisco. Tampa Bay. London...
design. write. shoot. animate. edit. author. direct. produce