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The operating system for video production.

Concept to cut to cash, on one platform instead of a stack of apps that don't talk to each other. Define the brand and the cast once β€” every board, every generation, every document downstream obeys it.

26modules, one core
3layers, one project thread
~$22k/yrback in your budget
1login for the whole studio

We're not a software company. We're a production company β€” this is the system we built to run our own studio, because nothing on the market did the whole job.

Proven on real productions for BBC, Netflix and National Geographic.

The bill you're already paying

Your tool stack costs ~$22,000 a year.

Business-tier list prices for a ten-person studio.

Sales CRMPipedrive, HubSpot Β· 3 seats~ $120 / mo
Project managementMonday, Asana Β· $12/seat~ $120 / mo
Client review & approvalFrame.io Team Β· $25/seat~ $250 / mo
Proposals & quotingPandaDoc, Qwilr~ $90 / mo
E-signaturesDocuSign Business Pro~ $65 / mo
HR, time & payrollBambooHR + Harvest~ $360 / mo
Recruitment & screeningWorkable, Greenhouse~ $170 / mo
Scheduling & call sheetsStudioBinder Pro~ $125 / mo
StoryboardingBoords~ $85 / mo
AI image / video / voiceMidjourney, Runway, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs~ $340 / mo
Client sharing & video hostingVimeo Advanced, WeTransfer~ $110 / mo
Eleven subscriptions, zero shared dataβ‰ˆ $1,835 / mo
Production Hub β€” one platformone login, one bill

And the price is the small part. Ten disconnected tools means the same client, budget, schedule and deliverable re-keyed over and over β€” and nobody quite sure which version is true.

Your storage is the exception, and deliberately so. Drive, Dropbox and your own NAS connect straight in: cuts and deliverables live in the hub, while the rushes stay exactly where your editors already keep them.

How it fits together

Three layers, one project thread.

Most tools solve one layer. The point of this one is the thread running through all three β€” the same job, the same client, the same budget, from the first idea to the paid invoice.

Layer 01 Studio Creative

Idea to finished cut. Concept development, reference boards, script, storyboard, image and video generation, voice, and a first assembly against your real rushes. A Director chat sits over all of it and writes its answers straight into the work, not into a chat window.

ConceptReferenceScriptStoryboardGenerateCast & locationsEdit AssistDirectorBrand kits
Layer 02 Production Delivery

Running the job. Boards and schedules, crew and call sheets, a full timecoded review and approval platform for clients, a white-labelled client portal, delivery manifests and archive sign-off.

ProjectsBoardScheduleReviewClient portalCall sheetsCrewDelivery
Layer 03 Business The company

Running the company. Pipeline and outreach, quotes priced off your own rate card, service agreements with binding e-signature, accounting sync, receivables chasing, timesheets, leave, payroll and contractor invoicing.

Sales CRMQuotesAgreementsE-signatureReceivablesHR & payrollRecruitmentAsk the HubSocial

The one-line version. Client review, production management, a generation stack and half an accounting system in one install β€” sharing one definition of the brand and the cast, and billing every AI job to the project and the person who ran it.

What makes it different

Six things no stack of point tools can do.

Cast & locations

The same character, in every shot, for the life of the project.

Define a character, a location or a prop once β€” a locked description plus reference images generated on a single seed. Name them in a frame and the sheet attaches itself automatically, to every take, in every module. Looks hang off a character: same face, different wardrobe.

Everyone else asks you to paste a description and hope. This is continuity you can deliver on.

cast Β· Maya β€” lead
Maya
Lead Β· 4 looks Β· 38 frames
Locked description β€” mid-30s, close-cropped dark hair, charcoal workwear jacket, warm olive skin, small scar above left brow…
βœ“ Attached automatically to 38 storyboard frames
Ask the Hub

Ask your studio anything β€” and get a straight answer.

Point tools each answer for their own slice. The hub's assistant reads across the whole business β€” the lead, the quote, the board, the hours, the review status and the invoice for the same job β€” through nineteen read-only tools, each gated by role and logged on every call.

Grounded in your live data Β· permission-aware Β· read-only

✨ ask the hub
What's blocking delivery on the Hyatt brand film?
Two things β€” 2 deliverable cards aren't in the final column, and a client review has been pending 4 days. Export manifest is 80% done. β†’ Hyatt brand film
Client review, built in

Timecoded review & approval β€” next to the board, not in another tab.

Editors upload cuts, clients get a branded no-login link, and notes land as timecoded threads β€” pinned to a moment or covering a stretch, with drawing on the frame, version stacking and side-by-side comparison. Approval flips the card on the board the team works from.

Replaces Frame.io Β· saves ~$250/mo

review Β· BrandFilm_v3.mp4
00:12

Client β€” Logo lands too early, push it a beat.

00:47

Client β€” Love this cut. Approved from here.

βœ“ Approved β€” card moved to Delivered
The cost ledger

Every AI job billed to the project, and the person who ran it.

Forty model entries across image, video, voice, music, transcription and enhancement, all behind one key. Every generation is written to the project with the real provider cost β€” so at month end you can say what AI cost on that job, and who spent it.

Replaces Midjourney + Runway + Higgsfield + ElevenLabs + Boords Β· saves ~$425/mo

ai spend Β· Project: Hyatt brand film
Storyboard Β· 24 frames
Sam Β· image
$6.40
Rooftop pickup shot
Jon Β· video
$5.10
Scratch voiceover
Aisha Β· voice
$2.70
AI spend this project$14.20
Edit Assist

Paper edit in. Premiere timeline out.

Upload the approved paper edit and point at the rushes β€” it transcribes every take, finds each scripted line, picks the best read and hands your editor a ready-to-open Premiere or Resolve timeline. The worker runs on the machine holding the footage: only the timeline comes back.

Your editor starts from an assembly, not an empty timeline

edit assist Β· AWS_PaperEdit.docx
Selects and order:
β€œOur expectations are rising every single day.”
β€œI remember the early days of Netflix…” β†’ take 2 of 3
TIMELINE Β· V1 + A1
Contracts & e-signing

Quote β†’ agreement β†’ signature, without per-envelope fees.

The agreement prefills from the quote β€” deliverables, budget table, payment terms, milestones, technical spec. Creating a signing link freezes the wording with a checksum and locks editing. The client signs in the browser with no login, and the signed deal links straight to the project it becomes.

Replaces DocuSign + PandaDoc Β· saves ~$155/mo

e-sign Β· SOW_BrandFilm.docx
βœ“ Signed Β· checksum verified

The full inventory

Twenty-six modules. One shared core.

Not a roadmap β€” this is what runs today. Each one hands the next its output.

StudioIdea to finished cut
ConceptThree to five distinct, production-aware directions from a brief, grounded in the brand kit. The team comments and shortlists; the selected one becomes context for everything downstream.
ReferencePlans four to six search lanes from the brief, then searches image, film and video sources. Every candidate is scored by a model against that lane's criteria; stock sites are filtered out and near-duplicates removed before anything reaches the board.
ScriptA block editor that understands scene headings, action, voiceover and notes, with version history. Scene headings split the script for boarding; voiceover lines become frame audio automatically.
StoryboardBoards scene by scene from the script, from uploads or from the generation library. One board-wide style so a whole board reads as one hand, a per-frame studio for the shots that need it, and a Cut view that plays the board as a sequence with real durations.
GenerateImage, video and voice behind one key β€” plus upscale, background removal, restoration, outpainting and generative reframe. Brand kit and cast anchors attach themselves when named in the prompt.
Cast & locationsThe project's recurring characters, places, props and looks, each with a locked description and identity sheet generated on one seed. Includes a printable casting page per character.
Edit AssistA script, a brief and a folder of rushes become an editable Premiere or Resolve timeline per cut. The worker runs where the footage lives; the edit never leaves the building.
DirectorA creative chat that can see the project's concepts, script, storyboard and cast. Turn a note into a shot, break a scene into coverage, develop a look, check continuity β€” answers come back as cards that apply straight into the work.
Brand kitsHouse kits and per-client brands covering palette, typography, tone of voice and visual direction β€” built by hand or extracted from a brand guidelines PDF or a live website. Generated frames are scored against the palette afterwards.
ProductionRunning the job
ProjectsCreating a project links the quote or signed agreement, seeds a board from a template, imports the estimate's line items as cards, and opens a chat space with the producer and editor. Admins see budget against clocked time and planned crew cost, with margin.
BoardKanban built for a production, not a sprint. Workflow status is separate from the column, so a card in Edit can independently be in review or approved. Comments with tagging, attachments and a linked review cut per card.
ScheduleCalendar, Gantt and table over one set of dates, with public holidays for the shoot country. Paste a written schedule, upload a spreadsheet or drop a Drive link and it becomes all three views.
ReviewTimecoded notes, drawing on the frame, version stacking with side-by-side comparison, transcription with subtitle export, nested folders and live folder shares. Share links carry labels, expiry, revoke and a per-link download switch.
Client portalA reviewer with a link needs no account at all. A client with a login gets their productions, everything awaiting review and shared deliverables, scoped to them β€” with their logo and their brand colour.
Call sheetsCrew pre-seeded from the project with per-person call times, nearest hospital, key contacts and weather fetched for the location and date. Out comes a letterheaded Word file.
CrewFreelancers by role and country with day rates, kit notes and ratings. Import a whole address book from a spreadsheet or vCard with a dry-run preview. Assignments feed both the call sheet and the profitability figure.
DeliveryThe export manifest for every video by aspect ratio and language, following your house naming convention. Archive checklist, cloud quality check, per-asset sign-off, and a music cue sheet exported as a spreadsheet.
BusinessRunning the company
Sales CRMA six-stage pipeline as a board or a list, with multiple contacts per lead, deal value, a logged history of every call, email and meeting, and dated follow-up tasks. AI prospecting generates real organisations with a pitch angle and refuses to invent contact names; flag a bounced address and it is never suggested again.
QuotesDescribe the project and get categorised line items from your own rate card, priced by the client's tier and currency, with assumptions. Every line stays editable; push to your accounting system as a draft.
AgreementsService agreements prefilled from the quote β€” deliverables, budget table with discounts applied, client legal name, payment terms, milestones and signatories β€” exported as an editable Word document on your letterhead.
E-signatureSigning links freeze the document with a checksum, expire after thirty days, bind to one email address and cannot be double-signed. The export is rebuilt from the version that was actually signed.
ReceivablesLive open invoices with aged buckets and the most overdue first, auto-matched to projects by reference. Two billing gates: don't invoice yet because the PO is missing, and this project started without any billing paperwork.
HR & payrollClock in against a company and a project, split hours on clock-out. Leave counts working days only, accrues automatically and pro-rates in the joining year. Overtime rules, payroll export, contractor invoices and appraisals that schedule themselves.
RecruitmentBulk CV screening β€” up to forty at a time β€” scored against the role's own rubric, with contact details extracted exactly as written or left blank. Applicants move through stages with interview scorecards.
Ask the HubA command-bar assistant with nineteen read-only tools across projects, delivery gates, schedules, workload, crew availability, client history, quotes, pipeline, receivables and profitability. Every tool gated by role, every call logged.
SocialOnce a project is marked promotable and the client's permission is recorded, captions draft for four platforms using only public-safe facts. Nothing publishes automatically.

Why it's safe on client work

AI that fails closed, rather than making something up.

Every AI feature previews first and saves only on a human's word. When it can't verify something, it refuses β€” which is unglamorous, and the whole reason you can put this in front of a client.

Preview, then save

Nothing an AI produces is written to your project until a person looks at it and says yes. Every generation, every draft, every import.

Sourced or rejected

Research results are thrown out wholesale if any candidate lacks a real, checkable source. A found email address is discarded unless the name literally appears in the page.

Citations that are checked

The assistant's links are filtered against what its tools actually returned, so it can't cite a project, invoice or document that doesn't exist.

Your numbers, not invented ones

Quotes price off your rate card. Estimates use your line items. Screening uses your rubric. The model does the drafting; your data does the deciding.

One source of truth

Every module shares one core.

Production Hub Win Price Contract Produce Create Review Deliver Run

A lead becomes a quote becomes a project becomes an invoice β€” the same client, budget, schedule, cast and assets flow through every module. Nothing re-entered, nothing out of sync.

Everything's connected

Plugs into the tools you already run on.

Xero QuickBooks Google Chat Slack Microsoft Teams Google Drive Dropbox Google Calendar Premiere / Resolve WhatsApp

Built to be trusted

Your studio's data, handled properly.

Client work, budgets and contracts live in here β€” so access, integrity and privacy are built in, not bolted on.

Role-based access

Editors see their work β€” not the P&L. Budgets, margins and salaries stay with the people who should see them.

Permission-aware AI

The assistant can only ever surface what you're already allowed to see β€” and it's read-only, so it can't change a thing.

Tamper-evident contracts

Every signature is checksum-verified against a frozen document, with a full, append-only audit trail.

Encrypted backups

Your whole hub is backed up automatically every night β€” encrypted and off-site.

Your own instance

One deployment per studio, isolated from everyone else's. We never train AI models on your projects, clients or numbers.

Clients stay contained

Review links and client portals are scoped to a single client β€” with no path into your workspace.

We're onboarding a first cohort of studios.

Production Hub is rolling out to a small group of production companies and creative agencies β€” your own instance, set up with your brand, your rate card and your delivery conventions.

Request early access β†’