Freelancer day rates land late
The DP, the sound recordist, the editor: their invoices arrive weeks after the shoot, scattered across inboxes. The budget looked fine at wrap because half the cost had not landed yet.
Sixteen modules across five departments run the company on one shared context: quotes in New Business, shoot days and the edit in Delivery, crew invoices, day rates and margin per production in Money. Each job is its own little P&L, and the OS closes it.
Free plan at launch. No card, and one email, when it opens.
The problem
Every job is project-based, front-loaded with cost, and staffed by freelancers whose invoices arrive after the client has already signed off.
The DP, the sound recordist, the editor: their invoices arrive weeks after the shoot, scattered across inboxes. The budget looked fine at wrap because half the cost had not landed yet.
The quote assumed two rounds of notes. Version seven is where a profitable job becomes a break-even one, one "small tweak to the cut" at a time, with no change order in sight.
Quote in one doc, crew costs in another, hours nowhere. Whether the job actually earned anything is a question for the accountant, next quarter, when it cannot inform the next quote.
Where to start
Get the day rates and the hours into the same system as the quote, and every production reports its own number.
Live profitability per project, worst first, with a projection of where each one lands.
Quoted value against hours logged and what those hours cost, per production, worst first. Missing cost rates are flagged, not counted as free, so freelancer-heavy jobs cannot flatter you.
Reads bank statements, payroll, invoices and timesheets, checks the arithmetic, and asks when unsure.
Freelancer invoices, payroll and bank statements go in as the files you already receive. It checks the arithmetic and reconciles across documents, so crew costs land against the right job.
Sprints, time and workload, with AI estimates played back against reality.
Pre-production, shoot days and the edit as sprints with time against them, so you learn what a revision round on the cut actually costs and quote the next job accordingly.
Clients see delivery, invoices and change requests without a status call.
Clients review progress and file change requests in one place, so version seven arrives as a logged, priceable request instead of a late-night email.
Pricing
Studio at $99 covers a production company of 3 to 15 with the Money department where day rates and margins live. Agency at $249 adds white-label portals and headroom for parallel productions.
$99/mo
For agencies of 3 to 15 people
$249/mo
For established agencies running multiple teams
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Free plan at launch. No card, and one email, when it opens.