Single-pane production management for indie filmmakers

Your whole production, one screen.

Script, storyboard, budget, schedule, cast and post — connected. Change one thing and everything downstream updates itself.

Interactive demo of the real app · No card, no account, nothing to install
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Made by a working filmmaker
9 connected modules
From first draft to final deliverable

The cross-module data layer

Change one thing. Everything follows.

This is the part no other tool does. Move a single scene and watch four departments re-reconcile themselves — in real time, with no copy-paste.

You make one edit
Sc. 25 — Dawn on the waterDay 9
Sc. 25 — Dawn on the waterDay 6

Drag a strip on the board. That's the whole action.

4 modules updated, instantly
updated

Call sheet, Day 6

Rewritten with new call times. 5:42a tide added.

updated

Budget, top sheet

Day 6 re-totaled. −$730 on the combined location move.

updated

Cast availability

Maya cleared for Day 6. No conflicts flagged.

updated

Camera reservation

Package moved to Day 6. 24mm + 85mm held.

Nine modules, one project

Every department. Always in sync.

Most tools give you nine separate apps that never talk. ProductionAssistant gives you one — where your shot list knows the budget and your schedule knows the cast.

Why it's different

One source of truth,
shared by every module.

Reschedule a scene and the call sheet, the day's budget, cast availability, and equipment reservations all follow — instantly. No more reconciling nine spreadsheets by hand.

Visual Planning

Storyboard frames and shot lists that draw straight from the script — and feed the day's setup count.

Linked to Script + Schedule

Budget & Funding

Live spend that moves with the schedule. Every dollar traces back to a scene.

Crew $5,180Gear $1,940Locations $730

Script & Story

The source of truth. Scenes, characters, and pages link everywhere else.

Feeds all 8 modules

Schedule & Call Sheets

Drag a strip; the call sheet rewrites itself and pings the right people.

Drives Budget + Cast

Locations

Addresses, permits, and maps wired to the days that shoot there.

On the call sheet

Cast & Crew, Equipment

Availability, rates, and gear reservations that the schedule checks before you double-book a person or a lens.

Guards the Schedule

Post-Production & Deliverables

Carry every reel from edit to final hand-off, with a deliverables checklist that knows what's owed and to whom.

Closes the loop

Schedule & Call Sheets

The schedule that builds your call sheets.

Lay out the board once. The moment a day is set, the call sheet is already written — call times, cast, locations, weather, and the next-day preview, all pulled from the modules that own them.

  • Auto-generated, never re-typed.Cast, scenes, and addresses arrive from Script, Cast & Crew, and Locations.
  • Sends itself. Publish and the right people get the right sheet — with their personal call time.
  • Export to PDF in the format your UPM already expects.
See it in the live demo
Call Sheet · Day 6 of 18
Tidewater · Sat Jun 20 · Harbor House
07:00Crew call
First shot
08:00Sc 24 · INT kitchen
Sunset / wrap
19:1410h day est.
CastRoleCall
Maya SotoLead07:15
Elias VanceSupporting07:45
Dana Kim1st AC07:00
auto-generatedRebuilt when Day 6 changed

Budget & Funding

A budget that updates itself.

Stop maintaining "Budget_v7_FINAL_final.xlsx." Every line is wired to the days, people, and gear that spend it — so the top sheet is right the second you move a strip.

  • Scene-level traceability. Click any dollar figure and see exactly which day and department it came from.
  • Re-totals on every change. Reschedule, recast, or swap a lens — the committed-vs-spent number is live.
  • Funder-ready exports. Top sheet and category breakdowns your investors and grants can read.
Open the budget demo
Budget · Tidewater top sheet
$212,250 / $313,500
68% committed
Cast & crew$121,400 auto
Camera & grip$48,900 auto
Locations$22,150
Art & props$19,800

Visual Planning

Storyboard → shot list → set.

Sketch the scene, and your shots become a real list — sizes, lenses, and movement that the schedule counts as setups and the equipment module reserves as gear.

  • Frames become setups. Each board panel is a numbered shot the AD can schedule against.
  • Lenses become a gear list. Tag a 24mm and 85mm and the camera package reserves itself.
  • One tap to the set. The shot list rides onto the call sheet so the crew shoots from the same plan you drew.
Try the storyboard
Sc 25 · Storyboard → Shot list
25A
25B
25C
25APier silhouette, static24mm · WIDE
25BMaya, slow push85mm · MCU
25CHands on rail, handheld50mm · INSERT

From blank page to call sheet

Up and running in an afternoon.

Three steps from the script on your desktop to a call sheet in your crew's inbox.

01

Import your script

Drop in a PDF or start fresh. Scenes, characters, and page counts parse automatically — that becomes the spine everything else hangs off.

02

Build across modules

Set the budget, slot in cast and locations, draw the shot list. Each module quietly fills in the ones it touches, so nothing's entered twice.

03

Generate & deliver

Produce call sheets, track spend on the day, and walk the same project all the way to post and final deliverables.

From the people on set

Built by a filmmaker, used by filmmakers.

"Cut my pre-pro paperwork from a weekend to an evening.The schedule and budget finally live in the same place — I stopped re-typing everything four times."
Rosa Alvarez
Indie director · two features on the festival circuit
"On an 18-day shootI redid the board three times. Every time, the call sheets and the day's budget were just correct— I never opened a spreadsheet. That used to be a full pre-call hour, every night."
Jordan Mbeki
1st AD · features & commercials
"I report to investors monthly. Before, reconciling the schedule against the spend took a day and a half. Now the top sheet is always current — I export it and I'm done. It paid for itself in the first week of prep."
Priya Lindqvist
Line producer · three indie features
9
connected modules, one project
0
spreadsheets to reconcile
1×
enter it once, it's everywhere
18-day
shoot, planned in an afternoon

Simple, honest pricing

Start free. Upgrade when it earns it.

Join any invited project free, forever — no card. Paid plans begin with a 7-day trial, and you only pay to create your own.

Free
For collaborators joining a project someone else runs.
$0forever

No card, ever.

  • Join unlimited invited projects
  • View schedules & call sheets
  • Full interactive demo access
  • Comment & collaborate on the day
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Team
For producers running multiple shows with a crew.
$19.99/mo

7-day free trial · cancel anytime

  • Everything in Creator
  • Unlimited collaborators & roles
  • Shared catalog & templates
  • Multi-project dashboard
  • Priority support
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Good questions

Everything you'd ask before you sign up.

It's the real, running app— the same code our paying users have, loaded with a sample feature so you can click into every module. Drag a scene, watch the budget move, open a call sheet. No video, no sandbox mock-up. The only thing you can't do is keep your changes, since you're not signed in.
No. The live demo needs nothing— no account, no card, no install. When you're ready to start your own project, you can sign in with Google in one click. A card is only ever requested if you choose to begin a paid trial.
On day 7 your card is charged for the plan you chose — $9.99/mo for Creator or $19.99/mo for Team. Cancel any time before then and you pay nothing. If you cancel later, you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for, and your projects stay readable.
Yes. Anyone you invite to a project can join on the Free plan — no card, no paid seat. Your 1st AD, your DP, your producer can all view schedules, read call sheets, and collaborate on the day at no cost. You only pay to create your own productions.
Completely. Your scripts, budgets, and schedules belong to you — we never sell or train on your data. You can export everything (call sheets, budgets, deliverables) at any time, and if you ever leave, you take it all with you.
It's built by a working filmmaker who got tired of running an entire shoot out of nine disconnected spreadsheets. Every feature exists because it was painful on a real set — not because a product team thought it might demo well.

No signup, no card

See your next film on one screen.

Open the real app, click around, break things. It's the whole product — yours to explore before you ever sign in.

Built by a working filmmaker who got tired of the spreadsheets.