POWERING COMMERCIAL FILM & PHOTO PRODUCTIONS · EST. 2024
Turn a client brief into a scoped budget, crew plan, and call sheet in minutes. Track actuals live during the shoot. Close every project on real numbers.
Know you're over budget on Day 2, not after wrap.
INVITE-ONLY BETA · FIRST 10 SHOPS, HAND-PICKED
Day 2 crew came in 12% over plan, second-meal penalties on three roles. Want me to flag it before payroll close, or roll into wrap variance?
Paste a client email or brief. Get three bid tiers with line items, crew costs, and assumptions in under two minutes. Client approves a tier in the portal, your project budget is built.
Track spend as the shoot rolls. See overruns before they hit wrap. Close every project on real numbers, not a guess sheet from Friday night.
Flags second-meal penalties before payroll closes. Suggests crew replacements from your past shoots. Drafts the call sheet from your schedule and crew in seconds.
Roll multiple projects into one financial view. Real margins across a season or campaign. The 50/50 underrun split, GP boost, and distributions, on the same page.
Wrap is tight at 7:30pm given sunset. Pulled from your last 5 shoots, you usually go +35 min on lighting reset. Want me to flag a soft 8pm wrap to the crew?
Standard tier signed at 4:12pm. Convert to project? Locks the $52,800 budget and pre-fills crew from the bid.
Drop a one-paragraph brief or paste a client email.
AI extracts deliverables, assumptions, and three bid tiers.
Client approves a tier in the portal. Becomes the project budget.
Crew, schedule, call sheets, shot lists. All on rails with AP nudges.
Actuals, hot costs, payroll close-out, archive. Season rolls up.
Hand-picking the first 10 tenants now. 48-hour response.
This sits underneath your spreadsheets, not on top. Plug your bid logic, crew rates, and templates in. The engine adapts to how you work, not the other way around.
Nothing here is template-locked. Adapt line items, schedule shape, crew structure. The math handles the rest, you keep the call.
The Assistant Producer is trained on production logic: budgets, crew, schedules, deliverables. It learns from your past projects, every project. Not generic LLM platitudes.
It removes re-entry, not adds process. Most users run faster by project two. Same budget you would have built in Excel, except the actuals fold in by themselves.
Real production work. Real feedback. Real influence on what ships next. The first ten shops shape what production-engine.com becomes.
You text the people building it. No tickets, no queue.
Your project surfaces the gaps. We close them on the next ship.
10 SPOTS, HAND-PICKED · 48-HOUR RESPONSE
Geared Like A Machine is a production company first. The Engine is what we wished we had on every job, so we built it. Every release ships against a real shoot the same week.
That is the whole reason it works the way it does. Not what a software team thinks production should look like. What producers actually do at 9pm the night before a call time.
Stop duct-taping spreadsheets, Notion docs, and email threads. Run your shop on a tool that knows production.
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