Production management

It started as a fix for copy-paste.
Now it's part
of the crew.

The aim was to replace the relentless copy-paste of building a call sheet — weather, sunrise, sunset, the nearest A&E, transport, parking, all googled by hand, every single time. Now it's tracking every stage of a project and pinging us on Slack before we'd even asked, all without digging through an email from three weeks ago.

8 tools, one portal
Built inside a working prod co
Documentary & branded content
DSY‑014 — Riverside Doc
Day 3 of 5 — Thu 24 Jul
7 / 9 confirmed
Weather14°C, cloud
Sunrise05:52
Sunset21:14
Nearest A&E2.4mi
CrewCallStatus
Mary Coyle — Talent08:30Confirmed
J. Okafor — DoP07:00Confirmed
R. Novak — Sound07:00Opened
A. Patel — 2nd AC07:30Sent
PDF ↓ + Calendar
The problem

If production runs
on spreadsheets and
WhatsApp. That's the
problem we set out
to fix.

Neither were built for what you actually do: fast turnarounds, small crews, concurrent jobs, and clients who want to see the footage yesterday.

Status quo — not DSY Portal
Call sheets

Built in Word, emailed as PDFs, updated manually every time something changes.

Timelines

Kept in a spreadsheet nobody updates after week one.

Budgets

Rebuilt from scratch on every job because nothing carries over.

Confirmations

Chased over WhatsApp the night before a shoot.

Visibility

No view across concurrent projects until something falls through the gaps.

Software

Built for Hollywood, not documentary or branded content workflow.

Eight tools, one portal

Everything a production runs on, in one place.

No separate logins, no exporting from one app to paste into another. Every tool below shares the same job number, the same crew list, the same shoot date.

Flagship — see below

Call Sheet

The shoot-day command centre. Locations, weather, crew and running order, built, sent and tracked from one sheet.

Timeline Tracker

Every milestone from pre-production to delivery, with a progress bar so nobody has to ask what's overdue.

Budget Builder

Crew day rates, travel, kit and accommodation, built straight from your call sheets. Export to CSV when the invoice's due.

AI — see below

Shot List

Give it a director's brief. Get back a full shot list, type, movement and lens, ready to edit and reorder.

File Delivery

Send the client a link by email. Know exactly when it was opened, who was copied, and resend without retyping anything.

AI — see below

Blind Spot

Paste a brief, an email, a budget, an idea. Get back what you've missed before it costs you.

Intel — see below

Opportunity Finder

Scans commissioning portals, procurement databases and trade press every morning. Posts what's worth a look to Slack.

Intel — see below

Client Intelligence

Watches your named clients for signals in the press and industry news, and tells you what to do about each one.

The flagship tool

The call sheet that does the chasing for you.

Everything a 1st AD used to handle by phone at 7pm the night before, done from one screen.

Locations

Fetched, not typed.

Search a location once. Weather, sunrise and sunset, and the nearest A&E come back automatically — for every location on the sheet, not just the first.

Crew

Sent, and tracked.

Send to crew in one click. Each person gets their own private link. You see who's opened it and who's confirmed they're actually coming.

Running order

Builds itself.

Add your interviewees to the list and the running order populates automatically, in the order you're shooting them.

Export

Out the door, one click.

A formatted PDF and a calendar invite for the shoot day, generated together, ready to send or drop straight into a diary.

DSY‑014 — Riverside Doc
Location 2 of 2 — Millbrook Farm
Auto-fetched
Weather11°C, showers
Sunrise05:53
Sunset21:12
Nearest A&E6.1mi
IntervieweeTimeStatus
Mary Coyle — Farmer09:00Confirmed
Dr. Alan Reid — Vet11:00Opened
James Coyle — Son13:30Sent
Export PDF + Calendar invite
Built-in AI

Three jobs it does before you've finished your coffee.

No prompt engineering, no separate app. Paste in what you've got, and it hands back something you'd actually send to a crew.

Shot List Generation

From a director's brief
Input — director's brief

"Doc interview, converted barn, golden hour. Third-generation sheep farmer talking about losing the flock to disease. Want it intimate — handheld close, then a wide for context. B-roll of the empty pens."

Output — shot list
ShotTypeMovementLens
Farmer mid-interview, light through barn slatsCUHandheld50mm
Farmer alone in barn doorwayWSStatic24mm
Empty sheep pens, dust in the lightB-rollSlow push35mm

Auto-Schedule Running Order

From your interviewee list
Input — interviewee availability

Mary Coyle (farmer) — 09:00 available Dr. Alan Reid (vet) — 11:00–13:00 only James Coyle (son) — flexible, any time

Output — running order
TimeIntervieweeNote
09:00Mary CoyleGolden-hour light in barn
11:00Dr. Alan ReidFixed window, booked first
13:30James CoyleFlexible, slotted in last

Blind Spot

Paste anything
Input — pasted schedule note

"Two-day shoot, four locations. Drone operator is booked on day two. Budget doesn't include a recce."

Output — analysis
What it notices

Drone operator has a second booking on day two.

Watch out for

No recce budgeted, so location three is unseen until the day.

Next step

Confirm drone exclusivity or book a second operator before locking the schedule.

While you're on set

It keeps working when you're not looking.

Two tools that run in the background and only speak up when there's something worth your time.

Opportunity Finder

Every morning, before you're at your desk, it's already been through the commissioning portals, the procurement databases and the trade press. What's worth a look lands in Slack — scored, categorised and deadlined.

#opportunities · today, 06:02
3 new · relevance 8+
BBC Ideas: Short-form documentary strand, closes in 12 days
Regional Growth Fund: Doc funding call, corporate category

Client Intelligence

Add the clients you want to keep close. It watches press and industry news for anything that moves, a new commission, a leadership change, a strategy shift, and tells you what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.

Northbridge Retail9 / 10
Alden & Rye6 / 10
Chalk Broadcasting4 / 10
On set

Built for the day, not just the desk.

Mobile layout

The call sheet and dashboard get dedicated mobile layouts, tabbed by Production, Location, People, Schedule and Details, not a squeezed desktop page.

Installs like an app

Add it to your home screen straight from the browser. No app store, no update prompts, works offline for anything you've already loaded.

Light and dark

Switches automatically with your device, so it's readable at a 6am recce and on a bright afternoon monitor.

Riverside Doc
DSY‑014 — Day 3 of 5
ProductionLocationPeopleScheduleDetails
Millbrook Farm
11°C · showers · A&E 6.1mi
Mary Coyle — Talent
Call 09:00 · Confirmed
J. Okafor — DoP
Call 07:00 · Confirmed
Early access

We're opening this to a handful of production companies.

Not a waitlist of thousands. A short list of people who'll actually use it on a real shoot and tell us what's broken. If that's you, get in touch.