PYJ Advisory for production studios and publishers. The brief, the cut, the rights, the invoice — on rails so the work is the work, not the paperwork.
Same method, different shape. Pick the media type closest to yours — each has a deep page with the sector-specific stack, proof, and how we measure.
Pitch tracking, production calendar, rights and contracts, distribution, audience, and a brain that holds the rates and the roster — all on one set of rails.
Every pitch logged with the editor, the deck, the deadline, the outcome. Win-rates by editor, by format, by season — the data the next pitch deck deserves to be built on.
Pre-pro, shoot, edit, colour, release — every milestone with an owner and a date. Talent availability, kit hire, edit suite — booked off the same calendar so nothing gets double-booked.
Every release form signed and filed before the cut goes out. Music licences cleared with terms attached. The IP chain holds when a buyer asks — in five years, not just this week.
One source of truth, pushed to the podcast hosts, the YouTube channel, the publisher CMS — with episode metadata that doesn't need re-keying. The release goes out at the time it's meant to.
Plays, completion, drop-off, sponsor reads — measured per episode, per platform, per cohort. Ad inventory, host reads, dynamic insertion — sold against numbers the buyer can verify.
House style guide, talent roster with rates and availability, supplier rates by category, archive of past projects. The producer answers a sponsor brief in minutes, not days.
An independent podcast studio of four shipped twelve episodes a year because intake lived in three inboxes and edit-tracking lived in a Trello that hadn't been kept honest in months. Pitches got dropped, edits got lost, sponsor reads went out late. Two-week build: an Airtable-backed pitch and edit pipeline with auto-reminders, Frame.io for reviews, a release schedule visible to the whole team, and a BrainBase of style, talent, and rates the producers could search. Twelve months in: 38 published episodes, no extra hires, sponsor reporting that arrived the week of the read instead of the month after.
How we measure: episodes published counted from the public RSS feed and YouTube channel for the calendar year before and after; staff headcount confirmed against payroll; sponsor reporting cadence measured from read date to report-sent date in client comms.
If your work isn't exactly this, the nearest sectors share the rhythm. Or browse every industry we build for.
Bring last quarter's pitch list and the edit you're behind on. That's the brief.