Production Film · TV · branded · doc5–30 Staff, typicalUK BECTU & rights aware14d → 6d Pitch-to-greenlight
The production companies stack
Six instruments, calibrated.
UK production cos — film, TV, branded content — pitch tracking, talent rights, shoot schedule, edit pipeline.
01 · Pitch tracking
Brief to commission, audit-able.
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.
Notion or Airtable pipeline
Editor & commissioner CRM
Pitch deck versioning
Win-rate analytics
02 · Talent + rights
Releases signed, IP chain intact.
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 five years from now.
DocuSign signing flow
Rightsline or custom register
Music licence tracker
IP chain & archive
03 · Shoot schedule + crew
Pre-pro, shoot, wrap — on one calendar.
Talent availability, kit hire, edit suite, location — booked off the same calendar so nothing gets double-booked and the call sheet writes itself.
Shared production calendar
Talent & kit availability
Auto call-sheet generation
Crew rates archive
04 · Edit pipeline
Frame.io reviews, version-controlled.
Edit, colour, sound — every version reviewable, comments timecoded, sign-off captured. The producer knows what's locked and what's still open without a Slack archaeology dig.
Frame.io review + approval
Version control & lock
Adobe / DaVinci / Premiere
Sign-off audit trail
05 · Distribution
Deliver to the platform that pays.
Deliverables specs by platform, mastered to BBC / Netflix / branded specs, delivery audit-trailed. Invoice triggered on delivery acceptance, not before.
Per-platform delivery specs
Master & deliverable archive
Delivery acceptance log
Invoice trigger on accept
06 · BrainBase
Style, talent, rates — searchable.
House style guide, talent roster with rates and availability, supplier rates by category, archive of past projects. The producer answers a brief in minutes, not days.
Style guide & tone
Talent roster & rates
Supplier rates archive
Past-project library
Sample engagement
The eight-staff production co that cut pitch-to-greenlight to six days.
Eight staff. Forty pitches a quarter. The greenlights took two weeks because nobody owned the chase.
An independent production company of eight ran pitches across three inboxes and a shared Notes app — pitches got dropped, follow-ups slipped, greenlights took two weeks because nobody owned the chase. Three-week build: an Airtable-backed pitch pipeline with editor CRM, auto-reminders, deck versioning, and a BrainBase of past-project metadata the producers could search. Six months in: pitch-to-greenlight cut from 14 days to 6, win-rate up four points on the same volume.
How we measure: Pitch-to-greenlight measured as date of first pitch send to date of formal commission across 84 pitches pre-build and 92 post; win-rate = commissioned / pitched, normalised by editor.
14d → 6dpitch-to-greenlight
+4ptswin-rate
8 staffno extra hires
Builds for media & production
Use cases that fit.
Each is a tightly-scoped build, fixed price, owned by you.