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The Film Graph
The development layer for film
Every note, script and screenplay connected under your company's framework, produced by our foundation engine.
Development & pre-production · First pilot in progress
The precedent
Every industry gets its system of record
In 1972 five engineers left IBM because companies could not see their own numbers. Every department kept its own books and closed them overnight, so nothing could be known while it was still true. Their first product did exactly one thing — financial accounting, in real time, on one shared database. The R in SAP R/1 stood for real-time. Everything that company became over the next fifty years was built on that single module.
1972
SAP
Financial accounting on one shared, real-time database
Became the operating system of the enterprise
1999
Salesforce
The sales pipeline, as a record nobody had to install
Took the category off Siebel inside a decade
2014
Frame.io
Review and approval for video, structured and shared
Became production infrastructure. Adobe bought it
Now
Film
A production company still has no shared record of itself
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You cannot put intelligence on top of a Drive folder.
This is not a craft argument. It is an operational one, and it is counted in headcount. Two companies grow their slate by the same amount. One hires ten people. The other keeps three controllers. The difference is whether the work is legible to software.
Future-ready software has a prerequisite, and every industry has had to build it before anything intelligent could stand on it. This is that prerequisite, for film.
The flow
Five functions, one record
A production company is not one business. It is five, running at once — and today not one of them can see the others.
01
Production management
Who works here, who is on what, what they are paid, who reports to whom, and who is free in March
Capacity
02
IP management
Everything the company owns or controls — options, rights, drafts, source material, chain of title
What can be sold
03
Proposal management
What buyers are asking for, what has been pitched, to whom, when, and what came back
Demand
04
Planning & budgeting
Breakdown, schedule, cost and cashflow across the whole slate rather than one film at a time
Feasibility
05
Film making
Development, pre-production, production, post. The work itself — and where we started
The film
Each of these exists today, in a different tool, owned by a different person, and none of them writes anything the next one can read. The value is not in any single function. It is in the record they would share.
The foundation
What a production company is, as data
Three layers. We hold the third already. The company needs all three, and they only mean anything together.
Layer 01
The organisation
Who the company is. Executives, heads of department, the producers and coordinators under them, and the contractors who arrive for eight weeks and leave. Hiring, rates, payment, availability, and who is billable to which project this month.
Partners / ExecutiveOwns the slate & the P&L
Head of developmentWhat gets made
Head of productionHow it gets made
Finance / controllerWhat it costs
Legal / business affairsWhat is owned
ProducersPer project
Development execs & readersPer slate
CoordinatorsPer project
WritersContract
Script consultantsContract
EditorsContract
CrewPer production
Dashed = arrives for a project and leaves · Structure shown is illustrative
Layer 02
The slate, and the demand
Everything the company controls, against everything the market is asking for. On one side the projects and the rights attached to them. On the other, what buyers are commissioning this year. Matching the two is done today from memory, by whoever has been there longest.
The slate — projects and IP the company holds
Campo AbertoFeature · drama · 2nd draft— matched
A Cidade ParadaLimited series · thriller— matched
MaréDoc feature · in research— matched
O Último VerãoFeature · optioned novel— matched
Sangue NovoGenre · treatment— matched
Ponte NovaSeries · pitch deck— matched
As HorasFeature · packaging— matched
The demand — who they pitch to, and what those buyers want
Studio · LatAm
Feature · IP adaptation · co-production · known title
Streamer · genre label
Elevated genre · under $8m · festival path
Matching the slate against live demand
Projects and briefs shown are illustrative.
Layer 03
The project context
Beneath the admin, the work itself: what each film actually is. Story, characters, world, and the reasoning behind every decision taken. It is the downstream material of everything the layers above organise — and the layer we built first, because it is the one nobody else has.
Product 01 · live with the first pilot →
Development & pre-production
Nine linked surfaces that model a film, what happens to the documents you bring, and how a scene, a character and a world resolve into the visual decisions of the film.
So that creative work is the job, and film admin is not.
The horizon
Every project leaves a record of how a film was made
We think that record is the foundation for understanding audiovisual narrative in a way nothing currently does, and eventually for building things that cannot exist without it. That is the far horizon, and we hold it seriously rather than loosely. It is also why the foundation had to be built properly first, and why we have been slow in the right places.