Who it’s for
Two to twenty people, and more freelancers than staff.
Slatebook is built for the size of company where one person holds the whole picture in their head — and that person is starting to be the bottleneck.
TWO TO FOUR PEOPLE
Owner-operator
You produce, you often shoot, and you do the invoicing on Sunday night. The company runs entirely on what you remember.
Breaks first at
The first month you run three jobs in the same week.
FIVE TO TWELVE PEOPLE
Working company
Staff producers, a regular crew pool of fifteen or so, kit you own and a couple of retainers. Most Slatebook companies look like this.
Breaks first at
The first time two producers promise the same camera.
TWELVE TO TWENTY-FIVE
Multi-brand group
More than one company name, shared crew and kit, and a finance person who wants one view across all of it.
Breaks first at
When consolidating the month takes a full day.
You’ll get value in week one if
- You book freelancers more often than you employ people
- You own kit that gets promised to more than one job
- Your call sheet is a template someone copies and edits
- You cannot say what last quarter’s margin was by job type
- One person is the single point of failure for scheduling
It’s probably not for you if
- You run one or two productions a month and they never overlap
- You are a solo shooter with no freelancers and no owned kit
- You need scripted drama scheduling — stripboards, day-out-of-days
- You want an editing or asset-management system; we hold records, not rushes
We would rather you read the Playbook and keep your spreadsheet than pay us for something you do not need yet.