Margins,
not vibes.
Quote the job. Lock the crew. Send the PDF. See your profit before you commit to anything you'll regret on day 14.
Slatewise is budgeting and scheduling software for film and video production — gear rates, crew days, transport and margin in one place, from the first quote to the final client PDF.
Move two numbers. Watch the job change shape.
See what your next production could actually make.
Build a budget →Night rate is +35% on crew. The calendar knows which days are nights, so you don't have to remember at 02:00.
| Camera package | 3 × day rate | €2,700 |
| Crew — 6 people | all day rate | €3,900 |
| Transport | under threshold | €900 |
| Post handling | flat | €400 |
Spreadsheets don't know your gaffer is on night rate after 18:00.
They don't notice when the kit list creeps. They don't flag that you quoted 30% and you're tracking six. They never reconciled the calendar with the crew day count, and they never will.
Slatewise does, because it had to.
Drop your kit in once.
Gear catalogue with day, three-day and week rates. Crew with day and night rates. Transport thresholds. Reuse it for the next ten jobs without retyping a line.
Pull, slide, ship.
Pull from the catalogue into the budget. Drag the profit slider and every line reflows. Move a crew assignment to a night shoot and the cost moves with it.
Send the clean PDF.
Category subtotals only. The client sees the price. Your rates, your margin and your handling fees stay in your kit.
Your next quote starts here.
Build my first budgetAbove the line, below the line.
The same separation you write into the budget. Director fees aren't gaffer days, and the math knows it.
Crew that reflows with the calendar.
Assign a gaffer to day 4. Mark it a night. The budget moves, the margin moves, and you enter nothing twice.
Equipment that earns its cost.NEW
Per-item investment recovered. Days billed across every project. Dead-stock callouts for the kit that stopped paying rent.
A PDF that won't betray you.
Categories totalled, internal rates hidden. No line item that reads 'and here's our markup'.
Kit that earns while it's out on loan.
Lend gear to another workspace at your rates. They quote with it; only you can price it. What you paid stays on your side — and the days they bill still count toward your ROI.
Work that arrives after the PDF.
Another revision round. An extra edit day. Bill it without touching the quote they signed off — quoted, plus extras, equals what the job actually earned.
Roles for real teams.
Admins run the workspace. Producers manage projects. Freelancers see their call times and their own role, not your profit.
One box that knows the whole workspace.
Search a client and get their entire history — every job, what it earned, what's still quoted. Search a camera and get its rates and how close it is to paying for itself. Projects, gear, crew and people, three letters at a time.
The price you agreed, not the one the maths produced.
A ceiling, or mates' rates. Set a flat price or a standing % off and the quote follows — while your costs stay untouched, so you can see precisely what the favour cost you.
Want to see it with your own production?
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Get StudioFour things we're not building.
We don't invoice. Your accountant has tools for that — keep them.
We don't replace your line producer. The judgement is still yours.
We put VAT on the quote. We don't file it, reconcile it or keep your books. Different problem.
We don't let the spreadsheet lie to you. That's the whole point.
Set up before the next job lands.
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