The cost report shouldn't wait.
Real-time cost reports with live actuals, hot costs on demand, and EFC tracking across every budget line. When the producer calls for a number, you have it. When something's off, you see it before they do.
Reports that look as good
as your numbers.
Generate beautiful, branded PDFs directly from your cost report in seconds. Pick from professionally designed templates or build your own from a blank canvas.
Project Reports
START FRESH
Blank Report
BUDGET
AICP Bid Form
AICP bid template with budget summary and account breakdown
Commercial Cost Summary
Budget summary and account breakdown
Film Budget
Standard film budget report
Blocks
Drag and drop onto the page
Bring your team together
Production budgeting, expense tracking, credit cards, approvals, and cost reporting in one cloud platform for video production teams.
Real-Time Collaboration
Collaboratively build budgets with line items, rates, fringes, and actuals. Start from industry-standard templates — feature film, TV, commercial, and more.
| Contacts | # Qty | Unit | $ Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelcy Moore | 3 | DAY | 30,065.24 |
| Freddy Trowill | 1 | WEEK | 10,000 |
| Jens Jacob | 1 | DAY | 0.00 |
| Brooke Dimsdale | 2 | HOUR | 50.00 |
| Alfredo Poulsum | 2 | DAY | 1,000.00 |
| Abbe Evers | 5 | DAY | 2,000.00 |
All Your Productions In One Place
Group projects into folders, switch between workspaces, and stay on top of multiple productions without losing context.
The Atom Splitter
Edited 20 minutes ago
Sand Kingdom
Edited 1 hour ago
Something Somewhere
Edited 3 hours ago
Centurion Rising
Edited 5 hours ago
White Smoke
Edited 1 day ago
Enhanced Performance.
Time-saving shortcuts built for busy producers.
⌘KInstant access with global search.
Spreadsheets and disconnected tools vs. Saturation.
Production finance teams juggle disconnected spreadsheets, manual reconciliation, and last-minute PDF formatting just to get the cost report out on time. Saturation replaces that stack with a single platform built for production cost reporting.
The old way.
You rebuild the cost report from scratch every week. P-card exports, payroll reports, receipts from three different email threads, all patched together in a spreadsheet. When the producer calls mid-week for a number, you stop everything. When the bond company needs their format, you start over.
Actuals flow in as they happen. Hot costs are always available. EFC tracks to every budget line.
Space Ranger
Feature Film · Horizon Pictures
EFC
$312,400What makes Saturation cost reporting production-native.
These are the workflows that matter when a production is spending money faster than spreadsheets can keep up, and the cost report is the only instrument keeping the LP out of crisis mode.
EFC and ETC tracking
Estimated Final Cost and Estimate to Complete update automatically as actuals flow in. See over/under variance by account without waiting for weekly close.
Hot costs, always ready
Pull an interim cost report any time the producer or financier needs mid-week numbers. Actuals are always current, so a hot cost is a snapshot. Never a rebuild.
Custom PDF builder
Drag-and-drop layouts with reusable presets. Include budget topsheet, actuals, split actuals, tags, and signature blocks. Save templates for the bond company, EP, and accounting.
Tag-based reporting
Tag expenses for tax credit eligibility, location, vendor category, or internal classification. Filter the cost report by tag for tax audits, credit tagging, or department breakdowns.
Share views per stakeholder
Give the EP topsheet access, accounting full detail, and the bond company their required format. Each view is a shareable link. No separate files, no reformatting.
Actuals and split actuals
Split costs across accounts, departments, or tax credit categories without duplicating entries. Actuals reconcile against the budget automatically and appear in the cost report the same day they're coded.
Cost reporting without the Sunday night grind.
Rebuilding the cost report from disconnected spreadsheets, chasing P-card receipts, reformatting a PDF for the bond company at midnight. Saturation removes the production tax on your accounting department so they can focus on the numbers, not the process of getting to them.
CORE CAPABILITIES
The cost report and the budget are the same document.
Actuals flow into the budget in real time. There is no separate cost report to rebuild.
Coming from one of these?
Your budget lives in one tool. Your actuals live in another. Somewhere in the export-reformat-reconcile gap between them is where overages hide until it's too late. Curious how Saturation closes that gap?
Reporting FAQs.
The questions production accountants and line producers ask when they're evaluating whether to move their cost reporting into Saturation.
Your next cost report should take minutes.
Connect your budget. Let actuals flow in. Export a branded PDF for the bond company. See the difference between a spreadsheet and a production cost reporting platform in the first week.
Free tier available. No credit card required. SOC 2 compliant.