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Saturation

Production finance software, built for agencies.

Saturation is budgeting and expense tracking software for production agencies, built by producers. Bid each job, add your markup and track every cost against it.

17,700+ producers$2.7B in managed production spendSOC 2 compliant

Every client job, one system

Budgets, spend and approvals for each job, with every client’s work in one workspace.

Project Library

Seven kinds of reference data, current on every project.

P-Cards

Set the limit before it ships.

Flows

Branch it, delay it, dry-run it.

Vendor portal

Every vendor gets a home to sign, upload and get paid.

Reports

Drag blocks onto the page and split a row in two.

Powerful filtering

Filter on dates, vendors or tags.

Win the job. Keep the margin.

Every job starts as a bid and ends as an actual. Saturation keeps bid, estimate, working and actual side by side on one budget, so you can see where a job stands against what you quoted.

  • Bids from an AICP template
  • Markups and fees built in
  • Cards issued per job

Bid, estimate and actual, side by side.

Open a commercial budget in the AICP format and read each phase in its own column.

See the AICP budget template

From bid to wrap.

Quote it, mark it up, track it.

  1. Build the bid

    Start from an AICP template and price each line.

  2. Add your markup

    Set a fee as a percentage or a flat amount, on the accounts you choose.

  3. Spend on a job card

    Issue a card to the job and every charge lands against its budget.

Your fee, added as a markup.

Insert a markup row, name it and set the rate. Choose what it applies to and whether fringes are included.

Explore budgeting

Try it on your next job.

14 days free. No credit card required.

Built for every seat in the agency.

What partners, finance and producers each get from it.

EP / Managing Partner

See every job against its bid.

Open any job from the Projects page and read bid, actual and variance without asking for a recap.

  • Jobs grouped by client
  • Status labels on every job
  • Budgets shared by read-only link
Finance

Costs that arrive already coded.

Card charges, invoices and receipts land against the job and the budget account they belong to.

  • Budget accounts mapped to the ledger
  • Transactions exported to CSV
  • Approvals recorded on each request
Producer

Run the job, not the spreadsheet.

Build the budget from a template, raise purchase orders and snap receipts as the job runs.

  • AICP and other templates
  • Purchase orders routed for approval
  • Receipts matched to card charges

What our customers are saying

“The financial operating system of our production company. From budgeting to P-cards, AI receipt scanning, and QuickBooks sync, it replaced five separate tools.”

SG

Stephen Gray

Founder & Director, Tonal Films

Security your clients can sign off on.

SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant

Independently audited security controls that meet the compliance standards your clients require. Your production financial data is held to the same bar as your banking data.

Recorded Approvals

Approval decisions and any rejection reasons stay on each purchase order and payment, and transactions and bank statements export to CSV or PDF for internal or client review.

Access by Role

Give each person a role on the whole workspace or on a single job. Viewer and commenter seats are free, so a client can read a budget without being able to change it.

Questions agencies ask

Straight answers, before you start.

Both. Saturation started in film, and it handles commercial work the same way: a commercial is a project type, and a job can start from an AICP template with bid, estimate, working and actual columns.AICP budget template

Yes. Insert a markup row and set it as a percentage or a flat amount. Apply it to the whole budget or to chosen accounts, on base cost alone or with fringes.Budgeting

Each job is a project. Group projects into a space per client, label them by status and save filtered views, such as every job in production.

Saturation connects to accounting software, including QuickBooks Online, and bank accounts connect through Plaid. Transactions also export to CSV for any other system.Integrations

Yes. Send a vendor an onboarding link and they add their own details, W-9 and bank account. Payments go out by ACH or domestic wire.Vendor onboarding

Yes. Issue a virtual card to a job with its own spend limit. Each charge lands against that job, and receipts are matched to the charge they belong to.Production P-cards

Saturation is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. Access is set by role, and every approval decision is recorded on the request it belongs to.Security

Pricing that scales with your agency.

Start on the free plan with a single project. Paid plans add more projects and seats, purchase orders, approvals and reporting.

Your agency wins the work. Saturation protects the margin.

Put your next job through it and see for yourself.

14 days free. No credit card required.