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Saturation

Production finance software, built for in-house teams.

Saturation is budgeting and expense tracking software for in-house production teams. Budget every project, issue P-cards for team expenses and track spend across your own shoots and outside partners in one place.

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

Studio-grade finance for internal teams

Give your content team real production controls, onboard vendors and freelancers, and keep finance's chart of accounts clean.

Issue Cards

Virtual cards spend instantly, physical ships in a week. One at a time or twenty-five at once.

Flows and approvals

Send anything for approval, not just payments. Branch it, delay it, test it.

Auto-categorization

Charges arrive already coded.

Chart of accounts

Map your budget to the ledger.

Project Library

Seven kinds of reference data, current everywhere.

Vendor portal

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

Every shoot, and everything the team spends.

An in-house team spends on more than productions. Budget each shoot and the team itself in Saturation, from software and gear to travel and marketing spend, so producers see what is left and finance gets every cost coded to its account.

  • Productions and team costs in one workspace
  • P-cards with spend limits
  • Outside partners on their own project

Coded to your chart of accounts.

Map budget accounts to your general ledger once. Saturation suggests the matches and you accept them.

Explore integrations

From campaign brief to cost report.

Budget each project, spend on P-cards and send finance the numbers.

  1. Build the budget

    Start from a template and price each line.

  2. Spend on P-cards

    Issue a card to a project with its own limit. Each charge lands against that project.

  3. Report to finance

    Send a cost report built from live figures.

Approve a request in two clicks.

Requests land in Tasks with the invoice attached. Approve or reject, and your comment stays on the record.

Explore approval flows

Try it on your next production.

14 days free. No credit card required.

Built for every seat in the studio.

What production leads, finance and producers each get from it.

Head of Production

See every project in one place.

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

  • Projects grouped by brand or team
  • Outside partners invited to one project
  • Budgets shared by read-only link
Finance

Costs that arrive already coded.

Card charges, invoices and receipts land against the project 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 shoot, not the spreadsheet.

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

  • Templates by project type
  • Purchase orders routed for approval
  • Receipts matched to card charges

Before and after Saturation.

What changes when the budget, the spend and the approvals live in one place.

Google SheetsPaper receiptsEmailMessagesInvoices

The old way

  • A separate spreadsheet for every project and partner
  • Receipts buried in email and chat threads
  • Approvals chased by email, with no record
  • Company cards with no link to a budget
  • Costs keyed in again at month end
  • No cost picture until weeks after wrap

With Saturation

  • In-house and partner projects in one workspace
  • Receipts matched to their charge
  • Approvals routed and recorded
  • Cards issued per project, with limits
  • Accounts mapped to your ledger
  • Estimate, committed and actual, live

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 finance team can sign off on.

SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant

Independently audited security controls that meet the compliance standards large organizations 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 review.

Access by Role

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

Questions in-house teams ask

Straight answers, before you start.

Both. Saturation started in film, and it handles brand and corporate work the same way. A project can be a commercial, a branded series or a single shoot, each built from a template.Budgeting

Yes. Budget accounts are mapped to your general ledger accounts once, so costs are coded the way finance expects.

Purchase orders and payments route to the right approver by amount, project or vendor. Approvers decide in Tasks or by email, and the decision is recorded on the request.Approval flows

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

Yes. Give a special project its own project in your workspace and invite the production company to that project only. They budget and track spend there, and you see it beside your in-house productions.

Yes. Every production is a project in one workspace. Card charges, invoices and receipts land against the project and budget account they belong to, and one ledger shows them all.Expense management

Yes. Set up a project for the team itself and track software, gear, travel and marketing spend against its budget, with P-cards for the people who spend it. It sits in the same workspace as your productions, so finance sees the whole team alongside them.Production P-cards

Yes. Send a vendor or freelancer a link and they add their own details, W-9 and bank account. They land in your contacts, ready to pay by ACH or domestic wire.Vendor onboarding

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

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 studio.

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

Your team makes the content. Saturation runs the production finance.

Put your next production through it and see for yourself.

14 days free. No credit card required.