Production finance software, built for music videos.
Saturation is budgeting and expense tracking software for music videos, built by producers. Budget the shoot in minutes, track every receipt and wrap with the numbers already in place.
Fast budgets for fast turnarounds
Start the budget from a template, issue cards for the shoot and reconcile the job before the edit locks.
Budget Engine 2.0
Your budget, your cost report and every export run on one engine.
P-Cards
Set the limit before it ships.
Payments
Every payment, in one place.
Receipt scanning
Receipts arrive already coded.
Rate packs
Verified union rates, versioned.
Reports
Drag blocks onto the page and split a row in two.
A two-day shoot still needs a real budget.
Music videos move fast and close fast. Saturation gives you a budget from a template, receipts against it as you spend and a clean total when the label asks.
- A budget from a template
- Receipts against the budget
- A clean total at wrap
A budget, ready in a minute.
Choose the music video template, name the project and add a cover. The budget opens with every account in place.
See budget templatesFrom treatment to wrap.
Budget it, shoot it, wrap it.
Build the budget
Start from the music video template and price each line.
Track the spend
Drop in a receipt and it lands against the budget line it belongs to.
Wrap the job
Send the label a cost report built from the same numbers.
Drop in a receipt. The budget updates.
Drag a receipt onto a budget line and Saturation creates the transaction and offers to itemize it.
Explore expense managementOne budget, start to finish.
In prep, on the shoot and at wrap.
Budget the treatment the day it lands.
Start from a template and have a number for the label before the call ends.
- A music video template
- Fringes and markups built in
- Budgets shared by read-only link
Spend without losing track.
Every card charge and receipt lands against its budget line as it happens.
- Cards issued to the project
- Receipts matched to charges
- Actuals beside the estimate
Close it out the same week.
The budget, the actuals and the backup are already in one place.
- Charges missing a receipt in one list
- Cost reports from live data
- A clean record for the label
Before and after Saturation.
What changes when the budget and the spend live in one place.
The old way
- A budget rebuilt in a spreadsheet each time
- Receipts in a shoebox and a camera roll
- Card charges sorted out after wrap
- Vendors paid from a personal account
- No total until the last invoice arrives
- A wrap report built by hand
With Saturation
- A budget from a template in minutes
- Receipts matched to their charge
- Cards issued to the project
- Vendors paid by ACH or wire
- Actuals against the budget, live
- A cost report from live figures
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.”
Stephen Gray
Founder & Director, Tonal Films
Security your label can sign off on.
SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant
Independently audited security controls protect your production financial data, 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.
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 financier can read a budget without being able to change it.
Questions music video teams ask
Straight answers, before you start.
Explore related solutions
See how Saturation works for other roles and production types.
Budget the video before the call ends.
Put your next video through it and see for yourself.
14 days free. No credit card required.