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Saturation

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.

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

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 templates

From treatment to wrap.

Budget it, shoot it, wrap it.

  1. Build the budget

    Start from the music video template and price each line.

  2. Track the spend

    Drop in a receipt and it lands against the budget line it belongs to.

  3. 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 management

Try it on your next video.

14 days free. No credit card required.

One budget, start to finish.

In prep, on the shoot and at wrap.

In prep

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
On the shoot

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
At wrap

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.

Google SheetsHot BudgetPaper receiptsEmailMessages

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.”

SG

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.

Yes. Start a project from the music video template and its accounts are in place from the first line.Budget templates

Yes. The free Creator plan covers a single project for one person, with budgeting, actuals and templates.See pricing

Yes. Snap a receipt in the Saturation Wallet iOS app, or drop it onto a budget line, and it is matched to the charge it belongs to.

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. Share a read-only link to a budget view, or invite them as a viewer. They can read it and cannot change the numbers.

Saturation connects to accounting software, including QuickBooks Online, and maps budget accounts to your general ledger. Transactions also export to CSV.Integrations

Budget the video before the call ends.

Put your next video through it and see for yourself.

14 days free. No credit card required.