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Saturation

Production company software that keeps every project in view.

Saturation is budgeting and production finance software for production companies, built by producers. Run every project in one workspace, with the same templates, approvals and accounts on each.

Trusted by 17,700+ producers managing $2.7 billion in production spend.

Park PicturesMaximum EffortChromistaMonkeypaw ProductionsTwelve 2 MidnightHungrymanTaproot Pictures

One workspace for the whole slate

Every project's budget, banking and spend in one place, set up the same way each time.

Project Library

Seven kinds of reference data, current on every project.

Budget Engine 2.0

Your budget, your cost report and every export run on one engine.

Banking

Saturation Pay: accounts, cards and bill pay in one place. Send ACH, wire or same-day.

Reports

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

Issue Cards

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

Workspace Spotlight

Jump to any project, contact or transaction.

Payments

Every payment in the workspace, from the ask to the money landing.

Keep the tools that work. Connect the rest.

Budgeting, purchase orders, cards, payments and receipts usually live in separate tools. Saturation runs them together, alongside the accounting software you already use, so a charge shows up against the budget line it belongs to.

  • Budget and spend, connected
  • Fewer tools to manage
  • Works with your accounting software

Every project gets its own allocation.

Set a cap for each project and see what is spent and what is left, side by side.

Explore banking

Save on the tools you already use.

Saturation Credit is the charge card built for production companies. Earn cash back on production spend, with partner perks on software and services your team already pays for.

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From new job to running project.

Start it, fund it, watch it.

  1. Start from a template

    Pick a project type and the chart of accounts is ready to budget.

  2. Route the spend

    Flows send each request to the right approver by amount, project or vendor.

  3. Keep the slate in view

    Save a filtered view of your projects and come back to it any time.

A new project, ready in a minute.

Choose a template, name the project and add a cover. The budget opens with every account in place.

Explore budgeting

Try it on your next production.

14 days free. No credit card required.

One workspace, three seats.

What owners, heads of production and finance each get from it.

Owners and EPs

See where each project stands.

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

  • Projects grouped into spaces
  • Status labels on every project
  • Budgets shared by read-only link
Heads of production

Start every job the same way.

New projects begin from a template, with the chart of accounts already in place.

  • Budget templates by project type
  • Saved views of the slate
  • Approvals routed by amount, project or vendor
Finance

Know what each project can spend.

Allocate funds to a project with a cap, and watch spend against it as cards and payments post.

  • Funds allocated per project
  • Cards issued to a project
  • Transactions coded to budget accounts

Questions production companies ask

Straight answers, before you start.

Yes. Every project lives in one workspace. Group them into spaces, label them by status and save filtered views, such as commercials only.

Yes. Create a project from a template and its chart of accounts is in place from the first line. You can also import an existing budget.

Yes. Project types include commercial, feature film, television and documentary, and commercial budgets can start from an AICP template.AICP budget template

Yes. Invite people with a view or comment role, or share a budget as a read-only link.

Yes. With Saturation banking you allocate funds to each project with a cap, and cards and payments draw against that allocation.Production banking

Every project, in view.

Put your next production through it and see for yourself.

14 days free. No credit card required.