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For post-production studios

The capacity math for your post‑production studio.

PostLane keeps the honest math between the work in your queue and the hours your editors and designers actually have — accounting for calendar events, PTO, and production pulls in real time.

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Built for small-to-mid video studios. Works with Frame.io, Google Drive, and your existing calendar.

Core

Six surfaces. One studio.

The MVP that runs the studio day-to-day. Each card lists what actually ships today — not a roadmap, not a promise.

Post-production workflow

Seven-stage deliverable lifecycle, drag-and-drop kanban, dense list with multi-select bulk ops, and inline-edit cells.

  • Brief → Editing → CD/CCO/Client Review → Approved → Delivered
  • Revision rounds loop back to Editing — same row, full history
  • Auto-allocated codes (ACM-001, ACM-T1) via DB triggers
  • @-mention comments with mention-feed + unread tracking

Production management

Multi-day shoots, child deliverables, bulk-create modal, and a calendar view with greedy row-stacking for overlapping shoots.

  • Kanban + list + calendar views, URL-synced filters
  • Production code inheritance to child deliverables
  • Cross-workspace chip on Post-board cards + drawers
  • Workflow tags with per-tag color

Capacity & forecasting

Mission Control's people × weeks heatmap shows the honest math between queue hours and actual editor hours, accounting for PTO.

  • Overlap-weighted allocation across each work-window
  • 4 / 8 / 12 / 16-week toggle + day-grain zoom
  • Six-bucket utilization palette with PTO overlay
  • Per-cell popover with sorted deliverable contributions

Native calendar

Five views (Day / Week / Month / Year / Agenda) with multi-day events, attendee invites, and conference-URL fields.

  • 24-hour Day grid with greedy column-packer for overlaps
  • Year heatmap matches the forecast palette
  • Attendees: internal autocomplete + free-form email
  • Production-pull and team-PTO overlays toggle on demand

Client portal

Per-SOW review surface for external client_viewers — strict RLS, brand-tinted chrome, approve/request-revisions workflow.

  • Stage-grouped deliverables list, client-review first
  • Comments thread with approve / request-revisions actions
  • Client requests with Slack webhook fan-out
  • Optional social-calendar tab per client

Team & social work

People directory, recurring engagement shifts for social contractors, working-hours editor, and the LLM-polished newsletter generator.

  • Directory: cards + sortable list with mailto/tel/Slack links
  • Engagement shifts surface as a My Work panel
  • Per-client newsletter config + recipient roster + PDF export
  • Working hours grid editor with Mon-Fri quick-fill
Advanced

The depth shows up in the edge cases.

Studios live in their edge cases. PostLane ships the obvious answers to the not-obvious workflows.

  • AI SOW scanning

    Upload a contract PDF, Claude extracts the terms.

  • Custom client groups

    User-defined folders nest deliverables arbitrarily.

  • ⌘K command palette

    Fuzzy-search every deliverable, production, client, person.

  • Collapsible hierarchy panel

    Per-client tree folds to a 36px rail when you don't need it.

  • Frame.io V4 chips

    Linked assets surface on rows + as a CTA on the detail.

  • Newsletter generator

    Internal-data v1 with LLM polish + PDF export.

  • Time tracking

    Running timer chip in the top bar + manual back-fill + per-deliverable rollup.

  • Tasks + subtasks

    Per-deliverable checklists in the drawer + a My Open Tasks panel on My Work.

On the roadmap
  • Self-service password recovery (blocked on SMTP)
  • Bill.com / QuickBooks invoicing pull
  • Auto-leveling / auto-scheduling suggestions
  • Zoom OAuth + auto-mint conference URLs
  • Newsletter platform analytics (IG / TikTok / LinkedIn / YouTube)
  • Real-data import (replace seed sample set)

One deliverable lifecycle. Seven honest stages.

Revisions loop back to Editing instead of spawning new tickets — you see the same deliverable across its whole life, round by round.

  1. 1. Not Yet Started
  2. 2. Editing
  3. 3. Creative Review
  4. 4. Executive Review
  5. 5. Client Review
  6. 6. Approved
  7. 7. Delivered

Modern, fast, and built on solid rails.

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