The institutional operating layer for modern film and television. Manage compliance, payroll, and governance with cinematic precision and Hollywood-grade security.
Navigate your entire studio at the speed of thought. The global command bar puts every production, document, and compliance check a few keystrokes away.
Backlot Office replaces fragmented tools with a single, high-fidelity system that flows with your production, not against it.
Import schedules, define roles, and establish budget guardrails in seconds.
Automated deal memo validation and union-rule tracking across the entire crew.
Daily call sheets, permit binding, and tamper-evident audit ledger logging.
Consolidated deliverables, payroll exports, and automated wrap packages.
— Head of Production, Global Studio
Direct mapping to ADP, Cast & Crew, and Paychex. Automated penalty calculations and rule-ready exports.
Every version, every signature, and every document stored in a tamper-evident hash-chained ledger.
Centralized repository for location-specific permits, production requirements, and regional news.
Capture project-level knowledge and reusable compliance playbooks to build your studio’s edge.
Streamlined workflows for smaller productions without sacrificing data integrity or audit guarantees.
Data-driven insights into production efficiency, cost performance, and historical studio benchmarks.
Enterprise-grade identity management and automated provisioning for large-scale organisations.
Interactive builder with real-time compliance pre-flight. Catch violations before they cost you.
Unified ⌘K interface to navigate productions, documents, and people at the speed of thought.
WHAT IS INSIDE
Backlot Office is not a single workflow tool. It is a coordinated operating layer that connects people, legal, compliance, daily execution, payroll, and evidence management around the same production record.
Crew onboarding, role assignment, and identity continuity from prep to wrap.
Create, validate, and manage deal memos with integrated digital signatures.
Operational guardrails that surface risk before shoot day and before payroll.
Manage daily execution against the same source of truth used by legal and payroll.
Centralized repository for institutional knowledge, permits, and news.
Move from production activity to payroll-ready outputs with less manual cleanup.
Keep critical documents and operational history in a defensible record system.
Advanced workspace controls and identity management for large studios.
WHY BUY BACKLOT OFFICE
This platform is built to protect schedules, margins, and reputation. It reduces operational noise while increasing control over the workflows that matter most to production leadership.
Backlot Office helps teams catch compliance and documentation gaps earlier, before they become delays, penalties, or rushed manual fixes.
Operations, legal, and payroll work from the same production record, reducing duplicate entry and back-and-forth reconciliation.
Document history, approvals, and activity trails are captured as part of normal work, so reporting is easier when scrutiny arrives.
Run lightweight workflows for small teams and expand governance controls as your slate, partners, and risk profile grow.
Pricing & Plans
Backlot Office is priced for real production teams, not inflated enterprise software budgets. Run indie projects, shorts, commercials, docs, and small studio work without paying for controls you do not need yet.
For producers who want to test Backlot Office on one real project before upgrading.
For indie producers, small studios, shorts, commercials, documentaries, and micro-budget teams running more than one project at a time.
For production companies managing a steady slate of projects.
For growing studios, agencies, and production groups that need repeatable operations across departments.
For networks, streamers, large studios, and global production groups with advanced governance requirements.
Yes. The Indie plan includes up to 3 active productions because small teams often run shorts, commercials, docs, and development projects at the same time.
An active production is a project currently being managed in Backlot Office. Archived productions do not count against your active production limit.
Yes. Paid plans include unlimited archived productions, so your records stay organized without forcing you to delete past work.
Yes. Extra active productions can be added for $29/month each.
No. Backlot Office is built to support indie teams first, then scale into studio, network, and enterprise workflows as production volume grows.
Free, Indie, Producer, and Studio plans can be self-serve. Enterprise plans use a custom annual agreement.
Yes. Teams can upgrade as production volume, crew size, and governance needs grow.
Built for the Global Studio
From independent shorts to multi-season episodic content, Backlot Office provides the governance and scale required by the world's leading production entities.