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Stories that grow

Production finance,
bid to close.

626 Production is the working ledger for every job the studio takes on — the AICP bid, the award, the working budget, every overage, actuals as they land, and the margin at wrap. One place, one set of numbers, nothing living in someone’s head.

  • AICP bids
  • Working budget
  • Overages
  • Actuals
  • Margin
Open the platformSee the lifecycle

01 — Why it exists

Where the money story breaks.

What Showbiz does

Showbiz Budgeting builds the AICP bid — and stops. It's a desktop tool: one machine, one file, one form. The bid goes out clean, and the software's part of the job is already over.

What spreadsheets hide

Everything after the award scatters into Excel, email, and someone's head. The working budget in one tab, overages in a thread, actuals in an export — three versions of the truth, none of them current, none of them auditable.

What 626 Production closes

The whole lifecycle in one place, cloud-native and multi-user. Everything a producer does in Showbiz happens here — then the platform keeps going: overage approvals, posted actuals, live EAC, and the margin at close.

02 — The spine

One job, five states.

  1. Bid

    Built from the AICP template. Revised freely until it goes out.

  2. Awarded

    The bid locks. The working budget is born as its copy.

  3. Working

    Overages raised, reviewed, submitted, approved — then posted.

  4. Actualizing

    Actuals reconcile against working. EAC and variance, live.

  5. Closed

    Producer actuals reconciled. Final margin locked.

The three columns that never blend

Bid
What the client approved. The contract number. Moves only by approved overage.
Working
Bid plus approved overages. The number the producer manages to.
Actuals + committed
Money spent plus open POs. EAC and variance fall out of it, live.

03 — Inside the app

The numbers, where they live.

Fig. 01 — Top Sheet / Job 26-014 “Night Market”
Illustrative top sheet: bid, working, actual plus committed, and variance by budget section
SectionBidWorkingActual + commVar
APre-production & wrap128,400131,650129,210−2,440
BShooting crew214,750214,750216,900+2,150
CLocation & travel96,300101,80099,340−2,460
EEquipment & stage74,22074,22073,980−240
Direct costs513,670522,420519,430−2,990
Production fee & insurance97,57097,70097,080−620
Grand total611,240620,120616,510−3,610

Variance reads EAC against working — client-approved scope moves the bid column, never the story.

Fig. 02 — Job Book / Active slate
Job / statusWorking / EAC Δ
  • 26-018Glasswater
    Bid$412,800—
  • 26-016Pacific & 6th
    Awarded$687,500—
  • 26-014Night Market
    Working$620,120−0.6%
  • 26-011Orchard, Season 02
    Actualizing$1,284,300+1.4%
  • 26-007First Light
    Closed$96,400−2.1%

Stage reads at a glance — the accent on every row is the job’s place in the lifecycle.