Production finance, built for in-house teams who need control.
Plan budgets, track actuals, and manage vendor spend across every production, so you can stay on budget and report with confidence.
THE PLATFORM
One platform. Budget to wrap.
Saturation centralizes your entire production finance workflow — budgeting, expense tracking, payments, and reporting — so nothing falls through the cracks when you have 50 active projects.
Budget
Build multi-project budgets from templates or past projects. Watch actuals update against estimates as spend comes in.
Track
Every cost — card swipes, vendor invoices, freelancer day rates, POs — is captured, categorized, and allocated to the right project automatically.
Pay
Issue virtual cards per project, pay vendors directly, process freelancer invoices, and handle crew reimbursements from one dashboard.
Report
Generate cost-per-project breakdowns, department chargebacks, and ROI dashboards formatted for leadership — not accounting.
PRODUCTION INTELLIGENCE
AI that learns from every project you've ever run.
Saturation's Production Intelligence isn't a chatbot bolted onto a spreadsheet. It's trained exclusively on your production data — past budgets, actuals, vendor history, expense patterns — to help you estimate faster, spot anomalies sooner, and make decisions backed by your own track record. Your data trains your model only. It's SOC 2 certified, never shared, and never used outside your organization.
CORE FEATURES
Everything you need to manage in-house production finances.
From expense management to production credit cards and ROI reporting, Saturation handles every financial workflow so your team can focus on making great content.
Staff, freelancers, vendors — one workflow.
Your team is a mix of salaried creatives, freelance directors and DPs, post houses, equipment rental companies, and talent agencies. Saturation handles every cost structure — day rates, kit fees, invoices, POs, per diem — without forcing you into separate systems for each.
Project-level cards. Budget-level controls.
Issue virtual and physical cards tied to specific projects and budget lines. Every swipe auto-categorizes against the right budget — no more chasing receipts at month-end or discovering a $12,000 equipment rental buried on someone's personal Amex.
The numbers to justify your next budget request.
In-house teams live or die by their ability to prove they're more cost-effective than agencies. Saturation gives you the data — cost-per-project, output volume, savings vs. agency benchmarks — formatted for the boardroom, not the accounting department.
Built for every role in your studio.
From the CMO reviewing quarterly spend to the freelance editor submitting a receipt, Saturation gives every stakeholder the right tools and the right level of access.
See every project. Control every dollar.
You're managing 30+ simultaneous productions across brands, campaigns, and content types — with a team that's part full-time, part freelance, and part vendor. Saturation gives you a portfolio-level dashboard where you can drill into any project, any budget line, any expense, without waiting for someone to update a spreadsheet.
- Real-time portfolio dashboard across every active production
- Approval workflows that escalate to you only when spend exceeds thresholds you set
- Production Intelligence that predicts costs for new projects based on your history
What our customers are saying
We run 30+ projects at any given time across four brands. Before Saturation, I had no way to tell leadership what each project actually cost until weeks after wrap. Now I pull up the dashboard and the numbers are right there — real time, per project, per brand. The cost allocation alone saves us two days a month.
Sarah M.
VP of Production, Fortune 500 Brand Studio
Enterprise security. Production-grade privacy.
SOC 2 Type II Certified
Independently audited security controls that meet the compliance standards Fortune 500 organizations require. Your production financial data is held to the same bar as your banking data.
Complete Audit Trail
Every transaction, approval, change, and export is logged with full attribution, timestamps, and IP addresses. Ready for internal audit, external compliance, or regulatory review.
Private AI — Your Data Only
Production Intelligence trains exclusively on your organization's data. It never leaves your control, is never shared with other customers, and is never used to train any external model.
Before Saturation vs. with Saturation.
Without Saturation
- A separate spreadsheet for every project, updated by a different person
- Cost allocation cobbled together in Excel with manual pivot tables
- Receipts buried in email threads, Slack DMs, and shared drive folders
- No way to tell leadership what a project actually cost until weeks after wrap
- Generic accounting tools that don't understand production workflows
- Hours every month reconciling freelancer invoices against project budgets
- The same budget estimation mistakes repeated project after project
With Saturation
- Every project, budget, and dollar in one portfolio dashboard
- Automatic cost allocation to departments, brands, and GL codes
- AI-powered receipt capture from any device, categorized instantly
- Real-time cost-per-project data available the moment leadership asks
- Production-native finance that understands POs, day rates, and vendor invoices
- Unified payment management for staff, freelancers, and vendors in one workflow
- Production Intelligence that learns from past projects to make future estimates sharper
In-House Production: What to Know
Common questions from in-house production and brand studio teams evaluating Saturation.
Over 8,500+ integrations
Connect Saturation with the tools your organization already relies on — from accounting and banking to project management and collaboration.
Pricing that scales with your studio.
Free plan for small teams getting started. Paid plans add portfolio dashboards, cost allocation, production credit cards, Production Intelligence, and dedicated support. No per-seat surprises.
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