Six stages from a rough brief to delivery — and an account that shows you which one your project is in, what lands next and when, while it happens.
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Every engagement runs through these, in this order. The rail at the top of this section is the one you will see in your account — it fills as you read, the way a real project's does as the work lands.
01/ 06Stage 1 of 6
A paragraph from you, the right questions from us.
Send a brief — a paragraph is enough. No forms, and no qualification call before anyone will talk to you.
We ask the questions that change the answer, before anyone opens a design tool.
02/ 06Stage 2 of 6
Before anything is proposed, we find out what is actually in the way.
What the work is, what it is not, and the one thing most likely to make it fail.
03/ 06Stage 3 of 6
The plan, the price and the dates — in one document you sign before anything is made.
An approach with a point of view attached. If we think the idea is weak, that is in there too.
One number, broken down. Nothing reaches the invoice that was not in this document.
You sign off scope, price and dates. Production starts after that, not before.
04/ 06Stage 4 of 6
Where the work gets made — and where you start watching it instead of asking about it.
Made in-house by the same people who scoped it — no handover to a supplier you never met.
Stage, next due date and every file, updated as we go. You never have to ask where it is.
05/ 06Stage 5 of 6
You see the whole thing, say what you think once, and the rounds that follow were agreed before we started.
A complete version — files, formats and source, organised the way you will actually use them.
One structured pass in one place, not forty messages across three threads.
Rounds agreed up front, so the last ten percent is not a negotiation.
06/ 06Stage 6 of 6
Everything organised and handed over, with support that outlasts the handover.
Signed off, archived in your account, and yours.
During the project and after it, to whatever the contract says. The account stays open either way.
Delivery closes the project, not the relationship. The same account keeps earning.
Completed projects and published reviews earn points. They sit on your account, not on a promise.
Your own link. Credited when they join, and again when they start their first project.
Studio merch, or discount coupons that come off the next invoice.
The portal is the relationship, not a receipt — which is the whole reason it exists.
Sign in to Backstage with a link sent to your email — no password to lose.
It depends on the scope, and we will not pretend otherwise. The proposal carries dates for every stage, and once production starts the next due date is on your project's rail at all times — you never have to ask.
Yes. Every project has a rail in your account showing which of the six stages it is in, what lands next and when, and every file as it arrives. It is the difference between being told the work is going well and seeing it.
Then you say so, in one structured review rather than forty messages. Revision rounds are agreed in the proposal, so the last ten percent is a known quantity, not a negotiation.
The people who scoped it. Filming, design, build and distribution are in-house, so nothing is handed to a supplier you never met, and the strategy survives contact with production.
Send a brief — a paragraph is enough. You will get a reply from a person within one working day, with a point of view attached, and no pitch deck until we understand the problem.
Send a brief — even a rough one. You'll get a real reply from a human within one working day, with a point of view attached.
No pitch decks until we understand the problem.
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