What it asks of you
Nothing daily. Setting up your show once, and then it runs on what people actually do.
For a post supervisor
Stop being the place answers live
You are the human router. Everybody interrupts you to ask where something is, and the real answer is in your head and in a spreadsheet only you fully understand.
The board answers instead of you
Stage, whose spin it is, what is due next, and what is blocked — visible to everyone without anybody asking you.
You see what is actually moving
A card in progress is a card somebody has genuinely opened, not one that got marked started in a status meeting.
What you know stops being a single point of failure
The schedule, the handoff chain and the delivery list are written down as settings, not carried by one person.
The question that stops
“"Where are we on 1062?" — asked at you, all day, by everyone.”
Everyone else
It has to be worth something to every link, or it gets abandoned
A board only stays true if the people upstream and downstream of you are also getting something out of it. Here is what it does for them.
- Post CoordinatorThe status chase ends
- Post ProducerSee the whole season without a status meeting
- EditorBe told what is yours, then left alone
- Assistant EditorStop being asked for the same file twice
- Online EditorKnow the cut is locked before you conform
- Audio / SweeteningGet the handoff with the version on it
- Captioning / LocalizationOne place that says what is ready and what is cleared
- Standards & PracticesYour note is attached to the episode, not an inbox
- Showrunner / EPOne screen, no status meeting
- Line Producer / UPMSee post from the production side
- Network / DeliveryKnow what shipped, where, and whether it passed
- IT / EngineeringNothing new is exposed to the internet
See it on a real board
The demo is the actual software on a made-up show. Open it and look at the part that is yours.
Walkthroughs are with Kevin Kelsey — 15 years an assistant editor, Children's & Family Emmy-nominated, and the person who built this. More about him.