Financial management for your production portfolio
Complete visibility over production spend. Budgets, cost per minute, committed and actual spend, milestone payments, invoices and portfolio reporting.
A platform running dozens of series receives invoices from many suppliers, on different schedules, against work at different stages of completion. Reconciling that to a portfolio view is a job in itself.
AXIS tracks approved cost, committed spend and actual spend across every active production, and reports it as one picture.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR… VERTICAL DRAMA PLATFORMS · STREAMING PLATFORMS · IP HOLDERS AND STUDIOS
BUDGET CONTROL
Where does production budget actually go?
Overruns are rarely a single decision. They accumulate through additional revision rounds, extended schedules and scope that expanded without a corresponding budget approval.
Discovered late, an overrun is already spent. Discovered against a milestone, it is still a decision the platform can make.
Cost per minute quoted at commission is not cost per minute at delivery. The difference between the two is the number that matters, and most platforms cannot see it across a portfolio.
HOW WE WORK
Budget released against accepted work
Supplier agreements use milestone payments and acceptance gates. Budget is released when work is accepted, not when time has passed — which protects unspent budget if a production materially fails.
We track approved cost, committed spend, actual spend and forecast per series, and reconcile supplier invoices against delivered milestones before they reach your finance team.
Portfolio reporting shows spend, delivered minutes, productions above and below budget, and projected overruns while there is still time to act on them.
Where an engagement is cost-plus or pass-through, supplier costs are disclosed. The commercial structure of each engagement is defined before it begins.
Can we still approve everything ourselves?
Yes. You retain commissioning decisions, creative direction and final approval on every episode. AXIS enforces your standards and brings you the decisions that genuinely need you — not the daily traffic.
Can AXIS manage the producers we already work with?
Yes. You do not have to replace them. We bring your existing production partners into our management structure and operate them alongside our network under the same standards, schedules and reporting. We do not change who produces your series. We remove the burden of managing them.
Why shouldn’t we manage AI production internally?
You can. Your team then owns producer sourcing, negotiation, contracting, onboarding, briefing, scheduling, QC, feedback, revisions, disputes, replacement, invoices and delivery. For a platform with stable volume and mature AI-production expertise, that can be the right answer. If you would rather commission content without operating the supplier network underneath it, that is what AXIS is for.
How is AXIS paid?
Engagements are structured as a fixed management fee per series, a management percentage of production spend, or an agreed all-in production rate — depending on scope and volume. Each engagement is explicitly defined as pass-through, cost-plus or all-in before it starts. Request a quote and we will structure it against your slate.
WHY AXIS