Break the script down once.
KIN reads your Final Draft file and lays out every scene. You tag it once — cast, props, wardrobe, vehicles, stunts — and those tags build the shot list, the schedule, and the call sheet. Renumber a scene and it renumbers in all three. Everyone on the production signs in to the same project and sees the part that is theirs.
INT. LOADING DOCK — NIGHT
Rain sheets past the roll-up door. MARISOL steps over a coil of cable, a battered thermos in one hand.
MARISOL
(not looking up)
Tell them we shoot it wet or we don't shoot it.
She sets the thermos on a stack of apple boxes. Behind her, a forklift idles.
Replaces the parts of StudioBinder, Celtx, Yamdu, Milanote, and Filmustage a crew actually opens. Built on productions, not in a workshop.
The problem
Every tool in this category is a filing cabinet.
Six tools already occupy this space and all six organise around document type. Everyone on the production opens the same drawers and finds the three documents that concern them.
So the sorting work falls to a human. On a real production that human is a 2nd AD at 11pm, copying a scene number from a schedule into a call sheet template, and getting it right most of the time.
The alternative is not a better filing cabinet. It is organising around the person instead of the document — and that is an architecture, not a permissions setting bolted on afterwards.
Six roles
Same project. Six different front doors.
Approvals, the latest revision, and what changed in it.
Director
4 cards
- Approvals waiting
- Latest revision and its change report
- Recent board activity
- Today or the next shoot day
Does not see
Budget line items · Payroll · Vendor invoices
The spine
Renumber a scene. Watch it land everywhere.
Script
14
Scene
14
Element
14
Shot
14
Strip
14
Call sheet
14
Scene 14 became 14A. Nothing downstream stored a copy of that number, so nothing downstream had to be told.
On set
The day does not wait for a signal.
It works offline
Today’s call sheet, sides, schedule, and contacts cache to the device and stay readable with the network fully down. It always says when it last synced.
Scripts are watermarked
Every script page and every exported PDF is stamped on the server with the reader’s name, email, and a UTC timestamp. Not in the browser, where it could be stripped.
Print-accurate PDFs
Call sheets and sides render server-side at Letter and A4. What is on screen is what prints, because it is the same document.
Built by crew
We needed this and could not find it.
KIN is built by the filmmakers at Gen.Y Studios in San Antonio, out of the local production community. Everything here started as a problem on one of our own shoot days.
One spine. Every department sees its own set.
In prep now with a small number of productions. Tell us what you shoot and we will get you in.
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