The film and video production industry handles massive, complex budgets, yet the standard workflow was stuck in the past — anchored by clunky, 20-year-old software or fragile, self-built Excel spreadsheets.
For modern producers, this outdated approach was a massive liability, leading to calculation errors, overlooked line items, and lost profit margins.
The industry desperately needed a reliable, modern tool, but the market lacked a dedicated, cloud-native solution.
Our Tech Team didn't just design an interface; we built the entire platform entirely from scratch.
We engineered Cinema Calc as a powerful, web-based SaaS solution tailored specifically to the unique financial logic of film production budgets.
Our team focused on eliminating "Excel anxiety" by building a robust backend architecture that handles complex line-item calculations, integrates dynamic, pre-filled production templates, and seamlessly generates flawless, client-ready PDF quotes with a single click.
We used .NET and C# to build Cinema Calc's calculation engine from the ground up, with the decimal precision that financial software demands.
We built the interface in React to keep every update, recalculation, and template switch instant.
PDF generation, quote exports, and similar resource-heavy operations run as isolated microservices, fully decoupled from the core application.
Cinema Calc runs on AWS EC2 instances in Frankfurt with a guaranteed 99% uptime SLA.
All customer data stays within EU jurisdiction, making the whole system GDPR compliant.
Through pgvector we gave Cinema Calc the ability to surface relevant cost references at the point of entry, with all vector embeddings stored natively in PostgreSQL.