Pre-Production Powerhouse — AI Skill for Filmmakers

The job isn't won on the shoot day. It's won by a document.

Somewhere in the client's office, a person you have never met is deciding between you and two other filmmakers. They aren't watching your reel. They're reading a forwarded email with an attachment.

That attachment is the treatment, and most of us write it last, at midnight, in a hurry. Then we plan the shoot around optimism — six lit interview setups in one day, no contingency in the budget, and one outdoor scene with no plan B.

A day of pre-production, done properly, in about twenty minutes. Including the email the client forwards.

One skill. Four jobs.

Build the full pack

Treatment, interview questions engineered for usable soundbites, shot list with proper coverage ratios, storyboard beats, schedule, call sheet, gear list and a budget that sums to the dollar.

› Client brief: [two lines + budget]. Build the pre-pro pack.

Treatment only

Need to win the job by Friday? It writes the document on its own — structured to be forwarded to whoever actually signs off.

› Treatment only. I need to win this job by Friday.

Go multi-day

Scenes sequenced by risk so weather-dependent and one-chance shots never land on the last day, a call sheet per day, and the budget lines multi-day shoots always forget.

› It's a three-day shoot. Sequence it by risk.

Write the forwarding email

Three sentences in your voice that the client sends upward. Jobs are won at the forwarding stage and most of us leave that email to chance.

› Write the email my client forwards to their CMO.

The complete pack, including the budget.

Everything a producer would hand you, with the arithmetic checked:

The treatment, written to be forwarded
Schedule with setup math, and what gets cut if the day slides
Call sheet, shot list and gear list from your kit
A budget that sums to the dollar, contingency included

Why not just ask the chatbot?

Honest setup math

Lit interviews run one to two setups an hour. Anyone planning six is lying to the client, and a general chatbot will cheerfully write that schedule for you.

It flags its own risks

The demo schedule spans a 6:10am first roast to an 8:41pm golden hour, and says out loud which scene gets cut first if the day slides. Clients remember that at rebooking time.

The budget actually adds up

It sums to the dollar with contingency included, and carries the lines beginners forget — travel, per-day data offload, the second card reader.

Your first five minutes.

Install it, then type any of these. No prompt-writing, no setup screens.

1Client brief: [two lines + budget]. Build the pre-pro pack.
2Treatment only — I need to win this job by Friday.
3Call sheet for Thursday's shoot: [details].
4Write the interview questions. I need real soundbites.
5demo — watch a two-line brief become a full pack.

Plug and play

From download to done in three steps.

Buy & download

A skill folder and a one-page install guide. Claude and ChatGPT are both included.

ii.

Drop it in

About a minute, once. Then fill your profile — the same one every skill in the suite reads.

iii.

Just talk

Paste the brand's message. It runs the whole workflow and hands back a finished file.

What it won't do.

Every skill in the store ships with this section. If a tool won't tell you its limits, it's selling you something.

It plans the day; it can't scout the location or control the sky. Every outdoor anchor carries a named plan B and a decision deadline.
Budget benchmarks are directional estimates. Your own quotes from crew and rental houses beat any general figure, and it says so.
It writes the pre-production; it doesn't shoot, direct or grade. Those are still yours.

Questions.

How is this different from just asking Claude or ChatGPT?

A chatbot writes an optimistic schedule and a budget that doesn't quite add up. This applies real coverage ratios and setups-per-hour limits, states which scene gets cut first if you run late, sums the budget to the dollar with contingency, and writes the forwarding email that actually wins the job.

I'm a solo shooter, not a production company. Too much?

No — solo shooters benefit most, because you're the producer too. The pack scales to the job: a one-person corporate interview gets a proportionate schedule, not a feature-film call sheet.

What's the forwarding email for?

The person who approves your invoice usually isn't the person you've been emailing. Those three sentences are what your contact pastes above your treatment when they send it upward — and most filmmakers never write them.

Does it handle multi-day shoots?

Yes, as its own branch. Scenes get sequenced by risk, each day gets its own call sheet headed “Day 2 of 3,” turnaround between wrap and next call is stated out loud, and the multi-day budget lines get added.

Is it a subscription?

No. $19 once, yours to keep, updates included.

A day of pre-production in twenty minutes — including the doc that wins the job.