Commercial production is a $65 billion industry that still runs on spreadsheets, scattered PDFs, and 1 a.m. copy-paste. Today, Lineo launches to end that: a production management platform that runs a job from first bid to final wrap in one place — budgets, calendars, bid letters, bid packages, purchase orders, payroll, and petty cash logs — with live actuals the whole team can see.
“The software market never fully accommodated the everyday needs and nuances of our industry,” said Eric McCasline, Executive Producer and Lineo Co-Founder. “So we built our own. Lineo is a true collaboration hub for every stage of a production — before and after you get to set.”
“Commercial production has never been squeezed harder — deliverables are up, and budgets are shrinking,” said Co-Founder Corwin Carroll. “The only way through is to work smarter. Pressure-tested by executive producers, line producers, and coordinators for over a year, Lineo decreases our bid times, allowing us to work 3X faster — and that’s time we put back into the work itself.”
Production teams run on a dozen tools that don’t talk to each other. Lineo collapses that into a single operating view:
Bid: real-time collaborative budgets in the AICP and APA formats production and post producers already live in, in the world’s top 20 currencies.
Plan: calendars and resources in one view — one source of truth, shared live with every team.
Package: import past budgets, update bid letters with AI, brand your calendars, and export the whole thing as a single PDF bid package without leaving the app.
Actualize: purchase orders, payroll, and petty cash scanned, parsed, and logged by AI — rolling into live actuals your accounting software understands.
“Having run production companies for many years, my critical requirement was real-time insight for owners, executives, and accounting — not a month from now, when you can’t do anything about it,” said Co-Founder Austin Bickford. “Lineo feels instantly familiar to anyone who’s lived in traditional budgeting software. Migrate in, and you’re up and running fast.”
Lineo’s built-in Production Assistant is an AI tool that gives you instant access to data from the job itself: “List unpaid POs over $5,000.” “How long do I have to file a Taft-Hartley report?” Upload bid specs, scripts, or treatments and query them instantly. Beyond the assistant, Lineo’s AI scans invoices, payroll documents, and receipts, and populates the PO, payroll, and petty cash logs automatically — the most error-prone hours of a wrap, gone.
Lineo ships with a macOS desktop app that works fully offline — on a plane, on location, or on the run — and syncs the moment you’re back online. Security is engineered in, not bolted on: end-to-end encryption, tenant isolation with row-level permissions, payments handled exclusively by Stripe, zero-data-retention AI document processing, and automated personal-data erasure.
Lineo launches with flexible subscription plans for individual producers and full production teams. Add-ons coming soon include ReelFlow for sharing reels and libraries with collaborators, and Accounting Sync for direct exports to Xero and QuickBooks.
