Your first 10 minutes with Beat.

How Beat fits together

A studio holds your people and your work. Projects contain tasks; you assign people to those tasks; they log hours each week; a producer or admin approves them; and approved hours flow out to your reports.

Studio → People → Projects → Tasks → Assignments → Weekly time → Approval → Export / API

Your first 10 minutes (as the owner)

1. Create a project — add a client too if you bill by client.
2. Add the tasks your crew works in (Animation, Lighting, Comp, FX, and so on).
3. Invite your crew. They get their own login and only see what their role should.
4. Assign people to the project's tasks.
5. Your crew logs hours by week against their assignments.
6. You — or a producer — review and approve the week.
7. Export to CSV, or pull via the actuals API, so the reports you already run keep working.

Who sees what

Roles run from owner and admin to producer, finance, supervisor, and artist. Beat is role-gated by design: finance-sensitive fields like cost and bill rates are redacted from people who shouldn't see them, on screen and in exports.

Your data is yours

Everything is tenant-scoped to your studio, exportable as CSV at any time, and deletable on request. Beat is a record of agreed, approved hours — not a surveillance tool. No keystroke logging, no idle tracking, no productivity scoring.

For your crew

Three lines you can forward to anyone you invite:

• Open your invite link and create your account.
• Log your hours by show, sequence, and task as you go.
• Submit your week — your producer reviews and approves it.