The operating system indie producers wish existed.
Solace centralizes the entire lifecycle of a film — development through delivery — into one workspace built by a working producer for working producers.
Indie production runs on a graveyard of spreadsheets.
Every active project leaks state. Budgets in one tool, schedules in another, cast lists in a Word doc, sales tracking in someone’s inbox. The handoff between development and production is held together by status meetings and Slack threads.
A producer running a slate of ten films spends most of their week translating between systems. Not making decisions. Not building relationships. Translating.
The AI tools that promise to help can’t — they have no context. They don’t know who’s attached, what stage a project is in, who the financier is, what the bid timeline looks like. They generate plausible answers from no information.
One workspace. Every stage. Real intelligence.
Solace is a single source of truth for a slate. Development, ATL attachments, production prep, post schedule, sales pipeline, finance — all the same project, all the same data model, all queryable.
Because the operational state lives in one place, the AI assistance built into Solace actually has something to work with. Drift alerts surface real risk. Briefings reflect what actually happened this week. The weekly producer report writes itself from the activity log.
And because it was built by a working producer, the model isn’t generic. The tracks, the statuses, the workflows are how indie production actually happens — not a sanitized SaaS abstraction.
Custom-built tools for every step
AI slate brain
Trained on your slate
Solace AI knows your slate the moment you open it. Ask anything about a project, a deal, or a contact — answers come from your actual business, not generic data.
Script breakdown
Stripboard in minutes
Upload a script. Solace extracts every element, builds your stripboard, and generates the DOOD. Days of prep done in minutes.
Pipelines
Six tracks, one slate
Bidding, development, production, post, sales, finance — every project in flight, sorted by where it actually is.
Casting workbook
TMDB-powered shortlists
Per-character shortlists with live TMDB headshots, credits, and union info. Track who's been contacted and who's still a dream.
Finance plans
Tranches and pies
Build financing structures with dynamic tranches, percentages, and recoupment terms. Export pitch-ready PDFs in seconds.
Calendar
Gantt + monthly
Every project's phases on a Gantt timeline, plus a monthly view of milestones, deliverables, and market deadlines.
Reminders
Recurring follow-ups
Set follow-up reminders that recur on the cadence you choose. Solace nudges you before things go cold.
Contacts
Unified rolodex
A single home for every relationship — agents, financiers, crew, talent — searchable across all your projects.
Solar map
Orbital slate view
See your slate as a constellation. Filter by track, drift, or budget to spot what needs attention right now.
Waterfall generator
Recoupment visualized
Generate recoupment waterfalls that show exactly how dollars flow from collection to net. Investor-ready.
World sales tracker
Every territory, every deal
Every territory, every MG, every agent commission tracked. Know what you've collected, what's outstanding, and when the next quarterly report is due.
Post production schedules
Picture lock to delivery
Click a button, get the full post schedule. Picture lock through delivery, every milestone in place. Spend the time on the work, not the planning.
Built by a producer running 60 active projects.
Adam Pray is an executive producer and the founder of Mbrella Films, a Bangkok-based production company servicing international studio and streamer work alongside its own development slate.
Solace started as an internal tool. Adam was losing two days a week to admin between productions — chasing handoffs, rebuilding context, translating between tools. The first version was a Notion database. The second was a spreadsheet. The current version is what he uses daily across his slate.
Every feature in Solace earned its place by solving a problem on a live production. Nothing is theoretical.
Talking to investors and select production partners.
Solace is in active development with a small set of working producers. If you’re investing in production-focused software or interested in piloting Solace on your slate, write to hello@solacent.com.