Case study / Unscripted television operations
When the operation stopped depending on the chase.
A post-production team already had experienced people and familiar tools. What it lacked was one reliable operating layer for the work moving between them. This work grew from nearly 20 years inside unscripted television post-production.
The status existed. The operating picture did not.
Approvals were chased by hand. Assistant editors reconstructed priorities. Exports, staffing, timecards, budgets, and milestones lived across separate conversations and trackers. The operation worked because experienced people kept remembering what came next.
One visible system around the tools the team already used.
I translated the real operating practice into structured cut and script visibility, staffing alerts, export confirmation, timecard reminders, milestone-risk signals, and a central dashboard. The build did not ask the team to abandon the work it knew; it made the next move easier to see and own.
“I don’t chase approvals anymore—I just know what’s late.”
VP of Production
Specific to post. Transferable to any complex operation.
Find what still depends on memory. Make ownership and exceptions visible. Build around the systems people already trust. That is the practice I now bring to SAMEpage.