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Screen financials, re-engineered

From target spend to investor-ready finance plan — one platform, always in sync.

Most independent filmmakers manage a film's finances across four or five disconnected documents. A budget in one tool. A finance plan in a spreadsheet. A cashflow somewhere else. Every update creates a new inconsistency somewhere.

loqyn connects every piece. Budget → Finance Plan → Cashflow → Drawdown → Recoupment → Waterfall — one source of truth, updated in real time. Built for independent filmmakers, not studio accountants.

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The problem

Your budget is finished. Your investors have questions your budget can't answer.

Independent filmmakers spend weeks building a budget — then discover the tools that helped them build it have nothing to say about the Finance Plan, the Cashflow, the Recoupment Forecast, or the Waterfall. The conversation investors actually need to have.

The result: a polished budget, four separate spreadsheets, and a 9 am investor call with documents that don't quite match each other.

  • Version chaos

    Budget_Final_v4_ACTUAL_USE_THIS.xlsx. Everyone has a copy. Nobody is certain theirs is current.

  • Disconnected documents

    Budget. Finance Plan. Cashflow. Recoupment. Four files, built separately, updated separately, never quite in sync.

  • The question you dread

    "Can you walk me through the Waterfall?" Every independent producer has faced it — or lies awake hoping not to.

The investor conversation

The question every producer dreads.

"How do I get my money back?"

It's not the most technical question an investor asks. But it's the one that exposes the gap between having a budget and having a financial plan.

  • Budgettells an investor what the film will cost.
  • Finance Plantells them where the money comes from.
  • Drawdowntells them when the funding's needed.
  • Cashflowtells them when it moves.
  • Recoupment Forecasttells them how revenue comes back, and when.
  • Waterfalltells them their exact place in the payout order.

Every one of those documents lives in loqyn. Connected, current, and ready to present — because the investor conversation rarely comes with a week's notice.

Start free. Build the complete financial case for your film.

How it works

Four steps to a fundable plan

1

Set your target spend

Enter your target budget, watch as line items instantly update.

2

Auto-Budget Pro generates a balanced budget. Fast.

Budget line items calibrated to industry-proven cost ratios — not guesswork. Review, tweak, and lock when your budget makes sense.

3

Build the finance stack in real time

The Finance Plan auto-populates from your budget. Layer equity, grants, and offsets. loqyn updates the private investor ask and recoupment logic — instantly.

4

Model scenarios. Walk into the room ready.

Stress-test sales projections to forecast revenue, payback, and investor returns. Every document connected. Every number current.

The complete finance stack

Every tool your production finance needs — connected

Budget
Auto-Budget Pro

Turn a target spend into a balanced, investor-ready budget fast. Calibrated to industry-proven cost ratios — not AI estimates.

Finance Plan
Screen Finance Planner

Layer equity, offsets, grants, and marketplace deals in real time. Reveals the private investment ask and exports investor-ready schedules.

Forecast
Recoupment & ROI

Stress-test revenue pathways against your budget and Finance Plan to forecast payback and investor returns.

Qualifying Spend
Offsets & Rebates

Estimate eligibility by analysing budgeted spend against offset rules. Inform structuring and location decisions before they're locked in.

Reporting
Cost Report

Production-grade variance reporting that reconciles Budget, Actuals, Commitments, ETC and EFC.

Cash
Cashflow & Drawdown

Time-phase inflows and outflows, align tranche schedules, track cumulative draws and remaining availability.

Waterfall
Recoupment Waterfall

Model contractual payouts from sales fees through debt, rebates, and equity. The document every investor asks for.

Local Impact
Location Value

Convert location-specific spend into a financial multiplier. Quantify local economic impact to support grant applications and offset claims.

Insights
Script Insights Suite

Studio-grade script coverage, story idea generation and production analysis that surfaces cost drivers early — before they become budget problems.

Workflow
Kanban Boards

Drag-and-drop task boards with labels, filters, and attachments. Link tasks to budget lines and finance milestones.

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The complete financial case for your film — in one place.

From target spend to investor-ready — automatically

Enter a number. loqyn generates a balanced, line-item budget calibrated to industry-proven cost ratios — then cascades it through your Finance Plan, Cashflow, Recoupment, and Waterfall in real time. One update flows everywhere. No re-keying. No version drift.

Built for the investor conversation — not around it

Every other tool stops at the budget. loqyn starts there and keeps going — through the Finance Plan, Recoupment Forecast, and Waterfall that investors actually ask for. When the question comes, you already have the answer.

Incentive-aware from the first line item

Qualifying Rebates and Location Value are built into the finance stack — not bolted on afterward. Model offset eligibility and local economic impact against your actual budget, before structuring decisions are locked in.

Trust

Built by producers, for producers

loqyn was built by producers who know what it costs to manage a film's finances without the right tools.

Not the cost in time — though that's real. The cost of sitting across from an investor at 9am knowing that the documents you sent three days ago might not reflect last week's changes. The cost of calling wrap and knowing, before you've even opened the spreadsheet, that there isn't enough money left to finish post. The cost of managing other people's money with tools that were never built to help you do it properly.

We built loqyn to change that. One platform. Every output connected. Every number current. So when an investor asks — and they will ask — you already have the answer.

Plans

Start free. Scale when you need more.

Screen Spark

Screen Spark price:Free Plan

1 project / month

Free plan for getting started with core development tools.

Best for singles & shorts Explore

Screen Ignite

Step up with more budget generations, coverage depth, and finance planning.

Best for smaller indie productions Explore

Most popular

Screen Ember

Professional tooling for budgeting, finance stack scenarios, reporting, and incentive planning.

Best for producers looking to finance Explore

Best Value

Screen Radiant

Production-grade suite including cost reporting, cashflow, drawdown and waterfall.

Best for funded features & series Explore

loqyn Teams

Standardize delivery with shared workspaces. Seat management ensures consistent project outputs. Align budgets, Finance Plans, and reporting team-wide to eliminate the friction of re-keying and version chaos.Explore

loqyn Education

Students develop real budgets and Finance Plans — and generate professional-grade outputs ready for immediate industry use.Explore

The leading desktop budgeting tool costs $42.99/seat/month — with no free tier and no trial. loqyn starts free.

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