Storytelling technology.

Visualise, coordinate and de-risk film & TV production.

Production faces challenges, and also opportunities

  • falling margins

  • cost inflation

  • value shift to distribution

  • focused profitability

  • managed budgets

  • market leverage

  • disconnected tools

  • fragmented data

  • manual tasks

  • integrated systems

  • knowledge graph

  • automated workflow

  • manual planning

  • siloed comms

  • reactive execution

  • automated scenarios

  • clear collaboration

  • realtime delivery

Your project is incapable until it’s commissioned and invisible until it’s produced.

Consequences are only apparent after it’s too late to avoid them.

The secret to a great show is the ability to iterate.

But planning is unfunded, and production is limited by costs, fragmented data, and manual systems.


Getting to one vision must be as simple as possible.

And not data entry, re-entry, manual management of contracts, schedules, tables, accounts, spreadsheets, notes, lists, reports, or bespoke pipelines.


Karmanline is solving this.

See your creative, human, practical and compliance choices before you’re committed to them.

Production also has inherent constraints, dynamics and complexities that technology cannot remove:

creative

  • iterations & fixes

  • studio notes

  • testing feedback

  • reshoots

people

  • availability

  • terms

  • skills & experience

  • productivity

  • language

physics

  • travel

  • weather

  • locations

  • sets & props

  • equipment

paperwork

  • permits

  • regulations

  • guild rules

  • tax rules & rebates

  • currencies

but it can make solving them easier, faster, and more coherent, saving money and reducing headaches.

What if you could:

  • see your work as you write it

  • communicate visual ideas as you develop them

  • run production scenarios straight from creative ideas

  • visualise your schedule and budget in real time

… all in one platform?

From any script to every screen, we are building decades of experience into one product to help produce your imagination.

Get to the same vision faster by visualising:

  • script-to-media

  • pre-editing

  • schedules

  • budget and cash

  • compliance requirements

at every stage of production from idea to greenlight, prep and delivery.

Why now?

The production ecosystem is unbundling.

Global platforms are expanding while production technology is evolving. Producing shows to a budget is now less about linear scale and more about parallel agility.

All aspects of production are under pressure, with fragmented audiences found through fewer gatekeepers on more screens.

Storytellers with the right tools, techniques, and teams will thrive.

We connect creative decisions to their production consequences on one compliant platform.

Seeing choices maximises chances of success.

Better productions get more benefit, accelerating value and distinctiveness through coherent flexibility.

Our Team

Tim Carter

Co-founder

Tim’s 25 year career in business, tech and law includes 10 years as an IP lawyer, and 8 years at Google leading Android outside the US.

A serial strategic leader, most recently he led responsible AI at Flawless.

Paul Barnes

Co-founder

Paul builds products that create trust and confidence.

He has built large and nimble products for startups to government departments and everyone in between, focusing on delivery to users.

Chloe Chesterton

Co-founder

Chloe specialises in building relationships with early adopters of disruptive media technology, winning business and trust.

She has also spent 20 years as an Assistant Director on high profile feature films.

Simon Mirren

Co-founder

Simon is a seasoned showrunner (Criminal Minds, Versailles) and entrepreneur.

Pioneering AI for premium content at local costs in India, South Africa  & Middle Eastern markets.

Hannah Wylie

Advisor - Legal & Business Affairs

Hannah is a leading legal & business affairs specialist for Film & TV.

She has unrivalled experience across the industry including tech (Amazon Studios), legacy studios (Universal Pictures) and indie producers (Bad Wolf). She enables business to operate effectively at scale.

We’ve been there, done that, and delivered globally

Our expertise helps you navigate complexity in this new era of automation, supporting creative endeavour.

If you are working on productions today, at any stage of development, we can help you shape the future of professional storytelling.

How we help

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