The production office that runs itself
Throughline is a production OS for film and television. It replaces the spreadsheet-and-group-chat stack a show usually assembles by hand — script breakdowns, schedules, budgets, approvals, deliveries, crew — with one system of record, plus assistants that work directly over it.
Made by Leeme.
One graph, not six tools
Every scene, character, location, asset, and department on a production is a node in a single production graph. A prop links to the scenes it appears in, the department that owns it, and the approval that cleared it — so a schedule change, a script revision, or a budget line is never an isolated edit. It is a change to the same graph everyone else is looking at.
That matters because film and TV production is coordination-heavy by nature: dozens of departments, hundreds of assets, and a schedule that can move underneath all of it on a phone call. Throughline's job is to keep the record straight while people do the work, not to be another place work has to be copied into.
What's in it
- Script and breakdown. Scenes, sluglines, revision colors, and the elements tagged to each one — cast, props, locations, and more — kept in sync with the graph.
- Departments. Every department gets its own view: its assets, its people, its open approvals, its deliveries in and out.
- Approvals. Structured decision chains — who signs off, in what order, and what happens when they do or don't.
- Budgets and POs. Department envelopes, purchase orders, and spend reporting against a live topsheet.
- Schedule. Shoot days, call times, and the scenes assigned to each one.
- An assistant. A department-aware assistant that can answer questions about the production, draft notes, and — with the right authority — take action inside the graph, always as an accountable person's delegate.
Who it's for
Throughline is built for the people actually running a production: UPMs, department heads, coordinators, and the crew who report to them. It is not a general-purpose project tool retrofitted for film — the objects on screen (scenes, call sheets, POs, approval chains) are the objects a production office already works in.
Where things stand
Throughline is in private pilot. Access is invite-based — see Quickstart — and the API described in these docs is served from a provisional host while the product moves toward its permanent home on leeme.co.
Continue to Concepts for the core objects, or straight to the API overview if you're integrating a tool against a production already on the pilot.