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Brand guidelines your client can highlight and comment on inline. Intake forms turn each new order into a task: brief, raws and all.
Comments on brand guidelines
Highlight, reply and resolve inline.
Intake forms
Clients pick edits, drop raws, submit.
Orders become tasks
Each submission spins up its own task.
One source of truth
Brief, raws and comments, all in the task.
See who's working on what, what's due when, and where the pipeline is jammed. All in one view.
Kanban, list & calendar views
Switch views. Filters and selections stay put.
Multi-stage approval gates
Editor → supervisor → client. Every move logged.
Auto-handoff between stages
Status flips, the right person gets pinged. Instantly.
Workload across editors
See who's drowning before the deadline does.
Global view across clients
One screen. Every project. Filter by brand.
April Filmday
Max Cohen
Cut 6 short-form clips (under 60s, 9:16) from the July podcast raws. Lead with the strongest hook in the first 2 seconds, add punchy captions, keep B-roll tight. Match brand color grade; end each clip on a clear CTA. Read more...
VSL 16:9
Podcast cold open
Reel · intro hook
Funnel Hack 4|5
Ad 5 hook B
How to scale
B-roll montage
Funnel Hack 9:16
Every editor's day, measured in hours. Time estimates spread across working days, the backlog drags straight onto a date, and Timeliner tells you the moment a deadline overbooks someone.
A daily capacity per editor
Set it once. Every plan respects it.
Estimates spread across working days
A 12-hour edit isn't one block - it's Wed, Thu and Fri.
Drag from the backlog onto a day
Pick the person and the date in one gesture.
Warned before you promise
"Tom is over capacity Tuesday - 11h booked vs 8h."
Time off and shoot days count
Vacation removes capacity. Nobody gets booked through it.
TO SCHEDULE
Drag a task onto a member's day to book it
Ep.14 - Grade
Kolbo AI
3hReel 22 - Cut
Oslov Studio
2hTrailer v3
Short Form
5h3 unscheduled · 1 overdue
Ep.14 - Grade
Kolbo AI
3hTom K. is over capacity on Tue
11h booked vs 8h capacity
No-code rules that do the work you keep doing by hand: move the stage, assign the right person, set deadlines backwards from the publish date, apply the price. Off by default, logged always.
When this, then that - in plain language
Status, stage, upload, or a publish date being set.
Assign by role, not by name
"Assign the Colorist" survives every staffing change.
Deadlines counted backwards from publish
Move the post; the whole chain moves with it.
Pricing and estimates apply themselves
Task type becomes Reel → the Reel price, pay and hours land.
Off by default, logged forever
Every run shows what ran, what was skipped, and why.
RULES
Approved → next stage
Status · Approved
Assign the Colorist
Stage · Grading
Brief due 21d before publish
Publish date set
Nudge after 3 days idle
Status · In revision
WHEN
THEN
Timecoded comments, drawing and voice notes on any cut. Compare v3 vs v2 side-by-side. Clients tap a link, approve. Internal threads stay hidden.
Frame-accurate timecoded comments
Pin the exact frame. Editor sees it in the player.
Range, draw and voice notes
Say it the fastest way. No client app to install.
Version comparison side-by-side
Overlay v2 comments on v3. See what changed.
Internal threads stay internal
Clients never see what you typed to your editor.

Voice memo: lower the music here, the dialogue gets buried.
Reduce BG music across this whole section, please.
Make 'did it' purple - would pop on the brand color.
Every client gets a branded portal - review, chat, brief and live status in one place. They always know where things stand, and approve in a tap. No login, nothing to install.
Zero friction - no login
One magic link. No password, no install.
A branded app, not an email thread
Your colors. Review, chat & brief in a tap.
Always-on project status
In review, approved, scheduled - at a glance.
Lands right in their chat
WhatsApp, Slack or email - instant delivery.
Locked downloads & access
Download only after approval. Revoke anytime.
Acme Brand
Brand_v3 is ready
Slack-style channels per brand and project - team and client chat in one place, tied to the task and cut. One home, not four scattered apps.
A channel for every brand & project
Global, per-brand and per-project channels. Conversations live where the work does.
Internal and client chat, separated
Team-only threads your clients never see, right beside client-facing ones.
Replaces Slack, WhatsApp, email & Discord
Stop scattering feedback across apps - it's all tied to the footage.
Keep your tools if you want
We won't force a switch - pipe updates into your existing Slack or WhatsApp too.
Drag an approved cut onto the calendar. Pick channels. Pick time. Posted.
Drag approved cuts to schedule
Approval → scheduled in one drag.
Multi-channel publishing
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn in one click.
Caption + thumbnail approvals
Same approval flow you use for cuts.
AI captions and hooks
Drafts captions, picks the still, suggests hooks.
Securely connect your & your clients' channels
OAuth into each platform once. Timeliner schedules and posts on their behalf, no password sharing.
Hero film v3Revenue, margin, what clients owe you, what you owe editors. No spreadsheets.
Payment tracking
Outstanding vs paid, per client, with overdue flags.
Editor KPIs
On-time rate, revisions, time-to-first-cut.
Bottleneck alerts
See which stage is killing your pipeline.
Profitability per project
Revenue minus editor cost. The real margin.
A game-changer for video production management. My favorite part is the KPIs and editor tracking - it's great to see performance at a high level when managing the team. The small touches matter too: when a brand looks at their own portfolio they see all their social links and creative briefs held inside the platform. Parent task organization is hugely beneficial for our workflow. Timeliner helped us organize better, set KPIs, and track editor performance - we're meeting deadlines now, and the Slack integration improved our client communication.
The variants feature lets us produce 4 short-form cuts plus a main video and thumbnail from one raw shoot inside a single parent task, instead of fragmenting across Frame.io and ClickUp. And WhatsApp approvals means collaborators don't have to log in. For our brand content workflow, that alone cut approval cycle time meaningfully.
Replaced ClickUp, Frame, and Google Sheets. We used to lose track of which client owed what, which editor was free, and where the latest version lived. Now my 8 editors and I run everything from one dashboard. Last month we onboarded 3 new clients without hiring.
Timeliner consolidates all my workflow processes - internal and external - into one place. I was previously using frame.io, ClickUp, and Google Drive. Now everything is seamless: reviewing videos, gathering client feedback, communicating revisions to my editors, all without juggling apps.
Cut our revision rounds in half. Clients used to send feedback over WhatsApp voice notes. Now they click on the exact frame and type. We went from 5 revision rounds to 2 on average.
Approvals are sent through WhatsApp and it's so easy to handle. Clients get their videos at the right time without needing any interaction from me. I'm just left with approving the video.
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