Run a multi-stakeholder post pipeline without the email forwarding chain
Built for studios where every cut has to clear a post supervisor, then a producer, then the agency, then the end-brand legal review. One pipeline. One audit trail. One source of truth.
Who this is built for
Team
5–25 staff: editors, producers, post supervisors, motion designers
Revenue
$30k–500k / project — branded content, doc, spot, longform
Output
10–80 deliverables, often with multi-stakeholder sign-off
Working with
Brand teams (legal/marketing review), agencies-of-record, broadcasters
The numbers we hear most
From real onboarding interviews. Your mileage will vary — these are typical, not guaranteed.
approval stages chained (post sup → producer → client → end-brand)
scope-creep revisions caught and billed
stakeholders who never have to log into the editor's tool
Sound familiar?
Producer forwards a Vimeo link to the agency, who forwards to the brand, who replies-all with 7 conflicting notes — and the editor has to guess which to act on
Round 6 of revisions and no one can tell which notes were in the original SOW vs new asks the brand snuck in
End-brand legal needs to sign off on the final but they're not in the agency contract — so you're sharing a Dropbox link with someone who's never logged in
Editor utilization is a guess; you can't tell if Maya is at 110% or 60% until she misses a delivery
A long-form doc went through 14 versions across 3 editors and the version history is in someone's local Premiere project
Before / after, in your typical week
Three concrete moments where Timeliner replaces a hack you’ve normalized.
Before
Producer forwards a Vimeo link to the agency contact, who forwards to the brand, who replies-all with 7 conflicting notes
With Timeliner
Multi-stage approval pipeline: post sup signs off → producer signs off → client portal opens with consolidated comments
Before
Round 6 of revisions, no one knows what was in scope vs new ask
With Timeliner
Every revision is logged with a counter — gate billing and scope conversations against the data, not memory
Before
End-brand legal needs final review but they're not in the agency contract
With Timeliner
End-client tier: a sub-portal under the agency client that only sees the final approved deliverable
How Timeliner helps
Multi-stage approval pipeline
Post sup → producer → client → end-brand. Each stage gates the next. Comments are consolidated, not forwarded. The audit trail is the source of truth.
End-client tier (white-labeled sub-portal)
Your agency client gets a portal. Their end-brand gets a sub-portal under them that only sees the final approved deliverable — without seeing your editors or the agency's internal back-and-forth.
Revision counter on every cut
Every round logged. Bring it to the scope conversation: 'we agreed to 3 rounds, this is round 7, here's the change log.' Stop eating revisions silently.
Role-based access — 5 levels
Editors, supervisors, producers, clients, end-clients. Each role sees exactly what they need. Editors don't see client billing. Clients don't see your editor names.
Per-project profitability
Pricing template per project type. Track hours or deliverables per editor. Margin per project shows up on the project itself, not in a spreadsheet your CFO maintains.
Recommended plan
Elite$129/moElite at $129/mo flat for 5 seats includes the multi-stage approval gate, role-based access for editors / supervisors / producers / clients / end-clients, and revision analytics that hold up in scope discussions.
See full pricing breakdown“We were losing 2 days per project to the email-forwarding approval chain and another half-day per month reconciling who delivered what. Timeliner's gating pipeline and per-editor analytics paid for themselves the first month.”
— Head of Post, branded-content studio
Try it on a real project this week
14-day free trial. No card. Import a project, invite your editors, share with one client — see whether it replaces your stack.