Built by a working documentary filmmaker, for working filmmakers

One place to manage your entire video business

Docfolk. Your video business mission control center.

I'm a documentary filmmaker. I never knew what it took to pay myself a normal month, or what to do this week to get near the clients I actually wanted. So I built the system I was missing: one place for the outreach, the story work, the client films, your own films, and the money.

Private test phase. A handful of filmmakers, by invitation, free while it runs.

Nothing to install. Your workspace opens in the browser the moment your account exists.

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RB

Riverbank Trust

Impact doc · warmth 3

NM

Nordic Museum

Brand film · warmth 1

LK

Lena Kessler

Portrait · warmth 2

A peek at the Find Clients board. Every screen is yours to rename and restyle.

Sound familiar?

Never knowing how many jobs you need to book to pay yourself

No repeatable way to get near the clients you actually want

Leads going cold because follow-ups slip through the cracks

Paying €40+/month for a CRM that was built for sales teams

A note from the filmmaker who built it

I'll be straight with you: I'm a filmmaker, not a software developer. What pushed me into this wasn't admin. It was sitting there in October with no real idea whether December was going to be fine. I had the spreadsheets and the sticky notes and half a dozen apps, and still couldn't answer the two questions that actually mattered: how many jobs do I need to book, and what do I do this week to get near the clients I want.

So I went down a rabbit hole. Months of late nights, real client projects, and endless tweaking later, this is it: a CRM shaped around how filmmakers actually work, not how a software company thinks we should. Every feature is here because I needed it on a real shoot, a real pitch, or a real edit.

It isn't a faceless SaaS product. It's the system I run my own production company on, the one I open on Monday morning to see where the month stands. When it stops working for me, I fix it. That's the whole maintenance plan, and so far it has been enough.

Lars

Documentary filmmaker · Shift Videoproductions

3 steps

Running your CRM in five minutes

No developer, no download. An account is the whole setup.

01

Create your account

Name, email, password, and which plan you want to try. Your workspace opens on the next screen.

02

Say what you make

Client work, your own films, or both. The workspace hides the tools you don't need, and one click adds an example film to explore.

03

Make it yours

Customize your pipeline stages, connect your Google account, and start running your business.

From real buyers

What filmmakers are saying

“Every time I open the CRM I'm impressed with the depth of your work.”

Docfolk buyer

“This is absolutely genius. I love it! At first glance it's very complete, all the features are well thought through.”

  • “Having all your communications in one place? Amazing!”
  • “An overview of your channels and sales funnel so you know where you stand is super helpful.”
  • “The Story Atlas is amazing. Never thought I needed it until now.”

Docfolk buyer

“This is really well thought out. Emails filtered per project, that's worth the price of admission right there. Can I just say brilliant?”

“You're doing what would cost companies tens of thousands of dollars.”

Docfolk buyer

Made for you

Built for filmmakers who wear every hat

Whether you're a solo documentary filmmaker or running a small production company.

Documentary filmmakers

Manage multi-character stories, discovery calls, and a client portal in one place. Story tools built specifically for doc work.

Corporate video producers

Track leads, send proposals, manage multiple client projects, and bill accurately, without five different apps.

Wedding & event filmmakers

Pipeline from inquiry to delivery. Shot lists, a client portal, and financial tracking designed for volume work.

Small production companies

Internal and active project pipelines, team contact management, and analytics to actually grow the business.

Freelance videographers

Stop losing leads. Track every prospect, automate follow-ups, and look professional with branded proposals.

Filmmaker-entrepreneurs

For filmmakers building a real business: goals, milestones, financial stats, and outreach in one dashboard.

46 features

Everything you need to run your production business

From first pitch to final delivery, one tool that replaces the spreadsheets, sticky notes, and scattered emails.

Dream-client pool

Build a focused list of the exact people and companies you want to film for. Add them by hand, import a CSV, or let AI scout them from an event page.

Warmth & engagement

Log every touch (likes, comments, DMs, and connection requests, in both directions) in one tap, and watch each prospect's warmth climb from cold to hot so you always know who to reach out to next.

Outreach command center

One daily screen for every outreach action due now (sequence steps, sales-sprint moves, and 'they watched your pitch' follow-ups), sortable by prospect warmth so you work the hottest leads first.

Sales-sprint kanban

A time-boxed push to close a few deals: drag prospects across a board from picked to won, with a live revenue goal and a countdown.

Email sequences

Multi-step email drips where every send waits for your approval and a single reply halts the sequence. Automation that never goes rogue.

AI deep research

A one-click strategic brief on any company: content strategy, marketing spend, story openings, and where you fit. For your eyes only, and the basis for a client-facing Story Audit one click later.

Story audits

Turn that research into a client-facing Story Audit: scored gauges backed by verbatim evidence from their own material, with your film examples and case studies attached. Edit any wording before you share the link.

Self-serve Story Audit

The same audit as a lead magnet that runs itself: prospects hit a button on your website, answer five questions, and get a scored, branded report in about a minute, while landing in your pipeline with their answers, scores and website attached. Scored on KPIs you write yourself, so the framework is genuinely yours.

Video outreach

A guided builder for a branded video page: attach the Story Audit for them to review under your video, add your offer, proof, and custom sections, then send by LinkedIn DM, email, or printable QR postcard and see exactly who watched and what they clicked.

Outreach pages & forms

Spin up a one-prospect landing page (with a ready-to-send reach-out message for the channel you pick) or a public intake form, both live in minutes.

Booking page

A branded booking page where prospects and clients pick a time and answer your discovery questions, one question per page, synced to your Google Calendar.

Pricing

One monthly price. Nothing to install.

Make an account and you are in. 14 free days, no card, cancel any time, and your data exports in one click whenever you want it.

Typical filmmaker tools

Generic CRM€30–€80/mo
Project management€10–€25/mo
Proposal software€15–€40/mo
Time tracking€5–€15/mo
Total per year€720 – €1,920

...and none of them understand film production

Docfolk
Studio€29/month

The whole CRM, hosted for you.

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Studio + AI€34/month

Everything in Studio, with the AI ready to use.

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Test phase: by invitation only, free while it runs. These are the prices afterwards.

What each plan includes

No card for the trial. On Studio + AI you pay only for the AI you actually use, added to your invoice, under a limit you control. Cancel any time.

Everything that's included:

Dream-client pool with CSV import and AI prospect scouting
Warmth scoring with one-tap, two-way engagement logging
Outreach Today: one daily screen for every due action, sorted by warmth
Sales-sprint kanban with live revenue goals
Email sequences with an approval queue: nothing sends without your OK
AI deep research that becomes an editable, client-facing Story Audit
Video outreach: attach the audit, add your offer + proof, send by DM/email/postcard, track views
Outreach landing pages, public intake forms, and a branded booking page
Client portal with story atlas, content calendar, and downloads
Storyboard editor with split-screen transcript view
A story advisor you chat with (paper edit + storyboard) plus a writing assistant in your voice
Writing studio for treatments, essays & scripts with an AI research partner
YouTube studio: research, AI outline development, and script writing
Proposals with AI pre-fill, PDF export, and client accept / decline / request-changes
Case studies with their own public proof pages
Self-serve Story Audit lead magnet: prospects score their own storytelling and land in your pipeline
AI mood-board and shot-reference image generation
In-app recording, transcription, translation & .srt subtitle export (ElevenLabs + AssemblyAI)
Gmail integration + two-way Google Calendar sync
Apollo contact enrichment + publish to your own CMS (WordPress, Ghost, and more)
Sales, active, and retainer pipelines with weighted forecasting
Your own film slate: funding target-vs-raised, festivals, and distribution planning
Shoot days with printable call sheets and a production-day dashboard
EU funding radar: Horizon Europe, Creative Europe MEDIA & more, scored for film-fit
Partnerships workspace for ongoing content retainers
Time tracking, financial tracking, and analytics
Tasks, goals, milestones, and a content calendar
A research library and linked notes that feed the story work
One calendar for shoots, bookings, publishing and deadlines
Message history per contact, with templates and signatures
Briefs and crew roles per shoot day
Scan a quote from a photo and it lands as a costed line
Hosted for you: sign in from any device, updates arrive on their own
Teammates at €12 a month each, with per-feature access
Project guests free: clients and crew who see only what you share
Your own website and a public Story Audit page on your own address
Your data exports as one file, any time

Why filmmakers trust this CRM

Built by a filmmaker

Not a generic SaaS company. This was built by someone who runs a production company and needed something better.

You own your data

One click in Settings exports everything as a single file, any time. Leave whenever you like and take all of it with you. No data harvesting.

Five-minute setup

Make an account and you are in. Nothing to install, nothing to keep running, updates arrive on their own.

No premium tiers

Every feature is on every plan. The only choice is whether the AI runs on our key or yours, and you can cancel any month.

AI that sounds like you

The AI assistants learn your writing voice. Proposals, emails, and follow-ups that sound like you, not a robot.

Deploy anywhere

Run locally, or deploy to the cloud with free tools. Reach your CRM from any device, anywhere in the world.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Your next client shouldn't fall through the cracks.

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