Crew up, lock in,
shoot.

Because it has the hard conversation for you. Asking a DoP you have worked with for ten years to sign something can feel like an accusation. Sending the same kind of agreement you send everyone does not. Fee, dates, milestones, usage and credit are set out in one neutral format that both sides read before the shoot, so nothing rests on memory and it is never your word against theirs. Most trouble on a shoot is not bad faith: a date slips, or a charge nobody mentioned turns up on the day. Writing it down surfaces those at signing, while there is still time to talk. It also does something for your name. Your Goodwill Score shows freelancers that you pay on time and deal fair, and good crew say yes faster to producers whose record shows it.

The platform carries a talent directory of freelancers across 320+ roles. Every profile shows the person’s work and credits, their city, a live availability calendar, and their Goodwill Score built from past engagements. You search with filters: the role you need, the city, and your dates. Say you need an editor in Bangalore from the 10th to the 15th of September: the directory shows you editors who are not already booked on those dates, not a list of names to start calling. From any profile you can shortlist the person, place a pencil hold on their dates, or send a booking request directly. No agents in the middle taking a cut, and a recommendation now arrives with a record. Real work, live availability, earned reputation, direct contact.

What holds have always done in production, minus the chaos of tracking them across calls and chats. When a job is still a maybe, you pencil a freelancer’s dates from their profile, and once they accept, the hold sits on their calendar. If another production pencilled those dates first, yours goes in as second pencil. Holds carry an expiry, so nothing stays blocked forever, and if the first pencil is released or declined, yours moves up automatically. Dates already booked cannot be pencilled, and if an agreement would overlap anything the freelancer already has, you are warned before it goes out. When your job confirms, you hire straight from the accepted hold: the agreement opens with the freelancer and the dates filled in, you add the terms, and it goes out for signature. Your crew list updates itself as each agreement is signed.

A flat monthly subscription based on production capacity, starting at ₹2,499 a month. Higher plans run more productions simultaneously, carry more agreement credits per production, and add deeper tooling like priority holds, budgets and calendar sync, and on Like a Boss, extra production slots and team seats can be added in a busy month without changing plans. What you never pay is commission. The Goodwill Network does not sit between you and your crew’s money: you hire directly and pay directly, and the platform takes nothing from anyone’s fee. The subscription is the whole price, and the price you see is the price you pay; we absorb the GST on our own fees. For the plan-by-plan breakdown, and what running a production costs when done piecemeal without the platform, see the producer plan comparison.

First, what it is: the Goodwill Score is a reputation number from 0 to 100, built from the ratings freelancers and producers give each other after every completed engagement. One review per signed deal, only from people you have actually worked with. It cannot be bought. Yours travels with every booking request you send, and one tap opens your profile, with testimonials from crew who have worked with you. Your record of paying on time, briefing clearly and dealing fair speaks before anyone has to ask around about you, and good crew weigh a producer’s reliability exactly as hard as you weigh theirs. A strong score gets your requests accepted faster, by better people. Nobody is above the score, on either side. That is exactly why yours is worth something.

Yes. On Like a Boss, team members such as a line producer or production manager get their own login. You choose what each can do, production by production: place holds, draft agreements, manage tasks and crew, and whether they can see or edit fees and budgets. They can never sign, complete a production or rate anyone. When an agreement is ready, they ask you, and you sign from your own login. Everything they do is logged under their name, so you can check in once a day and see exactly where things stand.