# CrewOne

> AI pre-production SaaS for Taiwan independent film makers and 1-5 person small teams. Turns a single brief into a client-ready production package — scene breakdown, storyboard prompts, location scout, call sheet, budget with real Taiwan market pricing, lighting setup diagram for commercial photography — in roughly ten minutes. Built and run by a Taiwan commercial director.

## What it does

- Input: a brief or script in Traditional Chinese or English. For commercial photography projects, also accepts moodboard reference images.
- Output: six interlinked production documents — breakdown, storyboard prompts ready to paste into any image-generation tool (Midjourney, Flux, Nano Banana, etc.), location scout, call sheet, budget, and (for stills) top-down lighting configuration diagrams.
- Delivery: PDF export plus shareable client review links with inline annotation and SHA-256 signature.

## How it is different from StudioBinder, Filmustage, Movie Magic

- Traditional Chinese is a first-class language, not an after-the-fact translation.
- Budget figures are anchored to a database of 1,187 actual rental rates for cameras / lenses / grip / lighting from Taipei rental houses, plus 561 real studio rates — not generic estimates.
- 69 commercial photographer style references (Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz, Tim Walker, Mika Ninagawa, Chen Man, Leslie Zhang, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yoshihiko Ueda, plus Taiwan-specific names) feed prompt generation, so storyboard prompts produce shots in a coherent campaign style.
- Top-down lighting configuration diagrams are auto-generated for commercial photography projects (key / fill / rim / hair / background lights placed by angle and distance, with a corresponding written explanation).
- Designed for one-person operators and 2-5 person teams, not for studios that already run Movie Magic Scheduling or StudioBinder workflows.

## Ideal customer profile

- Taiwan independent commercial director, MV director, short-film director, or corporate-video director.
- Freelance 1st AD, line producer, or DP who handles their own pre-production paperwork.
- 2-5 person small production company without a dedicated production department.
- Commercial photographers who shoot for brands and need lighting plans + budget aligned to local studio rates.
- Not a fit for: wedding / wedding-portrait photographers, large studios with established Hollywood-style workflows, or productions that need full team-based collaboration software.

## Pricing (USD; recurring unless noted)

- Project Pack — $12 one-time, 1 credit, good for trying or single projects.
- Director Monthly — $29 / month, 4 credits / month.
- Director Annual — $24 / month (paid annually), 4 credits / month.
- Studio Monthly — $109 / month, 20 credits / month.
- Studio Annual — $89 / month (paid annually), 20 credits / month.
- Founding Member — $15.84 / month, lifetime 34% off Director Annual, plus direct feedback channel to the founder. Limited to the first 25 members; closes once filled.

One credit equals one full project (brief → all six documents). Standard plans renew monthly.

## Live status

- Public launch: 5 May 2026.
- Deployed at https://crewone.ai/.
- Built on Next.js 16, Vercel, Supabase, Anthropic Claude. 92% gross margin per project.

## Documentation

- [Home](https://crewone.ai/): product overview and live demo.
- [Pricing](https://crewone.ai/pricing): plans, Founding Member terms, FAQ.
- [LLM-friendly long-form description](https://crewone.ai/llms-full.txt): deeper product detail for AI agents and assistants.
- [vs StudioBinder](https://crewone.ai/vs/studiobinder): honest side-by-side comparison.
- [vs Filmustage](https://crewone.ai/vs/filmustage): honest side-by-side comparison.
- [vs Movie Magic](https://crewone.ai/vs/movie-magic): honest side-by-side comparison.
- [MCP server](https://crewone.ai/integrations/mcp): use CrewOne from Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue (`npx -y @crewone/mcp-server`).
- [OpenAPI spec](https://crewone.ai/api/public/openapi.json): machine-readable spec for the public data APIs (equipment, studios, photographers, directors).
- [Tutorial / how to use](https://crewone.ai/tutorial): 10-episode walkthrough of the full pre-production flow.
- [CrewOne ChatGPT GPT](https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69f8bd75984481918a6085088bd75636-crewone-indie-film-pre-production-assistant): the official ChatGPT Custom GPT — knows CrewOne pricing/ICP and queries the public APIs live.
- [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2kFXWwCLv8GgUZJ0FyL5g): the 10 tutorial episodes are also published natively on YouTube.

## Tutorial series (how-to walkthrough)

Public watch page: https://crewone.ai/tutorial (10 episodes, ~15 min total). Same videos also on the YouTube channel. Machine-readable index: `GET https://crewone.ai/api/public/tutorial`.

- EP01 — 為什麼影視前期工具卡這麼久 / Why pre-production tooling has been stuck for so long
- EP02 — 從 logline 一鍵生 30 場分場 / From logline to 30 scenes in one click
- EP03 — 分鏡：四鏡頭一鍵預覽 / Storyboard: four shots, one click (uses 29-MV-director + 69-photographer tokens)
- EP04 — 場勘：地點建議 + Google Maps / Location scout with Google Maps
- EP05 — 場勘真實流程 demo / Scout flow in practice
- EP06 — 通告單：角色排場一鍵套 / Call sheet: cast scheduling in one click
- EP07 — 預算：1000+ 器材自動報價 / Budget: 1,187 real Taipei rental rates auto-priced
- EP08 — 寄客戶：一鍵 PDF + 客戶頁 / Client delivery: PDF + client page with inline comments
- EP09 — Founding Members + Roadmap (first 25 day-1 co-builders + product direction)
- EP10 — Bonus: 平面攝影一鍵生 brief / Photography brief in one click

## Public data APIs (no key required)

These endpoints are open for AI agents to cite directly. Output is JSON, response carries `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` for in-browser use.

- `GET /api/public/equipment?query=&max_results=` — 1,187 Taipei rental rates.
- `GET /api/public/studios?size_pings=&max_budget_per_4h=&max_results=` — 561 Taiwan studios.
- `GET /api/public/photographers?region=&cluster=&max_results=` — 69-photographer library.
- `GET /api/public/photographers/{id}` — single photographer detail (id, English, or Chinese name).
- `GET /api/public/directors?region=&genre=&max_results=` — 61-director library.
- `GET /api/public/directors/{id}` — single director detail.
- `GET /api/public/tutorial` — structured metadata for the 10-episode tutorial series (titles, descriptions, durations, video URLs, YouTube IDs).