Studioscope is here!

There is a particular kind of admin task that always seems harmless at first. One message asking for a small extra edit. One file sent over WhatsApp because it was quicker. One client note buried in an email thread, somewhere between the brief, the meeting invite and the "just checking in". By the time a project is ready to ship, you are not quite sure which version is final, what was agreed, or where your margin quietly went.

I have spent enough time in creative production to know that this is rarely because anyone is disorganised or does not care. It is because the work is alive. It moves between a shoot, an edit, a review, a new idea, a late-night message and the small practical decisions that make the project happen.

And I have always thought it was a bit strange that we are expected to run that whole process across a collection of tools which were never really meant to understand the relationship between a studio and its client.

That is why I built Studioscope.

The work around the work

Studioscope is a home for the full creative production pipeline: projects, briefs, scopes, files, meetings, kit and client communication, all connected to the same job.

It is not another place to put files. The intention is simpler than that: when you open a project, you should be able to understand what you are making, what has been agreed, what needs a decision and what happens next, without having to play detective across email, storage links and chat threads.

Clients get a focused view of their project. They can review the work, leave feedback and sign off on delivered versions without needing to learn a new creative tool. On the studio side, the conversations, decisions and deliverables stay together, so the project does not become a game of reconstructing context from memory.

Make the creative work. Keep the business side from getting in its way.

Scope should not be a game of vibes

The thing I keep coming back to is scope creep. It has a dramatic name, but it usually arrives quietly: an extra format here, another revision there, a client who thought "social edits" meant something different to you. Most people are not trying to be difficult. The agreement simply did not have a clear place to live, and the creative is often the person who ends up absorbing the difference.

Studioscope gives that conversation a proper home from the beginning. Build a scope around the actual deliverables, share it with the client, keep the project brief beside it and make changes visible when the project changes. That does not make every production frictionless. No software has figured that one out, but it makes the important things harder to lose.

The other half matters just as much: your client gets a clear, calm view of the same scope before they put their name to it.

One project, one source of truth

The platform is built around the whole journey, rather than one isolated part of it:

• Bring in the brief, the scope and the people involved.
• Plan the work, meetings, deadlines and kit around the project.
• Share files and video versions where feedback belongs: alongside the work.
• Keep the client involved through a portal that only shows them what they need.
• Track approvals and deliver the final work with the context still intact.

For photographers, filmmakers and creative studios, this is the stuff that lets you be more present in the actual work. Less chasing. Less "which link is the right one?". A little more room to make good things.

Pricing that grows with the studio

Studioscope is available now with three straightforward plans.

Free is £0 forever and gives an independent creative a one-project studio, one client collaborator and 3 GB of storage, enough to get a real project in and see whether the workflow clicks.

Pro is £20 a month for studios that need unlimited projects and client collaborators, 50 GB of storage, a custom domain and their own branding. The people you work with should be able to focus on your studio, not the plumbing behind it.

Studio is £99 a month for busier teams with more demanding delivery needs: 500 GB of storage, 2 TB of monthly download bandwidth and 20,000 video-stream minutes, alongside unlimited projects and collaborators. We deliberately do not charge by the seat. Creative teams change shape from project to project, and paying a monthly toll for a freelancer who is with you for one week has never felt like a particularly sensible model.

The first 20 studios to join keep their joining price for as long as they stay. You can see the full breakdown on the pricing page.

This is just the beginning!

Studioscope will be an ever evolving product, that evolves with the creatives using it!

Studioscope has been built from the ground up around how creative work really moves: a little chaotic, deeply collaborative and often more human than the software around it allows for. I have plenty more I want to improve, and that is the point. The product will keep growing with the studios using it, polishing the things that save time, removing the things that create friction, and staying honest about what still needs work.

If you are running a creative studio, or regularly find yourself stitching a project together from too many tabs, I would love for you to give Studioscope a try. Start with your free studio, or get in touch if you would rather talk through whether it is right for your workflow.

Here is to spending a little less time managing the work, and a little more time making it.