ART DEPT
Production Blueprint · v1 · confidential

Tools for the
Art Department
that work on-set.

A 3-part ecosystem — one search bar for the crew, one board for the coordinator, one PDF pipeline that signs itself. Built for gloved hands, spotty 4G, and 14-hour days.

Crew App
Omni-Bar PWA · offline
Admin
Kanban · List · Schedule
Finger-Sign
Zero-touch PDF pipeline
← / → to advance · scroll-snap
02 · Problem

Art Departments run on paper,
WhatsApp, and willpower.

Tickets get lost between a PA's phone, the coordinator's laptop, and the PM's signature pen. Budgets go red silently. Contractor deal memos wait for a wet signature that never comes.

Pain point
Lost receipts
Photos sit in 4 different camera rolls.
Pain point
Budget surprises
PM learns about overages in daily sync.
Pain point
Signature delays
Scenic painters wait a week to get paid.
Pain point
Handoff chaos
Coordinator quits → no one can run the board.
Insight
"A tool is good if the swing gang will pull it out at 2am without being asked twice."
— Art Department Coordinator, feature film (2025)
Forms required per shoot~340
Avg. minutes per PO today18
Avg. minutes per PO with Blueprint2
03 · Architecture

Three pieces, one
shared source of truth.

Phase 1
Crew App

Search-First PWA. One Omni-Bar. Upload a receipt, the form finds itself. Offline-first localStorage + Union ID / PIN.

PWA · /app
Phase 2
Admin Dashboard

ClickUp-inspired Kanban, List, and Schedule. Coordinator edits, PM approves with budget-aware traffic-light.

Desktop · /admin
Phase 3
Universal Website

This deck. A horizontal scroll-snap pitch that also hosts a live sandbox iframe of the crew app itself.

Portal · /
Shared data
Tickets · Budgets · Signatures · PDF Pipeline
JSON · localStorage v1
Crew files a ticket → Coordinator reviews & routes → PM approves → PDF auto-generates with digital signature → Routed to contractor for Finger-Sign → Closed and archived. Budget traffic-light updates in real time at every stage.
04 · Phase 1 · Crew App

One bar.
All the forms.

The landing page is a single Omni-Bar. Type the intent, drop a receipt, or pick from the ghosted Discovery Cloud at the bottom. Keyword matching auto-selects the correct form.

  • SEARCH-FIRSTIntent string → matched form in one tap.
  • RECEIPT UPLOADFilename seeds the intent match.
  • DISCOVERY CLOUDGhosted at 25% opacity, pops on hover.
  • OFFLINE-OKlocalStorage survives tunnels and basements.
  • LARGE TAP TARGETSDesigned for gloved hands + pinch-zoom.
Open the Crew App
Mock · Scene 04-A
Scene 00 · take 01
What do you need the Art Dept to do?
"need to clear a painting"
Receipt
Matches →CLR · ClearancePO · Purchase Order
ClearancePurchase OrderPetty CashRentalLaborMileagePermitReimbursement
05 · Phase 2 · Admin

Multi-view board
with a budget conscience.

Kanban for triage, List for audit, Schedule for due dates. The Coordinator fixes typos and calls the requestor with one tap. The PM signs with a canvas — the budget traffic-light updates before the stamp lands.

Coordinator Review
Edit POs · click-to-call · route to PM
Budget Traffic-Light
Green / Yellow / Red on every approval
Zero-Touch PDF
PDF auto-builds with PM's signature applied
Emergency Handoff
(?) docs + Delegate Mode for turnovers
Enter the dashboard
KanbanListSchedule
Budget 53% · green
Review
TKT_001
Clearance: painting
$500
TKT_002
Rent 3 lamps
$2005
TKT_003
Scenic painter · 2d
$1790
PM Approval
TKT_003
Clearance: painting
$500
TKT_004
Rent 3 lamps
$2005
TKT_005
Scenic painter · 2d
$1790
Signature Routing
TKT_003
Clearance: painting
$500
TKT_004
Rent 3 lamps
$2005
TKT_005
Scenic painter · 2d
$1790
06 · Finger-Sign · Zero-Touch Pipeline

The PDF signs itself.
Then it finds the contractor.

Step 01
Ticket Filed
Crew signs on the canvas, ticket queued.
Step 02
Coord Review
Edits & one-click call; route to PM.
Step 03
PM Approved
Canvas signature embedded into PDF.
Step 04
Finger-Sign Routed
Email or SMS link to contractor.
Step 05
Closed
Contractor signs on phone; archive.
Auto-applied
PM Digital Signature
Signature canvas → PNG → embedded into the PDF signature block. No wet pens.
Routing
Email · SMS
Contractor receives a single-use Finger-Sign link. Mobile canvas, pinch-zoom, done in 20 seconds.
Audit
Full history trail
Every stage — generation, review, signature, routing — is timestamped and attached to the ticket.
07 · Live Sandbox

Not a demo.
The actual app.

This iframe runs the real Crew App. Sign in, file a ticket, then flip to /admin to approve it — state is shared via localStorage.

Online — syncing locally
Offline — still works
Demo creds pre-loaded
Try this
  1. Tap a demo credential (Marlowe Keene, crew).
  2. Type "rent 3 lamps" and hit Enter.
  3. Fill the form, capture a signature, file it.
  4. Open /admin and approve from the Kanban.
Live
/sandbox · shared localStorage
08 · End frame

Built for the crew
that builds the shot.

Production Blueprint is the kit you keep in the same drawer as your scale ruler and gaff tape. No logins you'll forget. No dashboard you have to train a new PA on. Just a search bar, a board, and a PDF that signs itself.

artdept.ecosystem.v1
Tailwind · Vanilla state · jsPDF
Offline-first · PWA · keyboard-navigable