Production Heat: See Overload Before You Take the Job
Every booking pours its editing hours into your calendar, so the week you are about to wreck shows up red before you say yes.
Photographers rarely double-book shoot days. The overload happens in the invisible half of the job: a wedding is one Saturday of shooting and thirty hours of editing, and no calendar shows the thirty. Production heat makes them visible. We have not found another platform that does this.
How does the heat map work?
Each confirmed booking creates a production job with an editing estimate based on its type: a wedding at four hours of post per shoot hour, nightlife nearer one and a half. Those hours pour into your working days ahead of the delivery deadline, earliest deadline first, never exceeding your weekly capacity per day. The calendar tints each day by load, and the week that cannot absorb another job goes dark before you take it.
What happens as I work?
Advancing a job through its stages retires heat: marking a wedding as culled releases a quarter of its estimate, editing half, review nearly all. Deliver the gallery and the job's heat disappears. The map is always a picture of what is genuinely left, not what you planned three weeks ago.
When an enquiry asks about a date, you are no longer guessing whether the fortnight after it can carry the edit. The answer is on the calendar in colour.
See your real capacity this monthFrequently asked questions
Do I have to log hours for this to work?
No. Estimates seed themselves from the booking's length and type, and stage progress retires hours automatically. Logging actual hours refines it but is never required.
Can I change the editing ratios?
Yes. Each shoot type's hours-per-shoot-hour ratio is editable, so the model matches how you actually edit.
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