Production schedules

A production schedule is one cluster holding a multi-month calendar, with each shoot day as a child cluster carrying a date. Open a day and you get its script pages, call sheet, shotlist and hour-by-hour schedule. Drag the day to a new date and it moves on everyone's calendar, with an undo on the toast. Share the production once and every day inside it comes with it.

Being rebuilt. The schedule card is temporarily off the Add menu, and with it the "Add shoot days" flow that lays a production out. Productions you already built keep working. Publishing a day and notifying the crew is part of the rebuild and is not available yet — this page no longer describes it.

A production runs on two questions: what are we shooting, and when. This is how Clusters answers both in one place.

The shape

One cluster is the production. On its canvas sits a schedule card set to 3 months — a block of principal photography you can see at once.

Each shoot day is a child cluster with a date. It appears as a tile on its day in the calendar. Open it and you are inside a normal canvas holding whatever the day needs:

  • the day's script pages (a PDF or a document)
  • the call sheet
  • the shotlist
  • an hour-by-hour schedule card

Share the production cluster with the crew once. Everything inside it — every shoot day, every call sheet — comes with it.

Laying it out

Add shoot days takes a date range, optionally skips weekends, and creates a numbered day for each date. The days arrive empty; open one and set up this day fills it with the four cards above.

They are created empty on purpose. Clusters are unlimited on every plan, but cards are capped on the free plan, and scaffolding sixty days up front would spend the whole allowance before anyone had opened one.

The date is never written into a day's name. Day 12 stays Day 12; the date is rendered from the calendar every time it is shown, so a day that moves twice still reads correctly everywhere.

Moving a day

Drag its tile to another date.

That is one write. The day moves on everyone's calendar, the hour-by-hour card inside it re-anchors itself, and there is an undo on the toast.

A multi-day block (travel, a company move) keeps its length when dragged.

What the crew sees

The Schedule item in the sidebar opens your schedule — every dated cluster you can reach, from today forward, across every production. This is the thing to open when you want to know what you are called for.

Driving it from another system

Boards carry scheduled_date, scheduled_end and day_label over the API and MCP, so a scheduling package or a call-sheet generator can create days and move them without anyone opening the app.

A note on timezones

Dates are plain calendar dates, with no timezone attached — a production shoots in one place, and 2026-08-18 means the same day to everyone on it. If your unit is split across a date line, that assumption is the one to watch.

Frequently asked questions

Can I start a production schedule right now?

Not at the moment. The schedule card is being rebuilt, so it is off the Add menu and new shoot days cannot be laid out. Productions you already built keep working and keep their days.

Does everyone need an account on my plan?

Editors you share with are free. Capacity is charged to whoever owns the boards, not per seat. See Sharing and roles.

What happens to the hour-by-hour schedule when a day moves?

It follows. The schedule card inside a shoot day reads its date from the cluster, so it re-anchors itself and there is nothing to keep in sync.

Can another system push the schedule in?

Yes. Boards carry scheduled_date over the API and MCP, so a stripboard or scheduling tool can create and move days programmatically.

Machine-readable: /docs/clusters/production-schedule.md · /llms.txt
What changed and when: /changelog