02 How Timix.AI fits
Shoot, edit, and studio time — each tracked on its own terms
Three billing types, budget alerts computed from live hours, and dual-rate margin were built for work that mixes day rates, fixed bids, and overhead in one client tree — which is the whole production business.
Edit budgets that warn before the re-cut eats the fee
Put a fixed-amount or hour-cap budget on each fixed-bid deliverable, with soft limits that warn and hard limits that stop. Timix.AI burns it down from live hours and alerts at the threshold you pick — so the post supervisor sees 'the Hartwell cut is at 85% of budget' with revisions still coming, not after the overrun is already spent.
Fixed or hour-cap budgets at Project, Task, and SubTask level — soft limits warn, hard limits stop at the moment of entry, all computed from live hours.
Day-rate shoot, fixed-bid edit, studio time — side by side
Run the shoot as Time & Materials on a day rate, the edit and deliverables as Fixed Price tracked against cost, and pitches, gear prep, and unbilled re-cuts as Overhead — all in one client tree. Each billing type computes on its own terms, so shoot burn and edit margin never blur together.
3 billing types — T&M, Fixed Price, OVH — coexist in one client tree, with allowed types inherited down the hierarchy.
Margin per production, not just per client
Dual cost and customer rates roll revenue, cost, profit, and margin up per production and per client, so you can see whether the shoot carried the job or the edit gave it back. Log revision rounds as their own task and the giveaway becomes visible — and quotable next time.
Dual cost and bill rates roll revenue, cost, profit, and margin up per production and per client in Revenue Analysis (Professional+).
Entry fast enough for the edit bay
A persistent timer that survives navigation, a week grid with Copy Last Week, and Timix.AI — type 'log 4 hours on the Acme edit' and it's filed. Resource Utilization turns that capture into a billable ratio; Unbilled Time surfaces hours logged but never invoiced.
Timer, week grid, or one sentence to Timix.AI on all paid plans; auto- SubTask creation means logging is never blocked by missing structure.
3 billing types in one production — day-rate shoot, fixed-bid edit, studio overhead
2 limits on every edit budget — soft warns, hard stops
Many report pages, including resource utilization and revenue analysis
