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Maalik · FY26 Budget vs Actual Reconciled · 10:42 IST

Production stage · 21,418 lines

Period: 01 Apr 2025 → 11 May 2026 · ACQ heads 1000–9000
HeadsSchedulesVendors
ACQHeadBudgetActualVariance
1001
Director + Writer
Above-the-line · 2 vendors
₹2,50,00,000₹2,50,00,000₹0
1002
Lead Actor 1 — Maalik
Above-the-line · committed
₹10,00,00,000₹10,00,00,000₹0
1106
Recce
Pre-production · 14 expenses
₹15,00,000₹16,40,000₹(1,40,000)
1302
Executive Producer
Above-the-line · payroll synced
₹24,50,000₹22,96,000₹1,54,000
5404
Non-Claimable GST
Tax · Section 17(5) blocked credit
₹32,66,000₹32,66,000₹0
Total ₹45.32 Cr → ₹45.11 Cr₹45,32,16,000₹45,11,02,000₹21,14,000
Variance remark drafted by AI · auditor-approvedv 2026.05.11 · sha 8a4f1cOpen close pack
The reality today

Excel is heroic. And it is failing.

Three numbers from a real production audit — sheet name Automated_Tool_v0.10.xlsx, one Hindi feature film, FY25.

Pain point: 12,259

variance remarks missing

out of 21,449 expense rows · 57% of the ledger

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Pain point: ₹9.93Cr

overspend discovered at wrap

CTC drifted from ₹45.32 Cr to ₹55.25 Cr · 22% over plan

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Pain point: 3weeks

to close one audit

manual reco across 4 masters · 11 partner-hours, 38 staff-hours

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ProductionLens fixes this in 30 minutes, not 30 days.

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Four jobs.
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Plan → Commit → Spend → Reconcile → Report → Audit. End-to-end, in one place. Each card shows the Excel-era version on top, and what ProductionLens replaces it with below.

Plan

ExcelBudget Master across 12 tabs
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Spend

ExcelExpense Master with 21k rows of free text
LensTyped ExpenseLines, vendor master, GST split per line

Reconcile

ExcelManual VLOOKUPs across 4 masters
LensAuto-match invoice ↔ expense ↔ payment ↔ GSTR-2B

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ExcelEmail PDFs to studio, hope nothing breaks
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  1. 1

    Upload your spreadsheet

    Drop your .xlsx (Budget Master / Expense Master / Payment Master / Vendor Master).

  2. 2

    Auto-map & validate

    AI maps 635 ACQ codes and 445 vendors to our canonical schema. Mismatches flagged.

  3. 3

    Reconcile & approve

    Budget vs Actual, outstanding dues, GST claimability, variance — one screen.

  4. 4

    Export audit-ready reports

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We cut a 3-week close into a same-day variance report. The auditor saw 12,259 missing remarks before we did.
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A. K.
Partner — Top 3 production-audit firm
Case study
Our wrap variance is visible during shoot, not after. ₹1.4 lakh on Recce told us to renegotiate stay before Schedule 2.
+₹9.93 Cr→caught early
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Line Producer — Mumbai feature, FY26
Case study
One screen for every slate. FAC and burn on 8 productions, no spreadsheets emailed at month-end.
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CFO — OTT platform, India
Case study
₹2,500 Cr+
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productions on the platform
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99.9%
reconciliation accuracy across masters