Doug Johnson Productions

Staff live productions faster, then keep the whole job connected.

CrewAxis is production operations software for video companies where staffing is the daily bottleneck. Collect client needs before the event exists, offer jobs to the right crew, build the call sheet, assign gear, compile costs, gather crew feedback, and close out the job without chasing everything through spreadsheets, texts, and email threads.

Automate the crew hunt

Offer jobs to the right people, gather responses, compare availability, and build the crew without hours of one-off texting.

Keep the gear with the job

Assign equipment, checklists, owners, costs, maintenance, and resource details where the production team needs them.

Carry the work through billing

Quote the job, track costs, collect contractor invoices, assemble cost reports, bill the client, and review profitability.

Built around production work, not adapted to it later. CrewAxis combines 40+ years of software development experience with 25+ years of professional video production experience, so the workflow reflects how production teams actually find crew, confirm people, move gear, send call sheets, and close out events.

The workflow your team repeats on every job.

Staffing is often where the stress starts, but it rarely stays there. CrewAxis connects the pieces that usually live in separate tabs, inboxes, group texts, and spreadsheets.

Collect requirements

Use shareable event worksheets to gather the details you need from a client or organizer before the event is fully built.

Build and staff

Create the event from worksheet details, apply staffing templates, notify eligible crew, collect responses, and hire the right people faster.

Run the production

Send call sheets, assign resources, manage run sheets, track travel, and keep the team informed.

Close the loop

Remind contractors to invoice, send crew surveys, review performance, pull resources, labor, travel, and crew invoices into a cost report, and understand final profit or loss.

Not a generic scheduler with production labels.

Many tools can be forced into a production workflow, but they usually handle one or two pieces of the job. CrewAxis starts with the staffing problem production companies feel most often, then follows the shape of the whole production: collect requirements, build the event, staff the crew, reserve the gear, communicate the plan, capture costs, gather feedback, and keep the client relationship moving.

  • Client planning worksheets, staffing templates, daily schedules, run sheets, and call sheets
  • Crew opportunities, negotiated or yes/no responses, hiring decisions, availability, and GPS-stamped timeclock
  • Equipment assignments, checklists, rentals, checkouts, archive tracking, QR/barcode tracking, and depreciation
  • Quotes, client invoices, contractor invoices, labor costs, rentals, travel, cost reports, crew surveys, and event profit/loss
CrewAxis new event screen

See the workflow in action.

The walkthrough shows how the major pieces fit together for a working production company, from event setup and crew offers to staffing decisions, call sheets, and follow-up.

Run the whole production loop.

If staffing the next show means juggling client intake, availability, messages, gear, call sheets, invoices, crew feedback, and final job costs, CrewAxis was built for your kind of work.