Built by a Production Company
Built by a Production Company
CrewAxis was created by Doug Johnson, a professional software developer with 40+ years of experience and a video producer with more than 25 years of real production work behind him. It was built around production workflows from the beginning.
CrewAxis started as an internal tool for Doug Johnson Productions. The goal was not to build a generic scheduling app or a single-purpose crew list. It was to solve the day-to-day operational problems that show up when a production company is trying to book crews, move equipment, send call sheets, track costs, and keep clients informed.
Most production companies eventually reach the point where spreadsheets, texts, and email threads can still work, but they make every job harder than it needs to be. CrewAxis was built for that moment.
The core crew of Doug Johnson Productions in the DJP Mobile Production Unit.
Many business tools can be made compatible with production work, but the fit often feels forced. CrewAxis was designed around the connected reality of production: the crew, the schedule, the gear, the client, the call sheet, the money, and the follow-up all affect each other.
Staffing decisions can connect to call sheets, resource needs, reminders, contractor invoices, event costs, and job history instead of living in separate tools.
CrewAxis supports the production lifecycle from initial requirements to event setup, staffing, show-day communication, invoicing, and final review.
CrewAxis is subscription-based because it is actively hosted, maintained, supported, and improved. But the goal is not to trap production companies in another frustrating software bill. The goal is to provide useful software, fair pricing, and a good experience that keeps being worth what it costs.
Customers who trusted CrewAxis early are treated with gratitude. Existing customers are not punished for being loyal when pricing changes as the product grows.
If CrewAxis offers a limited-time discount, the intent is to make it available to existing eligible customers too, not only to people who have not signed up yet.
Doug has spent 40+ years developing software professionally, which matters when the product has to manage complex production workflows reliably.
CrewAxis reflects the details that only become obvious after producing real events: staffing friction, call sheet details, equipment movement, client changes, and post-event follow-up.
Through the Doug Johnson Productions YouTube channel, Doug teaches video production technologies, techniques, and workflows to a large audience of production professionals and learners.
New ideas are shaped by actual production work and by feedback from companies using CrewAxis to run their own events, crews, resources, and invoicing. Feature requests and customer feedback are taken seriously because they often reveal real production workflow problems. Not every request becomes a feature, but every request helps shape the direction of CrewAxis.
Collect client requirements, build the event, apply staffing templates, and offer positions to the right crew members.
Assign crew, track availability, reserve equipment, build run sheets, add files, and keep communication tied to the event.
Send useful call sheets, reminders, maps, schedules, contacts, resource details, and production notes.
Remind contractors to invoice, review crew performance, collect costs, bill the client, and understand event profitability.
CrewAxis is deep because production work is deep, but the goal is simple: give every production detail a place to live so your team can spend less time chasing information and more time producing the show.