FOR FILM COMMISSIONS
Your incentive, fully captured.
Goldenrod helps the productions you approve stay compliant, submit clean, and get paid faster — and gives your office the data to show what the program is doing for your economy. It costs the commission nothing.
THE VIEW FROM YOUR DESK
Allocated isn't the same as deployed.
Every commission we talk to describes the same gap. The legislature funds the program; productions apply; and then dollars go unclaimed because a residency threshold slipped, an uplift nobody tracked was left on the table, or the final submission arrived as a shoebox of PDFs that took months to review.
Meanwhile your staff spend their days answering "where is my application?", chasing declarations, and rebuilding economic-impact numbers by hand every time someone asks whether the program is worth it.
- Incomplete or mis-filed submissions that stall in compliance review
- Productions that miss uplifts and thresholds they qualified for
- Status calls and document chasing that eat analyst hours
- Impact numbers assembled by hand, session after session
WHAT GOLDENROD BRINGS
Cleaner applications in. Faster money out.
We sit on the production's side of the table, which is exactly why your side gets easier.
Commission-ready submissions
Final submittals arrive pre-assembled to your compliance checklist: every declaration checked, every dollar of qualified spend tagged to a category, exceptions already documented. Your review becomes confirmation rather than examination.
Real-time compliance while they shoot
Resident cast and crew percentages, uplift eligibility, in-state vendor spend — tracked as the production happens, not reconstructed at wrap. Problems get fixed in week two instead of surfacing in your audit.
Your rules, built into the platform
State-specific residency declarations, veteran and rural uplifts, enterprise-zone maps, CPA report formats. We research your program's nuances directly with you and encode them, so applicants follow your rules by default.
Program data you can take into a hearing
Aggregate spend and jobs by county and district, encumbered versus disbursed dollars, uplift utilisation — a live picture of the program's economic impact, drawn from productions on the platform. Free to the commission, always.
A resource for every applicant
Plain-language office hours on how your program works, open to any production that applies — client or not. A referral to Goldenrod is a service to the applicant, never a sales pitch.
People who have sat where you sit
Our compliance lead ran the incentives desk at a state film commission. We know what a clean file looks like from the inside, and what it costs an office when one isn't.
WHAT IT COSTS YOUR OFFICE
Nothing.
Productions pay Goldenrod for consulting and compliance — published, flat pricing they can see up front. Commissions never do. We don't ask a commission to endorse a paid service; we ask to be a resource that makes its applicants better and its reviews shorter.
The program dashboard and applicant office hours are free because the value lands on the program, not on a single production. That is where the value should land.
Productions that file clean get paid fast. Everyone wins that one.
HOW IT STARTS
Four steps, no paperwork to begin.
- I
A conversation
Walk us through your program — the statute, the guidelines, the forms, and the parts that trip applicants up. Forty-five minutes is usually enough to start.
- II
We build your rules in
Your declarations, uplifts, thresholds and submission spec go into the platform, checked back with you before any production sees them.
- III
Applicants get a resource
Point productions that need help our way. We answer the basic questions for free and take on the ones that want the full engagement.
- IV
The data flows back
You get the dashboard; we refine the rules as your program evolves. A standing relationship rather than a one-off.
WHERE WE ARE
Built in Texas. Talking to thirty commissions.
Goldenrod is based in Austin and grew up inside the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program. Since Sundance, SXSW and the AFCI summit we have been in active conversations with commissions across the US and Canada — state offices, city film offices and regional bureaus — about the same set of needs. If yours is one of them, the form below is the fastest route to us.
- ~30
- commissions in conversation
- 52
- US jurisdictions tracked
- $0
- cost to your office
GET IN TOUCH
Talk to the team.
Tell us which program you administer and what would help most. A real person reads every one of these — usually someone who has filed to your office before.