Production Architecture & Specs

Aeion's budget forecasting engine projects total completion cost from actual spending data.

Every forecast includes:

• Projected total — final projected spend, plus the projected overrun (amount and percentage)
• Confidence interval — a 95% confidence band (lower/upper bound) around the projection
• Spending velocity — daily and weekly burn rate, with a trend read (accelerating, steady, or decelerating)
• Per-department forecasts — budgeted vs. actual spend, projected total, an overrun-risk rating (low/medium/high/critical), and days until overrun where applicable

Budget line items update in real time, so forecasts always reflect the latest spend — no separate sync step required.

Velocity Calculation: Aeion uses historical spending trends to project burn rate and flag departments heading for overrun.

When a location manager captures a 3D scan in Aeion Spatial, Aeion automatically links it to the matching production and location — no manual attachment step, and re-processing the same scan never creates a duplicate record.

Supported Formats: Gaussian Splat (.splat) and mesh (.glb).

Director Portal: the link enables 3D location preview in-browser (WebGL) or in a WebXR headset (Apple Vision Pro, HoloLens). Directors can annotate the 3D space with camera marks and blocking notes before the location permit is signed.

Aeion enforces strict role-based access control across all production data, department by department.

Department Groups (16): executive (director, producer, executive producer, line producer), assistant_directors, camera, sound, art, wardrobe_makeup, grip_electric, locations, post (editorial, colorist, VFX), script (script supervisor, writer), production_assistants, accounting, talent (casting), stunts, transportation, craft_services

Granular Permissions per Role:

Each crew role (e.g., director, costume-designer, key-grip) gets a default set of fine-grained permissions rather than one blanket access level — view/edit/manage on productions, screenplays, schedules, and crew, plus department-scoped grants like budget:department, breakdown:department, and assets:department that restrict visibility to that crew member's own department's records.

Protected areas include: budgets and cast salaries, call sheets, screenplays and script breakdowns, time entries and timesheets, purchase orders/vendors/invoices, storyboards, VFX shots, production notes, locations, and production assets.

Example: a Wardrobe Supervisor has breakdown:department and assets:department grants scoping them to the wardrobe/makeup category on script breakdowns and assets, but no budget permissions at all — so they can't see cast salaries or department budgets. An unauthorized request is rejected immediately (403 Forbidden).