Hey everyone,
My co-founder and I have been working on FlowPilot Studio, a SaaS tool that connects to your FPT instance and lets you build charts, automations, and live data exports using natural language.
What it does:
- Charts & Dashboards - Describe the visualization you want in plain English (e.g. “show me shots by status grouped by sequence”) and it generates interactive charts from your FPT data. Dashboards let you arrange multiple charts in a grid with shared filters so everything updates together.
- Pages - Build rich pages combining dashboards, tables, and card views of your FPT data. Customize columns, add tabs with independent filters, and get a more flexible way to present your data without reconfiguring things in FPT itself.
- Automations - Write rules like “when a Version status changes to approved, set the linked Task status to final” and they run via webhooks. No event daemon to host, no scripts to maintain per show - we handle the infrastructure.
- Live Data Exports - Each export generates a token-protected CSV endpoint you can plug into Google Sheets with =IMPORTDATA(url) or pull into Excel via Get Data. The data is live - every request executes the query against your FPT instance, so the spreadsheet always reflects current state.
How it works:
It connects to your FPT instance through the REST API. Charts use a declarative recipe system (query + transforms + visualization config) so they’re deterministic and auto-update when your data changes.
Automations process via per-organization webhook queues on our infrastructure - you don’t host anything.
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We’ve been in VFX pipelines for 20 years and built this out of frustration with how much time gets spent on tooling that every studio rebuilds from scratch.
It’s in public beta - the free tier gives you access to all features. We’re actively looking for feedback from people who work in FPT daily.
Beyond what’s already in the product, we’re exploring what to build next and would love input. Some ideas we’re kicking around:
- Project creator from a template (no scripts needed)
- Cost estimator for upcoming projects based on historical data (anonymized)
- AI-assisted web app builder for studio tools
What pain points do you keep running into? What do you wish you could automate but haven’t had time to build? That kind of feedback is exactly what shapes our roadmap.