Freee Launches Freee for Production Project for Anime and Video Industry
The integration directly addresses a long-standing pain point in anime and video production-manual double entry of work hours into separate systems-by linking site-side progress tracking with back-office cost data in real time.
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Freee K.K. announced the launch of "freee for Production," a project targeting video, anime, CG, and commercial production companies. The first step is an API integration between Autodesk's Flow Production Tracking tool and freee Man-Hour Management, aiming to eliminate double data entry and give studios real-time cost visibility.
Freee K.K. announced on June 11 that its new "freee for Production" project will begin with an API link between Autodesk's Flow Production Tracking (Flow PT) and freee Man-Hour Management. The project targets anime, CG, video, commercial, and web production studios, following the earlier "freee for Medical" vertical. Freee aims to solve the industry's normalization of double entry-inputting the same data into both a production management tool and an attendance system-which has made real-time labor cost tracking impossible and left studios discovering unprofitability only after a project finishes.
With the API integration, when creators update their daily task status in Flow PT, that action is automatically logged as man-hour data in freee Man-Hour Management. The management side can then see per-project or per-process profitability in real time. Accumulated data can also feed into estimates backed by actual results. Dandelion Animation Studio representative director Kazuhiro Nishikawa and LIDENFILMS director Yuichi Tashiro both voiced expectations for the system, citing gains in real-time performance grasp and early visualization of management figures.
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