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Product Updates

Meet the New Overtime AddOn

Let’s be honest: calculating overtime is the part of budgeting that everyone dreads. It’s a maze of mixed rates, manual formulas, and mental gymnastics. “If the crew works 12 hours, the first 8 are straight time, the next 2 are 1.5x, and the last 2 are double time—unless it’s a weekend, or the 6th day...”

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

January 22, 2026

Buyout Calculation

How to Calculate Commercial Buyouts in Germany (2026 Guide)

Your Day Rate pays for your time on set. The Buyout pays for the right to use that footage. In German advertising, this is almost always calculated as a percentage of the Day Rate, multiplied by the media type, territory, and duration.

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

January 22, 2026

Demo

Splinde Demo

Watch a Product Demo with our founder Joshua

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

January 19, 2026

Product Updates

One home for every hat you wear.

Introducing Workspaces: The fluid way to manage multiple production companies, clients, and teams from a single dashboard.

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

November 28, 2025

Paper

LLMs vs Spreadsheet

A Deep Analysis of the Challenges and Frontiers of Large Language Models in Spreadsheet Environments

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

October 17, 2025

Product Updates

Referencing Made Simple

If you’ve ever worked in Excel, you know the pain: Formulas get messy. They break ...

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

August 15, 2025

Product Updates

Hello World. Splinde is here.

Proudly we are launching Version 1.0 of Splinde.

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

July 15, 2025

Product Updates

SCoPE becomes Splinde

Do you work with Excel SCoPE? Then Splinde is the next logical step.

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

April 10, 2025

Product Updates

Say Hi to AddOns

Say hello to add-ons and goodbye to Excel formulas.

Joshua Metschulat

CEO & Co-Founder

April 9, 2025

The future of production budgeting.

Discover, how Splinde can streamline your budgeting.

The future of production budgeting.

Discover, how Splinde can streamline your budgeting.