Piper is built the way you work. Designed to save time and streamline the budgeting process while giving you clarity and control at every stage. Piper AI is thoughtfully embedded along the way, to make your job that much easier.
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Everything you touch while a budget is open.
Drop in a brief or a past budget — Piper turns it into a structured draft with categorized line items, ready to edit.
The blank page is the worst part of any new event. Piper reads your brief and generates a structured starting point. Drop in last year's file and it adapts. You're editing within minutes, not hours.
Enter numbers and line items yourself, or drop them in from an email, a vendor estimate, or a written or verbal prompt.
No single way to get costs into a budget works for every situation. Paste, upload, type, or dictate — Piper places it in the right category and moves on.
Piper holds your per-client context — markups, preferences, past structures — and surfaces it the moment you need it.
Piper retains your past budget structures, client details, and the context that makes each relationship different. When you're starting something new or want a recommendation, just ask — it pulls the right context forward.
Ask in plain language and get the number back — with the lines it came from.
"What happens to margin if catering drops to 380?" You'd normally rebuild the sheet to find out. Ask Piper answers in place, shows every line that moves, and leaves the budget untouched until you say so.
Discuss any line item without leaving the budget.
Piper puts the conversation directly on the line item. Comment, reply, tag a teammate, resolve when it's handled. The full context stays with the number — forever.
Freeze to stay in sync. Lock a section — or the whole budget — so overlapping edits can't introduce errors while your team works in parallel.
Ask for one anytime: Piper flags missing contingency, markup gaps, and scope holes.
Piper's AI Review runs a quiet pass whenever you ask — or automatically before you send to a client. It catches the things that are easy to miss when you're moving fast.
Every version of the budget is kept — live, approved, and everything in between — ready to roll back to.
Piper versions your budget automatically — who cut the version, when, and what moved since the last one. Live versions keep moving; approved versions are locked. Roll back to any version at any time.
Recalculated in real time with every change.
Costs shift, scope expands, headcount moves. Piper recalculates your gross margin with every edit — you always know exactly what you're working with, before the invoice goes out.
Clients, approvals, and the view over everything you have running.
Every client is set up independently — its own defaults, pricing standards, rate cards, terms, and branding — all inside the one platform.
House Accounts keeps a client's setup with the client: preferred markups, verbiage, logos, and contact details, applied to every budget you build for them. Sort by client to see just their shows and their numbers. Nothing bleeds across.
A dedicated, view-only space for clients to review, comment, and approve. No more email chains or formatting headaches.
Client Side gives your client a clean, read-only view of exactly what you want them to see. They comment in context, approve with one click, and the signed-off version is locked in Piper permanently.
Every project, client, and margin in one place. A view from the top of your whole studio.
Top Line pulls every active project into a single studio dashboard — budget totals, margin percentages, approval status, all live, all in one place.
Not another help centre. An assistant that knows how Piper works and walks you through it.
Ask how to lock a section before a client review, or where a rate card lives, and the Assistant takes you there — in context, on the page you're already on. New people on your team get productive without a training session.