Piper is built in the open with the producers who use it. Here's what's live today, what we're building now, and where we're going. One principle drives everything: your numbers are provably right on every surface — editor, client view, PDF, Excel — and everything else is built on top of that foundation.
Shipped and in use by beta teams every day.
Every number is provably identical across every surface a budget touches — editor, client view, PDF and Excel exports, version comparisons. Automated checks verify that what your client approves is exactly what exports say, down to the last cent.
Typed budget sections for production, admin, and revenue — with above- and below-the-line rollups that match how real productions are structured.
Company-wide pricing templates. Build your rates once, insert them into any budget, and track variance against them.
Clients see a clean portal with exactly what they should see. Internal costs and margins are protected at the database level — not just hidden in the interface.
Clients formally approve a published version, with a complete trail of who approved what, when, and which version. Change-order approvals let them sign off on the difference between two versions — so post-award changes get the same rigor as the original budget.
An approved-baseline lock and full version history, so there's always a reference point you can trust — plus live variance tracking against the approved budget as the production moves.
Multiple team members in the same budget at once, with live sync and section-level locking so nobody overwrites anybody.
Turn a priced document — or just an RFP or brief — into a working budget draft in minutes.
Set client-facing spend caps and internal margin floors, and see budget health everywhere budgets render.
Excel with live formulas, and polished PDFs that carry your branding.
Sign-off inside your own organization, before anything reaches the client: multi-level approval chains — producer to exec to finance — so a budget clears the right people internally, with the same durable record as a client approval.
The first slice of Piper Finance — following the money once the budget is set.
Where Piper Finance goes next — the full money lifecycle of a production.
This roadmap reflects what we're actively building and evolves as we learn from the producers using Piper every day. Have something you need? Tell us — beta feedback has shaped nearly everything above.