You will never pay to be here.
Not a launch offer. Platforms that charge freelancers to apply for work start profiting from the people who don't get hired. Keylight takes money from the side with a budget line.
Two ways in
Vetted on purpose. The rate book is worthless if anyone can move the numbers.
Someone vouched for you
A member sends you a code. Their name shows on your profile and they hold a limited number of invites, so nobody hands them out lightly. Verified immediately.
You apply
List three credits and attach one piece of paper — a call sheet with your name in the right department, a deal memo, a certificate of insurance. A person reads every application, and you get told why if it's a no.
Credits are checked against work other members have listed. Two people who both worked the same job corroborate each other, and that graph gets stronger with every signup.
What you get
Found by budget
Producers state what they can pay before they search. If you fit, you show up. If you don't, that job was never going to happen anyway.
Requests with a number on them
Every request carries a named project, real dates, and the budget. You know what it pays before you spend a minute on it.
Rate alerts
We tell you when your market's median moves. Not a newsletter — one message when the number actually changes and you might be under it.
Who pays late
Every production company carries a payment record. You find out before you take the job, not sixty days after you invoiced.
Holds that expire
First position, second position, and the ability to make a production confirm or release you. Nothing sits on your calendar because someone forgot.
January, handled
Your year split into W-2 and self-employment income — the two piles that can't be mixed — with a checklist of which forms to expect and exports for QuickBooks or your accountant.
Invoices that write themselves
The day after wrap we draft it from your booking. You confirm the hours and overtime, then send. Or a timecard, if the job runs through payroll.
Publish one range. See where you stand.
Public or private — either way it counts toward your market's median, and the median is what stops a producer telling you everyone charges less.
Free, permanently.