LHM Ship DigestEdition 01July 2026
What just shipped in Local Hire Manifest
The latest release, in plain language — the work that matters most to commissions, productions, and crews. New to LHM? A short primer waits at the end.
The headlineSovereign AI: your script never leaves the building
This release moves LHM’s intelligence onto our own metal. Scripts, call sheets, and records are analyzed by AI models we host ourselves — the labor plan comes out as numbers, the documents don’t come out at all, and every script analysis ends with a disposal receipt. Local-first is now the default for every AI feature in the product. It’s a simple promise to productions: your material stays in the building.
Latest shipped featuresThe highlights
Script-to-labor-plan engine
- Drop a script on a secure planning link and watch a department-by-department crew plan stream out.
- It reads a script the way a line producer does — and counts what drives cost.
- Disposal receipts on every run.
Ask LHM — one assistant, everywhere
- One assistant across the whole product — ask it anything about your market, from any page.
- Call sheets file themselves: drag one into the chat, confirm, done.
Outreach & consent
- The one-invitation policy: each imported name gets exactly one email — with provenance and a permanent one-click opt-out. From there, contact is in their hands.
Records & verification
- Every record is a card — the person at a glance, the full verified file behind it.
- Self-serve residency verification in the worker portal, with a built-in identity check.
- Every number drills down to the verified people behind it.
Training & the talent pipeline
- Hired after training — the number that proves a training program’s value, on real productions.
By the numbersThis edition, measured
The primerWhat Local Hire Manifest is
When a film shoots in Malta, New Mexico, or Georgia, the local film commission wants one thing above all: proof that the production hired local people. That proof drives tax incentives, government reporting, and the case for bringing the next production to town. Today that proof lives in spreadsheets, call sheets, and institutional memory.
Local Hire Manifest (LHM) replaces that with a single system of record. Each commission gets its own governed workspace holding the manifest — a living roster of the local film workforce. Every person on it is a record; every record shows whether that person has claimed their profile, whether their residency is verified, and what work they’ve done. From there the product computes the number everyone cares about: the Local Hire Rate — of everyone a production hired here, what share were genuine locals versus crew flown in.
One rule anchors everything: the product only calls someone “Local” when their residency has actually been verified — never because a call sheet said so, never inferred. That discipline is what makes LHM’s numbers audit-grade, and it is enforced structurally in the code, not by policy memo.
The primerHow the product is organized
Think of LHM as a small town with several doors, each opening on a different view of the same truth:
Markets — the commission’s workspace
A market is one commission’s world: its records, productions, outreach, and reports. Markets can nest — the State of Georgia is a parent market containing Atlanta, Savannah, and DeKalb County, and the state dashboard rolls their numbers up (with one-tap include/exclude per sub-market).
Commission accounts — the operators
Commission admins and staff govern the manifest: they review how each record may be contacted, run claim campaigns, verify residency, track productions, and pull reports. This is the product’s center of gravity.
The worker portal — the individual
A crew member receives an invitation, claims their record, and gets their own portal: they control their contact permissions, verify their identity and residency (self-serve, with a built-in ID check), add skills and credits, and can opt out of contact entirely with one click — forever.
Productions — no login required
A production doesn’t create an account. The commission hands them a secure link: a manifest link shows who’s available; a planning link lets them drop a script and get a department-by-department labor plan. No password, no setup.
Studio accounts — the umbrella view
A studio overseeing several productions gets a portfolio view across them, with the same privacy walls: studios see engagement and status, never the commission’s back office.
Academy accounts — the talent pipeline
Film schools and training programs get their own lens: their programs, their graduates, and the number that proves their value — how many completers were hired after training on real productions.
Platform — Kalison Studios operations
Our own admin layer: market provisioning, demo requests, and system health. Commission users never see it.
— The LHM engineering team