For filmmakers, videographers, and editors
For filmmakers and videographers who can already make the work. Get three months of live group consulting to package your services, find prospective clients, and build a repeatable sales and delivery process.
Three months · Two live group calls weekly · $2,000 total for the first 10 clients
Creative ability and client acquisition are different skills. A strong reel can show what you make, but prospective clients also need a clear reason to hire you, a defined service, and a straightforward way to begin a conversation.
The work begins by choosing the kinds of businesses you can serve, packaging your capabilities around their needs, and researching relevant prospects. From there, you need a consistent outreach and follow-up process that you can sustain.
The First Client System helps you organize those business fundamentals alongside the production skills you already have, so your commercial work can support your larger filmmaking goals.
Define a clear commercial video offer for a specific type of client, with a practical scope, outcome, and price.
Build a focused list of prospective clients that fit your offer, then research the people, needs, and opportunities behind each account.
Create a repeatable direct-outreach process with relevant first messages, follow-ups, and a focused portfolio that supports a sales conversation.
Develop a process for proposals, pricing, client communication, production delivery, and asking satisfied clients for appropriate referrals.
You will learn practical ways to use ChatGPT or Claude for routine business workflows:
You review the work, make the decisions, and remain responsible for every client relationship and delivery. The goal is a better organized business, not a fully autonomous one.
Eight questions, about four minutes, costs nothing.
If it fits, you pick a 15 minute slot the moment you finish applying.
You get a clear yes or no within 24 hours, and everything you need to start.
Two hours live each week. Teaching plus hot seats: your positioning and your target list reviewed in the room.
Two hours live each week. We write and send real outreach together, review responses, and work your active deals.
The target list builder, outreach scripts, pricing calculator, proposal template, and shoot day checklist. Every document I use.
A private community space and async reviews. Questions answered daily. Every call recorded, so you never fall behind.
If you do the work and a client has not landed by day 90, you stay in the program at no cost until it happens. Doing the work means: attend or watch both weekly calls, complete your thirty business map by day 14, send twenty outreaches a week from day 15, and log your activity weekly. These requirements and support terms will be written into your enrollment.
The first group is limited to ten enrolled clients. The program is $2,000 total for three months and includes two live group calls each week, practical business templates, and guidance on using ChatGPT or Claude to support your operations. The application is free and does not commit you to enroll.
Brandon Maldonado leads the group consulting calls and helps participants review the business systems they build throughout the three-month program.
Brandon, Founder, The Screenwriters Lab
It is a system, a deadline, and a room. The application takes four minutes.