Dear Cinapse Customers,
Today marks a significant turning point for Cinapse and for production technology at large. Cinapse has been acquired by Wrapbook, the industry’s fastest-growing platform for modern production payroll and finance.
Wrapbook is transforming the way productions handle onboarding, payroll, compliance, cost tracking, and financial intelligence. By joining forces, we’re accelerating our shared vision for a modern technology ecosystem that unifies scheduling, budgeting, payroll, and accounting in a way this industry has never seen.
This is a watershed moment not just for Cinapse, but for every filmmaker, AD, UPM, producer, supervisor, coordinator, and student who has believed in our mission from day one. It starts a new chapter: by uniting Cinapse with Wrapbook’s production finance and payroll platform to help solve the fragmentation that has held production technology back for decades.
From the very beginning, our mission at Cinapse has been to build the operating system of Hollywood.
We’ve always seen scheduling as the beating heart of production. It is the single source that connects every creative, financial, and logistical decision. But to truly modernize filmmaking, you have to unify the entire value chain:
Script → Schedule → Budget → Payroll → Accounting
These systems have always been siloed. Critical information was trapped on paper, old disconnected software, and PDFs. No shared source of truth. No continuity between departments. Countless hours wasted reconciling data manually.
Real progress can only happen when the schedule, the budget, payroll, and accounting live together in one integrated ecosystem built by filmmakers, product managers, and engineers who actually listen to crews, understand production, and know these pain points intimately.
That is exactly why Cinapse is joining Wrapbook.
Wrapbook is the most advanced payroll and production finance platform in Hollywood, backed by some of the world’s leading venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global, and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo. The company has raised over $150 million and was most recently valued at $750 million, reflecting both the scale of its vision and the trust the industry has placed in its technology.
Wrapbook is transforming how productions manage onboarding, payroll, compliance, cost tracking, and financial intelligence. Their platform has become the financial backbone for thousands of productions, and their momentum mirrors the industry’s shift toward modern, cloud-based workflows.
By combining Cinapse’s scheduling engine with Wrapbook’s payroll and accounting infrastructure, we unlock capabilities this industry has asked for — and desperately needed — for decades:
This is the next frontier of production technology and joining forces with Wrapbook is what finally makes it possible.
Cinapse isn’t going anywhere. We’re doubling down. Here’s what you can expect:
I’ll continue to lead Cinapse as Director & General Manager at Wrapbook, and François will continue to lead engineering as Senior Software Engineer. Your product experience remains unchanged.
We will now have the engineering horsepower, financial stability, and operational support to build more (and faster) than ever before.
Over the next year and beyond, you’ll see scheduling, budgeting, cost reporting, and payroll finally begin speaking the same language. Everything will ultimately be integrated.
From indie films to $200M studio productions, this unification will reduce friction, save time, and strengthen decision-making.
Cinapse began as a small, grassroots effort with a few of us building tools we wished we had on set. Over the years, thousands of productions—from student films to many of the biggest shows on television—have helped shape the platform into what it is today.
Joining Wrapbook doesn’t change our mission. It supercharges it.
We’re not just building better scheduling tools.
We’re building the unified backbone of modern production—and a future where the creative plan, the production plan, and the financial plan finally live in one place.
To every AD who took a chance on us…
To every filmmaker who sent feedback at midnight…
To every production who believed in a modern alternative to outdated tools…
Thank you.
Cinapse was built by and for the people who make movies and television possible. With Wrapbook, we’re now positioned to deliver the unified production platform this industry has long needed.
This is only the beginning.
With gratitude,
Herman Phillips
Co-Founder & CEO, Cinapse
Director & GM, Cinapse at Wrapbook
