Pay visual effects and post-production vendors automatically as each batch of shots is delivered and approved. Payment ties to a verified delivery-and-approval event, so vendors are paid promptly as their work is accepted instead of waiting weeks on manual sign-off.
Turn a slow, manual sign-off cycle into delivery-triggered, milestone-based vendor payment.
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Fund each batch up front. The Escrow and Conditional Settlement module locks payment for a defined batch of shots, so a vendor knows funds are reserved before the work is delivered.
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Anchor each handoff. The Provenance Notary module seals the digest of a delivered shot batch, fixing exactly what was submitted so approval and payment reference the same work.
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Pay on accepted work. Escrow releases only when the supervisor approves the delivered batch, tying every payment to a verified delivery-and-approval event.
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Track the vendor relationship. The Procurement Ledger module records the purchase order, batches, and payments per vendor, giving both sides a shared account of the engagement.
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Manage kickbacks cleanly. If a batch is returned for revisions, its milestone stays open and re-enters approval on resubmission, so payment follows the accepted version.
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Show vendors what is due. Each vendor sees which batches are approved, pending, or in revision, easing the cash-flow strain that manual sign-off delays place on smaller studios.
Follow a single batch of shots from milestone funding through delivery and approval to automatic vendor payment.
10:15:22
[SYS] Initializing Shot Batch Milestone...
10:15:22
[CMD] fundMilestone { vendor: "PIXELWORKS", batch: "SEQ_12A", fee: 34000 }
10:15:23
[AUTH] Locking milestone fee into escrow...
10:15:23
[OK] Milestone MST_2044 funded at block 5820119.
Cerulea decomposes milestone payment into modular contracts. Each layer funds the batch, anchors delivery, gates on approval, and releases payment without an invoice waiting in a manual sign-off queue.
Milestone-based vendor payment is a horizontal capability. Here is how different actors in post-production put the escrow layer to work.
Deliver shots in batches and get paid on approval, easing the cash-flow strain that weeks of manual sign-off place on smaller vendors dependent on timely payment.
Key Asset Types
Fund work per milestone and release payment only against approved deliveries, tightening control over post-production spend with a shared, auditable procurement record.
Key Asset Types
Track which batches are approved, pending, or in revision across every vendor, replacing chased sign-offs and spreadsheets with a live milestone view.
Key Asset Types
Whether you are bridging a studio's production-management stack or onboarding vendors through a delivery portal, Cerulea routes both into one shared milestone record.
For studios on legacy production and procurement systems. Milestone and approval events are translated into signed on-chain payment records through the API gateway automatically.
Production / Procurement System
Studio Management Stack
Cerulea API Gateway
Milestone Hashing & Signing
Cerulea Private Chain
Procurement Milestone Ledger
For VFX and post vendors. A delivery portal signs each batch submission from a vendor wallet and receives milestone payment directly on approval.
Vendor Delivery Portal
Shot Submission App
Consortium Validators
Approval Consensus
Cerulea Ledger
Shared Milestone Record
Building a milestone-based vendor payment system with escrow, delivery anchoring, and approval-gated release from scratch requires specialised engineers and long production-system integration cycles. Calculate your exact deployment speed using Cerulea.
Traditional Deployment
Solidity Coding & Audits
~ 11 Months
Visual Compilation
WASM Logical Artifacts
~ 4 Weeks
The legacy timeline reflects production-finance integration benchmarks. Connecting production and procurement systems, coding escrow and approval-gate logic, and handling revision cycles for an average studio takes a baseline of 7 months. Building the same architecture on Cerulea takes a baseline of 2 weeks, because Cerulea Studio visually translates your milestone and approval rules into pre-audited WebAssembly binaries and provisions the procurement ledger instantly.