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What you would build in monday.com
Picture the boards a studio usually makes in a work management tool. Leads, with a status column. Projects, with a phase, a shoot date and a client. Shoot days, linked to projects. Crew, with a role and a rate. Post, with a row per cut and a column for the round. Deliverables, with a status.
All of that is very doable in monday.com, and it will look good. Automations can move a project when a status changes, and dashboards can show the week.
Then look at what is still outside the boards. The proposal and the client's signature. The deposit invoice and the payment. A call sheet sent to each crew member, with who has confirmed. The client's notes on a frame of the cut. A delivery that waits for the balance. For each of those you connect another product, or someone copies information across by hand.
What each one costs
| monday.com plan | A seat a month, billed yearly | What its page lists |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Up to 2 seats, 3 boards |
| Basic | $9 | Unlimited items |
| Standard | $12 | Timeline and Gantt views, 250 automation actions a month |
| Pro | $19 | Private boards, time tracking, 25,000 automation actions a month |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
Checked November 2026 on monday.com's pricing page, which says plans start from 3 seats. Monthly billing costs more.
Three seats on Standard is $36 a month billed yearly. Cutvey Pro is $99 a month for 5 people, or $59 billed yearly, with the proposal, payment, crew and review parts included. monday.com is the cheaper bill if boards are all you need.
Where monday.com is ahead
Flexibility comes first. Any process can be a board, any board can have the columns you want, and views turn the same rows into a timeline or a Gantt chart. Automations and integrations go deep on the higher plans, with guest access for people outside the company and dashboards that pull many boards together. It is also built for organizations far larger than a studio, so it can hold your marketing work, your hiring and your office move as well.
What is already there in Cutvey
Cutvey has fewer kinds of board and more kinds of thing. Projects move through phases on a board, a list or a timeline. Tasks have an owner, a due date, a priority, subtasks, repeats, comments and files. A task template can date each step from the shoot day or the deadline, and when the shoot moves, the tasks move with it.
Around those sit the parts a general tool leaves to other products. The signed proposal opens the project and raises the deposit invoice. Crew are booked at their rates with clashes flagged, and the call sheet tracks who confirmed. Cuts are reviewed with notes on the frame, rounds are counted against the contract, and approval raises the final invoice. Workflows can send an email, add a task, send a form, wait, or move a project to its next phase.
Side by side
| Job | monday.com | Cutvey |
|---|---|---|
| Boards and columns you design | Yes, any shape | Projects by phase, with custom fields |
| Timeline and Gantt views | From Standard | A project timeline |
| Tasks, owners, due dates, subtasks | Yes | Yes, with dates set from the shoot or deadline |
| Automations | 250 actions a month on Standard | Workflows, within your plan's limit |
| People from outside the company | Guests, from Standard | Clients and crew open their own links with no account |
| Proposals and e-signature | Through another product | Yes |
| Invoices and online payment | Through another product | Yes, on your own Stripe |
| Crew, call sheets, confirmations | Built by you as boards | Yes |
| Client review on the frame | Through another product | Yes |
| Teams beyond production | Any department | No |
monday.com features read from its pricing page, November 2026. Their site is the source of truth.
A test before you choose
Take your last finished job and count the hand-offs: each time information moved from one place to another, whether a person or software moved it. Inquiry to proposal. Proposal to signature. Signature to deposit. Deposit to project. Project to crew. Crew to call sheet. Cut to notes. Notes to approval. Approval to invoice. Invoice to delivery.
In monday.com you can automate the ones inside its boards, and connect products for some of the rest. In Cutvey most of them are one record moving forward. If you only had three hand-offs, monday.com will serve you well. If you had ten, count how many someone typed.
When to choose monday.com
- The company does more than video, and every team should share one tool.
- You enjoy designing your own process and want it to look exactly your way.
- You need guests, dashboards and integrations at scale.
- Proposals, payments and review are already handled somewhere you like.
Where Cutvey falls short
It has a shape, and you cannot redraw it the way you can a board. There are no dashboards built from your own columns, and no place for your marketing or hiring work. Integrations are fewer: Gmail, Google Calendar and Outlook, QuickBooks Online and Xero, Slack, and an API on Pro and up.
Frequently asked
Is monday.com good for video production?
It can be, if someone builds the boards and keeps them tidy. It does not send proposals for signature, take payments, send call sheets or collect notes on a cut by itself, so those come from other products.
Can I import my monday.com projects into Cutvey?
You can import active projects, clients and leads from a CSV. Export your boards to a spreadsheet, then match the columns before anything saves.
More on this: Cutvey and Notion, video production management software.