About
Telova is a production management platform that covers the full lifecycle of creative work, from brief intake through delivery and archiving, in one system. It exists because the tools we had didn't talk to each other, and the gaps between them were eating our days alive.
I'm Steven. I've spent the last twenty-plus years in production, across broadcast, agency, and corporate work, across Africa, Europe, and a handful of other places where the shoots took me. I've been on sets where everything runs like a machine and on sets where the call sheet was wrong, the location permit hadn't come through, and the client changed the brief at lunch.
Through all of it, the one constant was the administrative chaos around the creative work. Budgets in spreadsheets that nobody updated. Briefs scattered across email and Slack. Review feedback arriving as WhatsApp voice notes. Delivery specs changing two days before the deadline. Freelancer invoices that didn't match what was agreed because the agreement was verbal. Every production I've been part of spent more time on coordination than on craft.
The tools existed individually. Frame.io for review. Monday.com for tasks. Bynder for brand assets. Google Sheets for budgets. Each one was fine at its specific job. But none of them knew about each other, and every time work crossed from one stage to the next, a human being had to manually carry the context across. Copy the notes, re-upload the file, update the spreadsheet, send the email saying the spreadsheet was updated.
Telova started as an attempt to build the thing I kept wishing existed. A single platform where the brief informs the budget, the budget tracks against real spend as it happens, assets move through review with frame-accurate feedback, deliverables get built against actual platform specs, and rights get archived so you can find them two years later when the client calls.
It's one person building this. I'm not going to pretend it's a venture-backed team of forty. It's me, the experience I've accumulated across two decades of production, and the conviction that the gap between tools is where the most time and money gets lost.
Clients, executives, stakeholders. They get a link and a PIN. No account, no friction, no seat fee. The people doing the creative work pay. The people reviewing it don't.
Editors, designers, DPs, freelancers. Anyone who contributes to a project but doesn't manage it. Production shouldn't punish collaboration with per-seat pricing.
Every downstream problem traces back to a vague, lost, or unapproved brief. Structured intake isn't a feature, it's the starting point for everything else.
Knowing what an extra setup costs before you say yes on set is fundamentally different from finding out at the end of the week. Real-time budget tracking isn't a nice-to-have.
Everyone skips it. Everyone regrets it six months later. Rights tracking, retention policies, and searchable archives aren't afterthoughts in Telova.
The last thing production needs is tool number sixteen. Telova replaces the spreadsheets, the review platform, the asset management system, and the email approvals. Not the creative applications.
Questions, feedback, partnership enquiries, or just want to talk about production workflows. I read every email.
hello@telova.ioFree to start. No credit card. Run a project through it, brief to archive.
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