Bidding and Billing

Introduction Bidding

Bidding is a critical component of managing a visual effects studio, determining the cost and time required for project completion. Soko, a next-generation studio operation platform powered by AI, revolutionizes the bidding process by automating and optimizing it, making it more accurate and efficient.

Automated Cost Estimation

Soko leverages AI to provide precise estimates for both cost and time. Here's how it works:

Scope of work Selection: You can use AI to determined Scope of work or manually select the Scope of work for each shot and asset.

Complexity and Difficulty Setting: The Complexity and Difficulty level influencing the bid hours and cost.

Task Creation: Soko automatically generates tasks with suggested bid hours based on the selected Scope of work, Complexity and Difficulty.

Scope of work

Each Task template in Soko can be used as a Scope of Work template. The Scope of Work template contains additional information such as a description of the Scope of work, which is used by AI when matching the correct Scope of work to the Task overview, as well as Director or Studio notes. It also includes a Complexity and Difficulty matrix, based on which bid hours and bid price are estimated.

Complexity and Difficulty

To get an estimation of |Bid hours, you need to set the Complexity and Difficulty levels.

Complexity is defined for each task (e.g., rotoscoping, lighting, compositing). Tasks with high complexity can only be assigned to people with higher skill levels, while tasks with low complexity can be assigned to people with lower skill levels. Complexity is rated on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means low complexity and 5 means high complexity.

Difficulty: Difficulty is defined for each task (e.g., rotoscoping, lighting, compositing). A task with higher difficulty does not necessarily require a more senior person to complete it, but it does mean that more work needs to be done. For example, a low-difficulty rotoscoping task might involve rotoscoping a person in a 2-second shot, while a high-difficulty task might involve rotoscoping 10 people in a 20-second shot. The complexity of the task is the same, as both involve rotoscoping a person, but the difficulty differs because, in the second case, more people need to be rotoscoped over a longer frame range. Difficulty is rated on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means low difficulty and 5 means high difficulty.

Complexity and Difficulty matrix

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