Production Hair Budget Builder, Texture Ready™
Quick estimate
The pre-casting reserve.
For planning a show before casting. Set a few quick facts and get a defensible reserve range to budget against. A Hair Lead can build this and send it to a producer early.Architecture
Step One
The production.
Set the frame. This sizes the run and the labor envelope before a single performer is scoped.Architecture
Engagement
Why this matters: the textured-hair share is a planning assumption, not a casting prediction. It sizes the reserve before casting locks. You true it up per performer in Step 3.
Step Two
The complexity read.
Four questions size how much hair will demand of this production. The score sets the reserve band you carry into budgeting.ArchitectureEscalation
Reserve band, not a quote. The complexity read sets a pre-casting reserve the production carries until performers are scoped. Low carries a lean reserve. High carries a protective one. This is the Escalation line in budget form.
Step Three
The performers.
One card per performer in scope. Every figure is editable. This is the working budget you run once casting locks.ConsentFluencyCare
How the math works: the stylist's labor lives inside the phase costs (build and prep, refresh, takedown), so there is no separate day rate. Maintenance runs on cycles, not a flat weekly cost: a style holds for the cadence window, then needs a refresh. Cycles equal the run length divided by the cadence, minus the first window. Travel and per diem belong below, and only when you bring a specialist in.
Confirmed
Potential / pending intake
Placeholder / quote TBD
Travel, reserve & fees
Lines + reserves
$0
Contingency
$0
Hair Lead fee
$0
Working total
$0
Step Four
The budget.
A clean read-out you can hand to the production. Reserve band on top, line build below, labor and contingency itemized.Architecture
Complexity read
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Pre-casting reserve band
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Carry this until casting locks.
What this maps to in the standard
- Architecture Budget authority, reserve sizing, line build, contingency.
- Consent Per-performer intake before any rate is set. No assumptions.
- Fluency Style, install, and maintenance rates reflect real feasibility.
- Care Performer life outside the show factors into maintenance cadence.
- Escalation The reserve band is the stop-the-line cushion in dollar form.
- Literacy The whole instrument assumes textured hair is in scope by default.
