A Yamdu alternative for companies that shoot every week

Yamdu is serious software for scripted film and TV: script breakdowns, stripboards, day-out-of-days reports and payroll time cards, trusted by broadcasters. If that is your world, use it. UnitDeck exists for a different one: corporate and branded video companies whose productions start with a client email, not a screenplay.

Three practical differences

1. Your brief is not a script

Yamdu's workflow begins with importing a screenplay and breaking it down. A corporate producer holds an email thread and a deadline. UnitDeck's Brief Parser reads that email and proposes the project, the client and the shoot days; the producer approves and edits. Nothing to import, nothing to break down.

2. Pricing that fits weekly shoots

As of June 2026, Yamdu's entry plan is $45 per month for a single user and a single project, with each additional project costing another $45 per month, and the team plan is $265 per month (or $199 billed annually). Metering by project punishes exactly the companies that shoot weekly. UnitDeck prices per producer seat with unlimited projects and unlimited crew recipients.

3. Built to run the day, not just plan it

Sending the call sheet is where Yamdu's job largely ends and UnitDeck's keeps going: every crew member gets a personal no-login mobile page with their call time, maps, parking and safety notes; they confirm with one tap; the producer watches confirmations land in real time, chases stragglers with an AI-drafted nudge, and takes check-ins on the morning of the shoot. The wrap report writes itself from what actually happened.

Choose Yamdu if

You make scripted drama, documentaries with large crews, or episodic TV and need breakdowns, DOODs, budgeting and payroll in one enterprise system.

Choose UnitDeck if

You run a video production company. Client briefs in, polished call sheets out, crew confirmed, day run, wrapped. UnitDeck is the operating system for that week, with AI doing the admin.