OLIVINE
The verification layer for entertainment production.
Jeff Haskell · Founder · $500K to $1M Pre-Seed · jeff@ophelia.company
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We can generate faster
than we can verify.
than we can verify.
Data generation is exponential. Human cognition is flat.
The cost of error hasn't changed. The gap is pure risk.
The cost of error hasn't changed. The gap is pure risk.
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The industry that can’t afford errors
still catches them too late.
still catches them too late.
Unions
Insurance
Payroll
Continuity
Scheduling
Budgeting
Grants
Code has compilers.
Finance has audits.
Production has human coordinators.
Finance has audits.
Production has human coordinators.
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Coding agents just commoditized
the application layer.
the application layer.
2015 to 2022
Custom software
$500K+ budgets
Few tools
$500K+ budgets
Few tools
2023 to 2024
AI-assisted tools
Faster, cheaper
Many tools
Faster, cheaper
Many tools
2025+
Anyone builds anything
In an afternoon
Infinite tools
In an afternoon
Infinite tools
More tools → more outputs → more to verify → same human brain
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Tools are getting connected.
Verification is still fragmented.
Verification is still fragmented.
Tools
SetHero
StudioBinder
RivetAI
→
Systems
Wrapbook
Showbiz / Movie Magic
Saturation
Yamdu
→
Verification layer
OLIVINE
Verifies at the source
across systems
across systems
Each system checks its own output.
Olivine verifies the production itself.
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Generate anything.
Verify everything.
Verify everything.
A scene rewrite triggers operational consequences. An operational constraint forces creative decisions. Olivine traces both directions instantly.
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One change. Every domain.
📍
Location moves from Manhattan → Edgewater, NJ
Insurance
Fireman's Fund COI names 123 W 25th St. You're now at 400 River Rd. Policy doesn't cover you.
Permits
NYC Mayor's Office permit is void. Need Edgewater municipal filing. Different notification rules.
Labor
Crossed a state line. NJ overtime thresholds, turnaround rules, meal penalties. Every deal memo is wrong jurisdiction.
Payroll
IATSE 600 rates don't apply. NJ fringes, workers' comp tier, withholding. All changed. Submissions will reject.
Safety
Risk assessment is for a studio. New location is a warehouse. New safety plan required.
...and it doesn't stop at operations.
Creative
18-ft ceilings but no grid. Need materials to build one or stands tall enough to match. DP and gaffer need to confirm. Scenes re-blocked depending on that call.
Budget
No grid means longer prep. Need more prep days, overtime, or cut a scene. Can't cut. Can't afford OT. Dead end. Needs a producer decision now.
The cascade doesn't respect the line between creative and operations.
Neither does Olivine.
Neither does Olivine.
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Already in the workflow.
2.8M data points. Live.
Ophelia's full operational graph running on Olivine today. 25,000 entities (crew, locations, budgets, permits, insurance) connected by 87,000 verified relationships across 13 data graphs. Not a demo.
$8K saved on a $105K shoot
Per-project admin cost at Ophelia. PO processing, invoice matching, reconciliation, tax filing. Eliminated. Work that took 3 to 5 days, done by wrap. Because automations verify against a source that's correct.
Full provenance. Time travel.
Every graph mutation records who changed it, when, and why. Including LLM reasoning chains. Roll back any entity to any prior state. Branch a production's graph to model what-if scenarios before committing.
Cast & Crew
A dominant payroll processor. Their leadership saw the value immediately: verified upstream data drives volume into their platform. Integration conversations underway.
543
classes
1,118
properties
25
domains
13
data graphs
OMC v2.5
MovieLabs standard
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The verification tax.
5 to 8%
of every production budget is spent
checking, reconciling, and resubmitting.
checking, reconciling, and resubmitting.
At Ophelia, Olivine reduced that to near-zero incremental verification cost.
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Jeff Haskell · Founder
Producer who codes. Built through the problem.
Chapman UniversityB.S. Computer Science (Data Science / ML)B.F.A. Creative Producing
Founded Ophelia & Company 15 directors. 1B+ views. Teams up to 80. Budgets to $500K. Fortune 500 clients.
8 years in Hollywood production infrastructure, running every workflow Olivine verifies.
Path to product-market fit
v0 → Production OS. Too broad.
v1 → Document extraction. Too capital-intensive.
v2 → Budget app. Commoditized by AI.
v3 → Ontology-as-product. Nobody pays for a schema.
v4 → The knowledge itself is the product.
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The schema is free.
The knowledge is the product.
The knowledge is the product.
Every week, more knowledge encoded. New jurisdictions. New union agreements. New compliance rules. The knowledge base deepens. Switching cost rises.
Free
Schema + structure validation. Build compliant apps from day one.
Pro
Populated knowledge + deterministic verification. Know your data is right.
Dun & BradstreetGave away the identifierCharges for the database — billions
Moody'sPublished the taxonomyCharges for the ratings — $7B/yr
BloombergCommoditized the data modelCharges for the feeds — $20B+
Prompt-based moats erode with model progress. Knowledge moats deepen with coverage.
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$500K to $1M
Pre-Seed
Now
Live in Ophelia production workflows. Budget + payroll domains encoded.
Month 3
Multiple apps built on the Olivine MCP by external developers.
Month 6
Productions running on Olivine-powered tools. First paying customers.
Month 12
Downstream infrastructure connected — payroll, insurance, permits accepting verified submissions without manual correction.
"AI can generate anything. Olivine is how you know it's right."
jeff@ophelia.company
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