Every job, freelancers rebuild their contacts from scratch
Scattered everywhere
The prop house number is in a WhatsApp from March, the location contact in an email, the gaffer in your phone under a first name.
Gone when the job wraps
The crew chat goes quiet, and every supplier someone found on the job goes with it.
Hours lost hunting
Time on every job goes on scrolling, asking around and re-finding people you already worked with.
Black Book keeps all of it in one place that goes with you from job to job.
Two parts that feed each other
My Book
Your private black book
- People, suppliers and places in one place
- Search, or ask in plain English
- Paste a message or snap a card to add
- Private to you, exportable any time
Teams
A shared space for each job
- The lead builds the crew with a join code
- One chat for the whole job
- A team book the crew fills together
- Shoot days straight into everyone's diary
Everything that matters on set, one tap away
Search or just ask
Filter by project or tag, browse A–Z, or ask “who supplied the haze machine?” and get the answer from your own book.
Add in seconds
Paste an email signature or WhatsApp message, or photograph a business card. It fills in the details for you to check.
Linked to your jobs
Group people and suppliers by project, and see everyone from a past shoot together.
A diary that syncs
Pencil, confirm or release bookings. Your diary and every team's shoot days appear in Google, Apple or Outlook.
Contacts flow both ways
Share a single entry with the crew, and save anything from the team book or chat into your own book in one tap.
Notes that save the day
Who to ask for, prices, opening times, where the loading bay is. Copy any detail in one tap.
Private by default
Your book holds other people's details, so we treat it carefully. Only you can see it. You choose exactly what to share.
- Only the single entry you choose is ever shared. Your notes stay private unless you say otherwise.
- Your data is stored in London, under UK GDPR.
- Export your whole book as a spreadsheet whenever you like.
- Delete your account and everything in it, from any device, at any time.
- AI features only ever see your own book, or the team you're in.
Simple pricing
Free for everyone while Black Book is in testing. These prices may change.
Free
Your own black book, and every team you're invited to.
£0for ever
- Your private book: people, suppliers and places
- Search, tags and projects
- Diary, synced to your calendar
- Join as many teams as you like
- Quick add and Ask, a few times a day
Pro
Most popularFor freelancers who run jobs.
£6per month
or £60 a year
- Everything in Free
- Lead teams: join codes, crew, chat, team book and schedule
- Quick add from messages and card photos, every day
- Ask your book anything
- Spreadsheet export
Production
For production companies who want crews' knowledge to stay with the company.
Let's talk
- Pro for everyone on your jobs
- A company book that outlasts each job
- Pilot support on a live production
Every job improves your book.
Start with the contacts you already have. Bring the crew in on your next job.