Answer the question every investor asks first.

"How do I get my money back?" It's the question that comes before the term sheet, before the commitment, before anything else. If you can't model the answer — with real numbers, across real markets, stress-tested against real scenarios — the conversation stalls.

loqyn's Recoupment Forecast builds directly from your Finance Plan and budget. Model sales-based investor returns across national and international markets. Adjust projections. Test worst-case and best-case. Walk into the meeting with the answer already built.

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loqyn Recoupment Forecast interface showing investor return projections across market scenarios

Recoupment builds from your Finance Plan. Change the budget — the forecast updates automatically.

My investor asked how they get their money back. I had a budget, a Finance Plan, and a pitch deck — but no model that showed them the return pathway.

A budget tells an investor what the film costs. A Finance Plan tells them where the money comes from. But neither answers the question they actually care about: when do I get paid back, and how much do I make?

That answer requires a Recoupment Forecast — a model that takes your budget, your financing structure, and your revenue projections, and shows what the investor's return looks like under different scenarios. No budgeting tool builds one. No competitor offers one. Most producers build them in a spreadsheet that's disconnected from every other financial document.

No budgeting tool — legacy or modern — includes a recoupment model. It's always a separate spreadsheet
Revenue projections built in Excel are disconnected from the budget and Finance Plan — change one, and the others are instantly out of date
Investors ask "what if" questions — worst case, best case, territory splits — and producers scramble to recalculate on the spot
The recoupment model is the document that turns investor interest into investor commitment — and most producers build it last, under pressure
Movie Magic costs $42.99/month per seat and doesn't include any form of recoupment modelling

Built from your Finance Plan

Model the return before the meeting — not during it

The Recoupment Forecast auto-populates from your Finance Plan. No re-keying. No disconnected spreadsheet.

Build your budget and Finance Plan

The Recoupment Forecast requires a completed Finance Plan as its foundation. Your budget flows into the Finance Plan, and the Finance Plan flows into the forecast — all connected.

Link the Recoupment Forecast

Connect the forecast to your Finance Plan. loqyn auto-populates the revenue categories, financing structure, and cost base. The data is already there — you're modelling on top of it, not rebuilding it.

Model sales projections across markets

Set national and international (ROW) revenue projections. Adjust distributor fees, sales agent commissions, and market-specific assumptions. Test conservative, moderate, and optimistic scenarios.

Review investor return and payback

The forecast calculates when the investor recoups, what their return looks like under each scenario, and how revenue flows through the financing structure. Export as a professional PDF — ready for the investor conversation.

The investor conversation — before and after loqyn

Without loqynInvestor asks about returns. You promise to "send something over" and spend the weekend building a spreadsheet.

With loqynInvestor asks about returns. You open the Recoupment Forecast. The answer is already modelled.

Without loqynRevenue projections in a spreadsheet that doesn't know the budget changed last Tuesday.

With loqynBudget changes flow through the Finance Plan and into the forecast automatically. Always current.

Without loqyn"What if we increase the international presale?" means an hour rebuilding formulas.

With loqynAdjust the projection. The forecast recalculates. Test three scenarios before the coffee gets cold.

Available from Screen Ember

The tool that turns a budget into an investable proposition.

Screen Ember is for producers building the financial case for their film. The budget exists. The Finance Plan is taking shape. What's missing is the document that answers the investor's core question: what does the return look like?

Ember adds Recoupment Forecasting, Qualifying Rebates, and Location Value — the structuring tools that sit between development and a signed deal.

Screen Ember

For producers structuring finance

Everything in Ignite, plus investor-facing tools

Includes

Recoupment Forecast
Qualifying Rebates
Location Value

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From budget to investor

Model the return. Win the commitment.

Start free on Screen Spark. Build your budget and Finance Plan. Upgrade to Ember when you're ready to model the investor's return — and walk into the meeting with the answer already built.

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