Your AI Assistant, Agent, and Analyst for the Business of Entertainment

VIQI AI helps you plan content acquisitions, raise production financing, and find and connect with the right partners worldwide.

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Financing & Co-Pro

• Find active co-producers and financiers for scripted projects
• Find equity and gap financing companies in North America
• Find top film financiers in Europe
• Find production houses that can co-produce or finance unscripted series

Project Partnerships

• I am looking for production partners for a YA drama set in Brazil
• I am looking for producers with proven track record in mid-budget features
• I am looking for Turkish distributors with successful international sales
• I am looking for OTT platforms actively acquiring finished series for the LATAM region

Vendor Sourcing

• I am seeking localization companies offer subtitling services in multiple Asian languages
• I am seeking partners in animation production for children's content
• I am seeking USA based post-production companies with sound facilities
• I am seeking VFX partners to composite background images and AI generated content

Licensing

• Show me recent drama projects available for pre-buy
• Show me Japanese Anime Distributors
• Show me true-crime buyers from Asia
• Show me documentary pre-buyers

Key Personnel

• List the top commissioners at the BBC
• List the post-production and VFX decision-makers at Netflix
• List the development leaders at Sony Pictures
• List the scripted programming heads at HBO

Market Intelligence

• Who is backing animation projects in Europe right now
• Who is Netflix’s top production partners for Sports Docs
• Who is Commissioning factual content in the NORDICS
• Who is acquiring unscripted formats for the North American market

Defining AI Analytics in the Film Lifecycle: Beyond General Automation

While general AI handles text and images, vertical AI for the film supply chain maps over 30 million industry relationships. For a Business Enabler, this means the ability to query specific production milestones, rights availability, and territorial tax incentives within a single interface. These platforms analyze competitive slates to identify where talent is overbooked or where production hubs are reaching capacity, allowing studios to pivot to more cost-effective regions before market saturation.

The Executive Roadmap: 5 Steps to Implementing AI Platforms for Cost Efficiency

Implementing AI-based analytics is not merely a software upgrade, it is a structural transformation of how production intelligence is consumed. Strategy officers should follow this phased approach to ensure quantifiable ROI:

• Phase 1: Supply-Chain Auditing. Map existing data silos across production, legal, and finance to identify where fragmented networks are causing overpayment.
• Phase 2: Data Centralization. Adopt a global supply chain platform to provide a single source of truth for 140,000 plus companies.
• Phase 3: CRM Integration. Use API-ready data feeds to plug verified company metadata into Salesforce or HubSpot, automating partner qualification.
• Phase 4: Predictive Modeling. Utilize AI to forecast production bottlenecks based on historical regional performance and vendor specializations.
• Phase 5: Scale and Iterate. Expand analytics from core production into distribution and licensing to identify high-value content windows.

Proven Cost Reductions: Real-World Applications at Scale

Case studies provide the most authoritative proof of AI efficacy. For instance, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Animation utilized supply chain intelligence to identify and strategize the establishment of new animation production hubs outside of traditional, high-cost centers. By leveraging data-driven territory selection, they secured access to specialized talent at significantly reduced overhead costs.

Similarly, SBT Brazil leveraged vertical AI platforms to streamline the acquisition of international content. By accurately profiling global distributors and tracking available rights in real time, they reduced the time and cost associated with manual content discovery, allowing them to curate a digital-first library with surgical precision.

Optimizing Logistics with Predictive Modeling: The Future of Inventory

Logistics is often the most neglected area for cost reduction, yet it represents a significant portion of physical production budgets. AI-based analytics platforms now offer predictive inventory management by tracking equipment vendor availability across 600,000 global companies. By aligning production schedules with regional equipment surpluses, studios can negotiate volume discounts and minimize shipping costs, which have been volatile in the post-pandemic market.