The farm runs all night.
Now someone’s watching it.
Wrangle sits on top of AWS Deadline Cloud and works the overnight — it triages failed renders, requeues within your policy, and asks on Slack before it spends a dollar.
No farm yet? Setup is part of the deal — see how →
The studio is asleep. The farm is not.
Four jobs on the queue, three hundred machines rendering, nobody in the building. On a good night this page is boring — and you can watch it be boring for free.
This view — and submitting to it — is Submit, $149 a month per farm, free for the first 14 days.
| job | frames | progress | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHO_0470_lighting_v012 | 1001–1240 | 62% | RUNNING |
| SHO_0512_fx_v004 | 1001–1096 | 38% | RUNNING |
| SHO_0430_comp_v007 | 1001–1118 | 0% | QUEUED |
| SHO_0221_anim_v019 | 1001–1300 | 100% | DONE |
A render dies.
At most studios, this is where someone’s evening ends.
Nightshift picks it up.
Nightshift reads the log the way a wrangler would. It saw a license checkout failure — not a broken scene — so there was nothing to fix, only frames to resubmit. It checked your requeue policy, split the failed chunk, and put 96 frames back on the farm. The whole decision is in the thread, timestamped, in plain English.
It asks before it spends.
Nightshift asks first, every time real money is on the line. Your cap, your call, from your phone.
Frames come back.
Slack previews come with Submit. Approvals are where Nightshift starts.
The night, accounted for.
| SHOT | TASK | ARTIST | FRAMES TONIGHT | COST | PER FINAL FRAME |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHO_0470 | lighting_v012 | R. Okafor | 240 | $103.00 | $0.43 |
| incl. 96-frame requeue · 1009–1104 · spot · $41.20 · approved 01:03 | |||||
| SHO_0430 | comp_v007 | M. Ferreira | 118 | $31.86 | $0.27 |
| SHO_0512 | fx_v004 | T. Anand | 96 | $55.68 | $0.58 |
| SHO_0221 | anim_v019 | J. Whitcombe | 300 | $48.00 | $0.16 |
| show_prod | 754 | $238.54 | |||
Every frame the farm rendered tonight is joined to a shot in Flow. By morning you know what SHO_0470 actually cost — per version, per artist, per final frame — without exporting a single CSV. When a client asks why the comp overage happened, the answer is already a line item.
You open Slack.
“The first morning, I kept waiting for the bad news. There wasn’t any.”
Head of Production, 40-seat studio
However you get here.
Everything you just watched starts with a farm — and getting one is part of the product. No farm yet? A one-time setup provisions it on your own AWS account, using OpenJD, the open job format AWS itself builds on — then your artists submit from a browser tab, nothing installed anywhere. Still running Deadline 10? We bridge it. Already on Deadline Cloud? Just connect it, this afternoon.
Find finished frames in the morning.
Submit
- Render from a browser tab — no installs, ever
- The live farm monitor, plus Slack with frame previews
- 14-day trial on your own farm
Studio
- Per-shot cost attribution, joined to Flow
- Bid vs. actual, burn forecasts, anomaly alerts
- Everything in Submit, included
Nightshift
- Policy requeues, chunk splitting, retries
- Spend approvals with your auto-cap
- Morning summary & the night ledger, joined to Flow
Starting from zero? One-time $999 sets up your farm. Free if you already run one.
Will it spend money without asking? No. Anything over your cap is an explicit Slack approval. Holds cost nothing.
Priced per farm? Yes — not per seat. Your render spend is yours; we never mark up AWS.
Tonight, the farm runs itself. — Wrangle
