Welcome to LOFT Resource

LOFT Resource is a workforce planning and resource management platform built for studios, agencies, and professional services firms. It brings together scheduling, cost tracking, utilization reporting, and team management into a single workspace so production leaders can plan with confidence and protect their margins.

• Role Planner — Visual timeline for scheduling people across projects with drag-and-drop
• Crew Planner — Manage crew assignments and availability across your organization
• Cost Tracking — Real-time cost analysis with bid rate, loaded rate, salary, and net margin views
• Scenario Planning — Model alternative staffing plans side-by-side before committing
• Utilization Reports — Track team utilization rates and identify capacity gaps
• Cost Reports — Periodic cost breakdowns by project, role, and time period
• Material Tracking — Manage software licenses, hardware, and other cost categories
• Timesheet — Record and review actual hours worked against planned schedules
• Multi-Currency — Full support for global teams with automatic currency conversion

When you first sign in, you will see the Projects overview. From there you can create projects, set up your organizational groups, and begin planning your workforce.

• Set up your organizational Groups (departments, divisions, locations)
• Add Crew members with their roles, rates, and availability
• Create Projects and define their timelines
• Open the Role Planner to start scheduling people to projects
• Switch to Cost mode to see the financial impact of your staffing plan
• Use Reports to track utilization and costs over time

Use the sidebar on the left to navigate between sections. The sidebar is organized by what you are doing:

• PROJECTS — the portfolio; open one and the sidebar switches to that project's Plan, Produce and Account views
• PLAN — Role Planner, Crew Planner, and Task Gantt across all projects
• TRACK — Timesheet and Work Hours as they are logged and approved
• REPORTS — Weekly Status, Utilization, Cost Report, and Composer
• SETUP — Crew, Groups, Pipelines, Cost Categories, Software, Hardware, and Security Groups