StageLynk Launches AI Booking Platform for Film and TV Stages

StageLynk has launched an AI-powered studio search and production planning platform for the film and television industry.

The Los Angeles-based startup, which also has an office in Chicago, spent several years developing a soundstage booking platform to connect studio owners and production companies. The platform provides a searchable soundstage directory with nearly 17 million square feet of inventory across 1,200 soundstages in major production hubs such as Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, Toronto and the U.K.

Finding the right soundstage can require calls, emails, spreadsheets and repeated outreach to determine which facilities best fit a project. StageLynk said it condenses that process into one platform.

“The product is a marketplace to connect studio facilities with productions,” said Brett Robbins, who with Will Krug co-founded StageLynk. “For those two sides to find each other, interact and transact. The entertainment industry has shifted over the last few years, and so the product has expanded in its scope relative to where we initially set out.”

The platform includes StageScout, StageLynk’s AI-powered production assistant, which helps production teams evaluate factors beyond just the stage itself. Those factors include state and regional tax incentives, permitting requirements, union considerations, local production information and nearby amenities. 

“It goes beyond just, if I’m a producer, what facilities might I be able to find to film my production project?” Robbins explained. “And it incorporates all the other important items that go into decision-making on where something is filmed and how that can go beyond the four walls of the physical real estate — things like state incentives, surrounding amenities and physical location shoots. While a lot of production is done within a controlled four-wall environment, a lot of it is still done in natural environments. So all those things play into feasibility from a production standpoint.”

For studios, StageLynk serves as a marketing and lead-generation platform, enabling operators to showcase real-time availability to qualified productions actively searching for space. By increasing visibility and streamlining inbound inquiries, the platform can help studios capture more demand, reduce downtime and manage bookings more efficiently.

“Studios have historically been able to rely on relationships and scarcity to stay full,” added Robbins, who noted that a recent drop in movie and TV production has altered the studio booking ecosystem. “With new supply delivering into a softer demand environment, owners have had to increasingly compete for projects that used to come to them.

“As an owner and manager of facilities, we’ve seen some of that friction firsthand, particularly in this environment where production volumes are down here in the United States. So people are having to get more creative in how they’re filling their inventory.”

Philip Russo can be reached at prusso@commercialobserver.com.