Most studios do not ship the work alone. Talent OS is the contractor side of Plero — onboarding, assignments, bills, time tracking, 1099 reporting. The crew sees a portal that matches your studio, not somebody else’s software.
Talent OS is the contractor side of Plero. Most studio operating tools end at the client and project record. Plero keeps going — through the people who actually do the work with you. Onboard a contractor through a single branded link that collects the W-9 and the agreement in one pass. Assign them to projects. Track their time. Approve their bills. Generate their 1099 at year-end. They see a portal that matches your studio. You see one operational system that holds both sides of the studio.
A branded invite link that collects the W-9, the contractor agreement, payment details, and rate confirmation in one pass. The contractor signs into a portal with your studio’s name on it. You see them appear in your contractor library with the rate already set.
Every contractor you have worked with. Specialty, past projects, rate range, current workload. Search by specialty. Filter by availability. Chloe recommends from this library when a project needs staffing.
Project work assigned to specific contractors. Scope, rate, dates, deliverables. The contractor sees their assignment in their portal. Their time, their bills, their deliverables all attach to it.
Contractors log their hours against assignments from their portal. Hours roll up into the project’s actuals. The numbers your producers and your accountant both ask for.
Contractors submit bills against their assignments. Bills that match cleanly get approved in one pass. Bills with line items that do not match the scope get flagged for review. The bills you approve hit your books; the ones you flag stay in queue until you resolve them.
The W-9 collected at onboarding lives in the contractor record. At year-end, 1099 reporting pulls from this — contractors paid more than $600 surfaced, missing W-9s flagged, and the export ready for your accountant.
The branded surface your contractors return to. Their assignments, their hours, their bills, their tax documents, their payment history. Your studio name, your colors. The professional surface that says you take their side of the operation seriously.
Multiple people on your side too — producers, accountants, project managers. Each with the access scope that fits their role. The right people read and edit the right records.
“Recommend a 3D artist for the Volta campaign.”
She matches by specialty, past work, and current workload. Returns three options ranked, with rate ranges from your contractor library.
“Send onboarding to Maya Singh. Designer rate, $125 per hour.”
She generates the branded invite link, attaches the W-9 collection, and sets the rate in her record. Notifies you when she accepts.
“Approve all clean bills from this week.”
She approves the bills that match their assignments without exceptions, flags the ones that don’t, and shows you the flagged list for review.
$29/mo annual
Talent OS is not on Launch. The Launch tier is sized for solo and small studios where the contractor side is not yet the operational concern.
Not on this tier$59/mo annual
Talent OS is not on Scale either. Scale is shaped for the new-business side — bidding, estimating, pipeline.
Not on this tier$99/mo annual
Full Talent OS. Contractor library, onboarding, assignments, time tracking, bills, 1099 reporting, talent portal, team management. The tier shaped for studios where the crew side of the operation is the operation.
Founding studios are joining now. A short engagement to import the contractors you already work with, set the rates, and onboard the next one through a branded invite link instead of an email thread.