The deal, in full
How the share works
This is the actual math, not a summary of it. Money from a project moves through four stages, in this order, before anyone sees a profit split. Nothing at a later stage is paid until the stage above it is fully satisfied.
- 1
Hard cost recoupment
Verified, receipted, out-of-pocket spend: rentals, permits, insurance, food, hosting. Repaid 1:1 to whoever paid it.
- 2
Capital recoupment
Cash investors receive 120% of what they put in, pro-rata to their share of total cash invested.
- 3
Profit pool
Everything remaining splits in two:
Capital pool: 50%
To cash investors, pro-rata by amount. Collapses fully into the contribution pool on a project that raised no outside cash.
Contribution pool: 50%
To everyone holding points: crew, cast, locations, gear, sponsorship sourcing. Split further below.
Inside the contribution pool
25%
Anqor originator block: scripts, platform, legal, distribution effort. Same cap as everyone else applies to this role too.
75%
Divided by points, published on the public ledger.
Points aren’t capped
There’s no fixed pool of 100 points. Everyone earns points; your share is your points divided by the total points issued on that project. 1 point = one 10-hour shoot day at the base rate. Everything else is a multiple of that.
| Band | Rate | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| A | 3.0× | Director · Lead Actor · Director of Photography · Showrunner |
| B | 2.0× | Supporting Actor · Editor · 1st AD · Line Producer · Composer |
| C | 1.0× | Camera · Sound · Gaffer · Grip · HMU · Colourist · VFX |
| D | 0.5× | PA · Runner · Extra · Social |
Prep days count at half the role’s rate. Post days (editor, colourist, composer, VFX) count at full rate, capped at the contracted day count, so a post role can’t silently mint points without limit.
Equipment, locations, and services
1 point per AED 1,000 of verified value saved: a published rate card or two independent written quotes, not a self-declared number. Priced the same way regardless of who supplies it, including Anqor personnel. Capped at 25% of a project’s total points, across every in-kind contributor combined.
The cap applies to the founder too
No single person may hold more than 15% of a project’s points, 20% for a top-band role. That includes Anqor’s principal, even when stacking multiple roles on the same project (originator, equipment supplier, director). There is no disclosed or undisclosed exception. If the cap proves too tight in practice, the lever is raising the 25% originator block, out in the open. It's not carving out an individual on the ledger.
Vesting
Points only vest as committed days are actually completed.
| Completed all committed days | 100% vests |
| Left early, with cause | 100% of days earned vests |
| Left early, without cause | 50% of days earned |
| No-show on committed days | 0, removed from ledger |