Studio Kanade produces YouTube channels and corporate video. Nobody's job title said 'equipment', which was exactly the problem. They started on Werp™ at ¥0 as a team of three and moved to Starter as they grew to six.
Three people at the start, and a shelf of mirrorless bodies, gimbals, drones, lights, and microphones. Gear was 'managed' by a spreadsheet that was updated when someone remembered, and a group chat that answered 'who has the drone?' with silence.
There was no budget for an asset-management suite and no appetite for one either. Anything that needed an admin or a training session was dead on arrival.
The cost of chaos was real, just invisible: duplicate purchases, shoot-day surprises, and gear that existed only in the spreadsheet.
They imported the old spreadsheet file as it was into Werp™'s Free plan. Import is available on every plan. Fifty items fit comfortably. Total setup time: about an hour, no sales call, no credit card.
For anything with a barcode, a JAN/EAN scan pulls up the product; WerpAI™ fills in the model, specs, and photo. Registering a new microphone takes seconds at the door, so it actually happens.
Their first stocktake produced a discrepancy report: two lenses and a charger case marked 'missing' turned up in a producer's home office, putting roughly ¥400,000 of gear back on the shelf. Duplicate purchases stopped the same month.
QR labels went on everything. Checking gear out or back in is recorded from the screen that opens when you scan its label, and overdue gear gets an automatic email reminder, so nobody has to play equipment police.
The Free plan covers 3 members. When a fourth editor joined, upgrading to Starter took a couple of clicks, and billing simply followed: seats track active members, prorated to the day. No re-onboarding, no data migration. Same workspace, higher limits.
This is the adoption path we'd suggest to most small teams: import your existing list on the Free plan, put QR labels on the ten items people actually fight over, and run one stocktake. If Werp™ earns its keep, the upgrade is two clicks, and per-seat billing means the price tracks your team, not a contract.
Figures are illustrative, part of the fictional scenario above.
"We didn't hire anyone to manage equipment. We just stopped losing it."— R. Imai — Co-founder, Studio Kanade
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