Studio Kanade produces YouTube channels and corporate video. Nobody's job title said 'equipment' — which was exactly the problem. Their Werp™ story starts at ¥0 and grows with the team.
Six people, 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 exported the old spreadsheet and imported it into Werp™'s Free plan with CSV import — 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 — roughly ¥400,000 of gear back on the shelf. Duplicate purchases stopped the same month.
QR labels went on everything. Check-outs are a scan, returns are a scan, and overdue gear gets an automatic email reminder — 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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