Austin, TX · Casting workflow

Casting is a project, not a database.

One tool for the person running the room: breakdown to booking without an email chain, a Dropbox link, or a spreadsheet. Talent and reps use it free, forever. Clients see one gallery, reached with a tokenized link, no account required.

Free
For talent and reps, forever. No tier, no gate, no media fees.
One link
Clients open the gallery with a token. No account, ever.
Random
The default submission order everywhere review happens.
People
Every casting decision is made by one. The tool only organizes.
The room today

Casting still runs on email, Dropbox, and a prayer.

Hundreds of submissions land for a single role. Tapes arrive as links in six formats. Scheduling happens by phone. The client decides in a reply-all thread, and the actors who didn't book find out never. Everyone in this industry deserves better than that — starting with the person running it.

One session, end to end

Follow a role from breakdown to booked.

01 — BREAKDOWN

Write the role once. It becomes the rules.

Age range, union status, local hire, language, conflicts — the specs you already write compile into deterministic eligibility. If a role requires SAG-eligible and Spanish-fluent, only people who declared both can submit. No inference, no scoring, no model deciding who's "a fit." Boolean logic, on the record.

Rate and usage sit at the top, shown to talent before anyone spends an hour taping.

Plays 25–35 Austin local SAG-AFTRA or eligible Fluent Spanish No automotive conflict
214 talent in the Austin pool meet this right now — it moves as you tighten the specs
02 — SELF-TAPE

Tapes that respect the actor.

Record in the browser — no app, no fees, no uploading to a mystery link. A teleprompter carries the actual sides, the app slates you from your profile so every tape opens clean, and takes upload as you record. Lose signal in a hallway? It resumes. The final screen says "safe to close" and means it.

Eligibility shows before anyone tapes. Nobody spends an evening on a role they can't book.

Try the capture flow — camera and all
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1:42
03 — TRIAGE

Four hundred tapes. One hour. Hands on keys.

The review room works like a photographer's cull: one keystroke is the verdict and the advance, the next tape is already buffered, the slate auto-skips, and undo is a tap of Z. Submissions arrive in random order — the industry's own fairness convention, kept.

Same actor via two reps? One card, both paths, one decision. Bulk passes past ten ask for a reason — that note is your compliance record, written as you work.

1Consider — and advance
2Pin — and advance
3Pass — and advance
SShortlist
ZUndo
GContact sheet
04 — SELECTS

Clients get a screening room, not a login.

Send one link. The brand sees a dark, cinematic reel of your selects — specs beside each tape, yes / maybe / no votes, and a "choose up to five" cap that turns deliberation into a decision. You watch the tally land live, by viewer, with an approval trail that ends "who signed off on this?" forever.

Every view is watermarked to the viewer. Links expire, passcodes optional, revoke is one click.

Open the screening room demo
Breakdown
4
Submitted
412
Shortlist
30
Sessions
27/30
Booked
2/5

The whole project on one line — and the one thing that's stuck, named plainly: three unconfirmed, nudge sent.

05 — CLOSURE

When the role is cast, everyone knows.

Every submitter sees the role's status move — open, callbacks, cast — and the honest numbers: 412 submitted, 30 shortlisted. Nothing personal about anyone. No read receipts, no streaks, no "submit more" nudges. Just the thing this industry has never once offered: an ending.

See what talent sees
Open
Callbacks
Cast
412
Submitted
30
Shortlisted
12
Auditioning
What Slayt is not

Not a marketplace. Not an aggregator. Not a database that sells access.

No public directory to be ranked in. No approval to wait on. No fee to be seen. Your profile is complete the moment you make it — and your work stays yours.

Written into the code, not the pitch

Promises the software can't break.

These aren't policies. They're architecture — enforced by the database, by permission rules, and by tests that fail the build the day a promise would break. How we prove each one →

Free for talent. Forever.
Invariant 01
No subscription, no media fees, no pay-to-be-seen. The sort function is structurally unable to read billing — payment can never affect who gets seen, or in what order.
AI organizes. Humans decide.
Invariant 02
No model ranks, scores, or filters a person. Eligibility is boolean logic over what talent declared. The API physically rejects an automated "pass" — only a person can.
No public directory.
Invariant 03
Talent profiles aren't browsable, searchable, or crawlable. You're visible to the roles you choose, and to no one else. Minors' contact routes through guardians, always.
Your work stays yours.
Invariant 04
Export everything, free, anytime — before any retention purge, with weeks of notice. Your tapes are never "property of casting." Your data never trains a model.
Every decision on the record.
Invariant 05
Each status change writes an immutable audit entry — who, when, why. Append-only by database law, retained three years. Compliance you don't have to remember to do.
The room stays yours.
Invariant 06
Projects are private by default. Confidential projects show a code name outside your office. You control visibility per role, down to a named list of agencies.
Why Austin, why now

Texas funded a decade of production. Nobody funded the workflow.

Senate Bill 22 put $300 million per biennium through 2035 behind Texas production — commercials included. And the Texas-resident casting floor rises every two years, from 35% now to 50% by 2031. Proving your local cast isn't paperwork in Slayt; it's a column that already exists. Structured residency, declared by talent, counted at booking.

We're opening with a handful of Austin casting offices, running real projects end to end — then growing on their word, not our ads.

$1.5B
Program, through 2035
Commercials eligible from $100K Texas spend.
35% → 50%
Resident floor by 2031
Rises every two years — the compliance report writes itself.
Austin first
One metro, done right
No second city until the first office runs three projects end to end.
Four seats at the table

Built for the room — all of it.

The casting office

Run the whole session.

Breakdown, gate, triage, sessions, selects, booking — one tool, keyboard-fast, audit trail written as you work.

Talent

Tape free. Get an ending.

No fees, ever. Eligibility before effort, a teleprompter in the browser, and the role's real status.

Reps & agencies

Your roster, your control.

Submit clients, manage tape requests, keep review-before-send. Roles can open to a named list — yours.

Brands & agencies

Decide from a screening room.

One link, no account. Watch, vote, cap your callbacks at five, and let casting see the tally land live.