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Getting started

Welcome to BALAHow BALA worksRoles & accessQuickstart: your first production

Daily workflow

Needs You & Triage: work only what needs youProductions: cards, calendar & archiveInside a production

Documents & signing

Kicking off intakeBuilding the roster & issuing paperSigning & evidence

Approvals & counsel

Producer approvals, by messageCounsel: escalations, redlines & playbookTemplates: your forms, verbatimNegotiation & redlines

Delivery & reference

The production company portalLanguage & jurisdictionGlossary

Training

BALA Fundamentals

Everything a Business & Legal Affairs lead or counsel needs to run productions confidently. Nine short lessons — about 40 minutes end to end.

Your progress

Start
  1. Orientation

    What BALA is and the one idea behind it.

    3m
  2. The lifecycle

    Retained → set up → issued → clear to shoot.

    4m
  3. Who does what

    The two seats that log in, and everyone who doesn't.

    3m
  4. Your forms

    Templates kept verbatim, the editor, and the coverage matrix.

    5m
  5. Work Needs You

    The chips and groups that surface what needs a human.

    4m
  6. Set up a production

    Create it, send the kickoff note, open intake.

    6m
  7. Issue & track paper

    Generate the right agreement and follow it to signed.

    5m
  8. Approvals & escalations

    Producer sign-off by WhatsApp, and the counsel queue.

    5m
  9. Deliver clean title

    Hand the production company a portal they can trust.

    3m

Progress is saved in this browser only — no account needed. Finished the course? You're ready to run a production end to end.

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