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FILM

NIGHT AUDIT — Episode 1

A 90-second drama, walked the way it was made.

A long task that needed a Superhuman

delivered in stages · checked at every stage · paid only on accepted outcomes

THE DELIVERED FILM

Ninety seconds, delivered as one file

This is the piece itself, running. Everything below it is how it got here — the boards, the takes, the round that was sent back, and the checks it had to pass before a penny moved.

the delivered cut, 4.0s–12.0s · v1 91.4s → v2 90.2s · 2 kills found by eyes

One shot, both rounds

  • Shot 09, round two — the dial needle crosses the six
    Round 2 — kept, and in the cut above
  • Shot 09, round one — the dial needle settles short of the six
    Round 1 — sent back at review
COLD OPEN — THE GRAND MERIDIAN, FRONT DESK — 2:57 AM Rain. A night auditor, MARA, runs the day's receipts through an adding machine. The lobby behind her is empty — one lamp, one elevator, a wall of brass keys. One key is blackened.

Thirteen lines of dialogue across two characters, a series bible, and a shot list of fourteen shots — the contract every take below was cut against.

13 dialogue lines · 421 characters · 14 shots listed

Read from the production record this milestone banked while it was being made.

Thirteen lines of dialogue across two characters, a series bible, and a shot list of fourteen shots — the contract every take below was cut against. — 13 dialogue lines · 421 characters · 14 shots listed

THE SEASON

Seven episodes, one contract

NIGHT AUDIT is commissioned as a series, not seven separate jobs. Each episode is a stage of one contract: only one is open at a time, and each one is made to continue the episode before it — same characters, same look, same rules. Episode 1 is accepted and paid for. Episode 2 is being made now.

  1. 27 Julweek 13 episodes

    1. E1 — "The 3 A.M. Rule"accepted£75.00 paidf21604f34cfd932c6ffaf96b5bc8cb4a2d4ac752a5138ed80470f3e4ca1dbdf1
    2. E2 — "Do Not Disturb"accepted£75.00 paidcontinues episode 15cb6cbe67b4c455fd058c8c3272fdbbbf841967b98119ca16fd20a4a5d5a52f4
    3. E3 — "The Day Shift"in hand£75.00 — nothing paid yetcontinues episode 296453294800188bd7c24fc59a0491989d0ff96ce199bd89a448c94197ef5620a

  2. no week yet4 episodes

    1. E4 — "The Bride"waits its turn£75.00 — nothing paid yetcontinues episode 3
    2. E5 — "Back Pages"waits its turn£75.00 — nothing paid yetcontinues episode 4
    3. E6 — "The Manager"waits its turn£75.00 — nothing paid yetcontinues episode 5
    4. E7 — "Signature"waits its turn£75.00 — nothing paid yetcontinues episode 6

One week on the calendar so far — 3 of 7 episodes have a real date behind them.

Every episode opened so far falls inside a single day, so this season has not shown a week-by-week pace. The 4 still to come carry their sealed price and what they have to do; they carry no week.

£150.00 paid of £525.00 held — 2 of 7 episodes accepted. The rest are held in escrow, not spent: an episode is only charged for once it passes.

  • continuity pack0fc3d42c964a…
  • season contract9b100bd3cb36…

Every figure above is read from the season contract's own ledger, as the contract served it.

WHAT HAPPENED

NIGHT AUDIT — Episode 1

A seven-episode season sealed as one contract, one episode delivered and checked against its own bytes, one episode's price drawn.

paidWhat the episode cost to make, against its cap.

  1. Season sealeddone£525.00

    • “E1 — ‘The 3 A.M. Rule’”
    • “E2 — ‘Do Not Disturb’”

  2. E1 delivereddone

  3. Probes: picturedone

  4. Probes: sounddone

  5. Probes: timedone

  6. E1 accepteddone

    E1 — "The 3 A.M. Rule" rounds: 1

  7. Drawndone£75.00

  8. Production spenddone$9.7626

Checked against what you asked for.

  • met“The delivered file is a real video, at its stated size and length”h264 video is 720x1280, 90.200s
  • met“The picture carries sound”video contains an audio track
  • met“No sampled frame comes back black”0/5 sampled frames are black (0.0%)
  • met“The sound sits at its loudness target without clipping”-16.1 LUFS, true peak -1.7 dBFS, no clipping
  • met“The cuts are read off the frames themselves, not off the edit list”cuts at 4.0, 25.917, 33.917, 41.917, 55.417 s
  • met“The making stayed inside the spend cap it was given”$9.7626 spent against a $32.0 cap
The money
  1. £75.00drawn1 Aug 2026

Made by

SeaOtter's Superhuman team

SeaOtter's own team — first-party work, labeled so. Every number on this page is read from the production receipts; the file that holds each one is named beside it.