Next, Just Read It, and Cue aren't three separate apps you bolt together. They're one path through a show — plan it, drive it, finish it — with your whole crew moving down that path with you.
A show isn't a pile of tools. It's a single throughline — and each app owns one stretch of it.
Open Next and build the running order — segments, timing, talent, and a cue for every department. The rundown is the spine; everything downstream hangs off it.
When you hit a host read, Just Read It carries the script to the prompter. Operator drives speed and font; talent just reads. Mark it aired in Next and move to the next segment.
The packages and callouts you called for in the rundown get built in Cue (kinetic type, callouts) and Background (motion beds) — exported clean for the edit or the wall.
Plan flows into produce flows into post. Same show, same crew, same source of truth — no re-keying a rundown into three places and hoping they stay in sync.
The crew view — what a camera op sees on their phone, auto-following the live segment:
A single driver runs the show from Next. Everyone you invite watches a live feed tuned to their role — the camera op sees camera cues, A1 sees audio, the stage manager sees what's now and what's next. Same path, filtered to the work in front of each person.
On a fast floor, nobody's staring at a binder. Anyone glances at their phone and the crew view auto-follows the live segment — what's happening right now, what's coming, and what their department needs to do about it.
Hand off the wheel. Pass control to another member and they drive from wherever they are. The only requirement to take the wheel is their own Starting Frame membership — watching a feed is part of the show; driving it is a member move.
Running a show is a membership move — the driver and anyone who takes the wheel are Starting Frame members. Invited crew watch their live feed as part of the show. Cue, Scene, and Background stay free for everyone, so the creative side costs nothing to start.