Central Planning

Building the Brief. The company treats a project brief as more than consumer profiles, marketing metrics and feature or benefit bullet points, describing it as the first step toward connecting with an audience and with execution partners. It fleshes out the details and submits a document back for review and refinement, on the reasoning that solid prep work up front keeps projects from derailing later.

Budget Estimation. Central Planning works with a client to get a handle on cost from day one so that no time is wasted developing a project that exceeds available funding. It researches the state of the market and generates a range of budget brackets and scenarios from a client's top-level needs, or inverts the process and scales a project's goals to a budget number that already exists.

Cost Consulting. For a client who already holds a budget or an estimate from a potential collaborator, Central Planning will translate the numbers, draft the engagement, and confirm whether the budget lines up with expectations.

The site publishes no prices, rates or fees for any of these services. To get a quote or an estimate, contact the company.

Central Planning is a creative project support company in Portland, Oregon. Its site describes the services it provides as creative infrastructure and project support. It is not presented as a design studio or a production house; it is the organizational layer between a client and the creative partners that client wants to hire. The homepage makes the point that design and content production can consume every waking hour, and that clients should not go it alone. Central Planning says it manages the chaos of outreach, scheduling, contracts and payments so clients can stay focused on the creative work itself.

The About Us section states that Central Planning helps clients execute projects by providing a backbone of organizational support. Its position is that clients know their own needs, products and preferred creative partners better than anyone else, and that Central Planning supplies the interface that makes the collaboration frictionless. The heavy lifting it takes on is named directly: outreach, scheduling, fee negotiation and contracts.

The site is a single page with three sections a customer would look for: Services, About Us and Contact. The navigation also links to a separate related site, Central Rentals, at centralrentals.tv. Contact details, including a phone number, an email address and a street address, are published in the Contact section.

What the site does not publish: business hours or when the office is open, any price list, rates or fees, staff names or biographies, a client list, and any statement about current schedule or capacity. Those questions have to go to Central Planning directly.

Establishing a Fair Fee. The company acknowledges that discussing compensation can be tricky and uncomfortable, and states its position that pricing should be transparent and fair to everyone involved. It engages on a client's behalf so the client acquires the rights they need at every price point and pays only for what they actually need.

Payment Management. Central Planning manages payments to the people and studios it engages on a client's behalf. The stated result is a single-invoice project with full budget transparency, so the client keeps visibility without fielding waves of separate invoices and time-consuming vendor setups.

Post-Project Support. Every project is archived for long-term access. Central Planning will modify paperwork if a client's needs change later, and can provide copies of deliverables, contracts, releases and associated materials both during a project and after it is finished.

The site describes how it approaches fees but publishes no actual prices, rates or dollar figures for any of this. Anyone who needs a cost estimate should contact the company directly.

Central Planning publishes no price list, no rates, and no dollar figures anywhere on its site. What it does publish is how it structures its billing, which is a separate question from what a given project costs.

The company states that it operates transparently and economically, and that it bills only for its actual costs and contact hours plus a modest service fee. It presents the result as combining the simplicity of a single invoice with the full budget visibility and granular control of in-house production. No percentage, hourly rate or minimum is given for that service fee, so the actual price of any engagement has to come from Central Planning.

On scope, the site says the company can support a client for an entire year or for just a few days. It offers to help develop briefs, discover realistic funding brackets and execute against a client's timeframe. Its argument for early involvement is that bringing Central Planning in early will not strain a budget but will control costs and expectations.

Budget Estimation and Cost Consulting are listed as named services. Central Planning will research the market and produce a range of budget brackets and scenarios from a client's top-level needs, or work backwards and scale a project's goals to a budget figure the client already has. If a budget or estimate already exists from a potential collaborator, Central Planning will review it and confirm whether it lines up with expectations.

To get a quote or estimate, contact Central Planning by phone at 503.528.2824 or by email at hello@centralplanning.tv.

Email

hello@centralplanning.tv, listed under the heading Get in touch.

Address

11925 SE 22nd Ave, PDX, OR 97222. This is the only location and the only address published; the site lists no branch offices.

The company is located in Portland, Oregon, and its office address is in the SE 22nd Ave area with the 97222 ZIP code. Because the work is contracting, budgeting, bid management and payment administration rather than an on-site trade, the site does not define a service area, a radius, or a list of areas served, and it does not say whether clients are local to Portland or elsewhere. It does describe collaborating with creative partners from around the globe.

The site does not publish business hours, so there is no published information about when the office is open, and there is no online booking form, appointment scheduler or contact form. To book time, schedule a call or start a project, use the phone number or the email address above. For the Statement of Work service in particular, Central Planning says a few minutes on the phone is enough for it to draft and return an SOW.

The site navigation also links to a separate related site, Central Rentals, at centralrentals.tv.

Project Tracking. The company watches the clock and the calendar so that payments and deliverables stay on schedule, which is intended to let the client engage with the creative process rather than chase dates.

Confidentiality and Security Measures. Central Planning handles confidentiality requirements and volume NDA execution, using the example of 150 NDAs executed by Monday. It says it has assisted with dozens of top secret shoots and hardware and software projects since 2006, and that it educates creative partners on best practices and on company-specific requirements.

Business Affairs Compliance. Central Planning takes on the paperwork, making sure documents are executed on time and archived digitally for easy access. It says it incorporates contract language that allows for contingencies later on, and works directly with a client's own business affairs group so documents meet or exceed any special requirements.

No cost, rates or fees are published for these services, and the site does not state turnaround times or current availability. Contact Central Planning by phone or email to discuss scope and get a quote.

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