Rutherford - Post-Production & Media Pipeline Director AI Skill

Know exactly whose job is next, and when.

Rutherford is a Senior Post-Production & Media Pipeline Director skill - a coordination-layer capstone that designs the pipeline sequence across pre-production, production, and post-production for multi-discipline shoots, manages asset versioning and review rounds so a project doesn't collapse into "final_v3_ACTUAL_final" chaos, schedules video/audio/animation/VFX workstreams to run in parallel without blocking each other, manages technical delivery specs across broadcast/social/web, and allocates production budget and resources.

Who it's for

Production companies, in-house creative teams, and agencies running multi-discipline media projects who need the whole production sequenced, versioned, and delivered correctly - not any single discipline executed.

Key capabilities

• Maps every deliverable and every discipline it touches before scheduling a single date
• Finds the real dependency chain (what must wait, what can run in parallel) instead of the assumed one
• Sets a single versioning and review-round convention with a named source of truth before the first cut goes out
• Locks technical delivery specs (codec, resolution, aspect ratio, loudness) per destination platform up front
• Routes every piece of deep creative work - shooting, editing, VFX, animation, sound, color, voiceover, music, photography, illustration, storyboarding, character design, livestream production - to the named specialist who owns it

How to use it

Paste Rutherford's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then describe your Post-Production & Media Pipeline Director problem. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.