Visualnet provides audit firms with independent documentary evidence to certify procurement processes in film and television productions — defensible before any regulatory authority. Sealed benchmarks, immutable audit trail and verifiable 100% eligible market coverage, cost line by cost line.
Visualnet is not a generic procurement system. It is a market certification system for film and television production — with a proprietary methodology in process of patent registration with the USPTO. What your clients need is not a process — it is objective, independent evidence that no regulator can challenge.
Verifiable coverage of 100% of the eligible market
Market consultation is not declared — it is demonstrated. 98,000+ verified companies in the private directory. 139,000+ activity records. The system computes the ratio of suppliers invited against the total verified supplier universe for each cost line. Coverage is auditable by any regulator, not self-reported by the client you are auditing.
Three legally differentiated certification levels
Full Certification — entire eligible market contacted, minimum three bids received. Market Exhaustion — 100% of the market contacted, insufficient supply due to genuine scarcity. Non-Certifiable — insufficient market coverage, documented with full transparency. Each level carries distinct legal implications before the IRS, the SFO and the AEAT. The taxonomy is proprietary and covered by the patent applications.
Chained and immutable audit trail
Every event is recorded with a timestamp, SHA-256 chaining and a qualified eIDAS/FNMT-RCM digital signature. The record cannot be altered retroactively — by the client, by the producer or by Visualnet. This is the same standard required by the IRS, the SFO and the AEAT for documentary evidence in inspection proceedings.
Patent Pending · USPTO
U.S. Patent Application No. 64/036,591 — Automated Market Coverage Verification and Procurement Process Certification System for Creative Industry Productions.
U.S. Patent Application No. 64/036,620 — Multi-Tier Supplier Identity Verification System Using Corporate Domain Matching Against a Private Verified Supplier Directory.
Patent Pending since 12 April 2026 · Production Lifecycle Management, S.L.
Your signature on the NISR 4400 report is the same document that your Studio client needs before the IRS, that your film or television Production company client needs before the AEAT, and that the SFO accepts as adequate procedures. Select the market to see what each type of client will require.
Tax credit programs in more than 28 states require that every eligible production cost is real and contracted at market rate. Where transactions involve related entities, the IRS applies IRC §482. For listed companies, the CFO certifies the accuracy of internal controls personally under SOX §302 and §404. Your client needs objective, independent evidence — cost line by cost line.
Regulatory framework
What your NISR 4400 certifies
Independent evidence that every eligible production cost was procured at verified market rate — generated automatically, tamper-proof, accepted by the IRS as arm's length proof.
When a US production company co-produces with a European partner, it co-finances a budget that a foreign entity controls. The DOJ can investigate that partner's payments under FCPA — including production costs paid above market rate. For domestic productions, the same arm's length standard applies to every cost line under the applicable state tax credit program.
Regulatory framework
What your NISR 4400 certifies
The co-producer's production costs documented and benchmarked independently. Your client's FCPA exposure from a partner's decisions, sealed and defensible.
NISR 4400 certification certifies that the process was correct: that the request for proposals reached 100% of technically qualified suppliers according to Visualnet's taxonomy and directory. That is what the auditor signs — objective facts, not conventional thresholds.
If the market has a single capable supplier for that activity and date, a single bid is perfectly certifiable. In many cases it is more defensible before the tax authority than three quotes from a market of two hundred where only three were contacted.
If the market responds with twenty bids, the report includes a full benchmark. In both cases, the process is beyond reproach. The NISR 4400 report stands firm. That is what distinguishes an audited production from one that is not.
3 or more bids received
Certified process + full market benchmark (minimum / average / maximum). The NISR 4400 report is complete.
1 or 2 bids — 100% of market was contacted
Certified process + documented note of limited market. The available reference price is recorded. The NISR 4400 report stands firm.
Zero bids received
No NISR 4400 report is issued. The process is documented but not certified.
A minimum of three bids is a convention that does not reflect the reality of the film and TV market, where many specialised services have a single qualified supplier in a region for a specific date. Requiring three where there is only one does not improve the process — it distorts it. Visualnet's NISR 4400 report certifies verifiable facts: how many suppliers are in the market and how many received the request.
When each request for proposals is published, the system records the number of suppliers notified at that moment. The directory of 130,000+ companies classified by activity and geography automatically verifies that those notified equal 100% of those eligible. Coverage is not declared — it is mathematically irrefutable.
An award with one bid from a single-supplier market, correctly documented, is more robust before any regulatory body than three quotes from a market of two hundred where only three were consulted. Tax authorities do not ask for a minimum number of bids — they ask for evidence that the price is a real market price. That is exactly what Visualnet documents.
Read-only access to the complete process. No possibility of modifying any data.
Auditor access cannot modify any data on the platform. Auditor independence is guaranteed by architecture, not by policy.
Each event generates an identifier chained to the previous one. Independently verifiable. Impossible to alter the record without leaving a mathematical trace detectable by the auditor.
PDF of the complete history per project, ready to attach to the audit file. Signed CSV with all events for own analysis.
Access to all your clients from a single auditor panel. No need to manage separate access per production company or project.
Certifiable market position line by line: minimum, below average, average, above average and maximum. Sealed at closing, not modifiable.
Designed to integrate into the due diligence processes of leading audit firms in the film and TV industry. NISR 4400 report generated and digitally signed with a qualified FNMT-RCM certificate.
Every Phase B request for proposals generates NISR 4400-compatible documentation. The certification level is assigned automatically based on the number of bids and eligible market coverage.
Multi-tenant architecture with strict data separation, AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit. One client's data is never accessible from another's environment.
Each event generates a hash chained to the previous one. The auditor can independently verify the integrity of the entire history without needing to trust Visualnet.
Visualnet market coverage certification methodology and audit trail system are proprietary technologies subject to pending patent applications before the USPTO (U.S. Patent Application Nos. 64/036,591 and 64/036,620).
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