TillyGen and Canva

What this is about

Canva democratizes the small design jobs: templates, a brand kit with the company's colors and fonts, and an editor that producers and marketers operate without a designer. In a production's life, those jobs cluster around fixed facts — dates, titles, names, locations — and every one of those facts has a source: the TillyGen plan. The premiere invite quotes the delivery date, the announcement post quotes the shoot week, the pitch slide quotes the production scope. When the graphic pulls its facts from the current plan export instead of from memory, the design work stays fast and stops being a correction loop.

An integration is good when nobody talks about it any more: the data is where it is needed and nobody exports anything.

What runs differently here

In planning terms, that means:

• Every date or name in a Canva graphic is checked against the current TillyGen export before publishing — a thirty-second habit
• The brand kit keeps production-adjacent graphics on-brand while the actual film assets live in the design tool of the designers
• Pitch decks for the next client quote real planning artifacts — an anonymized schedule page shows how the company works
• Storyboard pages exported from TillyGen can be placed into deck layouts as images when a pitch needs to show planning depth

Step by step

This order gets you there fastest:

1. Collect the production's public-facing facts from the TillyGen plan — dates, title, locations cleared for mention — into one short reference.
2. Build the graphics in Canva from templates and the brand kit: announcement, recruiting call for extras, premiere invite.
3. Before each publish, verify the facts against the current plan export; a moved shoot week must never survive in a scheduled post.
4. For pitch decks, export a storyboard or schedule page from TillyGen, anonymize it, and place it as proof of process.
5. Archive the graphics with the production so the next similar shoot starts from working templates instead of blank pages.

Common pitfalls

What most often goes wrong in practice:

• A scheduled social post announces the old shoot date two days after the plan moved — the graphic was never on anyone's update list
• Graphics scattered across personal Canva accounts, so the premiere invite's editable version leaves with the intern who built it

With TillyGen

Canva shapes what the world sees about the production; TillyGen guarantees the facts underneath. Fact-check against the export is the whole integration — small, and it prevents the embarrassing class of errors.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.