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Scott
CLYDESDALE
Scott is an award-winning producer, entrepreneur, and creative technology founder with more than 25 years of experience leading commercial production, branded entertainment, and digital media. Over his career, he has produced more than 500 campaigns and managed over $250 million in production budgets, building a reputation for world-class creative work and sharp operational execution.
In 2021, Scott won an Emmy Award for producing the UCI Health commercial campaign, recognizing his creative excellence and production leadership at the highest level of the industry.
Scott has partnered with many of the world's most recognized brands, agencies, and production companies, producing campaigns for Disney, Best Buy, YouTube, Toyota, Corona, Snapchat, Tonal, Hims & Hers, the Peace Corps, and numerous Fortune 500 companies. His credits include multiple Super Bowl spots for brands such as Hims & Hers, Toyota, and others—among the most demanding, high-visibility productions in the industry.
His work has taken him across the U.S. and around the world, coordinating large-scale crews, demanding schedules, and high-profile client expectations. He has led teams ranging from five-person crews to more than 350 cast and crew, overseeing every phase from concept and budgeting through filming, post-production, and delivery.
Producing hundreds of projects exposed Scott to the same persistent problems facing nearly every producer: disconnected spreadsheets, endless email chains, outdated budgeting tools, duplicated work, and version-control chaos. Rather than accept these inefficiencies, he saw an opportunity to reinvent the industry's operating model.
An early adopter of AI-powered workflows, Scott treats AI not as a replacement for creative professionals but as a force multiplier—automating repetitive work so teams can spend more time creating. Under the pen name S.M. Ludin, he is developing a children's adventure book series with AI-illustrated characters and animated YouTube content, and he launched the STL Golf Guys YouTube channel blending live-action filmmaking with AI-generated comedy.
This philosophy became the foundation for Commercial TV Budget—Scott's vision for the operating system of modern commercial production, uniting budgeting, collaboration, project management, automation, and AI in a single platform to help agencies, brands, and creative professionals work faster and smarter.