Book of Business — an original drama series

Book of Business — Sell Everything
AN ORIGINAL ONE-HOUR DRAMA SERIES · SERIES PITCH
CREATED BY NICK GRAVES WRITER · DIRECTOR · SHOWRUNNER · KCINPOINT PRODUCTIONS Request the pitch deck
THE SERIES

In the cutthroat, never-before-dramatized world of health-insurance sales, a magnetic outsider claws his way to the top under a mentor whose hidden agenda could make him — or destroy him.

A propulsive ensemble drama about ambition, loyalty, and the price of selling people peace of mind.

THE BIG IDEA

The industry TV has never touched

Book of Business is a premium ensemble drama set inside the one high-stakes business television has never dramatized — health insurance. Every episode is a deal with human stakes. Every season, the empire grows and the cost compounds.

THE COME-UP OFPower
THE GAMESMANSHIP OFBillions
THE CHARISMA OFSuits
…set in a world that touches every American life.
THE WORLD

Meridian Life & Health

A small, hungry Houston brokerage with aggressive growth targets and a roomful of people selling “security” and “peace of mind” — while none of them feel secure themselves. The pressure is the engine.

AUTHENTIC TO THE LAST DETAIL, DRAWN FROM A WORKING INSURANCE PRACTICE
Book of business & residual income
Continuity of care
Close ratios & the “comparison review”
Group benefits for mid-size firms
THE ENGINE

How it makes a story every week

1THE DEALEvery episode, a new client with a human dilemma — an illness, a cost crisis, a workforce on the line. A fresh window into America.
2THE OFFICEA pressure-cooker of rivalry, mentorship, and politics that escalates with every account and every promotion.
3THE LONG GAMEZafar’s hidden agenda and Gabe’s rise serialize each season — the engine that pulls the audience to the next episode.

Self-contained stakes every week. A serialized empire every season.

TONE & COMPS

For the audience that made these hits

SUITSUSAA magnetic outsider talks his way into a world he wasn’t built for.
POWERSTARZThe come-up, the double life, and the price of ambition.
BILLIONSSHOWTIMEPredator-and-protégé mind games over every deal.
SUCCESSIONHBOA calculating mentor, a hungry heir, and control of the empire.

Grounded but glossy. The thrill of the deal with a real human cost underneath.

THE CHARACTERS

Who carries the series

01 · THE LEADGabriel “Gabe” ToussaintA Haitian-American ex-pharma rep who reinvents himself as a rainmaker. His arc is the seduction and slow corruption of a man who set out to protect people — and learns to sell them anything.
02 · THE MENTORZafar MalikRefined, magnetic, calculating. He makes Gabe — and is playing a longer game than anyone sees. The engine of the show’s serialized mystery.
03 · THE CONSCIENCECamille EllisA doctor who heals people while Gabe sells them security. Her career and their love are the cost the climb keeps charging.
THE ENSEMBLE — THE OFFICE AROUND HIM
Grant WhitakerTHE RIVALBy-the-book senior agent and Gabe’s manager — the show’s renewable friction as Gabe rises past him.
Sterling ColeTHE VPCharismatic Regional VP; success embodied, with his own empire to protect. The ceiling Gabe wants to break.
Caleb FosterTHE JUNIOREager and anxious — the audience’s way in, and a mirror of who Gabe used to be.
Vivian LinOPERATIONSQuietly runs everything and knows where the bodies are. The office’s real power.
THE ARC

Where the series goes

SEASON ONEThe RiseGabe leaps into Meridian and reinvents himself as its rainmaker, landing the career-making Brennan account by doing what no one else will — actually listening. But the guarantees his charm wrote start to come due, and the cracks in Zafar’s story begin to show.Season 1 is the seduction: how a good man falls in love with the game.
SEASON TWOThe BookGabe builds his own book of business and his own empire; ambition curdles into appetite. Zafar’s true agenda surfaces — and success starts to cost Gabe the one thing he can’t expense: Camille.
SEASON THREEThe ReckoningGabe versus the machine — and versus the mentor who made him. The question the whole series has been asking: has he become the very thing he feared?
THE PILOT“Continuity of Care”
Episode 1 is shot as the proof-of-concept — the Brennan pitch that proves the whole series in one room.

The long arc: the slow corruption of a man who set out to protect people — and learned to sell them anything.

THE ENGINE IN ACTION

Sample episodes

PILOT“Continuity of Care”A dead deal comes alive when Gabe stops pitching and starts listening.
EP. 1.04“Pre-Existing”A denied claim forces Gabe to choose between closing the sale and telling the truth.
EP. 1.06“The Last Look”A rival broker poaches Meridian’s biggest account; Gabe and Grant must team up to survive.
EP. 1.09“Open Enrollment”Zafar pulls Gabe into a bigger, shadier deal that crosses a line he can’t uncross.
WHY THIS SHOW

He sells peace of mind to everyone but himself.

Security vs. precarity The morality of selling certainty Mentorship and manipulation Reinvention and identity The cost of the come-up
WHY NOW

A proven audience, an unclaimed world

01The subject is the momentCoverage, cost, and who gets cared for is the most charged subject in American life. Everyone has a story — and a stake.
02The audience is provenSuits’ streaming resurgence broke records; Billions, Power, and Succession built devoted fanbases. The appetite is enormous.
03The lane is wide openNo prestige drama has claimed health insurance. A fresh lead in a world we’ve never seen = instant differentiation.
THE NUMBERS

Production cost projections

THE ENTRY RUNG · PROOF-OF-CONCEPT$15K–$116KUnlocks the conversations that scale the series to one of three tiers.
INDEPENDENT$0.6–1.2MPER EPISODE$6–12M / 10-ep seasonLean premium; festival & niche-platform scale.
PREMIUM$2.5–4MPER EPISODE$25–40M / 10-ep seasonCable-grade — the Power / Billions tier.
PRESTIGE$6–10MPER EPISODE$60–100M / 10-ep seasonStreamer flagship — the Succession tier.

Per-episode ranges for a one-hour drama; season assumes 10 episodes. Planning estimates, not quotes — actuals depend on location, cast, and platform.

THE SCHEDULE

A 5-year production runway

Y1DEVELOP & PROVEFinish the revision pass, shoot the proof-of-concept, build the package, begin pitching.
Y2FINANCE & GREENLIGHTSecure a partner / financing; option or deal; cast the leads; pre-production.
Y3PRODUCE SEASON 1Shoot 8–10 episodes; post; deliver the first season.
Y4LAUNCH & RENEWSeason 1 release; Season 2 writers’ room and production.
Y5SCALESeason 2 release; Season 3 in development — the franchise compounds.
THE TEAM · NOW BUILDING

The team to build it

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ABOVE THE LINEShowrunner / Writer-Director — Nick Graves
Writers’ room
Executive producers
A producing partner / prodco
Lead cast
KEY CREATIVEDirector(s) of Photography
Production designer
Casting director
Editor(s)
Composer
PRODUCTION & BUSINESSLine producer / UPM
1st AD & department heads
Sound, wardrobe, HMU, art
Post house & colorist
Entertainment attorney
THE VISION

A founder-owned, director-led series

Created, written, and directed by Nick Graves under KCINPOINT Productions — built to keep its voice intact from page to screen. Authentic to a world rarely seen, propulsive enough to binge, and engineered to return season after season.

A pilot is written. A proof-of-concept is ready to shoot. The series is built to scale.

The come-up
has a cost.

Book of Business — an original drama series looking for the partners to build it. Producers, financiers, cast and crew: let's talk.

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NICK GRAVES · KCINPOINT PRODUCTIONS · NICK@KCINPOINTPRODUCTIONS.COM