AI Script Coverage: Feedback in Minutes, Not Weeks
Traditional script coverage takes days or weeks and costs real money per pass. The Story Maker's Script Coverage tool generates a professional-style coverage report directly from your screenplay — pacing, structure, character arcs, marketability — so you can iterate before you send a draft to anyone else.
AI Script Feedback goes deeper on individual scenes, and Screenplay Scoring gives you a quick health check when you just need a number before a table read or a pitch meeting.
Before you upload anything
Nothing changes until you Merge
Every edit opens an A/B compare — nothing changes your scene until you Merge.
Your script is never used to train AI
Zero Data Retention on every model — your script is never used to train AI. Zero Data Retention means the model providers we send your pages to are contractually barred from storing them: your script is processed to produce your result and then it is gone from their side. Read the policy.
You stay the author
These tools read your script and tell you what they found. Where they suggest a change, it arrives as a proposal beside your original, never in place of it.
Your work stays yours, and you can delete it
Your projects stay in your account for as long as you use it. An account left completely inactive for 2 years is notified before anything is removed, and you can delete a project or your whole account at any time. Full terms in the privacy policy.
What “A/B compare” means in practice
- Character Voice
- “Rewrites only this character's dialogue — action and other characters stay untouched.”
- Alternate Takes
- “Two contrasting rewrites of this scene, compared side-by-side — pick one, or blend the best of both.”
Both quoted from the editor itself. Every suggestion lands next to your original with a Merge button; declining it leaves the scene exactly as you wrote it.
What's included
Grounded in screenplay craft, not generic writing advice
Coverage reports are built around the same categories a studio reader would use — concept, structure, character, dialogue, marketability — not a generic grammar-and-style pass. You can run it at Fast quality for a quick gut check or Premium for a genuinely thorough pass before a submission.
Works on any script, not just ones written here
Already have a finished screenplay written elsewhere? Upload it — coverage and feedback run on uploaded scripts the same as ones drafted in the platform, one of the three core entry points.
What coverage actually contains
Industry coverage is a specific document, not general notes: a logline, a synopsis, and graded assessment across premise, structure, character, dialogue and marketability, ending in a recommendation — pass, consider, or recommend. Readers at agencies and production companies produce it to decide whether anyone senior should spend two hours on the script.
Getting coverage on your own script before someone else does is the point. It is cheaper to learn that the second act sags from a report you commissioned than from a pass you cannot appeal.
Where it sits against notes from a chat assistant
A general assistant will give you thoughtful feedback on a script, and for a lot of writers that is genuinely useful — we say so plainly on the Claude comparison page. What it does not produce is the standardised structure that makes coverage comparable: the same categories, graded the same way, so two drafts can be measured against each other.
Coverage here is scored against a consistent rubric and against your project's own canon, so a revision can be compared to the draft before it rather than to a fresh opinion.
Reading your own script the way a reader will
The hardest thing about your own script is that you cannot read it cold, and coverage is an attempt to simulate that first read — the one where a reader decides in ten pages whether to keep going properly.
Used before submission it is a rehearsal: you find the sag, the unclear stakes, the character whose motivation never lands, while there is still time to fix them. Used after a rewrite it is a measurement, because the same rubric applied to both drafts tells you whether the fix worked.
Reading the grades rather than the recommendation
The recommendation line gets the attention, but the useful information is in the category grades. A script that scores well on premise and dialogue and poorly on structure has a specific, fixable problem; one that scores evenly mediocre usually has a concept problem no rewrite will reach.
Reading it that way turns coverage from a verdict into a diagnosis, which is the only thing it is actually good for.
Coverage in your own language
Coverage on a Tamil or Spanish screenplay written in English translation is coverage on a different script. Nuance, idiom and rhythm are exactly what a reader assesses, and they are the first casualties of translation.
Coverage runs in the 17 supported languages against scripts written in them, so what is being assessed is the script you wrote rather than an approximation of it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I get coverage on a script I wrote in another tool?
Yes — upload an existing screenplay and run coverage, feedback, or scoring on it directly; you don't need to have written it in The Story Maker.
How is this different from a generic AI writing critique?
Coverage and feedback are structured around film-industry categories (concept, structure, character, marketability) rather than general prose feedback, and Dialogue Polish specifically targets dialogue while preserving your voice.
Is this the same as professional reader coverage?
It follows the same document structure and grading categories that industry coverage uses, and it is immediate and repeatable. What it is not is a specific human reader's taste, or a relationship with the company you are submitting to. Treat it as a rehearsal for that read, not a replacement.
Can I compare coverage across drafts?
Yes, and that is the more useful way to use it — a consistent rubric means the second draft's scores are comparable to the first's, so you can see whether a rewrite actually fixed the thing it was meant to fix.
Does it work on scripts in other languages?
Yes — coverage runs in the 17 supported languages against scripts written in them, rather than requiring translation to English first.
How is this different from asking for notes?
Notes are one person's response. Coverage is a standardised document — logline, synopsis, graded categories, recommendation — which makes it comparable across drafts and closer to what a reader at an agency or production company actually produces.
Should I get coverage before or after a rewrite?
Both, and for different reasons. Before, it tells you where to spend the rewrite. After, the same rubric applied to both drafts tells you whether the change actually landed — which is harder to judge yourself once you have read the script forty times.
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