This is the rehearsal.

Before you send it to the people who matter, run your project through the town’s own process:

  • Producer. Your first champion, deciding whether to take it out.
  • Attachments. The director and actors who’d commit their names.
  • Studio Executive. The one who has to defend it upward.
  • Studio Greenlight. Where real money gets spent, or doesn’t.

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The kind of notes you’d get from them: honest enough to tell you “no.” Made for your rewrite… and every draft after.

FROM A REAL READ · THE STUDIO EXECUTIVE ROOM

“I am holding this in development. The blocker is not that the movie is unclear; it is that the package is not yet clean enough to survive the first question a studio head will ask: why this domestic intruder thriller, now?”

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The Read Before

With so many people using AI irresponsibly, trying to have it write screenplays, we asked ourselves: how can writers use it ethically? The answer: something that never touches your words, and instead just gives you the notes that make the next draft better.

It never writes a line for you. That’s your job, and it always should be.

Your script is processed temporarily through the API of a major U.S. large language model provider to produce the read. We don’t save the uploaded file or extracted screenplay text to your account or project; we don’t train on your work; and we never use your script to sell the product. Which, put simply, means:

  • No AI saves or trains on your script. Ever.
  • Your reads stay private. We don’t publish them or use them to market the product unless you explicitly give us permission.
  • TRB isn’t built to replace anyone. It’s built to get your project ready for the people who will read it.

It simulates the rooms they’d read it in, and each room tells you honestly where you stand, what’s holding you back, and what they want to see in the next pass. How we read.

How it plays

The rooms run in order. If one says “no,” the read stops there and tells you exactly why.

And a “no” isn’t a bad sign. It just means you have work to do; you’ll get the full report, every note to hit, with the Producer ranking what to fix first. Then the rooms are waiting to read the new draft.

Most scripts won’t reach the last room.
That’s the point.

Most AI is built to agree with you. The Read Before is built to challenge you. The rooms hold you to their own notes: every rewrite is read against what they thought last time.

…the way it works in the town.

Before you spend anything.

Here’s the honest version of your other options.

YOU COULD ASK A CHATBOT.

Maybe you already pay for one. Paste your script in and see what comes back. You already know how that goes: they’re built to continue the conversation, and a conversation like that can’t end with a “no.”

Our rooms are built to do the harder thing. A room can say no, and then say what would have to change for it to get to a yes.

YOU COULD ASK YOUR FRIENDS.

They’ll say they’re excited to read it. They might mean that. Then it sits in their inbox. A month later: “I loved it, but here’s my one big note.” You waited a month for the one thing you already suspected, and now you can’t ask again for a year.

Here it gets read the same day, and you get the whole report.

YOU COULD PAY SOMEONE.

You can. Just not yet; not with just a first draft.

A professional read runs into the hundreds. So does a year of hosting it somewhere. That’s worth it on pages that are ready. Why spend it on a draft you already suspect isn’t? Run it through our rooms first, then pay for the read once.

That’s the whole idea. It’s the read before.

Create a project and run it. How far will your first draft get? How far will the rewrite get? Find out before sending it to the people who matter.

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