Your Work
Our tool doesn't write anything.
Hollywood is worried about AI writing scripts, abusing copyrighted
material, and replacing writers — and rightly so.
The Read Before isn’t that. It doesn’t write for you. It reads what you
wrote and helps you see what the next reader will notice. And it wasn’t
trained on any proprietary material.
You keep every word. The Read Before won’t pitch lines
or ideas, and it certainly won’t give you anything you can copy/paste into
your draft. It just delivers comprehensive, thoughtful notes. You’re the
one who needs to implement them — in your voice, style, tone, and
execution.
What happens to your pages.
- Your script is read once, in memory — then it’s deleted permanently.
- It doesn’t save your work on a server.
- Your material isn’t used to train the tool, or anything else.
The full detail is in our Privacy Policy.
So what do you actually get?
One complete notes document. You read the
Top Takeaway and Verdict first for the big-picture
assessment, then open the full read underneath for detailed, scene-level
notes and a comprehensive proofreading pass.
Example. We fed in the Night of the Living Dead screenplay (public domain,
of course) to show you what the Top Takeaway and Verdict section looks
like.
TITLE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD SCREENPLAY (PUBLIC DOMAIN) PHASE: PRODUCER INTEREST EXAMPLE READ ADVANCE WITH CONDITIONS
- TOP TAKEAWAY
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A lean, relentless siege thriller that turns one farmhouse and a single
night into a pressure cooker — cheap to make, impossible to look away
from. The premise is primal and the dread builds without a wasted
scene. What holds it back from an unconditional yes is the middle
stretch, where the bickering inside the house starts to circle, and a
protagonist the audience invests in early gets sidelined before the
end. The engine is undeniable; the back half needs to honor it.
- PRODUCER’S TAKE
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I can finance this and I can sell it — the containment is the budget’s
best friend and the hook sells itself. Ben is a genuinely castable
lead, and the ending lands like a punch. The conditions are real,
though: tighten the second-act friction so it escalates instead of
repeats, and make sure the bleakness of the finish reads as earned
rather than nihilistic. Get those right and this travels far past its
price tag.
- NEXT: CREATIVE ATTACHMENTS →
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You’ve earned the next read, and it gets harder from here: a director
has to see their movie in these pages, and the lead has to draw the
level of talent the budget needs. Producer Interest — Advance with
Conditions to Creative Attachments.
Get your script ready to send.
The whole loop is private: upload your script, read the notes, revise, and
run it again — watching the verdicts move with each pass.
Run the example reads to see exactly how it works, then grab a pass when
you're ready. See pricing.
Professional-level development feedback at a price writers can actually use
across drafts. Built for the rewrite, not just the first read.