Develop an idea with AI

Turn a premise into a coherent outline, beats, entities, and opening pages through staged decisions.

Begin with dramatic pressure

A useful premise includes a person, an urgent desire, opposition, consequence, and a world constraint. Tone and references help, but they cannot replace conflict. If you have research or an existing treatment, attach it or add it to Knowledge and tell the assistant what role it should play.

Work in stages

The Script assistant may establish title, outline, beats, characters, locations, and opening scenes during a cold start. Its exact sequence is not a fixed product contract, so use these review gates:

1. Premise gate: confirm protagonist, goal, opposition, stakes, and format.
2. Structure gate: review the outline's causal progression and ending promise.
3. Beat gate: verify reversals and escalation in the current episode.
4. Entity gate: remove duplicate names and clarify relationships or locations.
5. Page gate: write a small group of scenes, then review before continuing.

Ask for filmable writing

Tell the assistant what should be visible or audible, what each character is trying to do, and where the scene must turn. Avoid requests for pages of internal explanation. A good opening request might be:

Write the first two scenes only. Establish the flooded archive through action, let Mara conceal that she recognizes the signal, and end the second scene when her brother hears it too. Use existing characters and locations.

Correct without resetting everything

If one part fails, name that part and preserve accepted work. “Keep the premise and final reveal; revise only sequence two so the investigation causes the arrest.” Incremental changes reduce collateral damage and keep collaborators able to understand what changed.

Name a version before an experimental branch. After each writing pass, compare screenplay, outline, and beats instead of assuming the assistant updated every representation automatically.