← offscreen.review

How it works

One script in. Four movements of coverage out, a printed PDF, and a link you can hand to anyone. Here is every step, including the parts most tools leave out.


you
The script, and a few answers
A PDF or FDX, up to 20 MB. Before it runs: four questions (draft stage, who is reading, what matters, how to read it) and an optional note for the reader in your own words. Your answers become your defaults, so you do not answer twice.
Is there a story here?
A one-word triage: script, prose, or not a story.
or
Not a story → stop
Nothing is charged, and the file is deleted unread.
pass 1
Data Processing
The LLM reads the whole script once and returns structure, not prose: logline, genre, setting, keywords, and seven axes scored out of ten — each with a short argument that has to cite a real scene. This is the spine every later pass leans on.
pass 2
The story
A chronological read of what happens, then profiles of the three to five people who carry it.
pass 3
The notes
What works, and what to fix — one issue per paragraph, each with a specific fix.
pass 4
What it sits beside
Five comparisons, best first, with the reason and the box office. Five good ones beat ten padded.
pass 5
The look
A palette pulled from the story's own world, so the report and its PDF look like the script they came from.
Assembled into four movements
The Read · Data Processing · The Story · The Notes. Ten sections, grouped so a reader moves through it rather than scrolling a list.
out
The report, in the browser
Scored and charted, with the people facing you.
out
A PDF, and a link
A printed report with a QR code that reopens it. Share the link with anyone — they will not need an account.

The script is deleted the moment the report is assembled. Not after a retention window, not archived first — the same request that writes the report blanks the text. The PDF and the share link live only as long as the report does.


01What we can and cannot see

We cannot read your script, and neither can anyone who steals our database. Your upload is encrypted before it is stored, the LLM reads it, and the same request that saves your report destroys the script. An hour later the report and the PDF go too. There is no log, no file, no admin screen, and nothing left to leak.

One honest limit: the machine that does the work can read your script while it is working on it. That machine is ours, in our building — the LLM, the PDF, the portraits, all of it. No provider sees your pages, because no provider is involved.

02The seven axes

Each scored out of ten, and each has to name a scene.


03What it will not do

Every tool has a floor. Here is ours, stated up front.


04How often to use this

Not often. We would rather you did not.

A draft is not finished because a tool said so. It is finished because you decided it was, and that decision needs time you cannot outsource — the sitting-with-it, the reading it aloud, the part where nothing happens for a week and then one thing clicks. Feedback you receive faster than you can act on it stops being feedback and becomes noise you feel obliged to answer.

So we suggest running a script here on major revisions only — a draft you have genuinely reworked, not each pass through the pages. If you find yourself uploading nightly, that is usually a sign the tool has replaced your judgment rather than supported it. That is the failure mode we would most like to avoid, because it is the one that quietly makes writers worse.

We are not going to rate-limit you or hide the button. The restraint has to be yours, and we would rather say so plainly than pretend a design choice is a policy.

Two related things we feel strongly about. This is not a tool for writing with. It will not draft a scene, and it is not built to help you generate one. It reads what you wrote. And do not run AI writing through it. A report on a script a model produced is a model evaluating a model — a closed loop that tells you nothing about your own work and a fair amount about how quickly a tool can flatter one. If your pages came out of a chat window, this will not help you, and we would rather tell you that than take the money.

We think these models are oversold, that they flatten writing more often than they sharpen it, and that the best use of one is a small, occasional, honest second opinion — not a chair you sit in. Please do not make ours a habit.

05You can change the prompts

The prompts are the product. They are yours to edit.

Every instruction sent to the LLM is readable and editable from your account — the Data Processing pass, the notes pass, the house style, even the closing note. Change one and the next run uses it. If you drive tools from an agent, there is an MCP server: an agent can read what the pipeline sends, diff it against the default, and retune it for you without a human opening a settings screen.

Most coverage products are a black box with a price. Ours is a box you can open.

~2 mintypical run, after payment clears
4movements, ten sections
0third parties that see your script
Drop in a script →

Questions about any of this? The prompts are the honest answer — you can read every word the pipeline sends.