Know where your script stands —
in three minutes, for $20.
You're not alone: Everyone needs a first pass take on their latest draft.
First Pass Coverage is exactly what it sounds like: Quick, AI-generated coverage in the format industry pros have relied upon for decades.
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Creative feedback shouldn't be a luxury.
Professional screenplay coverage runs $75 to $300 per read and takes one to two weeks. Reasonable pricing and timing (a guy's gotta eat), but at those prices, most writers can only afford feedback here and there — not on every draft where it would actually help. The result: Scripts get submitted to competitions, agents, and producers without the writer knowing whether the material is ready. That's expensive, and not just in dollars.
First Pass Coverage changes the math. At $20 per coverage (far less for subscribers) and three minutes per read, you can use it the way coverage was always meant to work — as a development tool, not a one-time, end-all, be-all assessment. Run a draft after a structural overhaul. Run one again after a dialogue pass. Know what improved and what didn't, with specific evidence, before you spend real money on competitions and festivals.
What every coverage includes
Why this coverage is different
FPC's evaluation framework was designed by entertainment professionals with backgrounds at studios, agencies, production companies, and management companies — people who've read tens of thousands of scripts and written coverage throughout the industry. The ten categories, the rating rubric, and the diagnostic approach reflect how experienced readers actually assess material. We're using a structured analytical framework calibrated against professional baselines, not a generic AI prompt.
Most AI tools default to telling you what you want to hear. We built a two-pass system specifically to prevent that. The first pass writes the analytical commentary without assigning any ratings. The second pass reads that commentary cold and derives ratings from what the analysis actually says. The result: When the coverage identifies a weakness, the rating reflects it. When it identifies a strength, the rating reflects that too. No inflation, no accommodation.
At $20 per analysis (far less for Subscribers) and three minutes per read, you can use First Pass Coverage throughout your development process, not just at the end. Track how your script improves across drafts. Identify which revisions moved the needle and which didn't. One round of traditional human coverage costs $75–$300. At that rate, you can easily run your script through FPC over a dozen times.
Your screenplay is processed in real time and is not stored, retained, or used to train any AI model. We use the Anthropic API as a processing layer — script tokens go in, coverage comes out, nothing is stored. Period.
Built by people who read scripts for a living.
First Pass Coverage was designed by development professionals with experience at studios, agencies, management companies, and production companies — people who've spent careers reading, evaluating, and developing screenplays across every genre and budget level. We built this tool because we've seen both sides of the coverage problem. Writers spend too much for inconsistent feedback. Producers spend too much time reading material that isn't ready. First Pass Coverage gives everyone a fast, rigorous, affordable first read — so the time and money that follows is better spent.
See exactly what you'll get — real scripts, real analysis.