This is the rehearsal.

Before you send it to the people who matter, run your feature 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.

The kind of notes you’d get from them: honest enough to tell you “no.” It isn’t feedback by committee. It’s four rooms in order, and each one decides whether your pages go forward.
Made for your rewrite… and every draft after.

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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?”

SEE WHAT A REAL READ LOOKS LIKE

You write. The rooms read.

Plenty of people are using AI irresponsibly, trying to have it write screenplays. We asked ourselves a different question: 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 a script moves through the rooms.

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.

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.

Choose the read that fits the rewrite ahead of you. No subscription; nothing renews automatically.

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