Frequently asked questions
What exactly does SCRIPTRISK do?
It reads a screenplay the way a studio clearance department does. Four AI desks — rights counsel, ratings board, safety underwriter, and territory censors — investigate it concurrently and return a Production Risk Report: severity-ranked findings, each with a citation, a concrete remedy, and a cost estimate, plus a rating prediction and a marked-up script.
Is this legal advice?
No. SCRIPTRISK is a research tool. It surfaces risks with sources so you and your attorney can act on them faster — it does not replace clearance counsel, and its output should not be relied on as legal advice.
Where do the citations come from?
Live web research at analysis time. Every finding quotes its sources verbatim — never paraphrased — with links. A finding the system cannot support with a source is not shown. Rating comparables cite the public sources their content profiles were built from.
What is the verification step?
Every finding is re-checked by an independent verifier that sees only the claim, the scenes involved, and the cited sources — not the reasoning that produced it. Findings whose sources don't hold up are rejected, and the report shows you each rejection with the verifier's reason. In a typical run, a handful of findings don't survive.
What is the Greenlight Score?
A 0–100 number computed deterministically from the severity of surviving findings — each finding multiplies the score down, and a BLOCKER (something that makes the script unshootable or unreleasable as written) costs by far the most. The same findings always produce the same score.
How is the rating predicted?
By evidence, not vibes: your script's content profile is compared against a corpus of ~2,500 released films with official MPA ratings. The prediction shows your nearest comparables and their actual ratings — and, if you're targeting a lower rating, the specific beats to change.
How accurate are the cost figures?
They are industry rules of thumb, not quotes, and the report labels them as such everywhere. They exist to tell you whether a fix is a $500 problem or a $50,000 problem.
What formats can I upload? How long does it take?
Fountain (plain-text screenplay format) today; PDF support is planned. A short screenplay takes about five minutes. You can watch the desks work live while it runs.
Is my script stored?
Analyses run in-session. Your screenplay is used to produce the report and is not retained beyond the session or used for anything else.
Which territories are covered?
US, UK, China (theatrical), and UAE. That covers the major censorship regimes a typical release plan has to survive; more territories are on the roadmap.