EXCLUSIVE: A new AI-powered platform has launched that its founders claim will provide the industry with a fresh way to submit and review scripts.
“Wscripted has been built to disrupt how the industry reviews submissions of content, develops and accesses new stories,” its founder Ellie Jamen said, adding that it will open doors for female and underrepresented writers. The subscription-based platform is designed to allow production companies, talent agencies, studios and sales agents review project submissions and source work from new writers.
The platform enables professionals to generate AI coverage of scripts and books within a few minutes. Writers, screenwriters and filmmakers can pay to have their work on the platform and Jamen said 2,000 female & non-binary writers have already been invited to join.
The startup had pre-seed funding from Techstars Atlanta Powered by J.P. Morgan. It was previously selected in Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs’s accelerator, which had a focus on generative AI. An early version of the platform was road-tested by Universal Pictures.
“Wscripted+ is a tool that will help any producer, agent, professional, even a sales agent, go through their stack of submissions faster and discover scripts and books from outside their network all in one place – that’s how we actually enable more work to be discovered, including from women and underrepresented writers,” Jamen said.
For writers, the idea is their work is submitted in a way with which agents, producers, and potential funders are familiar. “We have learned the industry doesn’t have time to discover new projects, new stories, and this creates this bias preventing women and underrepresented writers getting in, because they’re always at the bottom of the pile,” Jamen said.
A monthly sub ranges from $10 for an individual writer and starts at $50 for producers. It scales up based on company size and usage.
The Wscripted team collaborated with the Cannes Film Market this year to showcase an AI-powered diversity analysis feature, which was tested by a group of international producers, and is available on Wscripted+. Jamen said soon-to-come features include “tailored creative curation” and “an ethical narrative analysis.”
Wscripted is known for its “Cannes Screenplay List,” a campaign promoting scripts by women and non-binary writers during the Cannes Film Festival, which counts streaming platform MUBI among its partners and which is curated by a female-led jury. Last time out that jury included Vanessa Kirby.