User Guide

Start here: Script Analysis & Story Structure

Most projects start with the script, so most producers start here. Open Script Analysis from the Tools menu, then upload a PDF or paste the pages. All three reads run on the same upload. Start with the triage, and go deeper when the script deserves it.

• Quick Triage — the read you would give a script before deciding whether to read it properly. Free and unlimited.
• Thorough Analysis — a full craft and convention assessment with a diagnostic score you can argue with. Every finding cites the page it came from. It also proposes the calculator's thirteen Creative Aspect and Execution Need ratings (see 1.1).
• Story Structure — the wall-sized beat sheet, generated from your pages. It shows intensity, pace and stakes across the story, up to four story threads, act breaks and structural beats, setups and payoffs, and technique codes on the grid (hover any code to see what it means). It also counts the quotable lines, the jokes and the moving moments, marks each on the grid and shows one example of each. Export it to Excel, or print it and save as PDF. The tool opens on a worked example (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) so you can see what a map looks like before running your own.

Free and full reads. Without a trial or Pro plan you get the triage in full, plus a preview of the thorough analysis and of the beat map up to the end of the first act. The preview names every section it holds back, with a sample line from each. The full read and the full beat map need a trial or Pro plan. Downloads and exports need an account (a free one is enough).

Keep it. A read stays on screen until you leave, and you are warned before you leave unsaved work. Save it to a project and it appears on the project's card in My Projects. Attach a second analysis to the same project and the two are compared, so a rewrite can be measured instead of argued about. Your file is deleted from the server the moment the analysis finishes; only the structured result survives, and only if you save it.

Carry it into the calculator. A tick box under a read or a beat map fills the empty calculator fields it can answer (see Filling the form from what you already have).

1. Motion Picture Liquidation Calculator

The Calculator is the platform's core tool. It models a film's entire financial lifecycle: production costs, financing structure, revenue projections, investor returns, and commercial viability scoring. Based on the QS Motion Picture Liquidation Model © 2003–2026 Jaanus Silla.

1.1 Input Sections

The Calculator form is organised in scrollable sections. Fill in as much as you can — the more data, the more accurate the analysis.

Filling the form from what you already have

You rarely need to type the form from scratch. The Fill from a file panel above the form reads two kinds of source:

• Your work on the platform — a Script Triage read, a Thorough Analysis, a Story Structure beat map, an Idea, an E-Pitch or another saved calculation. My Projects also has Fill Calculator buttons on saved reads.
• Your own files — budgets, schedules, sales estimates and finance plans as PDF, Excel, Word or text. For Movie Magic, Hot Budget, Celtx and similar programs, the panel tells you which export to make first, because their native files cannot be read directly.

The rules are strict, because a wrong number in a financing model is worse than a blank one:

• Only empty fields are filled. Every filled field is marked, with a note on where the value came from, and the whole import can be undone.
• A figure is written only if the source states it. Words such as a budget bracket or "VFX-heavy" become hints shown on the empty field, never numbers.
• Where a field already holds something different, you choose per field: Keep current, Replace or, for text such as a second logline, Keep both. A kept alternative sits under the field, where you can rename it, swap it in or remove it.
• The report lists what is still yours to fill, and why the file could not answer it. Hover any empty field to see what can fill it.
• $KK means millions throughout: 4.5 is $4.5M. Figures in another currency are entered unconverted, with a warning.

When you save with no project loaded and a project with the same title already exists, you are asked whether to update it instead of starting a second copy. If duplicates exist anyway, Merge duplicates into this on the My Projects card folds them into one, keeping every analysis, beat map and file.

Project Identity

Title, logline, synopsis, genre, release date, language, and distribution strategy. These define how the model classifies your project (commercial vs. festival pathway).

Script & Material Status

Track the development status of your screenplay through seven stages: 3-page synopsis, 30-page treatment, 70-page treatment, rough draft, revised draft, final script, and series bible. Also tracks access to key documents (screenplay, viz/drawing, budget topsheet).

Creative Scores (0–10 each)

Rate your project across: Acting Talent, Story Energy, Story Analysis, Formula, Cost, Audience Rating, Audience Score. These combine into the Creative Quality component of the Success Score. Also rate Creative Aspects: High Concept, Page Turner, Entertainment Power, Story Wholeness, Character Continuity, Visible Trailer Spots.

Below them, Execution Needs (Special Effects, Music, Technicality, Directing Difficulty, Period, Safety, Location) set how hard the picture is to make. A Thorough Analysis proposes all thirteen ratings, each with its reason, and you accept or change them. They are rated for a conventional production without AI; the AI Utilisation sliders apply any saving, so it is never counted twice.

Team & Talent

Enter writers, directors, cast, and producers with commitment status (Contracted, Soft, Wishlist) and ratings (1–10). The platform computes a Bankability Range — floor, expected, and ceiling presale values based on your talent package.

Likeness. A performer's face and their calendar can now be licensed separately. The cast Engagement field takes Physical performance, Physical + digital double, Digital double only, Synthetic replica, or Estate / archive likeness. A digital double or synthetic likeness discounts the star premium on every territory presale and on the creative score. The commitment status also has Likeness Requested / Optioned / Licensed; an executed likeness licence counts as a firmer attachment than a soft physical commitment. If the project licenses someone's identity, enter what it costs and what it saves (shoot days, extras, travel) under Likeness & Digital Performance ($KK). The platform prefills no prices there. When a replica carries real screen time and its licence is not executed, contingency rises, and the calculator says why.

Team & Key Personnel Assessment

Qualitative fields that are NOT scored numerically but displayed alongside scores: Producer Track Record, Team Cohesion, Key Person Dependency, and free-text Track Record Notes. These provide context that formulas cannot capture.

AI Utilisation

Sliders (0–10) for VFX, Music, Screenplay, Post-Production, Marketing, Dubbing, Previsualization, Cinematography, and Digital Likeness / Performance Synthesis. The likeness slider is weighted double, because a synthetic lead is what a festival, a union and an E&O insurer read first. Higher AI use improves cost efficiency but reduces the Artistic/Festival Merit score.

Target Audience Analysis

Define up to 5 demographic segments with age range, attendance frequency, quantity percentage and rating. A row counts once it has a rating. Each segment is weighed by its share of cinema admissions (quantity % × attendance), so a segment that rarely goes to the cinema sells fewer tickets than one that fills the seats, and each row's score shows its contribution. Together they give the Audience Score, the reach (% of admissions the film addresses) and the audience-adjusted GBO. These rows are assumptions; to record evidence behind them, see the optional Audience Attachment.

Comparable Films

Enter up to 7 comparable films with worldwide GBO. The average feeds into the score formula. Use the AI Suggest Comparables button to auto-fill based on your genre and budget. It completes the films already in the table rather than replacing them: it fills only a missing year or gross, never overwrites a figure you typed or verified, and adds new films only into empty rows. Check "Original work" if no meaningful comparables exist.

Picture Financing ($KK)

The capital stack: Budget, Negative Cost, completion bonds, contingency. Then financing sources in priority order:

1. Foreign Presales — 12 territories (Japan, UK, Germany, etc.) with confidence tiers and withholding tax treaty calculations. Each territory takes a Low, Base and High case. Only the base case runs the model; Low and High document the spread a sales agent should be able to give you.
2. Domestic Presales — Discount, SVOD, Net TV, Premium Cable
3. Gap Financing — Bank lending against unsold territories
4. EU Co-Production — Film Fund, Tax Rebate, Equity, Subsidies, Presales, Music/Post deals
5. Investor Equity — Development and Production investors with return %, recoupment position, and net profit participation

Earnings Projections

GBO, PVOD, SVOD/Streaming, TVOD, AVOD, Physical, Foreign, Network TV, Premium Cable, Syndication, plus Ancillary (soundtrack, merchandise, video games, etc.) and Derivative rights (sequels, prequels, TV spin-offs). Use Auto-Project Earnings to fill based on 2025/2026 industry benchmarks.

Marketing

P&A budget, or detailed breakdown: Advertising, Prints Cost, Number of Prints. Plus marketing quality ratings (Reach, Frequency, TV Spot, Trailer, Product Placement, Promotion, Location).

Distribution & Release

The part of the picture's life after "financed". All of it reads records you have already entered:

• Distribution Credibility — the distributor or sales agent, its status (none / interest / LOI / signed), any P&A commitment, and what the deal says about your audience list, audience data and direct sales (Audience & Direct Sales).
• P&A as a financed tranche — tick P&A separately financed when release money comes from its own financier. It then recoups ahead of production equity, as it does in a real deal, rather than sitting as a distributor expense. P&A Release Milestones stage the release budget against evidence: committed before the gate, conditional, reserve.
• Cross-Collateralisation — what it costs — enter the expected shortfall in weak territories, and the calculator runs the same receipts both ways and prints what the clause costs you.
• Deal Red Flags — screens the project against the conditions that stop an independent picture closing or paying out. Examples: no collection account with several stakeholders, rights granted before chain of title is complete, a theatrical promise with no P&A obligation, uncapped sales expenses, the deal taking your audience list. Each flag says what it saw, why it matters and what to negotiate. A flag fires only on evidence, so an empty section raises nothing.
• Release Route — set your intended route: Route A (studio / minimajor), Route B (producer-led or hybrid), or preparing for both, which is the recommended default. The reading answers the questions a distributor will ask from your package and says when the route you declared is not the route your package supports. The Producer-led release — named responsibility checklist covers the fourteen functions a self-run release needs.
• Source Material & Derived Works — the underlying work (novel, game, life rights, remake) and what is planned from it. Carried into the deck and the materials package.

1.2 Output Sections & Visualisations

Data Quality Summary

Bar showing what percentage of your financing is Confirmed vs. Soft vs. Assumed. Scores are more reliable when backed by confirmed data.

Commercial Viability Score (0–100)

Displayed as a range (e.g., 65–75) rather than a single number to avoid false precision. The band widens when more inputs are speculative. Verdict: Likely Strong Prospect (65+), Potential Moderate Prospect (40–64), or Likely Needs Development (<40).

Artistic / Festival Merit Score (0–100)

Separate assessment for festival/art-house pathway. Rewards creative depth, execution ambition, original work, EU co-production coverage. Penalises heavy AI use.

Pathway Recommendation

Classifies your project: Studio/Commercial System, Festival/Subsidised System, Dual Potential, or Needs Development. Non-English films (except dubbed animation) and documentaries are auto-classified to the festival pathway.

Innovation Acknowledgment

If your project is marked as "Original work" or "Unconventional genre hybrid" and scores below 65, a banner explains that the model may undervalue genuinely disruptive ideas.

Beyond the Numbers

Lists what the scores do NOT capture: director vision, cultural timing, team chemistry, legal standing, market conditions.

Market Context & Model Assumptions

Collapsible panel showing the model's calibration year, key assumptions, and a warning that formulas are static while markets are dynamic.

Market Risk Flags

Five external risk factors rated as No Risk / Low / Moderate / High: genre saturation, competing releases, regulatory risk, currency volatility, platform slowdown. Use the AI Research & Analysis button to search the web for current data on each factor.

Input Consistency Checks

Automatic warnings when input combinations are implausible (e.g., all creative scores maxed on a micro budget, GBO far exceeding comparables).

Recoupment Schedule

Visual breakdown of how revenue flows back to investors, producers, and participants in priority order. Shows distribution fees, P&A deductions, investor returns, and profit participation.

Scenario Analysis

Conservative (−30%), Base, and Optimistic (+30%) revenue projections with producer net and ROI for each scenario.

Break-Even Analysis

Minimum GBO needed for the project to break even.

Financing Stack

Visual stacked bar showing how the negative cost is covered by each financing layer. Colour saturation indicates confidence level.

Risk Concentration Map

Groups all financing by confidence tier (Secured / Probable / Speculative) with a risk bar and detailed breakdown. Requires budget + at least one financing source.

Distribution Deal Comparison

Side-by-side comparison of Studio Wide-Release, Independent Distribution, and Self-Distribution models.

Festival Calendar & Submission Timeline

For festival-route projects: relevant festival deadlines based on genre and language. Includes A-list and major festivals with submission windows.

Market Timing & Release Window

Genre-specific release window recommendations (best and good windows) with strategic notes.

1.3 AI-Powered Features

• Auto-Project Earnings — Fills earnings projections from 2025/2026 industry benchmarks based on your genre and budget
• AI Suggest Comparables — Finds 7 real comparable films matching your genre, budget, and audience profile
• AI Research & Analysis — Searches the live web for current market risk data (uses Google Search grounding)
• Talent Verification — Verifies talent availability and credits
• Fill from a file — Reads an uploaded budget, schedule, estimate or plan into the empty fields (see above)

If the AI service is out of capacity, the tool says "AI analysis is temporarily unavailable — please try again later" instead of failing silently. Nothing you entered is lost; run it again later.

2. AI Idea Generator

Brainstorm film concepts with AI assistance. Two creative sliders shape the output:

• Auteur ↔ Formula (1–10) — Personal artistic vision vs. commercial genre-driven approach
• Classic ↔ Revolutionary (1–10) — Traditional storytelling vs. subversive rule-breaking

Enter a seed concept (theme, premise, or rough idea), optionally check "Better World" for socially conscious ideas, then click Generate AI Ideas. The system produces 5–10 concept cards with loglines, genre classifications, and creative justifications.

Each generated idea has action buttons: create more variations, feed into Calculator, feed into E-Pitching, or save to your projects.

3. E-Pitching

Structured pitch submission with legal documentation. Before submitting, you must accept a Literary Release Agreement confirming you own or control the material.

The pitch form captures: title, logline, genre, budget range, synopsis, target audience, script status, trailer/links, and contact information. You can set visibility (who can view your submission) and specify target recipients.

4. Deck Creator

Generates professional pitch deck PDFs from your Calculator data. Select a project source (saved calculation or sample), choose Full or Summary style, and click Generate.

The deck includes up to 14 slides: Title, Summary, Why This Movie, Story, Comparables & Audience, Financing, Earnings, The Offer, Team, Contact, Project Assessment (score circles), and Internal Greenlight (if validated).

Title and score slides feature a cinematic film camera filter with grain, vignette, and sprocket details. Data slides remain clean for readability.

• Free tier: QS watermark on all slides
• Pro tier: Watermark-free, AI-generated "Why This Movie" narrative

5. Industry Engine & Greenlight

The Industry Engine validates your project through multiple channels and, when sufficient validation is achieved, enables platform-mediated industry submission.

5.1 Internal Greenlight System

The Greenlight score (0–100, displayed as a range) combines five components:

• Calculator Score (40%) — Your commercial viability score (minimum 70 required to enter)
• Professional Coverage (25%) — Script coverage from recognised readers (Recommend/Consider/Pass ratings)
• Warm Referrals (20%) — Industry connections with role and relationship bonuses
• Project Completeness (10%) — How many key fields are filled
• Competition Placements (5%) — Festival/competition results (supplementary, not primary)
• Legal/IP Checklist Bonus (+2 pts max) — Due diligence documentation

Levels: Likely Industry Ready (80+), Likely Development Ready (70–79), In Development (<70).

5.2 Legal & IP Verification Checklist

Ten-item checklist covering what formulas cannot verify:

1. Chain of title documentation
2. Copyright registration / IP ownership
3. Option/purchase agreements for source material
4. Life rights clearances (biographical projects)
5. Music rights / licensing agreements
6. E&O insurance eligibility
7. Corporate formation documents
8. Cap table / ownership structure
9. No pending litigation on project IP
10. Guild/union compliance (SAG, WGA, DGA)

5.3 Coverage Requests

Professional script coverage is the single most impactful validation signal for your Greenlight score (25% weight). Coverage provides an independent, professional assessment of your screenplay's commercial and creative merit.

Adding Existing Coverage

If you already have coverage from a reader or service, log it directly in the "Professional Coverage & Reader Notes" section:

• Source — Name of the reader or coverage service (e.g., "The Black List", "Coverfly", "Industry Reader")
• Rating — Select the result: Recommend, Consider, Pass, or numeric score (8–10, 6–7, 1–5)
• Upload proof — Attach the coverage PDF to strengthen credibility

Multiple coverage entries accumulate. Each is weighted into the Greenlight score: Recommend = 100 pts, Consider = 60 pts, Pass = 10 pts, numeric 8–10 = 100 pts, 6–7 = 50 pts, 1–5 = 10 pts.

Requesting New Coverage

If you need professional coverage, use the built-in request system:

5.4 Warm Introductions

Cold outreach rarely works in the film industry. The Warm Introductions system connects you to industry professionals through documented, platform-mediated introductions rather than unsolicited contact.

Browsing Members Open to Introductions

Platform members who have enabled "Open to Introductions" in their profile are discoverable. Each profile shows:

• Name, role, company, and years of experience
• Genres and budget ranges they work with
• What they're seeking: Financing, Distribution, Co-Production, Talent, Sales Agent, Mentoring, Networking, or Projects to Invest In
• Membership tier and reputation (karma score)

Sending an Introduction Request

Rate limits by tier: Free = 2/week, Trial = 5/week, Pro = 10/week, Partner = 15/week. You cannot send duplicate requests to the same person while one is pending.

When Your Introduction is Accepted

Once accepted, both parties' contact details are revealed (email, phone, LinkedIn, website). The introduction is documented on the platform, creating a verifiable record of the connection.

Karma System

When an established professional (Pro tier or Greenlight 50+) introduces themselves to a newer member (Free/Trial tier, 0–5 years experience), the platform creates a karma debt: the recipient is encouraged to make 3 warm introductions of their own to pay it forward. This keeps the community network growing.

Contact Network Analyser (Post-Greenlight)

After achieving Greenlight status, an advanced feature unlocks: import your professional network (LinkedIn, Gmail, Outlook, or paste contacts in CSV format) and the platform identifies warm paths — which of your existing contacts can introduce you to the industry entities recommended by the matching engine.

• Upload CSV/TXT/VCF or paste contacts (up to 5,000)
• Optionally use AI Enrich to fill missing company/role data
• Click Analyse Warm Paths to find connections to your target entities
• Results show: Your Contact → Target Entity, with confidence scoring

Escrow-Based Introduction Payments

For high-value introductions, you can offer payment held in escrow. Specify who you need an introduction to, the amount ($10–$5,000), and context notes. Payment is released only after you confirm the introduction was made satisfactorily.

5.5 Industry Matchmaking

The Industry Matching Engine uses AI to analyse your project and recommend specific industry professionals, companies, and organisations that match your project's profile, pathway, and needs.

How It Works

Entity Categories

Depending on your pathway, recommendations appear in these categories:

• Producers & Production Companies — Companies whose slate and speciality match your project
• Directors & Writers — If your project needs creative attachments
• Talent Agencies & Casting — Agencies representing actors suited to your genre and budget
• Financiers & Investors (commercial) / Film Funds (festival) — Investment sources matching your deal type and budget tier
• International Sales Agents — With market presence (AFM, EFM, Cannes, TIFF), territory coverage, and commission ranges
• Distributors — With deal info (MG range, terms), acquiring status, and territory coverage
• Completion Bond Companies & Production Lending Banks (studio route only)
• Studios & Mini-Majors — For projects with wide-release potential
• Festival Strategy — Submission deadlines, premiere types, and which festivals best fit your project
• Co-Production Partners — International partners for treaty co-productions and shared financing
• Post-Production & VFX — Facilities suited to your project's technical needs

Reading Entity Cards

Each recommended entity shows:

• Fit Score (50–100%) — colour-coded: 80+% green (strong fit), 60–79% orange (moderate), <60% red (possible but weaker)
• "Why" statement — 1–2 sentences explaining why this entity matches your project
• Specialty — What they're known for
• Recent work — A notable recent project for context
• Deal-specific details — MG ranges for distributors, commission rates for sales agents, investment ranges for financiers, submission deadlines for festivals
• Website link for direct research

Click "Explore more" on any category to load 6–10 additional detailed matches via AI.

Overriding the Pathway

If you disagree with the AI's pathway classification, you can manually override it using the three pathway buttons (Studio System / Art & Festival System / Hybrid Approach). The engine re-matches all entities to the new pathway in real time.

5.6 Where to Meet Them — the Approach Map

A match is a name. The "Where to meet them" button on any matched entity — and on any Target Account — answers the next question: which room will this company be in, when, and what has to be done by when to be in it with them.

No AI is used to build the map. The venue facts are published, and the dates are arithmetic. Rooms are ranked by mechanism, not prestige, because the mechanism is what decides whether a meeting can happen at all:

• Applied for — the venue schedules the meeting for you (Berlinale Co-Production Market, CineMart, Venice Gap-Financing, the Cannes Atelier, Industry@Tallinn). Selection is the gate; no badge buys these rooms. They are the most efficient rooms in the business and almost always the cheapest.
• Accredited — you buy a badge and request meetings yourself, in advance, through the market's own directory (Cannes/Marché, EFM, AFM). Requests sent once the market has opened are usually not answered.
• Selection only — a festival premiere is an outcome, not an approach route. These are labelled plainly so nobody plans an introduction around one.

Each room shows the one date that actually governs — the application or accreditation deadline, never the event date, because the event date is three to four months too late to act on — along with the address, how meetings are requested there, what must be true before you go, and whether a national umbrella stand would get you in without paying for your own presence.

What the map will not tell you

Venues are places, not people. The map never says where an individual will be, and never returns a hotel someone is staying at, a party, or a dinner. Company premises published in an official market guide are a trade fact; a person's movements are not, and the distinction is enforced in the code rather than left to good intentions.

The optional "Do they publish that they attend?" check does use AI, with the same guardrails as the route researcher: every claim comes back with the source URLs it came from, a stand number with no source is discarded rather than shown, and attendance at a previous edition is reported as exactly that.

Who else will be in the room

Members who have filled in Markets Attended on their profile and are open to introductions appear on the matching rooms. Nothing is inferred: they wrote it down. Someone who named the venue is shown as such; someone who named a different market in the same city is shown as likely-in-town, not as a claim. From there you can post a warm-introduction escrow offer that is specific and dated — "an introduction to this company, at this market, before this date" — which is a job an introducer can actually take on, unlike "an introduction to someone useful".

Planning a room

"Plan to meet here" on a Target Account records the room and puts its application and accreditation deadlines into your deadline spine, where they are chased by the same reminder sweep as an option expiry. The account then shows a second next-action line for the room alongside the one for the written route — both can be live at once, and missing an accreditation date costs a year where missing a follow-up costs a week.

"Ask for a meeting there" sends the permission request in its venue form: "I will be at EFM in February — would you be open to a short meeting?" Nothing is attached, the one-page overview is still offered as the easier alternative, and you read the exact words before anything is sent in your name.

5.7 Prepare Industry Package

The Prepare Industry Package section appears once the Greenlight Score reaches 70. The package itself is prepared only when it is complete: a calculator score of at least 70, a Script Triage read, a Story Structure beat map, and a Pitch Deck created on the platform. If anything is missing, the button lists exactly what. When you prepare it, you can optionally include an Audience Attachment summary. You sign a Submission Release Agreement and the platform creates a timestamped materials package. It is not sent anywhere: it is what you send once a company has agreed to receive it, and the Release is what turns that from an unsolicited approach into a documented, acknowledged one.

Your project then appears in the Project Directory for industry professionals to discover. The public profile shows limited information (title, logline, genre, budget tier, Greenlight score, validation credentials) — protecting your IP while signalling credibility. Full materials (synopsis, screenplay, budget) are only shared when you respond to a materials request.

6. My Projects Dashboard

Your personal dashboard showing all saved work across the platform. Statistics panel at top shows counts of calculations, ideas, pitches, prospects, and presented projects.

Filter by type (All, Calculations, Ideas, Pitches, Prospects, Presented). Each project card shows title, Greenlight score badge, genre, budget tier, date, and action buttons: open in Calculator, Brainstorm, Deck Creator, E-Pitching, Industry Engine, Collaborate, Archive, or Delete.

The Talent Interest inbox shows messages from industry professionals interested in your projects.

Saved script reads and beat maps appear on their project's card, with buttons to open them again or fill the calculator from them. Where two cards carry the same title, Merge duplicates into this keeps that card's calculator data, brings across the other copy's analyses, beat maps and files, and deletes the copy.

Slate lists every project in one row each, most urgent first.

6.1 Productions: the project record

The Productions tab holds each project as a record you work on through development, financing and closing. Open a project to see its tabs:

• Basics — title, stage, genre, budget, currency, and the budget position against committed fees.
• Rights — the underlying material, the option and its clock, and chain-of-title documents. Option expiries become deadlines you are reminded about. The Greenlight's chain-of-title input is read from this record.
• Notes — development notes from every source, tied to the draft that answered them.
• Participants — who is attached, in what role, with fees, equity and agreement status (none / verbal / term sheet / signed).
• Packaging — who was approached for which role, through whom, offers and pay-or-play windows. Talent commitment in the calculator is read from here.
• Audience — the optional Audience Attachment.
• Dev Funds — development funding schemes and your applications, with their deadlines.
• Co-Production — treaty minimums, creative balance, and what each partner's share unlocks.
• Soft Money — tax incentive and rebate claims, from prepared to received.
• Cash Flow — the monthly timeline of money in and out, including development spend.
• Closing — the Closing Register: the conditions precedent between a financing plan and the first drawdown. It is seeded from a standard set filtered to your project, so an original screenplay with no gap loan is not asked about security documents. Where the platform already holds a record (rights, participants, soft money, cash flow), it shows its own reading next to your declaration and flags any contradiction. Open closing memo prints a candid list for you and your counsel. It is deliberately not shareable.
• Submissions — where the project has been submitted and what came back.

6.2 Audience Attachment (optional)

Open a project under Productions and choose the Audience tab. The question it asks is: who is already waiting for this story? Its answer is recorded the way you record rights or talent attachments: as evidence, not as a forecast.

It is optional. No gate depends on it. A project without one scores exactly the same, and the Greenlight Score is not changed by it. QuickSummer suggests it at a few moments, such as a new development phase or filling in the calculator's audience table. Each suggestion can be dismissed, and Not for this project turns them all off.

Why use it:

• A financier can check what you show them: who the audience is, why the story fits them, how you reach them, for how long, and what they have done.
• Demonstrated demand gives you leverage in a negotiation.
• You can test positioning and partners while the project can still change.
• City-level demand supports event and threshold screenings.
• Recording who controls the list and what transfers in a sale protects the relationship through distribution deals.

What is in it:

• Audience Canvas. Core, adjacent and expansion segments. A segment advances only when you say why the story fits them and how you would reach them. "Adults 18–49" is not a segment.
• Sources. Each source records who owns it, who may send to it, what the consent covers, and whether it can be kept or shared.
• Evidence Inbox. Each item carries its level (from claimed reach up to distribution activation), its provenance (from primary verified down to anecdote) and how close it is to the behaviour a release needs. Record failed tests too.
• Journey log and Experiment Board.
• Audience Attachment Memorandum. A printable 13-section document for financiers and distributors, with a checklist of what is still missing.

The score (FRDA): the attachment is scored on four components. Fit asks whether these people are aligned with this story. Relationship asks whether you can reach them directly. Duration asks whether the connection is a community or a spike. Action asks what they have actually done. Each component comes with the sentence that explains it, and the total is shown as a range with a confidence grade, never as a single number. Weights are Fit 25, Relationship 25, Duration 20, Action 30. These are starting assumptions, not proven weights. Stronger provenance, more recent evidence and actions closer to buying a ticket score higher. Follower counts carry no weight. Failed tests lower the component they belong to. The Core and Crossover views are scored separately, and if there is no crossover evidence the panel says so. The score changes nothing else on QuickSummer, including the Greenlight Score. The full model card is under How this is scored.

Lists that overlap: the same person can be on your newsletter, among your backers and on an RSVP list. Totals from different lists are never added together. Until you check overlap, only your largest list counts. Under Check overlap between lists, select the exports together. They are compared in your browser, and only the counts are sent.

Where else it shows up (only if you have opened an Audience Attachment; otherwise nothing changes anywhere):

• Event and threshold screenings. For each place, the share of people on record who would have to buy to fill one screening. QuickSummer assumes no conversion rate; you judge whether the share is plausible.
• Industry Engine. The audience score is shown beside the Greenlight Score. It adds 0 points until the scoring has been validated.
• Release route. One extra question asks whether the project carries an audience it can reach.
• Deal red flags. In the calculator, record under Audience & Direct Sales what the deal says about your list, audience data and direct sales. Assigning them to a distributor is flagged.
• Closing Register. One non-blocking condition: audience access and transfer rights documented. It is read from your sources.
• Rights granted out. A direct-to-audience right. An all-media grant is flagged because it carries your audience relationship with it.
• Industry package. When you prepare it, you can tick to include an Audience Attachment summary. It is never included unless you tick it.
• PDFs. The calculation PDF and the investor one-pager carry one neutral line: the audience score, or "Audience evidence: not recorded."

Your audience's privacy: CSV exports from Mailchimp, Kickstarter, Gathr and similar services are read in your browser. Only totals are sent to QuickSummer: row counts, place totals and a date range. No names and no email addresses are sent. QuickSummer holds no individual supporter records.

7. The Compass (Education)

The platform's educational hub covering industry knowledge, risk awareness, and deal structures. Key sections:

• Industry Model — Bridging art and commerce in film
• Mission — Seven expandable sections on platform purpose and strategy
• Understanding & Managing Risk — Comprehensive risk factors and mitigation strategies
• Limitations of Quantitative Models — McNamara Fallacy, Illusion of Precision, Goodhart's Law, Hindsight Bias, Static vs. Dynamic Markets
• Industry Deal Structures — Five expandable deep-dives: Net Profits & Hollywood Accounting, Distribution Agreement Traps, The Capital Stack, Chain of Title & Work-for-Hire, The Streaming & AI Revolution
• How the Industry Works — Visual diagrams of studio systems and pre-sale structures
• Strategic Framework — Acquire & Develop, Build & Produce, Connect & Distribute

Open the Compass

7.1 News, Podcasts & Movie Buddies

AI News Digest. Each day the News Digest summarises three published industry stories, with why each matters to a producer and the source named. Open a story and use Search the web to find the original reporting.

Podcasts. Many pages carry a short discussion between the hosts Alex and Dana about what the page does. It is voiced live by your browser, so it plays with no download.

Movie Buddies. Twelve characters, each a film profession you can talk to: Reel the film editor, Rex the gaffer and grip, Enelin the cinematographer, Captain the director, Cosmo the interstellar observer, Pixel the AI film analyst, Slate the production assistant, Josef the producer, Ace the talent agent, Sage the film philosopher, Chris the film theorist, and Quill the screenwriter. Meet them on the Movie Buddy page. Each answers from their own craft.

8. Project Directory

Browse Greenlight-validated projects submitted by other producers. Filter by genre, budget tier, and score. Each card shows the project's Greenlight level, logline, validation credentials (coverage, endorsements, competitions), and a "Request Materials" button to contact the producer.

Requires registration and sign-in. Only projects whose producer has prepared an industry package (see 5.7) appear here.

9. Profile & Account

Manage your account across five tabs:

• My Projects — Dashboard summary
• Profile — Name, bio, contact details, website/IMDb/LinkedIn links
• Account Settings — Password changes, membership tier info
• Industry Profile — Professional details: experience, credits, genres, markets, what you're seeking
• Discovery Preferences — Toggle to let industry professionals find and contact you

9.1 Email from QuickSummer

• Weekly Industry Digest — a newsletter you subscribe to: the week's industry news, classifieds, new projects, platform news and upcoming events. Each news item has a Search the web for this story link under its headline.
• Monthly product update — a notice to account holders about the service: what changed in the platform over the last 30 days, ways to get more out of the tools, and industry headlines, each with the same search link. It ends with two buttons, Open the tools and Read / listen to news.

Both carry a link to opt out of all bulk email. Account email, such as password resets, submissions and replies about your own projects, is not affected.

10. Plans & Pricing

Tier	Price	Key Features
Free	$0 forever	Basic Calculator, AI Brainstormer (1/day), Forum, AI News
Trial	$0 / 30 days	Full Pro features, unlimited saves, PDF export, E-Pitching
Pro	$39/mo or earn free	Unlimited everything, priority review, database, Estonia rebate calc
Partner	$0 earned	+ Investor matching, co-production intros, direct QS contact

Earn Pro free: Share 7 items as "Open Access" (publicly visible) = permanent Pro access.

Earn Partner free: Refer 3 producers who commit to project development = permanent Partner access.

11. Recommended Workflows

The Standard Path: Idea to Industry

For Investors / Industry Professionals

For Quick Financial Analysis

12. Important Caveats & Disclaimers

The Calculator is a Decision-Support Tool

Scores are model-derived estimate ranges, not guarantees of commercial performance. The model cannot capture director vision, cultural timing, team chemistry, legal standing, or market conditions. Always use alongside professional financial, legal, and creative judgment.

Score Ranges, Not Exact Numbers

All scores display as ranges (e.g., 65–75) to avoid the illusion of precision. The band widens when more inputs are speculative. A score of "73–83" means the model estimates viability somewhere in that range given current inputs.

Net Profits Rarely Pay Out

In studio distribution, "net profits" are subject to layered deductions (distribution fees, overhead, interest, P&A) that typically eliminate them entirely. Negotiate for gross participation, MAGR, fixed bonuses, or upfront payment. See Industry Deal Structures in the Compass.

Distribution Agreement Traps

Watch for: cross-collateralisation across territories, "in perpetuity" rights grants, uncapped P&A spending, and missing performance minimums. Always negotiate fixed terms (7–15 years) with rights reversion.

AI Research is a Starting Point

The AI Market Risk Research feature searches the web for current data but should not replace independent verification of critical findings.