Report Guide
A plain-language guide to what each part of a Quilty report does, how the different report formats compare, and which features and pages they connect to.
Quilty tailors the report to what you uploaded. The full feature-film report is the most complete; other formats focus on what matters for that medium.
The complete analysis for a standard feature, organized into the 13 report parts above. This is the default deep-dive report.
A free, pre-purchase read: executive summary, story summary, at-a-glance ratings, structural markers, characters, dialogue, tone/genre, visual storytelling, and gated packaging. Buying unlocks the full report.
A standalone writer-feedback product: overview, structure, characters, dialogue, theme & voice, visual craft, narrative genome, writing theory, revision plan, script + notes, and verification.
A short-form report: overview, story, dialogue, market intel, writer notes, festival strategy, comparables, and pattern departure.
A theater report across 13 theater features: executive, Quilty Score, artistic craft, commercial potential, market fit, production viability, IP & adaptation, and pattern departure.
A vertical/short-form video report: MQS Score, episode analysis, story & characters, production & format, and a coverage report.
Series and episode reports covering pilot evaluation, platform fit, budget, binge-worthiness, renewal, audience, season arc, sustainability, cultural impact, and writers-room signals.
Specialized reports for film treatments, TV treatments, and novel adaptations — summary, story, market, production, and pattern departure.
The full feature-film report is organized into these parts, in the order they appear in the report navigation. Each part contains one or more analysis tabs.
The executive readout: overall score, the verdict, and key risks at a glance.
The Verdict is the dashboard view of your screenplay. It pairs the Quilty Score with a clear recommendation, the weakest pillar, runtime/genre/budget context, logline and premise, top strengths and weaknesses, the Bottom Line, comparable films, and concrete next steps. Think of it as the one screen a busy executive reads first.
A transparent 0-100 score built from four pillars: Story & Craft, Commercial Viability, Cultural Resonance, and Production Reality.
The Quilty Score tab breaks the overall score down by pillar, shows confidence, and gives improvement guidance for each pillar. The embedded Score Lab lets you explore how scores change under different assumptions. See the Quilty Score methodology page for how each pillar is calculated.
Empirical compositional patterns measured against 147 produced films — where your script follows or breaks proven structure.
Quilty Rules compares your screenplay against the compositional patterns of produced films (page counts, act proportions, scene cadence, and more). It highlights where your script aligns with proven structure and where it departs — useful context, not a pass/fail test.
Scene-level cut, merge, and trim recommendations and how well the script fits spec length.
Trim Advisor identifies scenes that run long, repeat information, or could be merged, and recommends specific trims. It also flags whether your script fits the expected length for its format, which matters for budget and readability.
Professional 10-category coverage grades with detailed analysis.
The Coverage Grid grades your screenplay across ten Hollywood coverage categories — Premise, Originality, Character Development, Conflict, Dialogue, Structure, Logic, Tone, Pacing, and Craft — each with a score and reasoning. This is the industry-standard coverage read.
Structure, characters as written, dialogue, conflict, and craft diagnostics.
Story & Craft is the deep creative read. It includes Story & Craft analysis, Writing Theory (how the script measures against established screenwriting frameworks), and sub-analyses such as Scene Visualization, Emotion Tracking, Narrative Genome, and Scene Notes. Use it to understand why the story works or does not — at the craft level.
Grounded, verified writer feedback: structure, character, dialogue, originality, and a prioritized rewrite roadmap.
Writer's Coverage is a writer-focused coverage pass focused on actionable revision. It covers structure, character, dialogue, theme and voice, visual craft, narrative genome, writing theory, and a prioritized revision plan. It can be generated on demand from a completed feature-film full analysis.
Market fit, comps, financial projections, distribution, and the talent package.
This section combines Commercial Viability (market positioning, deep market intel, audience scores, casting strategy, financial projections, distribution strategy, and marketing plan) with Pattern Departure — where the project breaks the commercial pattern and how it could still work. It answers "who buys this, for how much, and why now?"
Cultural resonance, acting/performance notes, audience simulation, and demographic reception.
Culture & Audience includes Cultural Resonance (Zeitgeist and cringe scores, demographic authenticity, cultural themes), Character Lab, Test Screening (audience simulation), and Audience Diversity. It shows how the project lands with real audiences and sub-demographics.
Execution budget, readiness, schedule, post-production, and compliance.
Production Plan brings together Production Intel (budget breakdown, locations and incentives, shooting schedule, call sheets, scene costs), Production Readiness, Post-Production Intelligence (VFX, editorial, sound, color, reshoot risk), and Compliance. It is the "can we actually shoot this?" view.
IP, source material, international opportunities, and format adaptations.
Source & Adaptation covers IP Market (underlying rights and comparable IP), Feature→TV (reimagining a feature as a series), International IP Scout, and Episode Optimization for serialized content. It is most relevant when evaluating adaptations and IP extensions.
Concrete fixes, improvements, and next steps.
The Action Roadmap translates every other section into a prioritized, actionable list of fixes and next steps — the punch list a writer, producer, or executive can hand off and track.
Opt-in, partner, verification, and alternate-coverage surfaces.
Labs & Trust groups opt-in and trust features: Climate Storytelling (Green Story Score and regenerative storytelling, powered by Good Planet Innovation), Authenticity (AI-content detection), and Legal & Business surfaces. These appear only when enabled and relevant to your project.
Beyond the report itself, these are the pages and tools you will use most often.
Upload a screenplay (PDF, DOCX, TXT, Final Draft FDX) to start an analysis. Your dashboard tracks every project, its status, and its latest score.
A full example coverage report you can browse without an account — useful for following along with this documentation.
The 0-100 four-pillar score and how each pillar is calculated, with a public benchmark of notable films.
Free public tools covering film festivals, film markets, incentives, the industry directory (TheBiz), the industry snapshot, and The Quilty Brief newsletter.
Per-project tools above the report: Package (talent and budget configuration), Global Resonance (territory scorecards and compliance), Compare Versions, Pitch Tools, Casting Lab, and Title & Synopsis Lab.
Image-generating tools attached to a project: mood boards, storyboards, posters, and lookbooks. These produce real images from shot lists and scene briefs — separate from the text-based report sections.
Plans and per-analysis credit pricing for script coverage and analysis, with a free preview available without signup.
Not every section appears on every report. What you see depends on a few things:
If a section you expected is missing, check the report format and your package first, then run any on-demand analyses listed in the report.
Open the sample report side by side with this guide to see each section in context.