Script Coverage in Minutes, Not Days
Human Methodology. Instant Delivery.
You finished the draft, but you can't tell if it's working. You need another set of eyes. Traditional script coverage costs too much and takes too long. Yet from the reader's perspective, they get paid too little and work too fast. It's a broken model. But not anymore.
I'm David Cornue. As a script coach, I've spent the last decade in one-on-one sessions with working screenwriters, and I built ScriptCoverage.ai to offer fast, affordable script coverage by infusing AI with a human methodology. You get a breakdown and assessment of your script, a real conversation with the AI version of me after the read, and a detailed revision strategy. All delivered in minutes, not days.
$49 – $79
The AI behind ScriptCoverage.ai operates under The Artistic Constitution — AI as coach, not co-author.
How It Works
Upload Your Script
Upload your script PDF and fill out a brief intake form — title, format, draft stage, and anything you want the read to focus on. Standard or Premium, you pick the depth.
Deep Analysis
My 7-pass pipeline examines your script the way I would — story, character, structure, world, and craft — with page-by-page notes most readers don't have time to give you.
Get Your Coverage
View your coverage online or download a PDF, then talk it through with dAIvid — ask what got missed, push back on a note, and walk away with your revision plan.
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7-Pass Analysis
dAIvid is my AI analyst, built on the same methodology I bring to one-on-one coaching sessions with working screenwriters. The analysis runs through seven comprehensive passes.
First Impressions
The way a reader experiences your script on page one — logline, synopsis, genre, and the gut reactions a fresh read produces before craft analysis kicks in.
Story Architecture
Act breaks, turning points, pacing, and narrative momentum. Where the script bends, where it stalls, and where it carries weight.
Character Mapping
Every character mapped against arc, want, need, and voice — including which ones are doing real work and which could use more dimension.
World Building
Setting, tone, theme, and atmosphere. The texture of the thing — whether the world has rules and whether the script obeys them.
Page-by-Page Notes
Detailed annotations throughout your script — the moments that landed, the ones that didn’t, and the small choices doing more or less than you realize.
Final Assessment
The Three Cs (Commend, Clarify, Consider), evaluation grid scores, and an overall recommendation.
Synthesis
An interactive conversation with dAIvid where you push back on notes, ask what got missed, and walk away with a personalized revision roadmap.
Why Script Coverage.ai vs. Human Readers?
With traditional coverage, you're rolling the dice. Who's reading your script? A film school grad between gigs? Someone who hates your genre? You wait a week to find out.
Human Coverage
3-7 days
ScriptCoverage.ai
Under 1 hour
Human Coverage
$150-300+
ScriptCoverage.ai
$49 – $79
Human Coverage
Depends on the reader
ScriptCoverage.ai
My STOP WRITING! methodology
Human Coverage
Varies by taste & mood
ScriptCoverage.ai
Calibrated every time
Human Coverage
Often just overview
ScriptCoverage.ai
Line-by-line
Human Coverage
Email (if they respond)
ScriptCoverage.ai
Interactive Q&A
Human Coverage
Generic suggestions
ScriptCoverage.ai
Personalized plan
Built for WGA-compliant workflows — coverage is analysis, not generation.
Why ScriptCoverage.ai vs. Generic AI?
Generic AI can summarize your script. It cannot diagnose it. Large language models are notoriously unreliable at story assessment—and bad notes do not just waste your time. They send you backwards.
Generic AI Coverage
Summary:
"The Godfather is a crime drama about the Corleone family. Michael, the youngest son, transforms from a reluctant outsider into the new Don after his father is shot. Along the way, he must navigate betrayals, family loyalty, and the cost of power."
Strengths:
- Compelling protagonist arc with clear emotional stakes
- Effective use of dramatic tension throughout
- Rich thematic exploration of family and loyalty
Weaknesses:
- The Sollozzo subplot should be introduced earlier to establish the central conflict and improve first-act pacing
- Michael's transformation would benefit from additional interior moments — consider a voiceover or journal device to externalize his inner conflict
- The ending is ambiguous — consider a final scene that clarifies Michael's emotional state for the audience
The Risk of Generic AI Feedback
"The Sollozzo subplot should be introduced earlier..."
Follow this note and you kill the wedding — the single most important sequence in the script. Those forty pages are not slow pacing. They are the foundation. Every loyalty, every debt, every fracture in the family is established before a single shot is fired. Move Sollozzo up and the audience arrives at a gang war between strangers.
"Consider a voiceover or journal device..."
This note asks you to solve a problem that does not exist by destroying the thing that makes the script work. Michael's silence IS the characterization. The moment you give the audience access to his interior, you turn the most dangerous character in American cinema into a narrator explaining himself.
"The ending is ambiguous..."
The door closes. Kay is on the other side. We cannot read Michael's face — and that is the entire point of the movie. He has become his father, which means he has become unknowable. A "clarifying" final scene does not complete the story. It apologizes for it.
A writer who follows generic AI feedback gets confident notes that sound right, feel actionable, and dismantle the very things that make their script work.
ScriptCoverage.ai
Summary:
New York, 1945. In a dim office behind a joyful wedding, Vito Corleone hears petitions like a king holding court — granting favors, demanding loyalty, building debts that function as currency. When a drug lord named Sollozzo asks for Vito's political protection to move heroin, Vito refuses. That refusal puts a bullet in his chest and a war on his doorstep. But it is Michael — the decorated Marine, the Ivy League boyfriend, the son who was never supposed to sit at this table — who walks into a restaurant, murders two men over a plate of veal, and disappears into Sicilian exile a different person. Or maybe the same person, uncovered. When Michael returns, he does not rejoin the family. He replaces it.
COMMEND:
The wedding as load-bearing architecture. Thirty pages of celebration that seed every major plot thread. Bonasera establishes the favor economy. Luca's rehearsal makes his murder devastating. Sonny's recklessness, Michael's outsider status, the FBI's surveillance — all disguised as celebration. The audience absorbs a complete world without ever noticing they're being taught. This is exposition at its most elegant.
Michael's silence as characterization. The script never gives Michael a speech about his transformation. Instead: steady hands at the hospital, cold tactical precision at the dining table, a flat lie to Kay's face. The restraint is the achievement. Every moment where a lesser script would have inserted a monologue, this one trusts behavior.
CLARIFY:
Kay's disappearance in the middle stretch. Kay vanishes from the script for a significant stretch during Michael's Sicilian exile. When she reappears teaching school, the audience has to accept her emotional state without preparation. Is her absence designed to mirror Michael's disconnection from his American life, or is there a missing beat where her continuity could be preserved without giving her a subplot?
CONSIDER:
Seed Carlo's conspiracy with one visual. Carlo's connection to Barzini is revealed only in his confession to Michael. What if, after the first beating of Connie, there's a brief shot of Carlo at a payphone, glancing around? The audience wouldn't understand it in the moment. But when the second beating triggers Sonny's fatal drive, that image would resurface — transforming the tollbooth from 'Sonny's temper killed him' to 'someone weaponized Sonny's temper.'