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Your writers’ room, in a browser.

Every scene is an index card pinned under the beat it serves. The screenplay is written on the cards, and the bible and the character arcs keep themselves from the script. Start alone, and bring your co-writers in when you’re ready.

The demo is Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is in the public domain in the United States: the real board, no sign-up, saved in your browser. Read the script or download the .fountain.

The whole film, 23 scenes and 48 pages, imported onto Dan Harmon’s Story Circle.

Every scene, pinned under the beat it serves.

The columns are your structure: Dan Harmon’s Story Circle by default, or Blake Snyder’s 15-beat sheet, three acts, the Hero’s Journey, your own. Drag a scene to re-plot it. The circle shows where the story runs thin before a reader does.

Write the screenplay right on the cards.

Each card holds its scene in proper format. Tab between action and dialogue, cues centre themselves, and the page count is the real one: the PDF matches it to the eighth. Bring a draft in from Fountain or Final Draft, and take it out the same way.

A story bible that reads the script.

Give anyone a line of dialogue and they’re in the bible, with how much they speak and in which beats. Add a face, a summary and a call-sheet number. Locations and props are tracked the same way, so continuity questions have an answer.

Watch the arcs cross.

Mark the scenes where a character turns and give each turn a fortune. Chart a few characters over the board together and see who rises while the others fall, and where an arc goes flat.

Then bring the room in.

Invite co-writers to a workspace and the board goes live: everyone’s cursor, scenes locked while someone is inside them, comments pinned to the exact line. Connect Claude and it reads and writes the same board, every change marked as its own.

Talk it through. Claude takes it down.

Ask Claude to start listening, then talk the story through with your co-writers. It picks out the requests (“put that in as a scene after the radio”), skips the brainstorming, and writes them onto the board, every change marked as its own. Your voice is turned into text on your Mac; the audio never leaves it. Part of the Room plan.

Out the door, in format.

When it’s ready to leave the room, it leaves the way the industry expects it.

  • Industry-format PDF

    Courier, a title page, page numbers in the right corner, and a page count that matches the board to the eighth.

  • Final Draft and Fountain

    Bring a draft in from Final Draft or Fountain and it lands on the board scene by scene. Export either any time; Fountain keeps your beats too.

  • Read-only share links

    A secret link for producers and readers: no account, no board, no notes. Revoke it any time.

  • A slideshow for the table read

    Play the story scene by scene, full screen, with each scene’s music cue.

Free to start.

Pay when you outgrow one story, or when you want your co-writers in the room.

Billing period

Free

$0forever

 

For breaking your first story.

  • 1 story, just you
  • The board, the script, the bible and arcs
  • Every structure template, or your own
  • PDF and Final Draft export

Room

$90/year

$7.50 a month

for up to 3 writers

+$30 per extra writer a year

Everything, for you and your co-writers.

  • Unlimited stories
  • Up to 3 writers sharing workspaces and boards
  • Live board: cursors, scene locks, comments
  • Generated portraits and location art
  • The Claude connector
  • Share links, drafts and full history
  • One bible shared across episodes

Prices in US dollars. Room’s fee covers up to 3 writers in a workspace; each writer after that is $3 a month ($30 a year), billed as they join. That covers them in your workspace: a workspace of their own starts on Free, and they can upgrade it to Room themselves. Cancel or change any time from Billing; your stories stay yours either way. We never use your pages to train AI, and every one of them exports to PDF, Final Draft or Fountain whenever you like.

Pin up the first card.

Free for one story. No card needed.