Pay-to-Pitch
$75 for an eight-minute call with a junior reader who’s heard seventy logs that week. They’ll “circulate” the title. Nobody circulates.
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The vault. Cracked open.
A custom Film-Industry AI grades your screenplay against the metrics real producers, agents and development execs are using right now — then puts it in front of the people actually buying. No gate. No toll. No permission slip.
60s
Producer-grade score
$50
Pro consult — flat hourly
0
Gatekeeper fees
01 / The Problem
You paid the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper said no.
For twenty years the “screenwriter helper” sites have sold the same illusion: pay the toll, polish the logline, wait for someone to maybe read seven pages. Below is what the industry quietly calls the racket.
Coverage Mills
$400 for a script report from a freelancer who reads three a day. You get a 1–5 rating, no signal whether anyone in the industry will ever read it.
The Subscription Trap
$300+ a year for a member badge and a forum. The promised “industry access” is a CSV of agents who don’t take cold submissions.
Contest Fatigue
$75 entry fees stacked across a dozen festivals. The winners go in a press release. The other 9,800 scripts go in a drawer.
Bottomless Notes
Six rounds of paid notes from six different services with six different opinions. The script gets workshopped to death, never to market.
Black-Box “Hosting”
Upload your draft to a portal. It sits next to 40,000 others. There’s no surface area, no signal, no exposure — just an attractive UI for the wait.
“The industry never had a problem reading good scripts. It has a problem finding them. Everyone built moats. Nobody built bridges.” — A working producer, off record
02 / What GEM Does Differently
Three steps. No middlemen.
No constant upsell to chase a denial. No mystery process. The script gets scored, sees the live boards, and pitches the room — in that order, transparently, at the cost of a streaming subscription.
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01
AI Score
A real beginning assessment.
Our custom Film-Industry AI grades structure, dialogue, character arcs, market comparables and commercial fit — using the same metrics readers in agency mailrooms apply, not vibes. You get a producer-style report in under sixty seconds.
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02
Live Boards
Real projects being sought, right now.
Browse open development needs from production companies, financiers and reps actively looking. Not aspirational wishlists — current calls with budget, genre, format and deadline attached. Match what they need to what you wrote.
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03
Virtual Pitch
Pitch the room, not the lobby.
Submit a recorded pitch or live video session directly to vetted industry professionals reviewing for that brief — at a fraction of the cost of Slated or Stage 32. Real reads, real responses, no gatekeeper between you and the room.
03 / The Comparison
Same doors. A fraction of the toll.
Honest math on what the “industry access” platforms actually cost a working writer for a year of trying.
GEM
Slated
Stage 32
Starting price
Free
$400+/yr
$300+/yr
Cost per pitch
$5–$15
$40–$75
$45–$95
AI-graded script report
✓ Industry-trained model
×
×
Live production briefs
✓ Real, dated, scoped
Limited
Limited
Direct response from buyer
✓ Required within SLA
Optional
Optional
Hourly script consultations
$50/hr
$250–$500
$200–$400
Privacy — delete on demand
✓ Instant, no retention
Partial
Partial
Competitor pricing reflects publicly listed tiers as of 2026. We don’t track the toll — we just don’t charge it.
04 / Pricing
Pay for the work. Not the wait.
Three plain tiers. No annual lock-ins, no hidden “application” fees, no badges that mean nothing.
Open Door
Try the engine
$0forever
Score a script, see what the AI sees, browse the boards. No card.
- ♢2 AI script evaluations
- ♢Browse all live production briefs
- ♢1 virtual pitch submission
- ♢Private by default — delete anytime
Pitch Pass
For working writers
$29/ month
Unlimited scoring, unlimited pitches into live briefs, portfolio heat tracking.
- ♢Unlimited AI evaluations + revision diffs
- ♢Unlimited pitch submissions to open briefs
- ♢Portfolio & heat score — track who’s reading
- ♢Genre comparables & market positioning
- ♢Priority placement on matched briefs
One-on-One
Pro consultation
$50/ hour
Live consult with a working industry professional — structure, pitch coaching, market fit. Book the hour, get the hour.
- ♢60 minutes, video, recorded for you
- ♢Written follow-up & action list
- ♢Choose by specialty: feature, TV, doc, genre
- ♢Book à-la-carte or stack into a track
À-la-carte add-ons
Deep coverage report
$75
Logline + synopsis polish
$35
Pitch deck review (10 pgs)
$60
Live pitch rehearsal (45m)
$40
Comp-title research pull
$45
Industry intro letter
$55
Ready when you are
Your script is a draft until someone reads it.
Twenty seconds to upload. Sixty seconds to a score. No card, no “application,” no waiting list.