Everything you need to know about StoryBrain.
StoryBrain is a professional story development suite built by working studio screenwriters. We built it because we spent twenty years in the trenches — back-to-back meetings, development slates, IP sitting on shelves — and the gap between "killer idea" and "pitch-ready document" was always the most painful part. So we built the tools we wished we had.
It's four tools under one roof. Story Builder walks you through nine phases of guided development and produces a polished producer doc, one-pager, or pitch document. Story Adapter takes source material — a book, article, podcast, script, anything — digests it, interviews you, and builds a writer-ready treatment. Story Analyst gives you studio-quality coverage on any screenplay in under a minute. Story Writer takes you from outline to full screenplay draft. Everything lives in your Vault, organized and private.
ChatGPT doesn't know story structure. It doesn't know what makes a logline land or a treatment sell. It's trained on everything, which means it produces average output — the average of the internet. StoryBrain was built by people who've spent decades learning what works at the studio level. The methodology behind the Builder's nine phases, the Adapter's digestion pipeline, the Analyst's coverage format — none of that came from a prompt template. It came from years of doing this for a living.
No. If you have a story to tell, StoryBrain helps you tell it. The Builder walks you through the process step by step — you don't need to know what a tentpole or an inciting incident is going in. The Adapter works with any source material. The Analyst speaks plain English. We built this for professionals, but we designed it so anyone with a good idea can use it.
You answer nine phases of questions — gut check, genre, world and tone, logline, relevance, character, theme, inciting incident, and tentpoles. Each phase builds on the last. When you're done, you get a complete producer document, a one-pager, or a writer's pitch — all generated from everything you've told it.
Upload your source material — a novel, an article, a comic, a podcast transcript, a true story, whatever. Adapter runs three passes of digestion (structural reading, story analysis, adaptation intelligence), then interviews you about your creative vision. The output is a full treatment: organic narrative, characters woven into the story, no section headers — with adaptation notes flagging what came from the source and what was invented for the screen.
Upload a screenplay — PDF or Final Draft — and get professional-grade coverage in under a minute. Character analysis, structure analysis, strengths, and actionable weaknesses. Then ask it anything. Unlimited follow-up questions. It's like having a development executive in your pocket who actually reads the whole script.
The Builder is for original ideas. You start from nothing — just a spark — and it helps you develop it into something pitchable. The Adapter is for existing material. You bring the source — a book, an article, a script, anything — and it helps you build a screen adaptation treatment from it. Two different starting points, same quality output.
No. Generic AI produces generic stories. StoryBrain's output is built on your answers, your material, your creative decisions. The Builder's producer doc reflects the specific choices you made across nine phases of development. The Adapter's treatment follows your creative vision. It sounds professional because it's grounded in professional methodology — not because it's mimicking one.
You do. All of it. Your sessions, your treatments, your documents — they're yours outright.
Yes. Your content stays yours. We don't use your material to train models or share it with anyone. We use Hetzner on the backend and put everything behind Cloudflare's CDN so it's all safe and secure. Every account is individually authenticated and your data is isolated to your account.
We're screenwriters. We respect the craft. We've spent our careers in the dance with the muse, and we'd never pretend that AI replaces that. Ideas are living things to be nurtured.
But we also believe technology can serve the creative process without undermining it. The question isn't whether to use these tools — it's whether you use them to make something that sounds like everyone else, or something that sounds unmistakably like your story. We built StoryBrain to be the latter.
It's a tool we're not quite ready to share with the world just yet. Stay tuned.