Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed coverage reports. But he struggles to get through them all.
At a film festival, some friends suggested he investigate artificial intelligence to help with his workload. “I was a little arm’s length with anything AI-related,” he says. “Some of it scares me.”
But Chapdelaine did some research and eventually signed up for Greenlight Coverage , which uses large language models to summarize scripts and grade elements like plot, character arcs, pacing and dialogue on a scale of 1 to 10. It even gives a verdict: Pass, consider or recommend.
He found the AI more honest than human feedback — even his