For literary agents, publishers & streaming acquisitions
Set the editorial brief. Scriptscreener searches across submissions, agent referrals, external platforms and rights catalogs - and returns each qualified title with explainable scoring on fit, completeness, originality, and likely AI authorship, plus the editorial rationale a human reader needs before page one.
Minutes, not a fortnight of reader fees and time to find hidden gems.
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Editorial pillars
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Scored criteria
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Evaluation, no signup
Sample evaluation
recommendInes Halvorsen · Literary suspense · via Beacon & Vale Literary
A distinctive, controlled literary suspense with a genuinely sellable premise and unusually strong subsidiary-rights value. The manuscript needs a structural trim in the middle act, not a rewrite. Recommend reading with an offer in mind; the adaptation angle is the strongest part of the case.
Sample report on a fictional submission. Read it in full.
The scores
Every report comes back scored on each pillar — no single black-box number. A reader can tell at a glance why a manuscript qualified before they open page one.
Genre clarity and shelf placement, comparable titles that actually sold, target readership size and reachability — and fit to your own list and taste profile once you've saved one.
Hook, voice, prose, structure and pacing, character depth, originality against the familiar — plus the editing load required to get it publishable.
Market timing and topicality, series and backlist potential, and subsidiary-rights value across film, TV, audio and translation.
Platform and following, credentials on the subject, prior sales and track record, and whether they can deliver more than one title.
Every score carries a one-sentence note grounded in the material. Anything the manuscript can't support — no author platform, no taste profile — comes back blank rather than guessed.
The workflow
Drop the PDF the author sent, or paste the synopsis. Title, author, genre and synopsis are pulled straight out of the text.
A structured reader's report: logline, synopsis, themes, comps, adaptation angle, 18 scored criteria and a pass / consider / recommend verdict.
Filter by category, status, verdict or genre — or search the whole pile by concept, like "books about lawyers falling in love".
The buyers
Every feature exists to give acquisition teams the triage discipline they need — at a fraction of the cost of outsourced manuscript evaluation.
House editors and imprint leads running standing acquisition lines across genre, literary and trade nonfiction.
Triage a submission window at scale, with comp-title evidence and a rationale behind every read.
Judge adaptation viability, format, budget tier, hooks and risks before a book goes out to a rival buyer.
Compare a working manuscript against the other contenders for the slot before the editorial meeting.
The margin notes