A Celaya Solutions Research Instrument

Every screenplay ever written, at your fingertips.

SCRIBE is a private intelligence platform for the entertainment industry. Ask any question across the largest searchable archive of screenplays and dialogue ever assembled. Get cited answers in seconds. Built for writers, producers, casting directors, and actors who need to know what has already been done before they decide what to do next.

1,900+
Screenplays, growing weekly
1920–2026
Years covered
< 3 sec
Average query
100%
Cited & sourced
// what it does

Ask anything. Get the receipts.

Every answer is grounded in real screenplays with the title, year, page, and writer cited. No hallucinations. No vague summaries. The exact moment in the exact script, ready to read in full or quote in your pitch.

// Live queryIndexing 1,900+ screenplays
QHow have the great writers opened a story when the protagonist is already broken before page one?
AAcross the indexed archive, the most enduring approach is what Scribe identifies as the aftermath open: the protagonist enters the story already past their breaking point, and the audience reverse-engineers the wound. Three patterns dominate. The ritual: a daily routine performed with mechanical precision that quietly reveals the fracture. The voiceover confession: first-person narration that names the wound but withholds its origin. The witnessed silence: someone close to the protagonist watches them fail to act in a small moment that signals the larger fall.
Manchester by the Sea
Lonergan
2016 · p. 1
Nightcrawler
Gilroy
2014 · p. 3
American Beauty
Ball
1999 · p. 1
The Wrestler
Siegel
2008 · p. 4
// in their words

What you ask Scribe
depends on who you are.

Same archive. Different questions. The answers come grounded, cited, and built for the work you actually do.

Writer · scoped to scene
1,900+ indexed
// query · the quiet hour, p. 47
Searching across the archive
Scribe · cited and grounded
The silent-reaction-before-speaking beat works in three reliable shapes. The physical task: the character keeps doing whatever they were doing, and the audience reads the betrayal in the stiffness of their hands. The refused look: they will not meet the betrayer’s eyes, and the camera grants their refusal. The spatial retreat: they walk to a window, a door, a sink; the room itself becomes the beat. Length matters less than weight: most great versions run 4 to 7 seconds of screen time, paired with a sound the audience can fixate on.
The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
1974 · p. 87
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach
2019 · p. 62
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
2016 · p. 71
A Separation
Asghar Farhadi
2011 · p. 44
Every answer cites the title, the writer, the year, the page.
Never an opinion in disguise.
// who it's for

Three rooms. One instrument.

i
[ The Writer ]

Find what's been done. Find what hasn't.

Pitching a heist where the thief is the mark? Scribe finds every prior version across a hundred years of screenplays in seconds. Compare openings. Trace how dialogue carries character. Build your reference library while you write.

Show me how the best closers in Sorkin's work set up their final monologues.— A working query
ii
[ The Producer ]

Compare scripts. Spot the patterns. Move faster.

Reading thirty scripts a week and remembering none of them? Scribe gives you cited comparisons across genre, era, and budget tier. Validate originality. Find tonal references. Vet writers by their actual pages, not their pitch deck.

Find every contained thriller under 100 pages with a female lead in the last decade.— A working query
iii
[ The Actor ]

Prepare with the full record. Not the audition sides.

Walking into a room with one scene means walking in blind. Scribe surfaces every comparable role across history: how that archetype has been written, what the memorable choices were, where the trapdoors are. Prepare like a scholar.

Every monologue from a working-class father to an estranged son in the last fifty years.— A working query
// in the room

What it sounds like when it works.

We had three days to pitch a network. Scribe gave us six tonal references with page citations by lunch. The deck wrote itself.
Showrunner // Streaming Drama
I stopped guessing whether my act-two turn had been done before. Now I know it has, and I know exactly how to make mine different.
Feature Writer // WGA
The casting team uses it the way a research librarian uses an archive. Every choice we make now is informed instead of remembered.
Producer // Independent Feature
// capabilities

What you get under the hood.

01

Cited answers, never hallucinated

Every response includes the title, year, writer, and page reference. Click any citation to read the original passage in context. Trust is non-negotiable in this business; Scribe was built for it.

02

Search by feeling, not keyword

Ask the way you'd ask a brilliant assistant: by tone, theme, emotional beat, relationship dynamic, structural pattern. Scribe understands narrative the way your room does.

03

Cross-reference at scale

Compare openings across decades. Track a trope through every iteration. Find the seven scripts that solved the problem you're stuck on. The work that took a research assistant weeks now takes one query.

04

Private by design

Your queries never leave the system. Your in-development scripts can be added to a private, encrypted workspace nobody else can see. Hollywood-grade confidentiality from a research lab that takes it seriously.

05

Built for the way you work

Web app for the desk. iOS app for the green room. Final Draft and Highland export on request. The intelligence is the same; meet it where you already are.

06

Custom corpus on request

Teach Scribe your library. Add your studio's development slate, your agency's submission archive, your writers' room reference shelf. Scribe answers from your world, not just the public one.

// how it works

From request to cited answer in four moves.

i.
Ask in plain English

Type your question the way you'd ask the most knowledgeable person in your office. No syntax to learn.

ii.
Scribe searches

Across 1,900+ screenplays, every line of dialogue, every scene heading, every action block. In seconds.

iii.
Receive cited findings

An answer in clear prose, with title, page, and writer for every claim. Click to read the passage in full.

iv.
Save, share, refine

Build a research folder. Share findings with your room. Ask the follow-up. Your queries stay yours.

// confidentiality

The industry runs on trust. So does Scribe.

The most valuable thing in this business is the script that hasn't been read yet. Scribe was built knowing that. Your queries, your in-development work, your private library: all of it stays where it belongs.

Built by an independent research lab. Operated under NDA standard. No data sold. No queries logged for training. Deletion on request, in writing.

  • Private workspaceYour in-development scripts indexed only for you. Encrypted at rest, never surfaced to other users.
  • Zero-retention queriesWhat you ask Scribe is never logged, never used to train models, never shared.
  • NDA standardEvery account agreement is mutual. We'll sign yours. Ours is fair.
  • Independent operationCelaya Solutions is independent of any studio, agency, or platform. No conflicts. No leaks.
// access

Three tiers. By license.

SCRIBE is offered by license. Every tier includes the full archive, cited answers, and the iOS and web app. Choose by team size and confidentiality needs.

Writer
$49/ month

For the working writer with one or two open projects.

  • Full archive access, unlimited queries
  • Web and iOS app
  • Personal research folder
  • Citation export to Final Draft and Highland
  • Email support
Start with Writer
Production Standard
Production
$2,400/ yr per seat

For producers, showrunners, and development teams running active slates.

  • Everything in Writer, multi-seat
  • Private team workspace, indexed
  • Custom corpus: add your slate
  • Cross-team query sharing
  • Slack and Notion integration
  • Direct line to CSR for new feature requests
Request access
Studio
Bespoke/ contract

For studios, agencies, and platforms operating at scale.

  • Unlimited seats across the organization
  • Full studio archive privately indexed
  • Custom domain, SSO, audit logs
  • White-glove onboarding for every team
  • Quarterly intelligence briefings
  • NDA standard, full provenance attestation
Talk to CSR

Stop reading blind.

The intelligence the industry has needed for fifty years exists now. Whether you're breaking a story, vetting a writer, or preparing for the room of your life: Scribe gives you the full record in the time it takes to ask for it.