Narrative versioning
Branches by hypothesis, AI-assisted merge, scene cherry-pick, divergence heatmap. Git built for story.
Waitlist open · first invites coming soon
AI doesn't write your film.
Telos is the tool that proves it.
The first platform where professional screenwriters work with AI without losing authorship. Narrative versioning, characters that push back, studio-grade analysis, forensic record of what YOU refined.
Releasing first invites by waitlist order.
The Rarest Thing · branches
●mainv3 · 47 scenes
○tragic-alt-ending+3 scenes
○antagonist-revealed-earliermerged
◦cherry-pick: scene 23 from v2
○maria-decides-midway-act2writing
↳ Narrative versioning. Branches, AI-assisted merge, heatmap.
The name
τέλος
té·los · ancient Greek
The intrinsic purpose that lets each thing flourish on its own terms.
Telos is the word Aristotle used for the fourth cause: what makes something fully be what it is. The seed carries the tree. The story carries the film it needs to become.
Screenplays have telos. Every character that enters, every scene that survives the cut, every word that stayed — all of it serves a purpose only the author sees whole. AI can deliver words. Only the author delivers telos.
The tool carries the name because it carries the commitment. The film is yours. Everything here exists to help you reach it — without getting in the way.
A new category
What Pro Tools did for music, Avid for editing, Figma for design: no tool has done for screenplay. Until now.
Professional screenwriters don't want another Notion. They want a tool that understands world-building, characters, structure, voice, rhythm. That treats every narrative decision as a decision. That respects the craft and empowers the author with AI — instead of replacing them.
Three powers that change the game
Things screenwriting tools have never had.
Character-agents
They push back when you stray from their voice.
Each character is an agent: continuous memory, voice learned from what you've already written, internal tensions, alternative scene proposals. When a line sounds like you talking — not them — they tell you.
M
MARIA
character · active agent
scene 12 · line 47
“I wouldn't say that. This line sounds like you talking, not me. I'd turn my back. Walk out without answering.”
confidence0.84
divergencetone
she wouldphysical act
Predictive audience model
Audience reaction before the screen test.
AI-generated engagement curve per scene. Emotional heatmap of the entire screenplay. Feedback loop with real test screenings that calibrates the model specifically for your project.
Emotional curve
The Rarest Thing · 30 scenes analyzed
AI · cache hit
scene 1intensity 1–10scene 30
peaks3
valleys2
saggingscenes 21–22
Script doctor + Provenance
Studio-grade analysis. Forensic authorship record.
Professional coverage across four lenses (complete, structure, rhythm, thematic) with scene-by-scene action plan. And the only auditable record of how much YOU refined on top of AI generation — exportable as archival PDF for Cannes, WGA, Copyright Office.
Read the authorship manifestoCreative process record
Scene 12 — “Reunion at the port”
67%
- →47 operations recorded
- →4h47m active editing across 12 sessions
- →23 manual rewrites · 14 AI suggestions rejected
SHA-256 hashRFC 3161 verified
8c4d3f2a91b7e6...d28f91f2Anticipating discovery
The copilot sees the forgotten setup, the character without arc, the sequence not yet written. Suggests the next move. Learns from what you dismiss.
Four native formats
Feature film, TV series, vertical drama, short. Each with its own structure, rhythm, and validation. Telos knows feature isn't series.
From idea to film
Eleven canonical phases. Telos covers them all.
Each phase has health checks, cross-validation, and prompt injection into the next phases. You can skip theme and dramatic map if you want — Telos will tell you when the absence costs.
- 01World
- 02Characters
- 03Theme
- 04Voice
- 05Treatment
- 06Timeline
- 07Setup/Payoff
- 08Sequences
- 09Outline
- 10Map
- 11Final Draft
Import what you already have
Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, PDF, .txt. Instant analysis plus automatic alias triage for characters (MARIA, Maria, M collapse into one).
Genre templates
Six canonical genres for feature (drama, comedy, thriller, horror, romance, documentary) and six subgenres for vertical drama. Pre-populates tone, voice, references.
Copilot Cmd+J
On any page, ⌘J opens the copilot that knows the whole project: current phase, pending phases, discoveries, active branch. Not a generic chatbot.
Backup + GDPR audit
Daily automatic snapshot in Postgres. WORM-style audit log for critical operations. Account deletion with soft-delete and recovery window.
At the end of the workflow: generated narrative bible, export in industry-standard PDF + Final Draft + Fountain + DOCX, automatic validations, dialogue and structure metrics.
Who it's for
Telos is specifically built for:
Feature film screenwriter
Dramatic Map in 8 sequences, visual setup/payoff, predictive audience model, 11 phases of the craft respected.
TV series showrunner
Seasons and episodes, episodic vs. season-long arcs, native plot B and C, shared bible.
Vertical drama creator
Cliffhanger per episode, mobile-first writing, accelerated hooks, 35 episodes of 3-6 minutes.
Short film screenwriter
Concise structure, thematic unity, no unnecessary subplots. Calibrated for 5-40 minutes.
About Telos
Built by a screenwriter, for screenwriters.
Telos is built by screenwriters, while writing their own screenplays.
The tool was born from the question: how do you integrate AI into writing without losing authorship? Each feature is an answer to a concrete problem found in real process — not product speculation.
Telos is independent. Not owned by a studio, streaming platform, or big tech company. Product decisions are guided by professional authors — not shareholders.
First invites coming soon
Invite-only release. You could be next.
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