A screenwriting system · made for the screenwriter

Every craft has its tool.
Screenwriting had a formatter.

Telos is the screenwriter’s workstation. You build the world, the characters, the structure and the voice inside the system; the AI writes scenes, treatments and outlines out of all of it, and you decide what stays. Feature, series, vertical drama and short — each one on the ruler of its own craft.

$49/mo, 750 credits — what the subscription covers. Access opens in batches, and you only subscribe when yours opens.

The Rarest Thing · scene 12
INT. PORT WAREHOUSE — DUSK
Maria stops in front of the open container. She does not look back.
MARIA
You got here late.
⌘Jcopilot · phase: Outline
loaded: world · 7 characters · arcs · open setups · compiled authorial voice
Write the next scene
~18 credits
↳ The AI writes with the project loaded. The cost shows before the click.

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.

Anchored diagnosis

No verdict without the line of your screenplay that proves it.

AI tools tend to hand back an adjective: “the second act drags”. That isn't a diagnosis, it's a hunch with vocabulary. Telos answers the questions a script doctor charges real money to answer — and every answer arrives with the passage that backs it, so you can disagree on evidence.

Does your protagonist decide, or does it happen to them?

In scenes 8, 14 and 22 they react. Their last decision was scene 3.

Does the midpoint invert anything?

Scene 31 is the middle of the film and their goal has not changed.

Is the central lie ever confronted?

“I don’t need anyone” is said in scene 5 and never called out again.

Is the antagonist strong enough to win?

They appear in 4 scenes. In none of them does the hero lose anything.

Is the stated theme the answered theme?

You wrote “forgiveness”. What the ending delivers is “just revenge”.

Is there a B-story carrying the theme?

The sister’s thread opens in scene 9 and disappears after 17.

And where it couldn't read: Telos writes “not measured” instead of inventing a number. In a category full of guessed metrics, refusing to estimate is a position.

Three powers that change the game

Things screenwriting tools have never had.

Character-agents

Ask them to push back — and they do.

Each character is an agent: continuous memory, voice learned from what you've already written, internal tensions. When a line sounds like you talking and not like them, ask them to push back — and they come back with the scene rewritten and their reason for it.

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.

An engagement curve across the film, and an emotional heatmap on the scenes the curve flagged — not the whole screenplay, which would cost more than the month. Opens once the draft is done. Real screenings calibrate the model for your project.

Emotional curve
The Rarest Thing · 30 scenes analyzed
AI · cache hit
scene 1intensity 1–10scene 30
peaks3
valleys2
deepest troughscene 22
Script doctor + Provenance

Studio-grade analysis. Forensic authorship record.

A complete read of the screenplay with a backlog you apply item by item, and undo. Plus a record of how much YOU refined on top of what the AI wrote — per-scene heatmap, refinement score and side-by-side diff. When a work has been through AI, the exported file carries the marking the EU AI Act requires.

Read the authorship manifesto
Creative process record
Scene 12 — “Reunion at the port”
67%
  • →47 operations recorded
  • →23 manual rewrites · 14 AI suggestions rejected
SHA-256 hashRFC 3161 stamp optional
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Narrative versioning

Branches by hypothesis, AI-assisted merge, scene cherry-pick, divergence heatmap. Git built for story.

Anticipating 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.

Four pipelines

Format isn't a filter. It's a different craft.

Most tools swap the label and keep the same ruler underneath — the feature-film one. Here each format runs the engine of its own craft: different phases, different diagnostics, different deliverables.

Feature film

11 phases, from discovery to compiled script

  • Structural diagnosis quoting your own text
  • Forecast vs. Diagnostic — the shape the film asked for, against the one that emerged
  • Semantic payoff check: the AI reads both scenes and says whether the harvest pays the planting
  • Production revisions in industry colours (WHITE → BLUE → PINK)
  • One-pager, cast list and day-out-of-days at no AI cost

TV series

The season is the unit — switching seasons re-scopes everything

  • Continuity Ledger: the canon the AI reads before writing any scene
  • Breakdown board by act, with the room reacting to the whole board
  • Scene-by-scene writing, with world, cast, season arc and canon loaded
  • “What if…” — simulates a change against the canon before you write it
  • Submission ZIP: one file per episode, the way the network asks

Vertical drama

Either the AI read the episode, or it is not a number

  • Retention score per episode and twist cadence
  • Editorial bank of hooks and cliffhangers — reference, not formula
  • A/B of the whole episode, scored by the engine
  • Webnovel becomes a season, in batch
  • Episode translation saved to the project, in five target languages — Chinese, Japanese and Korean included

Short film

The whole festival pipeline

  • Concept test: is your idea a short, or act one of a feature in disguise?
  • Catalogue of 19 festivals with eligibility checks
  • Premiere-wave strategy — what NOT to do so you don’t burn the world premiere
  • Submission CRM with .ics export to your calendar
  • Bilingual EPK with laurels pulled in automatically, and a FilmFreeway-ready PDF

From idea to film

The workflow of your craft. Telos covers them all.

Each phase has health checks, cross-validation, and prompt injection into the next phases. You can skip theme, sequence forecast and dramatic map if you want — Telos will tell you when the absence costs.

  1. 01
    World
  2. 02
    Characters
  3. 03
    Theme
  4. 04
    Voice
  5. 05
    Treatment
  6. 06
    Timeline
  7. 07
    Setup/Payoff
  8. 08
    Sequences
  9. 09
    Outline
  10. 10
    Beat Map
  11. 11
    Compiled Script

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 the genre vocabulary of the vertical market. Pre-populates tone, voice, references.

Copilot Cmd+J

On any project screen, ⌘J opens the copilot that knows the whole project: current phase, pending phases, discoveries, active branch. Not a generic chatbot.

Backup + GDPR audit

Export all your data as JSON, and delete your account with a 30-day recovery window before permanent erasure.

At the end of the workflow: generated narrative bible, export in industry-standard PDF + Final Draft and Fountain (the bible also in DOCX), with scene numbering and industry colored revisions.

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

The season is the unit. Continuity Ledger, breakdown board, scene-by-scene writing, per-episode submission ZIP.

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.

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.

Your script is yours

Your screenplay never becomes training data.

It is the first question every screenwriter asks about an AI tool, and it deserves a verifiable answer — not a marketing promise.

Never becomes training data

Anthropic is bound, by its published commercial terms, not to train its models on content passing through the API. Not our word for it — their document, and you can read it right now.

Deleted within 30 days, with stated exceptions

Under the published API retention policy, whatever is sent for generation is deleted within 30 days. Anthropic itself states the exceptions: a submission flagged by its automated trust and safety systems may be retained for up to 2 years, and the classification score for up to 7. It is all in our Privacy Policy.

Never sold, never shared

Your text is not sold, licensed out, or used to train anything of ours. Export the whole project as JSON whenever you want; deleting your account deletes the data.

Who built it

Telos came out of an impossible deadline.

Diego Lopes · writer and director

Late in 2025 I was asked to write a vertical drama: 37 episodes of five to six minutes, with shooting due to start almost immediately. It wasn't a volume you solve by writing faster — somewhere in there I had stopped being able to see what I was building.

So I started building a system to see it. That system became Telos. The screenplay that came out of it premieres in September 2026, online and on Brazilian broadcast television.

Every feature answers a problem that showed up while writing — not a product hypothesis.

Before that

  • Lamento · 2019Feature · 105 min — Brasília, Cairo, Nashville, Kansas. Theatrical run in 2021.
  • Manual de Sobrevivência da Literatura Brasileira · 2024Series · 10 episodes — TV Brasil. Virtual production.
  • Punch TV · 2013Series · 13 episodes — Comedy Central Brazil.
  • Isabela · 2020Short · 20 min — Tirana, Bogoshorts, Macau, Carmel.
  • Dona Miroca e Seu Cuco Caduco · 2014Animation · 13 min — Finalist, Grande Prêmio Brasileiro do Cinema.

Feature, series, short and vertical. The four formats Telos supports are the four I write — which is why none of them is the feature-film ruler wearing a different label. Trained at the Los Angeles Film School.

Telos is independent. Not owned by a studio, a streaming platform, or big tech.

What it costs

One subscription, no tiers.

There is no starter plan holding half the product back. Every subscriber gets all of it — what varies is how much you generate, and that is credits, not features behind a wall.

Telos PRO

The monthly subscription. All of Telos, with credits to use every month.

$49/mo
750 credits/mo
  • 750 credits per month
  • Access to everything — generation, anchored diagnostics, character agents, audience model, branching, provenance
  • Cost in plain sight before you confirm — and it's what was charged, not what was held
  • Priced in USD (operating costs are USD — no FX risk)

If the 750 run out

1,500 credits$119
5,000 credits$349
15,000 credits$899

Extra credit is a top-up for subscribers, not a way in. It doesn't expire.

Access opens in batches. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's your turn — the invitation leads straight to the account and the subscription.

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Why a queue

Telos is still in launch beta.

We open access in batches because we'd rather calibrate with a few writers at a time than open to everyone and find the problem afterwards. Each batch that comes in shapes what the next one gets.

There is no open sign-up: joining the list means leaving an email, and it takes ten seconds. When your batch opens, the invitation arrives by email and leads straight to the account and the subscription — in that order, and only then. We don't charge people who can't use the product yet.

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