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Getting Feedback on Your Script

When you want an honest read on the work, Nabu's Script Doctor gives you professional coverage — a development executive's verdict, scores, and notes on your whole screenplay.

Coverage is the film-industry word for a written report on a screenplay: a reader goes through the whole script and tells you what's working, what isn't, and whether they'd pass it up the chain. Nabu builds that report for you on demand. You open the Doctor page, click Run Coverage, and a panel of AI readers reads your script the way a studio's coverage desk would — then hands you a single clear verdict, a scorecard, and specific notes you can act on.

It's meant to be tough, not flattering. The point is to tell you the truth about where the pages are right now, so you know what to fix before you send the script anywhere.

Note: Coverage is a desktop feature. It needs the room to lay out a full report, so it isn't available on a phone. Open Nabu on a laptop or desktop to run it.

Costs credits: A coverage run is the most involved thing Nabu does — it puts several AI readers on your full script at once — so it's also the most expensive single action. When the credit estimate is turned on for your account, you'll see it before you commit; you're charged for the actual work when the run finishes. See Coverage and the Script Doctor for the details.

In this section

  • Coverage and the Script Doctor — what a coverage report is, how to open the Doctor page and run one, what happens while it works, and how to read the report it gives you back. Start here.

Tip: You don't have to wait for coverage to finish. The run keeps going in the background, so you can close the page or keep writing and come back — it'll still be there, or pick up where it left off, when you return.

Good to know

  • You can only run it once an hour. Coverage is heavy, so Nabu won't start a fresh run if one finished in the last 60 minutes — it'll ask you to wait. This keeps you from spending credits on near-identical reports while you're making small edits.
  • It reads the script as it is now. Coverage looks at your current pages, not your intentions. If you've just made big changes, give the script a moment to settle, then run it to see how the new draft reads.
  • The verdict is earned, not given. Pass is the starting point; Consider and Recommend have to be earned by what's actually on the page. A great idea won't lift a script out of Pass if the pages aren't working yet. That's by design — see Reading the verdict.
  • You can ask Nisaba about it later. Once you've run coverage, you can ask Nisaba in chat things like "what did the Script Doctor say about my second act?" and she'll read the saved report to answer. See Working with Nisaba.