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Getting Feedback on Your Script#

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. Open Doctor → Coverage, 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 verdict, a scorecard, and specific notes. It's meant to be tough, not flattering.

Note: Coverage works on a phone, but it's roomier on a laptop.

Uses your plan: Coverage and notes are part of the Pro plan. A coverage run reads your whole script with several readers, so it can use a substantial share of your plan. See Coverage and the Script Doctor for details.

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Tip: The run keeps going in the background, so you can close the page or keep writing and come back later.

Good to know#

Continuity notes can quote more than one scene. Each quotation names its own scene when the note spans scenes; identical quoted words appear once. If Nabu cannot confirm a quotation in that scene, the note stays on the scene without quoting those words. Your answers to the note stay in place when its evidence is refreshed.

A check of one scene can also quote an adjoining scene it has read. When a character explicitly retracts a claim, the whole continuity note becomes advisory, including its copies on other scenes. Each copy still quotes only its own scene.

  • Spelling corrections appear on the page. Look for a wavy underline on the word in the editor. Formatting problems stay in Notes.
  • The Doctor opens to Notes first. When you open Doctor, you land on Notes — scene-by-scene observations. Pacing notes use the scene numbers printed in your screenplay and link to each affected scene. Switch to Coverage for the full formal report.
  • Reread your Notes with Re-run analysis. After a full read, the header says how many notes it cleared — for example, “7 notes cleared”. The count stays visible while those Notes are current and disappears while another read is running. Spelling corrections do not count as cleared Notes.
  • Notes read your whole story. Notes look at each scene with your project's story in mind — its characters and threads. They leave out small slips like punctuation, and they don't bring back a thread you've already ruled on.
  • Craft notes quote the passage they discuss. A scene heading alone cannot support a craft note. Nabu also leaves out a craft note when the words it quotes in the observation are outside its anchored passage. These checks establish where the quoted words appear; you still judge whether the observation is right.
  • Formatting notes stay plain. A formatting note names the problem in one short sentence, without explaining the scene's intent or its place in the story. It points to the passage with the problem, which can be the scene heading.
  • Nabu may ask you to wait before running coverage again.
  • It reads the script as it is now. Coverage looks at your current pages, not your intentions.
  • The verdict is earned, not given. Pass is the starting point; Consider and Recommend have to be earned by what's on the page. See Reading the verdict.
  • You can ask Nisaba about it later. Once you've run coverage, ask Nisaba things like "what did the Script Doctor say about my second act?" See Working with Nisaba.

The reading’s labels settle together after you pause, rather than changing with every autosave. Your words still save straight away. Character-sheet changes join the same check, even if you keep writing scenes before it runs. For a new whole-script verdict, use Run Coverage.