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The Wizard#

The guided start-a-script flow: the best way to begin when a blank page feels impossible — you bring the spark, Nisaba walks you all the way to a scaffolded structure with scene ideas ready to write.

The wizard walks you forward one step at a time: from a rough idea, to a logline, to a synopsis, to a treatment, to a structure, to scene ideas laid out on a story map. You make the creative calls at each step; Nisaba — your AI writing partner — does the craft work in between.

Going back tells you what will be set aside and asks you to confirm. That work is saved in History before the rewind. If the copy cannot be saved, the wizard keeps your current step and work. Restoring returns the whole project to that moment; what you made since is saved in History first.

How to start the wizard#

The wizard begins automatically when you create a brand-new project the guided way.

  1. From your dashboard, choose to start a New Project.
  2. Pick the path that opens the guided flow — the one where you build the screenplay with Nisaba rather than writing from scratch or importing a file.
  3. An orientation primer welcomes you to the wizard. Click Continue to begin.
  4. Follow the wizard's lead through quick pickers and then into a conversation with Nisaba.

Note: The wizard works on phone, tablet, and desktop. A larger screen gives the conversation and your documents more room side by side, but you can start and run the wizard on your phone.

You can leave and come back#

Your progress through the wizard is saved as you go. You can close the tab, walk away for a week, and come back to find the project exactly where you left it — same step, same answers, same documents.

Your story so far#

On a wider screen, a narrow list on the left of each step shows your story on file: the project's name, then the steps, with a check beside each thing you've settled. The step you're on is a little brighter. Point at an item, or tap it, to see it in full. Click a finished step to go back to it; once the map is made, it opens that document instead. If you edit your treatment after the map is made, it reads Edited and offers to rebuild the scenes from it. On a phone, the map's Story on file button shows the same list.

What the wizard walks you through#

The wizard is organized into three acts, each with a handful of steps. Some steps are a conversation with Nisaba; a few are short waits while she does the heavy lifting. When Nabu is busy, a step can read Queued, coming soon. It starts on its own.

Act 1 — You#

This act gathers what Nisaba needs to understand what you're trying to make.

  • Choose Your Medium — pick a feature film or a short. TV and vertical are coming. To set how long it runs, say it in your spark or to Nisaba ("a twelve-minute short", "about 95 minutes"); the script is sized to the last length you said. You can change it in Settings.

Note: TV may not be visible yet. A new show's pitch leads to your show before the pilot. - The Vision Spark — write your idea in your own words. A sentence, a paragraph, a messy braindump — whatever you've got.

Have notes or pages already? Bring them in: click the paperclip beside the mic, drop files anywhere on the step, or paste a long note. Each one becomes a small tile in the box. Click × to take one back; if a tile shows Not sent, pressing Let's Go tells you why — a file that is too large or of a type Nabu can't take yet needs removing; otherwise click the tile to send it. Notes, Word documents, PDFs, Final Draft and Fountain files come in; images and audio aren't supported yet. Each tile says what it is — Script, Treatment, Notes, Research or Reference — once Nabu has looked at it; a treatment of a few pages or more says Treatment with or without headings (without them, when it is in English). Right-click a tile (or press and hold on a phone) to change what it says. To start from a treatment you added after you pressed Let's Go, go back to the start, set its tile to Treatment and press Let's Go again. Going back to the start removes a synopsis or treatment written since. On The Treatment you can paste it into the treatment instead. Click a tile to see what Nabu read from it; Pin keeps it in view through the steps and in your chats with Nisaba — click it there to unpin. Add a line about your idea if you like, then Let's Go — it waits for your files to finish, and they come with your idea. A script opens the import, already set to Complete screenplay (or Partial screenplay when it stops short), so you are not asked what it is again — close it and your files are back in the box; a treatment opens at The Treatment. If you reload while Nabu is reading, you return to that reading; it does not start a second one. A copied project keeps your files and answers, rather than continuing the original project’s reading. A pasted note is kept if you reload the page; a file is kept once it has finished uploading, so if you leave before then, add it once more. - The Genre — choose your genre. This tunes Nisaba's instincts, voice, and what she pays attention to, so a thriller and a tender drama get genuinely different help. - Creative Instincts — answer a few quick questions about taste and tone.

Act 2 — The Idea#

This act turns your spark into the written backbone of the story: a direction, a synopsis, and a treatment.

  • The Conversation — an open back-and-forth with Nisaba. If you brought notes or files, she opens by naming what she read, grouping files without names, and saying what she could not see. Talk through your story as much or as little as you like. When you're ready to move on, click Continue to pitches →.
  • Generating pitches… — a short automated step. It opens with Reading your conversation…, then Nisaba works up a few distinct directions your story could go. The line under the heading says what is being worked on now.

  • Choose Your Direction — Nisaba presents a few pitches (short takes on your story), and you pick the one that feels right. This produces your logline. (See Logline, synopsis and treatment.) The pitch you open shows how it Ends; click Change to say it your way, and the synopsis is written toward that ending. It also shows its Shape — the story structure your script will be built on if you choose it. If an older pitch suggests another shape, the card names the shape its beats actually use and explains it. Click Change to pick a different one; your pick stays. Your shape stays too: once you choose a pitch, Nabu keeps the shape it picked and doesn't suggest another one later, even after your synopsis or treatment is written. To use a different shape, click Change wherever the shape is shown. A shape that comes from your own imported map says so ("it is the shape you laid out") and stays yours. The shape a pitch shows is Nabu's best fit for it, and All shapes marks that same shape Recommended. If you picked a shape yourself and Nabu reads another as closer, the pitch suggests it as A better fit; it can also suggest a way the pitch Could go further. Click Use it to take a suggestion, or leave it: nothing changes until you do. If the shape Nabu shows is not the one it first planned the pitch on, choosing that pitch plans its beats again on the shape shown, as part of the same step. If a pitch's key beats didn't come through, its card says so instead of showing none. Under its key beats, each pitch also shows what the whole story stands on: its question, its stakes, its setting, who wants what, its themes and its threads. If one isn't decided yet, the card asks you for it — write it in your own words before you choose that pitch, or pick another. The pitch you choose keeps them; the synopsis and treatment fill them out.

  • Drafting synopsis… — another short wait while Nisaba writes a first draft of your synopsis.

  • The Synopsis — you and Nisaba shape your synopsis together. When you're happy with it, click Expand into treatment, or click Write it myself to skip Nisaba's draft and start on a blank treatment.
  • Drafting your treatment… — a longer automated step. Nisaba expands the synopsis into a treatment. If the synopsis leaves one of the story's turning points thin, the draft writes it in.
  • The Treatment — you collaborate with Nisaba on your treatment. When you're happy with it, click Finalize Treatment. Starting from an uploaded treatment, Nisaba reads it first and asks about what it leaves open, one question at a time; she offers answers back as edits for your approval. If it stops before its ending, she says so and suggests working the ending out here. For TV, Nisaba may offer to add missing act headings. You can finalize without answering everything.

Act 3 — The Build#

Nisaba constructs the spine of your story and lays out scene ideas.

  • The Forge — Nisaba first reads your finished treatment for its characters and beats. The line under your story's shape may then show Beats not yet answered: the beats of your story's shape that the treatment doesn't reach yet, or none. It's there to help you decide; you can still build either way.

Nisaba asks "How should Nisaba prepare your screenplay?" and offers three options: - Empty Canvas — structure only, no scene ideas - Critical Beats — a lighter scaffold with fewer scene ideas, so there is room to write into - Full Scaffold — an outline of the whole film: a scene card for each scene your script's length holds

Pick the level of scaffolding you want, then click Begin. If Nabu is still reading your treatment, Begin says "Reading your treatment…" and the build starts by itself when the reading is done. If Begin doesn't go through at first, Nabu tries again on its own. A saved choice waits while Nabu reconnects; if it still can’t continue, you can send a bug report. Nisaba builds the structural spine, pulls out your characters, and generates scene ideas at the level you chose. Each beat of your shape is placed where your treatment answers it. In a short, when one scene tells two turning points, the map shows the second as missing. If part of your treatment couldn't be read cleanly, the Forge says so in one line — "Some of your treatment's beats aren't checked yet." — and keeps going with everything it could read.

  • The Map — a story map of your sequences as columns, with numbered scene cards and beat markers. The header counts the scene cards and missing beats on the map, and the scenes you've written; the written count and the beat names match your Story page. Each sequence's heading names the beats of your shape that land in it. Point at a beat — or tap it — to see what should happen there and which scenes answer it. Missing beats are highlighted, and Nisaba may leave an idea for one beside its act — answer yes, later or no. Yes opens the idea as a new scene card, already written, right after the scene it follows. If that scene has moved or gone, Nabu places it at the end of that act; an empty act starts with the new card. An idea shown in an act stays there even if its original missing beat has moved to another act. Drag it if you want it elsewhere. Once you add it, or say No, the idea leaves the map. Later keeps it there to answer when you like. A card shows the colour you pick for it. Click a scene card to open it bigger; the arrows beside it (or ← / → when you're not typing) move to the previous or next scene in story order, saving your changes first. Nisaba Assist on a card takes you to the chat beside the map, about that scene. Use − and + above the cards (or pinch, or Ctrl/⌘ and scroll over them) to zoom out until a whole act fits, and back in; the map remembers your zoom for this project. When you're ready, click Start writing to leave the wizard and open your script. If you added or removed scenes on the map, pressing it makes one small edit to your synopsis in the background — the rest unchanged (it shows in Jobs as "Synopsis", and its history keeps the version before). It uses a small amount of your plan (typically about 10 credits); if there isn't enough left, it doesn't run, and the synopsis stays as it was and shows it is out of date. Stopping it has three outcomes: before it starts writing, nothing runs and nothing is charged (this check is best-effort, so a Stop pressed at the last moment can miss it); while it is writing, the edit is cancelled and nothing changes, but what it had used is charged; once it has written, the edit stays — restore "Before AI draft" from the synopsis history to take it back. It opens straight away; if you reload or come back to the wizard after that, it takes you to your script. If it takes more than a moment, click Open your script. Nisaba's chat beside the script tells you what to write next — usually your first scene, though you can start anywhere — and the beats that still have no scene. After a Full Scaffold, if a character has no scene yet, it asks whether to keep or cut them. It also tells you that Nabu can follow your story as you write, and that the Story page is where to see what it understands.

What you end up with#

By the time the wizard is done, your project has:

  1. A logline — your one-sentence hook.
  2. A synopsis — your one-page story.
  3. A treatment — your prose blueprint, scene by scene.
  4. A structural spine — the underlying shape of the story.
  5. Characters and scene ideas — placed on your structure, ready to write.

Nothing is locked. You can rewrite the logline, reshape the treatment, fill in any scene, or hand the whole thing back to Nisaba for more work.

Good to know#

During a quiet stretch the step keeps its last line and percentage and its bar pulses; the bar at the top of the page says Working.... While a step works, its line names the part being drafted — for a treatment, the section ("Drafting treatment section 6/8: …"; "Redrafting …" when that section is written again). If you stop a synopsis or treatment draft, it says Stopped. If you stop the synopsis draft, the step keeps the direction you picked, says Operation stopped by user request., and Continue drafts the synopsis again. If you stop the treatment draft, click Expand into treatment to draft it again.

In the same browser, an unanswered Expand into treatment or Finalize Treatment request is kept through a reload. Trying again checks that same request while its outcome is unknown. Once Nabu has answered, a later press starts a new attempt with your current saved words; Try again after a confirmed refusal does this too. Going Back to the synopsis and pressing Expand into treatment asks Nabu to use the synopsis now on file. Nabu checks the current stage and draft: if a draft is already running, the press returns that work instead of starting another. If the wizard has already moved or the treatment is already finalized, Nabu refreshes the saved wizard state and shows that step. An expired unanswered request starts nothing automatically; a later press checks it, and starts a new attempt only after Nabu confirms it is no longer pending.

Notes you attach can inform the conversation, the reading of that conversation and the pitches. Nisaba works from a bounded selection of those notes and keeps track of what was shortened or left out. Suggestions drawn from notes remain proposals; you still decide what becomes part of the story.

A full name you supplied stays plain; a full name you never gave stays marked as a suggestion, such as [Corwin Vell?], even when its words came from different people in your notes. This applies to the whole name, including middle names.

Notes and files sent in wizard chats stay available to your project's later chats when the wizard finishes, including material sent in an earlier wizard step. A file left unsent in a chat draft stays with that draft.

  • You're always steering. At every step, you choose which direction, which wording, what stays.
  • Your documents stay alive. The synopsis and treatment aren't carved in stone — they're living documents you keep editing.
  • You can stop trusting the suggestion and write it yourself. If a draft isn't right, say what you'd rather have and Nisaba reworks it, or just edit it directly.

Uses your plan: Generating pitches, drafting your synopsis and treatment, and laying out scene ideas all draw on your plan. The conversation steps are light; the drafting and structure-building steps are heavier. Some heavier steps show a confirmation card with an estimate; others show "Estimate unavailable — uses your plan usage, billed to actual usage."