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What Nisaba Can Do for You

A plain-language tour of how Nisaba helps — drafting and revising scenes, shaping structure, keeping track of your characters, polishing your story documents, reading your script, and answering questions about your own work.

Nisaba — your AI writing partner inside Nabu — can do a great deal, and you never have to learn a single command to get any of it. You just ask, in plain language, the way you'd ask a collaborator across the table. This page walks through what she can do grouped by what you're actually trying to get done. You'll never see the machinery; you'll just see the work happen.

New here? Start with Meet Nisaba for who she is and the one rule that keeps your script safe — she never changes existing work without asking.

Drafting and rewriting scenes

This is the heavy lifting — the blank-page work that stalls most writers.

  • Draft a new scene. Tell her what the scene needs to do — "write the scene where she finds the letter" — and she writes it as proper screenplay pages, in your story's voice.
  • Give you choices. For an important scene, she can write two versions in different styles and let you pick the one that lands, or go further and produce a small set of drafts to compare side by side. You choose; nothing is locked in until you say so.
  • Revise what's there. Ask for a tenser opening, a tighter exchange, a different ending — and she'll propose the change rather than silently overwrite your work (more on that in What she won't do).

Costs credits: Drafting and rewriting scenes is the most credit-heavy thing Nisaba does — a full scene draft is a real piece of work. Asking for multiple versions of a scene costs more than one. Quick questions and conversation stay cheap. Costs are always approximate; the app shows you what's happening.

Working with structure — the board, zones, and sequences

Structure is the part that overwhelms people, so Nisaba can carry it with you. Your board (the visual scene-card view), your zones (the broad regions of your story — beginning, middle, end), and your sequences (runs of scenes that form a movement) are all things she can shape.

  • Place and move scenes where they belong in the arc of the story.
  • Build and adjust sequences — group scenes into movements, or reshuffle them.
  • Set your structural framework — switch the underlying beat template your story follows; she does this carefully, keeping the placements you've already confirmed intact.
  • Flag the turning points. She can mark a scene as a pivotal moment, or suggest which moments are the pivots, so the spine of your story is clear.
  • Build or rebuild the outline of your script's shape when the story has moved on.

Tip: You don't have to know structure jargon. Say "this scene comes too early" or "the middle sags" — she'll work out what to move.

Characters and relationships

Nisaba keeps the people in your story straight so you don't have to.

  • Create and update characters — a new character on request, or a tweak to an existing one's details (proposed first if they already exist).
  • Answer questions about who knows what — "who has my detective talked to so far?" or "what does she know at this point?" — drawing on what's actually in your script, not guessing.
  • Watch how characters sound. She can study your characters' distinct voices and notice when someone slips out of character.
  • Check relationships across the script — how two people's connection reads scene to scene, and whether it holds together.
  • Rename a character or location across your story when you've settled on a better name.

Your story documents — logline, synopsis, treatment

Before the scenes, there's the story on paper: your logline (the one-sentence pitch), your synopsis (your one-pager), and your treatment (your prose blueprint). Nisaba helps you write and revise all three.

  • Draft and refine each one with you, section by section.
  • Make edits you've approved directly to the synopsis or treatment — and every such edit creates a save point first, so nothing is ever lost and you can always step back.
  • Find-and-replace a name cleanly inside a document when you rename something.

Note: Nisaba will only change your synopsis or treatment after you've explicitly said yes. She proposes; you decide. If an edit ever fails to go through, she'll tell you — she won't claim a document changed when it didn't.

Searching, reading, and answering questions about your script

Nisaba has read your whole project, so she can be your memory.

  • Find things fast — "where does the gun first appear?" or "which scenes are set in the diner?"
  • Spot loose threads — dangling questions, unresolved setups, and gaps the story hasn't paid off yet.
  • Check the through-lines — recurring images, themes, and motifs across the script.
  • Recall earlier feedback — what a previous read of your script said.

These reading-and-answering tasks are light on credits — they're closer to conversation than to drafting.

Notes and gentle suggestions

When Nisaba wants to change something you've already written, she doesn't just do it. She leaves a suggestion — a proposed edit you can accept or wave off right inside the script — or a note in the margin. Nothing changes until you accept it.

See Inline AI suggestions for how to accept, discuss, or dismiss the edits she proposes in your script.

Getting a read on the work — coverage

When you want an outside opinion, Nisaba can run coverage for you — a development-executive-style read of your script that lands on one of three verdicts: RECOMMEND, CONSIDER, or PASS, with reasons. It's the same kind of report a studio reader would write.

  • Ask her to "read my script" or "run coverage," and she'll kick it off and bring back the verdict and the notes.

Costs credits: A full read of your script is a deeper, heavier task and uses more credits than a chat. It's worth it when you want a real assessment — just know it's not a quick question.

Note: Coverage and the Script Doctor are a desktop feature — run them on a laptop or desktop rather than your phone.

Bringing in another perspective

Sometimes one opinion isn't enough.

  • Get a second opinion — Nisaba can fetch a take from a different family of AI models for a fresh creative angle on a scene or a story problem.
  • Hear the contrarian — she can summon a deliberately devil's-advocate voice to poke holes in an idea, so you've stress-tested it before you commit.

Remembering what matters to you

You can hand Nisaba a fact to hold onto — "the antagonist is never named on screen," "keep it under 90 pages" — and she'll remember it going forward, at no cost. She also quietly builds a sense of how you like to work over time. There's more on this in What Nisaba remembers.

What she won't do

Nisaba's limits are all in your favor:

  • She won't change existing work without your say-so. Creating something new on request is always fine. But touching a scene, character, treatment, or synopsis that already exists comes to you as a proposal first — every single time.
  • She won't pretend something changed when it didn't. If an edit she tried to make doesn't go through, she tells you. She will not claim your treatment or a scene was updated unless it actually was.
  • She won't override your locked creative direction. Once you've chosen the direction for your story, that choice is your provenance, not something she'll quietly contradict. She works within your vision, not around it.
  • She won't take the wheel on the big calls. She drafts, shapes, and advises. You decide what the story is.
  • She won't bury you in technical talk. She speaks in your story's terms — scenes, characters, beats — not the machinery underneath.
  • She won't pretend to be certain. If she's unsure, she says so. She's a collaborator, not a yes-machine.

Tip: If you ever want to know what Nisaba is set up to do on the screen you're on, type /help in chat. She'll list what she can help with right there. See Chat commands.

Good to know

  • You never name a capability. You don't pick a tool or a feature from a list — you describe what you want and she figures out how. "Make this funnier," "who's in act two?", "draft the confrontation" all just work.
  • The more of your project she can see, the sharper she is. Even a rough synopsis or a few character notes gives her more to work with. There's no required order.
  • Heavier work costs more. Conversation and questions are cheap; drafting scenes and running a full read use more credits. Costs are always approximate, and the app shows your balance.

Costs credits: Asking Nisaba to draft or revise scenes, or to run coverage, uses credits. Chatting and asking questions stay light. Your current balance and what each action costs are shown in the app — current pricing is always what you see there.