Roster spotlight: Quilty
Quilty, the LA screenplay intelligence platform from Simon Horsman and Daniel Wood, gives writers professional coverage in minutes, part of a bigger shift toward Hollywood using AI to let the best scripts rise to the surface.
For as long as anyone can remember, getting a screenplay read came down to who you knew. Quilty is a big reason that is changing.
The LA-based team behind it is not a group of outsiders. Co-founders Simon Horsman and Daniel Wood have worked together for over two decades, from building PriceGrabber to producing film, TV, and theatre, with an Emmy, a Tony, and more than 350 million dollars in financing between them. They know how scripts get read, and how many good ones never do.
Co-founders Simon Horsman (left) and Daniel Wood (right).
Here is what they built. You upload a script and minutes later you get real coverage back, the kind Hollywood readers write, not a yes or no. Quilty scores it on four things that matter, the writing, whether it can sell, whether it lands now, and whether it can actually be made, then shows the work behind each. Honest notes, and they never train their models on your script.
The bigger story: studios only greenlight a sliver of what comes in, because reading it all by hand was slow and expensive. AI is knocking that cost to almost nothing, so the industry can finally read everything and catch what it used to miss. This does not take the final call away from studios. It just lets the great scripts rise to the surface, so they choose from the best of everything, not the best of what reached them. And Quilty is going further, connecting writers to the people who can actually get a film made.
Quilty is on the TokenRoster roster, and exactly the kind of company we like putting in front of people. Follow [@Quilty] and see what they are building.