What Is Script Coverage? What’s In a Coverage Report — and What You Get From Mine
Last updated: July 2026
TL;DR
Script coverage is a professional reader’s written evaluation of a screenplay or teleplay — a report that lays out what your script is, what’s working, what isn’t, and where it stands. For most of Hollywood’s history it was an internal document: a studio reader’s read, written so a busy company could decide whether to move on your pages. ScriptCoverage.ai gives you that same professional read — logline, synopsis, deep analysis, page-by-page notes, a scored evaluation, and a revision conversation — in under an hour instead of days.
What’s In a Coverage Report
A coverage report has a handful of standard parts, and they’ve held steady for decades:
- Logline. Your story in a sentence — what it is and why it matters.
- Synopsis. A walk through the plot from open to close, so a decision-maker who hasn't read the script knows what happens.
- Comments. The heart of it — an assessment of the script's strengths and weaknesses across concept, character, structure, dialogue, and more.
- A recommendation. The reader's bottom line on where the script stands.
Read one and you know what your script looks like to a professional set of eyes that owes you nothing but the truth.
What a ScriptCoverage.ai Report Includes
My coverage keeps every one of those parts and goes deeper. A seven-pass analysis produces a report you read in tabs:
Your logline, a tight summary, and a full synopsis.
A portrait of each character, built the way I'd break them down in a coaching session.
A deep dive on premise, structure, tone, plot, and theme, plus your world and your plot threads.
Notes that commend what works, clarify the choices worth a second look, and point to what to consider next — closed by a Writer's Note: the honest, big-picture read.
Your script, page by page, marked where it matters.
An overall score out of 100 across ten weighted dimensions of craft, and where that lands you on my recommendation scale.
A real conversation with dAIvid, the AI version of me, that turns the read into a revision strategy you can run.
All of it in under an hour.
How It’s Graded
Every report ends with a recommendation — where your script stands on a five-level scale, from REMARKABLE down to RECONSIDER, tied to that ten-dimension score. I break down what each grade means, and how it maps to the industry’s old Pass, Consider, and Recommend, on coverage grades explained.
Coverage Reads Your Draft. It Doesn’t Write Your Next One.
One line worth drawing: coverage evaluates a draft you’ve finished — it doesn’t develop the story with you or rewrite your pages. ScriptCoverage.ai shows you where your script stands and what to do next. The pen stays in your hand. That’s the whole design.
See a Real Coverage
The demo is a full sample coverage of The Godfather — scored 93, recommendation RECOMMEND — with the evaluation grid, page-by-page annotations, and the Writer’s Note. It’s the fastest way to see what a coverage report looks like before you spend a dollar.
Quick Answers
What's included in a script coverage report?
A logline, a synopsis, and a full analysis of your script's strengths and weaknesses, ending in a recommendation. A ScriptCoverage.ai report adds page-by-page notes, a scored evaluation across ten dimensions of craft, a Writer's Note, and a revision conversation with dAIvid — delivered in under an hour.
How much does script coverage cost, and how long does it take?
Traditional human coverage runs about $150 to $300 and up and takes three to seven days. ScriptCoverage.ai is $49 for Standard and $79 for Premium, delivered in under an hour.
Is AI script coverage any good?
It is when the method behind it is right. ScriptCoverage.ai runs on a decade of one-on-one coaching turned into a repeatable read — not a generic summary. See the depth for yourself in the demo before you pay.