Quilty, which makes a tool that uses AI to evaluate and score a screenplay to help determine its producibility, has landed its first partnership with a production company.

The company, launched in February by founders film producer Daniel Wood and lawyer-turned-producer Simon Horsman, has struck a multiyear  preferred-look  deal with Giovanni Entertainment, the production company behind the Maika Monroe-led  Vegas: A Love Story  and the Emilie Hirsch-led  In Tandem.  The deal will give Giovanni preferred access to five of the top screenplays on Quilty's  Discovery Leaderboard,  a merit-based ranking users opt into with scripts that have earned high  Quilty Scores.  There are currently about a dozen scripts on the leaderboard, Wood said.

Those scores, out of 100, are the proprietary product of 12 different AI models analyzing a script on factors including story craft, market viability, culture and resonance and feasibility to help studios decide whether to greenlight a project. The average Quilty Score across genres is 62.4, with the majority of the platform's paid-tier scripts ranking at the  development  level.

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 This is truly democratization at work,  Horsman told Variety in a recent interview.  We've always said, maybe our first adopters are the people that don't have all the relationships in the industry, they don't know an agent, they don't know a manager, they don't even know how to call UTA and speak to a [literary] agent, but yet, here, a platform for limited costs, you can come in and be part of a system that you know will elevate or will surface your material. 

Quilty has not spoken to other companies yet about similar deals, Horsman added, as they want to use the Giovanni deal as a test run.

 We wanted to get the program up and running, frankly, to give Giovanni Entertainment a chance to see it working,  he said.  Once we start developing the network, what we want to do is try and bring people together to get stuff made… We want to build that community. 

Giovanni does  use the tool internally as well, from the submissions that they get from other people

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