Common Questions
If you have a script and you're wondering whether it will hold a vertical audience, the answer is probably yes. Here's everything you need to know before you submit.
Yes. This might be the most valuable thing you can do with it before you shoot. A lot of webseries scripts are written in traditional format and would lose a vertical audience in the first 20 seconds. Verticalyzer tells you exactly where that happens and what to fix. You don't have to fully convert it to microdrama format. You just need to know where the scroll-away moments are.
That's exactly what this is built for. Paste your script and we'll score it on the specific factors that determine whether it works in a vertical format. Hook strength, episode compression, cliffhanger efficiency, and more. You'll see which scenes survive the format shift and which ones need to be rebuilt. Think of it as a pre-production filter before you commit to the format.
Yes. Even a partial script, a beat sheet, or a rough outline gives us enough to work with. In some ways, earlier is better. It's cheaper to fix retention problems on paper than on set.
Yes. If something you've already posted isn't performing the way you expected, paste the transcript and we'll show you why. The same retention principles apply whether you're in pre-production or post.
Anything written. Paste directly into the text box, or upload a PDF or .txt file. We've analyzed microdramas, vertical series, webseries scenes, short film scenes, TikTok drama scripts, beat sheets, outlines, and transcripts. If it's written content intended for a vertical audience, it works.
Yes to all of them. The retention mechanics are the same regardless of genre. Hook, emotional velocity, cliffhanger, compression. We score your content against those factors and give you genre-aware feedback. You can specify your genre when you submit and the analysis will account for it.
You get a full retention report: a score across 10 categories, a scene-by-scene breakdown of where viewers are most likely to scroll away, two rewritten versions of your opening hook, cliffhanger recommendations for every scene, episode split suggestions written as director's notes, a visual retention timeline, an emotional spike graph, and a prioritized list of 5 specific fixes. Everything references the actual moments in your content. No generic advice.
No. Coverage tells you whether your writing is good. Verticalyzer tells you whether a real person on their phone will keep watching. Those are different questions with different answers. We don't grade dialogue or structure in the traditional sense. We ask: will they scroll? Where? Why? And what do you change?
Every note references the actual content you submitted. Character names, specific scenes, exact lines. You won't get feedback like 'improve your pacing.' You'll get feedback like 'the 6-line exchange between Maya and David in the kitchen is your biggest scroll-away risk. Cut it to 2 lines.' If the feedback doesn't feel specific to your project, email us.
Yes. After your analysis runs, there's an option to email the full report to yourself. It includes your scores, retention risks, action plan, and hook rewrites. Everything you need to share with a co-writer, director, or producer.
$9 per analysis. No subscription, no account required. You pay, you get your report, you're done. If you're submitting multiple scripts or multiple drafts of the same script, each run is $9.
No. You pay, the analysis runs, you get your results. Nothing to sign up for.
Email us at hello@verticalyzer.com and we'll make it right. We stand behind the analysis. If there's a technical error on our end, you won't be charged.
You can view a sample report on the homepage to see exactly what the analysis looks like before you pay. The sample is based on a real script so you can judge the depth of the feedback for yourself.
Verticalyzer uses large language models trained on the specific retention principles that drive performance in vertical formats. The analysis is built around the mechanics of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts viewer behavior.
Usually 15 to 30 seconds depending on the length of your script.
Yes. Your content is processed to generate your analysis and is not stored, shared, or used to train AI models. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Verticalyzer is a product of MOVIEFIELD AI, an entertainment tech company that builds products to remove the friction of telling stories on the screen. We work with writers, producers, and creators developing content for vertical platforms.
You do. Verticalyzer does not claim ownership of any uploaded material. Creators retain full ownership of their scripts, outlines, transcripts, and story concepts at all times. Files are uploaded solely for analysis purposes and are never sold, published, or used to create competing works. Verticalyzer is designed to help creators evaluate story structure, engagement, pacing, and audience retention — not to replace the creator's ownership or authorship of their work.
No. Your script is sent to an AI language model to generate your analysis and nothing else. We do not use submitted content to fine-tune, retrain, or improve any AI model. The model that analyzes your work is a third-party large language model that processes your input and returns a response. Your script is not stored on our end or fed back into any training pipeline. For details on how third-party AI providers handle inputs, see our Privacy Policy.