Wscripted+ vs Coverfly & The Black List
How Wscripted+ is Reshaping Writers' Discovery
With Coverfly closing down in the next couple of weeks, we have been working with industry partners, including competitions and Coverfly, to welcome their community to Wscripted+.
How Wscripted+ Differs from The Black List and Coverfly
We've built Wscripted+ specifically to break barriers for writers by enabling producers and agents to review content more efficiently and receive recommendations of projects for writers to get read by the right professionals. Unlike other platforms where you pay to host projects or apply to competitions, Wscripted+ lets anyone discover projects for free and stores projects privately by default. For your projects to appear in search results and be recommended to producers, writers and directors need to maintain an active Wscripted+ Content membership at $10/month, which unlocks our discovery and recommendation system to promote all the projects you are hosting on the platform.
How Wscripted+ is a Game-Changer for Writers and an innovative alternative to Coverfly and The Black List
The true power of Wscripted+ lies in the platform's innovative approach to story discovery. Instead of showcasing writers' work based primarily on credentials (as Coverfly did) or scores (like The Black List), Wscripted+ was built to limit bias for project discovery by letting any project be discovered by professionals based on their creative interests. This is how Wscripted+ makes it possible for producers and agents to find the right projects for them and for talent to get their project discovered by the right industry professionals.
How Wscripted+ Democratizes Story Discovery
The platform was built to power the recommendation of all projects to professionals based on what they are looking for and creative interests. For example, professionals can decide to search for specific content like "elevated genre film with female lead" or “rom-com to sell to Netflix.”, or decide to search for "unrepresented writers", or "thrillers selected on The Cannes Screenplay List, The Nicholl Fellowship, The Red List or The Black List". Wscripted+'s technology will reshape how talent is discovered by giving producers and agents infinite options to find the right projects for them and breaking barriers for writers and directors to be discovered and read by the right professionals.
Maximizing your Project's Discovery on Wscripted+
For only $10/month, all writers and directors with an active Wscripted+ Content membership can get all their projects on the platform promoted and recommended to be featured in the search results or in the tailored project recommendations sent to each professional on a monthly basis. Every time you upload a new project on Wscripted+ with a promoted status, the project appears in the search results and recommendations to professionals who are looking for projects that match with yours — a true game-changer for writers' discovery.
Here are 2 simple steps to maximize your discovery on Wscripted+:
COVERAGE PAGE: Login to Wscripted+ and click on each project you've uploaded to edit its coverage. Ensure the logline, comparative titles, genre, and themes are relevant to your project. For example, if one of your comparative titles is a Netflix rom-com, your project will appear as a recommendation for producers looking for similar projects.
WRITER'S PROFILE: Click on the card of one of your projects and head to your writer's page to fill out the form. Include as many details in your bio (including credits, cast, production companies) as possible, add your contact information and your website. This will enable your projects to be recommended and appear in the search results when a producer searches for specific credentials. Your writer's page also showcases the list of all projects you are hosting and promoting on the platform.
How Wscripted+ Protects Your Intellectual Property
On Wscripted+, your IP will always be protected, making it safer than sharing your projects by email. With Wscripted+, you maintain full control over who views your project and how your summary is generated—with or without AI. The platform safeguards copyright by storing AI models in escrow and fully encrypting your data, preventing models from training on your content.
If you still prefer email sharing, you can download your project summary and full script with a non-AI clause that protects your IP from AI models such as ChatGPT. When you choose to upload without AI on Wscripted+, only your logline, theme, genre, and comparative titles are used for recommendations, while your script or book remains securely stored in private, without being communicated to an AI model. We're currently collaborating with several partners, including talks with the WGA, to establish Wscripted+ as an industry standard for protecting writers' work.
Why Now Is a Good Time to Get Discovered on Wscripted+
As a relatively new platform, using Wscripted+ now significantly increases your chances of discovery by high-profile producers our team is pitching the Cannes Screenplay List to. Wscripted+ currently hosts 500 projects, with approximately 100 projects actively promoted to producers and agents on the platform. To feature your project in the discovery and recommendations to producers and agents, make sure to activate your Wscripted+ Content membership.
How to Ensure Your Project Is Discoverable
Login to Wscripted+ and confirm you have an active Wscripted+ Content membership for your project to be discovered. Your project is being recommended if the tag "promoted" appears on your project cards. If not, go to your account subscription and update your subscription to sign up for the Wscripted+ Content membership. You'll need to maintain an active Wscripted+ Content membership for your project to stay discoverable or recommended on the platform. If you choose to cancel your membership, your projects will remain private and not visible to producers and agents on the platform.