Wscripted

Wscripted is a New York-based, female-founded company building story discovery and financing infrastructure for the film, television and publishing industries. Its core product, Wscripted+, is an AI-assisted platform where writers, filmmakers and indie producers upload screenplays, pilots, vertical (microdrama) scripts and books, and where producers, creative executives, literary and sales agents, managers, editors and development and acquisition executives search for, curate and review material. Uploads can generate AI summaries and audio versions, including audiobooks and audio scripts, in about five minutes, and the platform matches projects to professionals' stated creative interests through smart search and recommendations.

Alongside the platform, Wscripted runs a set of curation and visibility programs grouped under Wscripted Impact. The Cannes Screenplay List, presented by MUBI and launched during the Cannes Film Festival, highlights feature scripts by women and non-binary storytellers and is structured like a festival program, with a reading committee producing a shortlist and a jury nominating final projects. The Originals List extends the same approach to original features, TV pilots and vertical scripts accompanied by pitch decks, with a celebrity jury selecting up to 35 projects, a booklet circulated to more than 5,000 production companies, agents and financiers, and a pitch event in Los Angeles for finalists. "Produced by Visionaries" is an invite-only annual event series co-hosted with Forbes during the Cannes Film Festival.

The company positions IP protection and bias reduction as design constraints: uploads are private by default, access is controlled with view requests and built-in PDF protection, AI models are stored in escrow to safeguard copyrighted material, and writers choose whether AI is used on their work. The reading committee for the Originals List does not use AI to read or review scripts.

Founding story

Wscripted was founded by Ellie Jamen, who serves as CEO. The company describes itself as female-founded and says Wscripted+ was built to break barriers in project discovery, protect IP and limit industry bias, developed with feedback from industry professionals.

Business model

Wscripted operates a subscription software platform, Wscripted+, sold directly to both sides of the content market. Tiers include a free-to-$20/month search and discovery plan for professionals and storytellers, a $10/month Storyteller plan for writers, filmmakers and indie producers who want their projects promoted and recommended to producers, and a Professionals plan starting at $50/month for producers, literary and sales agents, managers and development or acquisition executives who review private submissions. Custom enterprise subscriptions are offered to studios, production companies, talent agencies and talent programs, covering unlimited licenses, white-label deployments and program submissions. Curated list campaigns such as the Cannes Screenplay List and Originals List take entries through the platform and require an active Wscripted+ Storyteller profile to keep projects discoverable. A market-data profile characterizes the company as B2B subscription SaaS.

Recurring subscription revenue across tiered monthly plans (free to $20/month for search and discovery, $10/month for storytellers promoting projects, from $50/month for professionals reviewing projects privately) plus custom enterprise subscriptions for studios, production companies, talent agencies and talent programs including unlimited licensing and white-label arrangements. List applicants must maintain paid Storyteller memberships to remain discoverable.

Traction

The Cannes Screenplay List has run six editions and selected 80 talents, drawing juries including Mounia Meddour, Vanessa Kirby, Nava Mau and Elisabeth Moss, with endorsements from high-profile artists. The Originals List booklet is distributed to more than 5,000 production companies, agents and financiers. The company reports thousands of writers, filmmakers, producers, agents, managers and executives on Wscripted+. It has been covered by Deadline, is presented by MUBI and co-hosts an event series with Forbes, and was supported by the Techstars powered by JP Morgan and Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs accelerators. A market-data profile lists three employees and reports a 31% month-over-month increase in monthly visitors as of August 2026.

Latest developments

The finalists of the sixth Cannes Screenplay List have been announced and covered in Deadline Hollywood, with a booklet compiling all nominated projects since the list's inception distributed to newsletter subscribers. Wscripted has launched its inaugural Originals List, for which applications are now closed. A market-data profile recorded a 31% month-over-month increase in monthly website visitors as of August 2026.