Cine Novelist — the desk, not the film.
The desk for the film in front of you.
Bring a sentence, a draft, a still, an ending, a constraint, a world, or a take. Cine Novelist opens the desk that fits the work.
It diagnoses, develops, boards, rehearses and packages the same picture without quietly turning it into another one.
150 free credits. No card.
Eight ways onto the desk
Start with what you have.
Each way in takes one thing you already hold and gives one first output.
New project
You have a sentence, or only a seed.
Opens: The desk that fits where you are in it.
Upload draft
You have pages.
Opens: Coverage: a diagnosis of the whole file, not a rewrite.
Upload still
You have one frame.
Opens: Visual: a read of the frame before any caption.
Start from ending
You know the last image.
Opens: Ask, with the ending held as what must not be betrayed.
Start from constraint
You have a limit: budget, schedule or location.
Opens: Ask, with the constraint on the record before any fix.
Start a bible
You have a world, or a premise.
Opens: Bible: a working book with law and hypothesis kept apart.
Brainstorm
You have an idea that only moves when you say it.
Opens: Talk kept as talk, until you send a beat to a desk.
Upload a take
You have the sides and the audio of a take.
Opens: Performance: rehearsal help on that take.
Rehearsal help. Pace from the recording. Feeling is a read, not a score.
How it works
What happens after I bring it?
The eight ways in are how you put a film on the desk. The three steps are what happens next.
01
Bring what you actually have
A sentence, a still, a draft, an ending you will not betray, a budget that will not become a different picture. The desk does not require a tidy brief.
02
Cine Novelist opens the right desk
Ask, Develop, Coverage, Scene, Performance, Direct, Bible, Pitch, Cast, Board, Money, Finance, Post, Market, Release. One film. The mode follows the work, not a chatbot persona.
03
Evidence stays evidence
Page, gap, and hypothesis are marked. What the draft establishes is not mixed with what the room is guessing. Human judgment remains the authority.
The life of a picture
From the first unstable idea to the room that has to buy it.
Cine Novelist carries a picture from unstable idea to irreversible choice — development, preproduction, the shoot, and the room after the lights come up. One desk for a writer, a producer, or a company with a slate. Put the picture down, and the mode follows the phase.
Development
An unstable idea, a still, an ending you will not betray. Ask, Develop, Coverage, Bible, and Pitch. Diagnosis before a rewrite.
Preproduction
Scene, Cast, Board, Money, and Finance. A board that shows schedule fragility. A financing story a buyer will misread. Budget is a constraint, not a different picture.
Production
Direct and Performance. Camera morality, blocking, stillness. A still is evidence of a stance.
Post and release
Post, Market, and Release. What the cut is doing, what a buyer will hear, what must not be clarified away. Stills, motion, and voice pack the room. They do not finish a picture the pages have not earned.
What Cine Novelist actually does with a film
One scene. Four different kinds of truth.
Kitchen light — feature · NSW · a fictional file.
The last image is the kitchen light left on. She does not go back inside.
Does the draft earn that last image, or has it been protecting her?
- Page
- She turns the key. The hallway is dark. The kitchen light is already on. She looks at it. She leaves. Cut to black. No return setup in the prior forty pages.
- Inference
- The light is a choice she made before we arrived, not a jump scare. If she goes back inside, the film becomes a different picture — one the pages have not been building.
- Gap
- Mid-film, a neighbour scene explains the light. If that scene stays, the ending is illustration. If it goes, the ending is earned — and several buyers will ask you to put it back.
- The record
- The irreversible is: she does not go back inside. Coverage should say so. A tidy rewrite that “clarifies” the light is a different film.
Diagnosis before a rewrite. Labels stay labels. You remain the author.
Why it behaves differently
Why Cine Novelist behaves differently.
A production company does not need another chatbot. It needs a desk that can stay with one film — or a slate — without flattening it. Three rules hold on every desk.
Diagnosis before a rewrite
Coverage is a diagnosis of the whole file — designed discomfort versus defect — not a polish pass on the opening ten pages.
Labels stay labels
Page, inference, and gap stay on different lines. Imagine packs the pitch with stills, motion, and voice; generated frames are hypotheses until a human adopts them.
You remain the author
If a choice is irreversible, it is named as such. The desk will not tidy your film into something safer, kinder, or more saleable against its grain.
One picture. Different questions.
Writer
Stress-test a premise before months of pages. Protect an ending. Diagnose a draft without being sold a different film.
Producer
Budget as constraint, not a rewrite. Schedule fragility, financing story, what a buyer will misread.
Director
Camera morality, blocking, stillness. A still is evidence of a stance, not a caption looking for a poster.
Brainstorm
Talk without making it canon.
Think out loud with another brain. The talk stays talk — nothing said in a brainstorm counts as page evidence — until you pick a beat, send it to a desk, and confirm.
Pricing
Take a seat at the desk.
Start free: 150 credits. No card.
Sign up and confirm your email. Take a seat when the film needs one.
100 credits cost $1. Included credits reset each month.
Seat
Writer
$39 / month
2,000 credits / month
A personal desk. Pages, coverage, a bible that stays a bible.
Take this seatUsual seat
Producer
$79 / month
4,000 credits / month
The working seat. Room for a slate, a board, and a package.
Take this seatSeat
House
$199 / month
10,000 credits / month
A room. Sustained inquiry, a house style, more than one film in motion.
Take this seatPacks
Extra use. Packs do not expire.
Burn included first, then packs. Packs are bought from the desk after sign-in.
On your device
Use Cine Novelist as an app
Install from pro.cinenovelist.com. The icon opens the desk or sign-in, not this brochure.
Mac — Safari
Open pro.cinenovelist.com. File → Add to Dock. Remove an old icon first.
Mac — Chrome
Install icon in the address bar, or Chrome menu → Cast, save, and share → Install Cine Novelist.
iPhone or iPad
Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen. The icon opens the desk, not this brochure.
Windows or Android
Chrome or Edge: Install Cine Novelist. Android: menu → Install app. Install from pro.cinenovelist.com.
Part of FIA Labs
Cine Novelist is one of the FIA Labs desks, beside LIA, MIA, CFO Sentinel, Aquinian Studio, Brandium, and ExecMind. Each desk is its own practice. Federation is how you send an FIA Brief to another desk and get a defined reply back. Federation details in Help.
How the federation works
Federation
FIA Labs ships separate professional desks — LIA, MIA, CFO Sentinel, Aquinian Studio, Brandium, ExecMind, Cine Novelist. Each desk is its own practice. Matters, conversations, files, and drafts stay on the desk that created them. There is no shared workspace and no silent sync.
The house seat for FIA Labs. One plan for the suite: law (LIA), medical research (MIA), finance (CFO Sentinel), strategy (ExecMind), brand and marketing (Brandium), ethics and philosophy (Aquinian Studio), film and narrative (Cine Novelist).
You work at the desk that owns the question. Files and conversations stay on that desk. When a matter needs another discipline, you send an FIA Brief — a packet you authorise — and read the reply. Nothing else is shared.
What it is for
Work often needs more than one discipline before you green-light it. A Brandium campaign may need LIA on claims and CFO on cost. An ExecMind decision may need LIA on exposure. Federation is how you send an FIA Brief to another desk and get a defined reply back, without pouring the whole matter file across the house.
What is shared
- FIA Plan — the house seat that turns Federation on for this account.
- FIA credit packs — extra fuel that works across the suite and does not expire.
- FIA Briefs — only what you explicitly authorise to send.
What is never shared
Conversations, uploads, exhibits, transcripts, and the matter file. Opening another desk is navigation, not a data merge.
FIA Brief
An FIA Brief is not a client brief, a Crown brief, or a counsel brief. It is a short authorised export you compose: the question, the conclusion you are willing to show, the caution. The receiving desk comments on that packet. The sending desk can read the reply. Governance is the record of FIA Briefs sent and returned — not a copy of either desk’s chat.
How you can tell it is on
There is no grey status label. Without an FIA Plan seat, the header shows the Cine Novelist mark and CN only. You can still use Cine Novelist on a Writer, Producer, or House seat. Send FIA Brief is greyed and locked until this account has an FIA Plan seat; the FIA Brief inbox stays open. Those single-desk seats do not include Federation.
FEDERATION ACTIVATED (green text under the Cine Novelist mark, not a link): this account has an active FIA Plan. The header shows the full suite strip with CN lit and the credits meter reads FIA Plan · credits. You may send an FIA Brief to another shipped desk and receive FIA Briefs those desks send back.
Credits and Plan
Includes 1,000 credits each billing period, usable on any shipped desk. Extra credit packs work across the suite and do not expire. You pay for what you consume after the included allotment.
FIA Plan is an alternative to a single-desk seat, not an extra charge on top of Writer, Producer, or House.
Q&A
Before you open the desk.
- What is Cine Novelist?
- A governed writing-and-packaging desk for a film that is not yet a film. It carries work from unstable idea to irreversible choice: on the page, in the bible, in the room, and after the lights come up. It is not a studio, and not a substitute for a producer, lawyer, or completion bond. It is not a chatbot for brainstorming either: Brainstorm is a session you steer with another brain, kept as talk, and nothing reaches a desk until you send a beat and confirm it.
- Does Cine Novelist do script coverage?
- Yes. Coverage diagnoses the whole file: what is on the page, what is a gap, and what is still a hypothesis, labelled apart. Paste a draft or bring a PDF, Final Draft, or Fountain file. It names designed discomfort and defect separately, and it will not rewrite the film into something safer.
- What does Brainstorm do?
- You talk an idea through with another brain. The talk is saved as talk, never as page evidence. Pick a beat and send it to Develop, the ending record, the Bible, a constraint, Market, or Pitch. Each Send is a confirmed Ask and spends normal credits. From a scratch session, the first Send makes the project from three fields: form, the sentence, and what must not be betrayed.
- What does Upload a take do?
- Bring the sides and the audio of a take. Performance reads it in three lines kept apart: the page, the transcript with its timestamps, and a read. Rehearsal help. Pace from the recording. Feeling is a read, not a score. Emotion is not scored, and the scene is not rewritten.
- How is this different from a chatbot?
- Modes are jobs, not personalities. Coverage diagnoses the whole file. Labels keep page, gap, and hypothesis apart. Imagine, Video, and Voice pack a pitch; they do not invent a picture the pages have not earned.
- What can I put on the desk?
- A sentence. A still. A draft (paste, PDF, Final Draft, Fountain). An ending you will not betray. A budget scare. A bible that must stay a hypothesis. Then you ask, cover, board, cast, or pack — on that same film.
- Do I need a card to begin?
- No. Sign up free and confirm your email: new accounts get 150 free credits. No card is required to start.
- How do credits work?
- 100 credits cost $1. Included credits reset each month. Packs do not expire. Burn included first, then packs. Ask is one pass. Coverage and Deep Review cost more because they do more work. Stills, motion, and voice are metered as use, not as a finished picture.
- Will it rewrite my film into something safer?
- No. If the last image is the kitchen light left on, the desk will not send her back inside to make the buyer more comfortable. Designed discomfort is named. Defect is named. They are not the same.
- Is this legal, financial, or production advice?
- No. Finance mode is a financing story — what a buyer or board will misread — not a term sheet. Board and money modes flag fragility. They do not replace a line producer, entertainment lawyer, or insurer.
- Who is it for?
- Writers, producers, and directors carrying a feature, short, pilot, or limited series who need a desk that will not flatter the file. It is built for the work, not the demo.
Put a real picture on the desk.
Bring what you actually have. The desk opens the one that fits.
Sign up free: 150 credits. No card.