There are two kinds of scene. One causes what follows — BUT this happened, THEREFORE that. The other just precedes it — AND THEN, and then, and then. Most first drafts are mostly the second kind. This tool measures the ratio.
Paste a scene, or a few, and get its causal-binding number, the weak joints, and the one move to make first. Free, in your browser — no signup, no wait.
▶ Open the toolPick two master creators to sit at the table — say Tarkovsky and Bergman. The engine runs a dialectical read of your pages through both sensibilities at once, where they agree and where they pull against each other.
It scores the scene against 28 formalized traditions and returns the numbers: which scenes earn their place, what you could reorder without a reader noticing, where the causal chain snaps.
It ends in one concrete prescription — a specific note about your specific pages. Not "add more conflict." A move you can make tonight.
The library is 28 traditions turned into diagnostics — Aristotle's Poetics, South Park's Therefore / But rule, Kishōtenketsu, the fourth-wall complicity of Fleabag. Judgments a master reader makes by feel, made into instruments that show their work.
Because the number implicates you. You read "27% → 78%" and the next thought is what's mine? — and now there's a way to find out: run your own scene →
The instant tool reads any scene you paste — the causal-binding number, the weak joints, your first move — free, in your browser. The full read is dialectical: you name two masters (say Tarkovsky and Bergman), send your logline and first pages, and I send back one concrete prescription on your actual scenes.
▶ Score your scene free Or DM for the deep read →