Lumen reads your screenplay into a focused production desk: breakdowns, schedules, printable call sheets, and Iris, a hybrid intelligence assistant that keeps every unresolved production decision in view.
Built by filmmakers, for filmmakers
Every line of Lumen was written by people who've stood in the rain at 5am waiting for first light. We built the tool we wished we'd had on every production.
Every production starts the same way: the script already knows the cast, locations, page pressure, risks, props, wardrobe, stunts, and call-sheet shape. Lumen makes that structure visible immediately.
connected Continuum lenses
script intake to seed the workspace
model-training rights claimed over your screenplay
01 · Product
Upload a PDF or paste your screenplay. Lumen identifies every scene heading, character cue, dialogue block, and action line automatically.
Cast, props, wardrobe, vehicles, stunts, SFX, and production design notes extracted per scene. The breakdown that used to take a week happens before your coffee gets cold.
Scenes grouped by location, clustered by day or night, distributed across shooting days based on page count and complexity. Lumen recalculates when you change anything.
Call sheets generate themselves from your schedule — crew call times, locations, scene order, weather, and special requirements. One-click send over email and SMS when your provider keys are connected.
Add your crew and cast. Everyone sees their department tasks, daily schedule, and can ask Iris anything about the production. No more out-of-date group chats.
Iris knows the script, schedule, cast, locations, budget assumptions, and department tasks. Ask about call times, budget implications, the hardest scene, or what changed after a replan.
02 · Workflow
Upload a PDF, paste text, or drag in a Fountain file. Draft parsing starts in the browser; AI assist and export providers are disclosed when enabled.
Scene headings, character arcs, emotional weight, props, wardrobe, vehicles, stunts, SFX, locations. Iris scores each scene for complexity and intensity.
Stripboard schedule, scene breakdowns, department tasks, call sheets, wardrobe lists, prop sourcing, location permits, and legal documents. All populated. Ready to shoot.
03 · Teams
See your story broken down the way you imagined it. Emotional arcs, pacing analysis, and complexity scoring that respects the material.
A full production board in seconds. Budget implications surfaced per scene. Schedule conflicts caught before they cost you a shooting day.
Stripboard scheduling that understands location clustering, cast availability, and golden hour. Call sheets that write and send themselves.
Props, wardrobe, SFX, stunts, vehicles. Every department gets a clean task list extracted directly from the script. Ask Iris for scene-specific details.
The Gap
| Capability | ★ This is usLumen | StudioBinder | Filmustage | Celtx | Studiovity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Script-to-production workspace A screenplay becomes a live board, not a static report | ✓ | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
Full 7-lens planning surfaceLumen only Strip Board, Cast, Locations, Money, Risk, Graph, and Docs share the same production memory | ✓ | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
Browser-first script intakeLumen only Draft parsing starts in the browser; AI assist and export providers are disclosed when enabled. | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
Hybrid intelligence assistantLumen only Iris can reason over script, schedule, cast, locations, risks, docs, and account defaults | ✓ | — | Partial | — | — |
Budget and risk contextLumen only Money and Risk lenses surface page pressure, safety flags, company moves, and schedule blockers | ✓ | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
Automated scheduling Stripboard by location, day/night, and complexity | ✓ | Manual | Partial | ✓ | ✓ |
Props · wardrobe · location lists Extracted per scene, sortable, sourceable | ✓ | Manual | Partial | Manual | Manual |
Production document generationLumen only Call sheets, releases, permits, NDAs, one-liners, and department notes generated from production data | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
One-click call-sheet send (email & SMS) Generated from the schedule, sent to each crew member on demand when provider keys are configured | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
Industry-standard PDF export Schedules, call sheets, and breakdowns export as print-ready PDFs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Local-first fallbackLumen only The workspace stays usable in localStorage-only mode when cloud keys are absent or a provider is unavailable | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
Time to first useful board | Fast pass | Manual setup | AI report | Manual setup | AI-assisted |
Pricing and plan references checked from official vendor pages on June 1, 2026; vendors change packaging often. StudioBinder Professional support docs list $99/mo plus $25 per extra user; Filmustage Help lists Director's Cut at $49/mo; Celtx and Studiovity expose tiered production plans with pricing that can vary by team size or suite. Lumen: Free for one production, Indie $29/mo, Studio $99/mo.
★ The crew doesn't pay04 · Privacy
Lumen is local-first, account-scoped when cloud sync is on, and explicit when a provider-backed feature is required.
The app keeps working from localStorage when auth or cloud sync is unavailable; Neon mirrors productions only after sign-in.
Email, SMS, billing, deep analysis, and exports fail honestly when required keys or accounts are missing.
Your screenplay remains yours. Lumen sends data only to the services needed for the action you choose.
Free plan available. Production sync, billing, and provider-backed analysis are live when configured.