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A woman in 1912 reads a letter by tungsten light, from The Stannards.

Spike Labs Showrunner

Agents that make films.

Showrunner takes a screenplay or a concept to a finished picture. A desk of agents writes, casts, directs and cuts it, room by room, and can make any part of it again.

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A woman in 1912 reads a letter by lamplight, from The Stannards.

Agents that make films.

Showrunner takes a screenplay to a finished picture, room by room.

Watch it run.

The finished scene, as written.

Change one thing.

Only what changed is made again.

The finished scene, as written.

The scene as written.

Made with Showrunner.

Shots from real episodes on our slate. See the full slate →

From the slate.

Features, series and serials, each with its own look. See the full slate →

One system, from the first page to the last cut.

Each room is an agent with its own tools. The Production Desk triages the work and dispatches it.

Writers' Room

Drafts the screenplay in FDX. A fresh-context auditor reads each draft cold and the room applies its rulings.

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the-stannards_e103.fdxDraft 4, auditor pass 2

INT. STANNARD HOUSE, EAST PARLOUR - NIGHT (1912)

Rain against tall windows. A single tungsten lamp. ELEANOR STANNARD (30s) sits with an unopened envelope in her lap.

She turns it over. Her husband's hand. A shipping-office seal.

ELEANOR

(to the empty room)

You were never in Liverpool.

She opens it. Reads. Reads again.

ELEANOR (CONT'D)

(folding it once, then again, as if smaller would help)

Then where were you.

Made with Showrunner

Shots from real episodes on our slate.

See the full slate →

From the slate

Features, series and serials, each with its own look.

See the full slate →

Built for studios and streamers

A whole catalogue

Showrunner runs a season the way it runs a scene. The Series Room holds the bible and the arcs, and every episode inherits them, so a catalogue stays consistent from the pilot to the finale.

Versions you can test

Cut the trailer, then the other trailer. Try another lead or another ending against an audience before anything is locked, and keep the one that plays.

Every language, in picture

Localization goes past subtitles. Voices are recast per language and the scene can move to another city, so a picture is made for each market rather than dubbed into it.

Research

Notes from building Showrunner.

  • The auditor never sees the room: fresh-context review for long screenplays

    A writer reads their own pages charitably, and so does an agent. The script auditor starts every pass with only the screenplay and the series bible, never the room's notes or reasoning, and reports findings by scene and line. The Writers' Room rules on each finding and revises, so every draft of a long script gets a cold read.

  • Pairing performance and camera as one decision

    A performance and a frame chosen separately fight each other: a whispered line in a wide shot, a big reaction in an extreme close-up. Performance maps behaviour to emotion, intensity and situation; camera maps shot size, height, mount and movement to a director's style. Each shot gets one choice that satisfies both.

  • One render per shot: planning seams across a scene

    Every shot renders on its own, so the hard part is where shots meet. The Episode Room plans the seams before anything renders: the frame each shot hands to the next, what has to match across the cut, and where a cut can carry a change. Then it fans out one render per shot.

Put Showrunner to work on your slate.

For studios, streamers and rights holders. Access is by invitation for now.

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