While the production world of feature filmmaking has cutting-edge technology and long-standing systems in place, the world of financing, packaging, development and sales has struggled to find an industry standard that isn’t tedious and daunting. New AI innovations are looking to simplify these processes. I recently chatted with Tobias Queisser, Film Producer and CEO of The Cinelytic Group, about their new slate of offerings that might completely change the way you make and sell your next movie.
After ten years in finance and investment banking, followed by years of film producing, Tobias noticed a disconnect: the industry had access to extraordinary filmmaking tools, yet its financial and strategic decision-making ran on habit rather than innovation. The result? Roughly 80% of films never even make it to the big screen, not because they’re unworthy, but because the industry lacks a clear, data-driven way to evaluate, market, and place them. Tobias wanted to fix that, not by “reinventing the wheel,” as he puts it, but by building the tools the film industry has always needed, but never had.
That vision ultimately became The Cinelytic Group, a newly unified company representing five previously independent platforms. The goal is simple: create Utility AI tools that empower humans, enabling producers, studios, sellers, and creators to make the best decisions possible, as efficiently as possible, across the entire value chain.
This isn’t generative AI writing screenplays or making creative decisions for you. This is AI that helps you understand your project more clearly, faster, and with far more accuracy. And in the process, it gives the film industry something it desperately needs: a true competitive edge. What makes this group special is the multitude of tools they now offer to help films get made and seen from start to finish. Let’s take a look:
Callaia: An AI-Driven Script Consultant for Writers & Producers
One of Cinelytic’s most exciting tools, and the most accessible, is Callaia, the company’s AI screenplay consultant. Drop in a script and within 60 seconds, Callaia generates 30 pages of coverage, complete with:
- A scoring system
- Eight major story categories (originality, character, structure, pacing, dialogue, etc.)
- Paragraph-level reasoning
- Extremely detailed notes on what works — and what doesn’t
This isn’t a vague AI chat response. It’s structured, industry-familiar coverage that fits neatly into how development executives already evaluate material.
At $79 per script (with prices dropping if you batch purchase), Callaia is the first real tool to democratise high-quality script notes. Whether you’re a writer trying to stress-test a new draft or a producer sorting through submissions, you get a clear picture of what you’re holding, quickly.
ScriptSense: The Enterprise-Level Productivity Booster for Studios & Agencies
While Callaia is built for individual creators, ScriptSense is built for heavy hitters: studios, agencies, production companies, and anyone who receives a high volume of projects.
Think of it as an AI-powered “first pass” system that lets executives focus on high-value work instead of administrative digestion.
ScriptSense can:
- Break down every submitted screenplay
- Identify characters, arcs, beats, sets, scenes, and production challenges
- Highlight tough scenes (VFX, stunts, multi-location days, extras, etc.)
- Create version-to-version draft comparisons
- Generate creative summaries, beat sheets, logs, and character descriptions
- Build a searchable library of every incoming project, PDFs, books, pilot scripts, etc.
It even includes an intelligent chat assistant that allows executives to interrogate a script:
“Which scenes are most expensive?”
“Does the protagonist’s motivation shift in Act Two?”
For companies receiving dozens or hundreds of scripts a month, this is a radical productivity enhancer.
ScriptSense is subscription-based, with a free trial, and its output is already formatted to send to casting directors, line producers, or executives.
Cinelytic: The Industry’s First Truly Quantitative Forecasting System
This is the tool that put the company on the map. Cinelytic’s forecasting platform is used by major studios, including Warner Bros., because it produces something the industry has never truly had: quantitative, territory-specific, revenue-based movie forecasting.
Instead of qualitative opinions or arbitrary scores, the system provides:
- Forecasts for theatrical, home video, and TV by territory
- A complete P&L waterfall
- Budget modeling
- ROI predictions
- Talent valuation
- Comp title analysis
- Realistic market caps
- Sales estimates for international territories
Tobias emphasised that the tool follows the same decision-making methodologies that real producers use. It simply runs them more comprehensively and more accurately. It’s not a crystal ball; it’s structured, data-backed insight into actual end-market performance.
SocialSense: Trailer-Based Audience Intelligence in Minutes
If the forecasting engine handles the financial future, SocialSense handles the marketing present.
Upload a trailer, and within minutes, SocialSense identifies:
- Core audience sentiment
- Key narrative hooks driving online conversation
- What audiences respond to, and what they reject
- Real-world viewer comments (not synthetic AI audiences)
- Campaign strategies and activations to address audience concerns
- How the trailer compares to genre norms
- Whether multiple trailer versions would perform differently
One of the biggest examples Tobias gave: book adaptations. If 90% of viewers complain “the movie doesn’t follow the book,” the platform will tell you — and suggest campaigns that can help address it.
In an era where a film’s success often hinges on its first 15 seconds on TikTok or YouTube, this kind of real-time diagnostic tool is invaluable. And unlike test screenings, you get results in minutes.
Rightstrade: A Global Digital Marketplace for Finished Films
Once your film is made, you face a different challenge: selling it. Traditionally, this means travelling to markets, booking booths, setting up meetings, and hoping buyers will show.
Rightstrade offers something cheaper and faster: a globally vetted digital film marketplace with 6,000 accredited buyers worldwide.
Sellers pay a small subscription fee to:
- Upload finished films
- Send secure screeners
- Track viewing behavior (who watched, how long, on what device)
- Access an AI-supported buyer-recommendation engine
- Connect with distributors around the world
Every buyer is human-verified. That’s critical in a world of piracy and fraud.
Rightstrade makes it possible for filmmakers, even ultra-low-budget teams, to strike deals without flying to Cannes or AFM. It doesn’t replace markets; it supplements them for a fraction of the cost.
The Cinelytic Group: A Unified Ecosystem for the Entire Film Value Chain
Individually, these tools are powerful. Bundled into The Cinelytic Group, they form the industry’s first true end-to-end Utility AI ecosystem — from development to financing to production to distribution.
Tobias’s north star is simple: AI should empower humans, not replace them.
With major studios already adopting the tools, Tobias believes Cinelytic Group may become the industry standard within the next year: deeply integrated, studio-trusted, secure, privacy-protected, and continuously innovated.
The message to filmmakers is clear: Be open-minded. AI isn’t one thing. Used properly, it’s the difference between guessing and knowing. Between hope and strategy. Between a film that disappears, and a film that finds its way into the world.