Avail has taken on the challenge of streamlining a time-consuming aspect of film and TV development: script coverage.
The newly introduced summarization tool, powered by ChatGPT, is crafted to condense scripts and books efficiently, generating comprehensive summaries, loglines, synopses, character breakdowns, and tonal assessments within minutes.
Additionally, Avail has developed a Q&A assistant to assist production companies and talent agencies in brainstorming ideas and posing content-related queries. This includes recommending suitable actors for roles or drawing comparisons to other movies/TV shows.
The open beta for Avail was launched recently, featuring an entry-level subscription priced at $250 per month for four reports, coupled with a 30-day free trial. Enterprise pricing, based on credit requirements, is available upon request.
For many involved in script reading, executive roles, and assisting duties, the process of reading and annotating a script can be time-consuming, often exceeding two hours. Amidst managing other responsibilities, facing an inbox inundated with lengthy scripts can be overwhelming.
Chris Giliberti, co-founder and CEO, highlighted the challenge during a TechCrunch interview, emphasizing the difficulty of keeping up with the vast volume of content. Avail aims to be a valuable time-saving tool, demonstrated by the efficient summarization of a 45-page document in less than five minutes during testing.
While cautioning against relying entirely on Avail or any AI summarization tool, Giliberti sees it as a tool that can enhance productivity. Avail, built on ChatGPT-4, incorporates a proprietary processing layer for reliable coverage of low-quality documents and the creation of clear and accurate summaries.
Addressing concerns about AI usage in creative industries, Giliberti emphasized that Avail’s tools are productivity-focused and not intended to replace human roles. The company used public domain works like “The Count of Monte Cristo” to train the AI model, expressing consciousness about handling creative materials responsibly.
Despite recent AI-related concerns in Hollywood, Avail is confident in its approach, emphasizing data privacy and clarifying that user-uploaded content is not used to train AI models. With a founding team that includes industry veterans like Chris Giliberti and John Liu, Avail has raised $11.8 million from backers such as Seven Seven Six, General Catalyst, and Advancit Capital.
Looking ahead, Avail plans to introduce team collaboration features and is collaborating with a production company to develop custom models focused on addressing production, engineering, and planning challenges in Hollywood.
