Case Study - The AI backend that analyses screenplays for First Look
We built the backend that turns screenplay PDFs into scenes, characters and metrics, and generates professional coverage with GPT-4o.
- Client
- First Look
- Year
- Service
- Backend · AI

- Problem
- First Look needed to turn screenplay PDFs, with very different layouts, into structured analysis and coverage that stays consistent from one script to the next.
- Our role
- Eduardo worked as a Software Engineer on the AI analysis backend.
- What we built
- PDF parsing into scenes, characters and script metrics
- Coverage generated with GPT-4o on top of that structure
- Versioned prompts, to improve results without breaking what worked
- Calibrated scoring, so grades are comparable across scripts
- Vision fallback when a PDF can’t be read as text
- Stack
- GPT-4o
- MySQL
- Linux
- Result
- Live at first-look.net: every script that’s uploaded gets its First-Look Score and a report with feedback.
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