A Director Avatar is a conversation with a point of view. When the conversation belongs to a document, the avatar reads that document's latest saved version before every reply.
Meet the partners
| Partner | Best for | Try asking |
|---|---|---|
| Screenwriting Expert | Structure and honest questions | Where does my second act lose momentum? |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Suspense and dramatic irony | What should the audience know that Mara doesn't? |
| Sofia Coppola | Quiet interiority and emotional contradictions | Why would Mara stay when everyone tells her to leave? |
| Quentin Tarantino or Aaron Sorkin | Voices, subtext and rhythm | Make the harbourmaster's warning sound like small talk. |
| Christopher Nolan | Nonlinear time and planted clues | Where can I plant the first hint that the calls are real? |
| Guillermo del Toro | Dark, fairy-tale worlds with emotional logic | What rules does the radio follow when it reaches the past? |
The other Director Avatars are Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar, Woody Allen, Charlie Kaufman, Vince Gilligan and Francis Ford Coppola. Each is a storytelling perspective inspired by that director's films, not the filmmaker.
Start a conversation
- From Director Avatars in the sidebar: choose a perspective and Start a conversation.
- From a document: use the partner panel beside it. Documents made with an AI Writer tool come with a linked conversation already.
- Each partner offers starter prompts, such as Challenge the central idea, if you don't know where to begin.
Bring in another avatar
Any conversation can change who replies next. Select the avatar's name at the top of the chat and choose someone else from the list. They read the same document and the conversation so far, so you can ask about what was already said, and every earlier reply keeps the name of the avatar who wrote it. Switch back whenever you like.
- Screenwriting Expert
- Where does act two lose momentum?
- Alfred Hitchcock
- What should the audience know here that Mara doesn't?
- Martin Scorsese
- What would you add to the Screenwriting Expert's advice?
Each AI Writer tool opens its chat with a suggested avatar, usually the Screenwriting Expert. That's only where it starts.
What the partner knows
| Context | What's included |
|---|---|
| Your messages | The 20 most recent |
| The linked document | The latest saved version: the whole document or one section you choose |
- Weak
- Is this good?
- Strong
- The first call from the Saint Brigid lands at minute 12 of my outline. Is that too late, and what could happen before it to keep the first ten minutes tense?
Specific questions about a specific part of the story get specific answers. When you only want feedback on one part, choose Focus on one section in the chat beside the document.
Save and stop
- Save latest reply as document, at the top of the conversation, turns a reply you like into a Library document you can edit.
- Replies appear as they're written. Stop a reply at any time. You pay only for the text written before you stopped.
What a reply costs
Replies start at 2 credits, and you pay for what the AI actually uses. A quick question about a short document costs close to the minimum. A detailed question about a long document costs more, because the avatar reads all of it.
Limits
- Messages up to 16,000 characters. Press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac) to send.
- One reply at a time per conversation.
- The screen shows the latest 100 messages; all of them are kept.
Quick answers
What does a reply cost?
From 2 credits, charged for what the AI actually uses.
The partner forgot something I said earlier.
Avatars read the 20 most recent messages. Repeat the key facts in your message, or talk it through from a document: the avatar reads the whole linked document before every reply.