Solutions / Filmmakers & Directors

Story development for filmmakers: documented comparables instead of gut feeling.

Data delivers the finding. People deliver the judgment.

CineCockpit gives filmmakers, directors and screenwriters the documented DACH market context that used to be the exclusive advantage of large production apparatuses. Each project is matched against open data sources, platform signals and industry registers. The result is not a prediction or a score, but a documented starting point for the next conversation. Your creative voice stays yours.

Filmmaker reviewing market data for a project in the CineCockpit interface
The starting point

No large apparatus behind you, yet the same conversation to have.

Research eats days, not hours.

Before every broadcaster meeting, before every funding application: tracking down comparables, checking the market landscape, clarifying rights. Doing this alone costs time that would be better spent on the material itself.

Market positioning based on gut feeling.

Whether a tonality pattern in Europe market is already saturated or whether a gap exists often only becomes clear in the room when the other party knows it first. Having a documented answer prepared beforehand changes the starting position fundamentally.

No shared memory for your own projects.

Logline in one file, treatment in another, notes in an email thread. What was worked out yesterday is not findable tomorrow, and the next conversation starts from scratch. Every use of the system should enrich the existing record, not replace it.

What CineCockpit provides

Four levers, before the conversation begins.

The system connects social APIs, platforms, communities and databases across an extensible set of open sources and industry interfaces, provider-neutral and interchangeable. Every query enriches the project data sheet so that the record becomes more precise with each use. This is the flywheel principle in practice.

01

Set up a project as a Living Sheet.

Logline, treatment, tonality, target audience, rights notes: all in one structured data sheet that is automatically enriched with each new query. The flywheel principle applies directly here: each run carries new signals into the sheet and the system improves with every pass. No format constraints, no dramaturgical scoring.

Living Sheet: Project Example
TitleThe Still Water TonalityDrama / Coming-of-Age SettingNorthern German coast, present day StageTreatment, 18 pages Last updated2026-09-14
Market data updated via chat. Source: 2026-08. Confidence: high.
02

Comparables without gut feeling.

The chat searches the entire DACH catalogue for projects with similar tonality, period, milieu or character constellation. Queries run against public work and metadata registers, open knowledge graphs and industry community databases. Every statement carries a source and a collection date.

Chat query

"Which DACH productions from the past six years share tonality and milieu with this treatment?"

Three comparable titles with production year, broadcaster/platform and tonality overlap. None of these productions combined the same setting. Market gap: coastal milieu combined with coming-of-age, DACH 2022-2026 underrepresented.
Source: Public work and metadata registers (film/TV), as of 2026-08. Confidence: medium-high.
03

Document the audience match, not just assert it.

The system connects social APIs, platforms, communities and databases to show which milieu and topic combinations attract attention in Europe market. Demand and search-interest signals as well as reach and resonance signals from public platforms run in parallel. Provider-neutral: sources can be swapped or extended without changing the workflow. Data-backed forecast promise, but a documented starting point.

Audience context: Northern coastal dramas, DACH
Search interest trend (12 months) upward
Comparable project resonance (public corpora) strongly positive

Indicative finding. Data-backed forecast promise. Source: demand and search interest signals, as of 2026-09.

04

Material import with explicit confirmation.

Import a logline or treatment directly into CineCockpit. Before the material enters the analysis, an explicit confirmation step verifies that the rights belong to the submitter and that no automatic sharing occurs. The platform runs on EU infrastructure, the model is interchangeable, and data ownership stays with the user. The screenplay remains your property.

Step: Import document
Treatment "The Still Water" (PDF, 18 pages) ready for import.
Confirmation: I hold the rights to this document and consent to analysis within my CineCockpit instance. The document will not be transmitted to third parties.
A concrete workflow

From treatment to documented market finding in an afternoon.

A typical workflow for a filmmaker preparing a meeting with a commissioning editor. Each step enriches the Living Sheet.

1

Create the project as a Living Sheet (5 minutes)

Enter title, tonality, genre tags and current stage. Optionally import a treatment PDF with rights confirmation. The sheet is immediately searchable and forms the foundation for all subsequent queries. Each new query writes results back into the sheet.

2

Query comparables (10 minutes)

Chat query: "Which DACH productions from the last five years hit the same tonality corridor?" CineCockpit returns comparable titles with broadcaster, production year and the specific area of overlap. Sources span open registers and industry corpora, connected via interchangeable interfaces. Every statement carries a source and a date.

3

Turn the market gap into an argument (15 minutes)

Discovery mode maps where supply and demand diverge along the microgenre taxonomy. The result is not an assertion but a documented basis for the conversation with a commissioning editor or funding body. Funding compatibility is flagged as a separate context finding.

4

Validation: contextualise a submitted package (20 minutes)

For directors: check a submitted screenplay against Europe catalogue. Is the tonality saturated or is there open ground? Validation mode delivers the market finding before the yes or no is given. No phone rounds required. The AI model runs locally or on EU hosting and can be replaced at any time.

5

Enter the conversation with documented material.

No press kit, no auto-generated report. But a data sheet with comparables, source references and market context that can serve as a foundation in the meeting. Data delivers the finding. People deliver the judgment.

Recommended operating modes

Discovery and Validation as the entry point.

Discovery

Reading the market around your project.

CineCockpit searches Europe catalogue for projects and talent that match the tonality and topic profile. The system connects social APIs, platforms, communities and databases using a Europe-first approach with local AI, running parallel and provider-neutral. Market gaps, microgenre clusters, demand signals: all documented, nothing invented.

  • +Surface microgenre gaps
  • +Find matching comparable projects
  • +Contextualise demand signals around the topic
Validation

Contextualise a specific package.

Check a submitted project or offered screenplay against Europe catalogue. Tonality, comparables, market landscape. Before the yes or no is given, the finding is on the table. The screenplay analysis runs GDPR-compliant on EU hosting, the model remains interchangeable.

  • +Present documented comparable productions
  • +Contextualise tonality and milieu
  • +Clarify the market landscape before the meeting

Deep Mining is available for extensive individual analyses and slate decisions. All modes can be combined.

Europe-first

All instances run on EU servers. No transatlantic transfer of screenplay material. GDPR compliance is an architectural decision, not a checkbox.

Local AI

The AI model is interchangeable and can run on-premise or in an isolated EU cloud. No API lock-in to a single provider. Data ownership stays with the user.

Source references

Every system statement carries a source reference with a collection date. No hallucinations without disclosure. Data delivers the finding. People deliver the judgment.

"Finally a way to walk into meetings with commissioning editors without spending half a day on research beforehand. The source reference on every statement makes the difference."

Auteur filmmaker, independent production, DACH

Pilot user, summer 2026

Data foundation

DACH-prioritised. Provider-neutral. Traceable to the raw source.

CineCockpit draws from an extensible collection of open data sources and industry interfaces, provider-neutral and interchangeable. The connected sources include public registers, open knowledge graphs, demand and social signals, and streaming corpora. No data monoculture, no lock-in.

View the data foundation in detail
Public work and metadata registers (film/TV)
Entity resolution via open knowledge graphs
Demand and search interest signals
Reach and resonance signals from public platforms
Streaming corpora and theatrical performance data, DACH/EU
Pilot phase // Autumn 2026

Your next conversation, backed by documented findings.

In a 30-minute live session we show how CineCockpit works with your specific project. Not a pitch presentation, but a real working session.

Available to development and editorial teams across the Europe. From directors and screenwriters to production companies, studios, broadcasters and streaming providers.