What Inkwell is, how production and AI work, and what happens to your writing. Can't find an answer? Ask us directly.
What the platform is and how Plot and Canvas fit together.
Inkwell is an AI-native writing platform. It treats your screenplay as structured data, so you get version control with save points and draft lines, semantic change tracking, and AI skills that edit the draft — the tools that transformed software development, reimagined for writing.
Plot is the screenwriting product: a structured screenplay editor with all 16 element types, screenplay AI passes, and the full production pipeline. It imports Fountain and FDX and exports industry-formatted PDF. Canvas is a general-purpose block editor for novels, research, and long-form documents. Both run on the same platform — version control, AI skills, and collaboration power both.
Fountain is an open, plain-text markup for screenplays. Inkwell parses it in real time so your script is structured data as you type — but you don't have to write raw Fountain. The editor handles formatting and lets you Tab between the 16 element types as you write.
Yes. Inkwell imports and exports Final Draft (FDX) and Fountain, and exports industry-formatted PDF. You can bring existing scripts in and take your work out at any time.
Plot is in early access today. Canvas is in development, with early access for Pro and Team subscribers. You can start writing right now.
Yes. Inkwell is web-based and cross-platform — there is nothing to install. Open it in your browser and start writing.
How Inkwell's AI works inside your draft — not beside it.
Skills in the draft — not a chat sidebar
Every suggestion lands on a line you can accept or reject. Nothing overwrites your script without your say.
Chat-style AI
Inkwell skill pass
Every suggestion is tied to a line in your draft — it lands exactly where it belongs.
Inkwell's AI runs as skills — agentic passes that understand screenplay structure and propose edits in the document as a reviewable diff. A dialogue pass rewrites lines, a continuity check flags inconsistencies, a character runner maps arcs. You accept or reject changes like any other edit, instead of copying text out of a chat panel.
No. Every skill proposes changes against a save point and shows them as a diff. Nothing is applied until you accept it — accept all, reject all, or take individual suggestions. A save point is always one step behind you.
The heart of the guild's position on AI is that the writer stays the author, using AI is the writer's choice, and AI-generated text is not treated as writing — and Inkwell is built to sit on the right side of that line. Skills only ever propose changes as a reviewable diff: the AI suggests edits, you accept or reject each one, and the draft you keep is one you approved line by line, which leaves a clear record that the writing is yours. Nothing auto-applies, you own your screenplay outright, and you decide which passes run at all — so if a room or studio sets its own AI policy, you can honour it. We do not generate whole screenplays from a prompt; passes are for craft and continuity on a script you already wrote. The revision-colour sequence and FDX/PDF handoff ship at launch, included in the paid Pro tier; the fuller production lifecycle — locked pages and A-pages tied to save points — is on the Pro roadmap.
Only the scoped context the skill needs — typically the scenes or lines in scope for that pass, plus structured metadata the skill requires. Your full account library is not uploaded as a bundle. With bring-your-own-key, requests go to the provider account you configure.
Locked scripts, WGA revisions, and room workflows.
The full WGA revision sequence — from the same draft
Writers' room accountability
The runner asks who cut the courtroom beat — the answer is on the line, not buried in a changelog.
Approved for the network draft — pink pages from here.
Yes. The full WGA-standard revision colour sequence — white through cherry — ships at launch, included in the paid Pro tier. Locked pages, A-pages, and omitted-scene handling tied to save points are on the Pro production roadmap, so you'll see what changed between table read, director pass, and lock as those land.
Locked scripts and production boards are part of the Pro production workflow we're building — listed as Up next on the roadmap. The plan is locked page numbering, revision colours on each pass, and the same draft line rather than a separate export folder.
A-pages are added scenes after a script is locked — common on set when new material is written. Inkwell's production workflow will preserve them alongside standard revision colours so breakdown and scheduling tools get a consistent script once those Pro features ship.
Team includes real-time collaboration, shared draft lines, and role-based permissions — built for writers' rooms that need parallel takes without losing accountability. Pro is single-writer focused; upgrade to Team when the room needs shared workspaces.
Semantic change tracking shows what moved — scene by scene, line by line — not just that the file changed. On Team, collaboration surfaces who is in the document and comment threads anchor to the passage under discussion.
When production workflows ship on Pro, you'll export industry-formatted PDF and FDX from the locked revision you need. Fountain export stays available today for lossless round-trip when your pipeline expects plain text.
Classroom use, student pricing, and reviewable AI passes.
Inkwell skills propose structured edits students must accept or reject — useful when you want AI in the workflow without silent rewrites. Verified students and educators get 50% off Pro.
Yes. Educators use Inkwell to teach Fountain literacy, formatting, and structured revision. Skills propose edits students must review — a useful default when AI is part of the assignment. Contact education@inkwell.software for classroom onboarding.
Verified students and educators receive 50% off Pro. Email education@inkwell.software from your institutional address with your program details — we verify manually during beta.
Yes. Their screenplays, save points, and exports belong to them. Inkwell does not delete student work when a term ends — they can export to Fountain, FDX, or PDF and continue on a personal plan.
Skills run as reviewable passes — students see each suggested change and accept or reject it. That makes AI-assisted assignments auditable: you can require a dialogue pass, then grade the draft the student actually kept, not a chat transcript.
Ownership, storage, BYOK, and what Inkwell sends to AI.
What Inkwell sends to AI — and what it does not
Your keys
Bring your own provider key in settings — or use Inkwell's hosted passes on Free and Pro.
Model provider
Skills send scoped context for the pass — scene ranges, not your whole drive.
Suggestion only
Output is a reviewable diff — nothing writes through until you accept it.
You authorize each pass. We do not train on your scripts.
Full policy details live in our privacy policy. Questions about enterprise storage or retention? Contact privacy.
You do. Your screenplays, save points, and version history are yours. Inkwell exports to Fountain, FDX, and PDF so your work is never locked in — lossless round-trip means your writing survives Inkwell.
Yes. Inkwell supports bring-your-own-key configuration so you can run skills against your own provider account, with model and key managed in settings. Hosted skill passes remain available on Free and Pro if you prefer not to manage keys.
Your documents live in Inkwell's cloud workspace, encrypted in transit and at rest. Export anytime to Fountain, FDX, or PDF — your master copy does not depend on staying subscribed.
No. Your scripts are not used to train foundation models. Skill passes send scoped context to the provider you authorize (Inkwell-hosted or your own key) and return suggestions — they do not opt your work into a training corpus.
You can request account deletion by contacting privacy@inkwell.software. We remove workspace data per our privacy policy and confirm when deletion is complete.
Enterprise and studio teams can request a security overview by emailing team@inkwell.software. During beta we answer directly — formal SOC documentation will follow as production deployments scale.
Free, Pro, and Team — what's included and how billing works.
Yes — the Free plan covers everything you need to start writing: unlimited screenplays, save points and version history, one draft line per screenplay, 5 AI skill passes a month, and PDF and Fountain export. Three paid tiers build on it. Writer adds unlimited draft lines, a bundled monthly AI skill quota, complete version control, and FDX (Final Draft) export. Pro adds worktrees, custom skills, production reports with revision colours, and higher AI quotas with priority inference. Team adds real-time collaboration, shared workspaces, and role-based permissions for writers' rooms. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.
Absolutely. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. If you downgrade, you keep access until the end of your billing period. Your screenplays and save points are never deleted.
Your screenplays, save points, and version history are always yours, and you can export to Fountain, FDX, and PDF at any time. Nothing is deleted when you change or cancel a plan.
Yes. We offer 50% off Pro for verified students and educators. Contact us at education@inkwell.software with your institutional email.
Save points are immutable snapshots of your work — think of them as save files you can always return to. Draft lines are parallel versions of your screenplay — like exploring an alternate ending without losing your original.
Canvas is currently in development. Pro and Team subscribers will get early access. It shares the same version control and AI skill engine as Plot, extended for general-purpose documents.
General documents, novels, and cross-product workflows.
Canvas is in active development with early access for Pro and Team subscribers. It shares save points, draft lines, and skills with Plot — extended for customizable blocks and Markdown-friendly long documents.
Canvas is designed for Markdown round-trip and structured blocks — import/export is a launch priority. During early access we will publish supported formats in the Canvas changelog; Fountain and FDX remain Plot's screenplay path.
Cross-product block embedding is part of the product-family architecture — screenplay blocks inside research docs or bibles. Early access will ship incrementally; follow the blog for Canvas milestones.
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