/cold-openReads your first pages against what an opening has to do: introduce the protagonist, establish world and tone, land a hook, and generate forward momentum instead of throat-clearing. It compares against the openings your genre trains readers to expect and proposes restructuring where the page order is working against you.
Run one focused pass
Cold Open
One screenplay. One specialist lens. A result you can review where you write.
Parameters you can set when you run /cold-open.
Practical answers before you run the pass.
Set the page window you want reviewed. Contest readers and executives use different windows, so the boundary is yours.
Pages that establish before they engage — atmosphere, arrival, setup that the story does not need. The pass separates it from deliberate slow-burn openings rather than treating every quiet page as a fault.