Unlock the Art of the Story.
Modern filmmaking tools have unlocked the miracle of the moving image. Quanten Arc maps narrative intensity scene by scene, benchmarked against 500+ films that moved audiences. Design, test, and refine your story before you generate or shoot a single frame.
What is Quanten Arc?
Quanten Arc is a story development intelligence platform built for development executives, producers, indie filmmakers, and production studios. At its core is a custom audience model, calibrated from real response data, that maps the intensity of every scene in a screenplay and identifies its archetype from a library of 24 narrative archetypes. The result is not just a chart. It is a structural read: how the story is built, what kind of story it is trying to be, and where the beats need shaping.
There are three ways to use Quanten Arc, depending on where you are in your process. As an Explorer, you study the benchmark library: 500+ professionally analysed screenplays, from Oscar contenders to genre-defining blockbusters, with every scene mapped and every archetype identified. As a Creator, you upload your own script and receive a complete structural analysis: intensity arc, archetype classification, character presence, pacing, narrative beats, genre composition. As a Studio team, you run the same analysis across your full development slate, commission Structural Analysis Reports with beat-level shaping guidance and PDF delivery, and share a common structural language across every project in your pipeline.
Key capabilities include:
- Archetype classification: which of the 24 narrative archetypes a script belongs to, and how strongly it fits
- Scene-by-scene intensity scoring driven by a custom audience model, calibrated for genre (action, horror, drama, comedy, thriller, and more)
- Structural Analysis Reports: archetype, framework alignment, beat-by-beat shaping guidance, comparable titles, and PDF export
- Character presence tracking: how screen time distributes across the arc, and where protagonist presence is strongest or weakest
- Genre composition analysis: the tonal register of every scene, mapped across acts to reveal the genre DNA of the script
- Narrative beat classification: the emotional function of each scene sequenced across the full arc
- Benchmark comparison against 500+ produced films in the same genre
- Private screenplay processing: scripts are deleted immediately after analysis; only the structural data is retained
Why Narrative Structure Matters
Something in the structure isn't working. The hard part is knowing exactly where.
Structural problems are felt before they are understood. Feedback describes the symptom: the pacing drags, Act 2 loses momentum, the ending doesn't land. But a symptom is not a location. Without seeing the actual shape of your story, every attempt to fix the structure is a guess.
The films that hold audiences don't just have better ideas. They have better pacing, better tension curves, better decisions about when to build and when to release. Those decisions are visible in the data. They just haven't been accessible until now.
See the shape of your story before it is too late.
Quanten Arc maps narrative intensity scene by scene across 500+ benchmarked films, from Oscar contenders to genre-defining blockbusters. Each film has been analysed for act breaks, climax placement, and pacing rhythm.
Upload your screenplay. Get an objective structural analysis in minutes. Compare your arc against proven films and identify flat spots, missing tension, and premature climaxes before you commit to production.
See how different stories are structured
Analyse them scene by scene, by act and overall narrative arc. The shape of tension is unique to every genre, every story, every filmmaker.
Every story that holds an audience has an intentional shape. This is what Arc maps, measures, and compares.
How it works
From browsing benchmarks to uploading your own work, the full loop runs in minutes.
Study how successful films are structured
Browse narrative arcs across 500+ films including Oscar contenders, genre leaders, and festival winners. See how the stories that actually worked are structured, scene-by-scene. Compare intensity patterns across genres to understand what holds audiences.
Filter by genre, year, or content type. Every film includes rich metadata (cast, director, ratings, and poster art) so you can study the structural choices behind the films you admire most.
Upload your own work
Bring in your screenplay as a PDF, TXT, or Fountain file. Quanten Arc maps your narrative intensity scene-by-scene, benchmarked against successful films. See the shape of your story before you generate. Know where it builds, where it peaks, and where it breaks.
Your screenplay is processed in minutes and immediately deleted from our servers. Only the arc analysis (intensity scores, scene structure, and act breakpoints) is stored in your private account.
Compare and fix structural gaps before production
Overlay your arc against any benchmarked film or view them side-by-side. The dips become visible. The deviations from proven pacing become clear. You have the data to make informed creative choices before you prompt Runway or Kling, not after.
Choose from four comparison modes (superimposed, side-by-side, one-by-one, or composite) and align by scene number or runtime. Create composite arcs from multiple films to design a target pacing template for your project.
See it in action
Three full Arc analyses, open to anyone. No sign-in needed.
Who is Quanten Arc for?
Quanten Arc is designed for anyone who works with narrative, from solo creators to large production teams.
Development Executives
- Walk into every development meeting with a precise structural read on the script, not just a gut feel
- Identify where a script loses momentum, where the archetype breaks, and what the writer needs to fix
- Give notes that are rooted in data: beat-by-beat shaping guidance the writer can act on immediately
Indie Filmmakers & Directors
- Validate your script's pacing against 500+ benchmark films before going to production
- Identify flat spots, missing tension, and premature climaxes in your narrative arc
- Study the structural choices behind the films you admire most
AI Filmmakers
- Design your narrative arc before you prompt Runway, Kling, or Luma
- Stop wasting generation credits on sequences that look incredible but don't hold audiences
- Build films that hold audiences beyond just spectacles
Film Students & Educators
- Study narrative structure with real data from 500+ professionally analysed films
- Compare films across genres and eras to see how storytelling conventions evolve
- Get a data-driven perspective on the art of screenwriting
Privacy & Fair Use
Your Work Stays Private
When you upload a screenplay, we process it to generate your narrative arc and immediately delete the screenplay file from our servers. We never store your script, never use it to train any models, and never add it to our public library. Only your arc analysis (intensity scores, scene structure) is retained in your account, accessible anytime you log in.
Fair Use & Benchmarks
Our benchmark library is built on analysis of publicly available scripts. We surface original narrative insights; source material is never reproduced. For compliance, only scene summaries are displayed within the platform. Original script content is not shown.
Your Data, Always
Creator and Studio subscribers can export all their analysis data at any time as a standard JSON file. Every arc score, beat label, scene breakdown, and archetype result is yours to take anywhere, without restriction.
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