About Quanten Arc
Quanten Arc is a narrative structure analysis platform built for filmmakers, showrunners, development executives, and studios. We map narrative intensity scene by scene, benchmarked against 300+ films that moved audiences, so you can design, test, and refine your story arc before you generate or shoot a single scene.
What We Do
- ✓Scene-by-scene intensity curve: Upload a screenplay and get every scene scored for narrative intensity. Peak scenes are flagged automatically, act boundaries are marked, and a pacing score tells you where your story breathes and where it stalls.
- ✓Character and story thread mapping: See which characters are present in each scene and track your A, B, and C story threads across the full narrative, so no subplot gets lost or over-weighted.
- ✓Benchmark comparison: Compare your story against 300+ professionally analysed films. See where your intensity curve aligns with successful titles in your genre and where the structural gaps are.
- ✓Series and franchise arc comparison: Place episodes of a show, or films in a franchise, on the same chart to see how narrative intensity extends, builds, and shifts across the full run. Ideal for showrunners tracking season shape and studios mapping franchise momentum.
- ✓Genre-aware scoring: Intensity metrics calibrated to genre conventions across drama, thriller, comedy, horror, and more, so your script is never judged by the wrong yardstick.
- ✓Series support: Analyse multi-episode mini-series and prestige drama episode by episode, with all episodes grouped into a single show view for season-level overview.
The Research
The idea that stories have a measurable emotional shape was articulated by Kurt Vonnegut as early as the 1940s. His rejected master's thesis mapped narrative arcs as curves of good and ill fortune, plotted by hand. He was right about the shape. The problem was always the measurement.
Narrative analysis has an unresolved problem: reading is a reconstruction, not a recording. Working memory holds roughly 4 to 7 items simultaneously (Miller, 1956). A 90-page screenplay cannot fit. By the time a reader reaches the midpoint, Act One has already been compressed into gist fragments, and two readers of the same script will segment and reconstruct it differently (Zacks et al., 2007). The forgetting curve (Ebbinghaus, 1885) accelerates the loss, and the peak-end rule (Kahneman et al., 1993) means what survives is dominated by a few emotional peaks and the ending, not the full arc. Coverage reports are not objective evaluations. They are subjective reconstructions of a script that was never fully held in mind.
Quanten Arc is built on Boyd, Blackburn and Pennebaker's 2020 research into universal narrative processes, validated against 364 produced films. Structural visualisation gives you what a reading cannot: a complete, stable record of the arc, scene by scene, from page one to fade out.
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The Company
Quanten Arc is a product of Quanten Media, a company that grew out of a film club where creatives gathered to review works in progress. The founding insight was simple: in a room, you know instantly if you are losing people. We built tools to carry that intelligence into the screen era.
Data should serve the story, not the other way around.
Get in Touch
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