Before you send it out.
This is the exact framework Nick Jobe uses to diagnose why projects get passed on — applied to your logline or synopsis in real-time. Paste your idea below. Get a structural diagnosis in under a minute.
This diagnostic applies Nick Jobe's Story Engine Architecture — the same framework used in development sessions with working writers at WME and Gersh. Your synopsis is processed in real-time and immediately discarded.
Most development notes address what's on the page — character, dialogue, structure. This diagnostic goes further upstream. It evaluates whether the idea itself has an engine: the structural architecture that determines whether a show can hold a room, sustain a pitch, and survive development.
The diagnosis analyzes your premise against 12 specific failure patterns — the same patterns Nick encounters in rooms with writers whose projects are getting reads but not getting bought.
Does the premise contain irreconcilable tension that generates infinite story?
Can this protagonist carry a series? Do they have agency, stakes, and a long game?
Does the story track and pay off correctly? Is there a real answer underneath the question?
Can this premise generate seasons of story, or does it resolve in two hours?
Built on Nick Jobe's Story Engine Architecture. Nick works with TV and film writers whose projects are circulating at major agencies, getting reads, getting heat, not getting bought. His clients are repped at WME and Gersh, with projects sold to Netflix, Amazon, and Disney. Nick has developed projects at Netflix and Apple Originals. The Pilot Engine Audit ($1,500) is his entry-point diagnostic, two working sessions that identify the upstream reason a project isn't moving.