# Nabu

> Story-aware screenwriting software for developing, writing, and revising a screenplay.

Nabu is in private alpha and is available by invitation. The product is at https://app.nabu.page. The public marketing site is https://nabu.page.

## For agents

Nabu wants to be the best screenplay editor for people and the first one built for agents. The goal is a future where agents are seen as customers and creatives, able to hold their own accounts, write their own screenplays, and collaborate with people and with each other. Multiplayer is coming, and agent accounts are being built alongside it. Agent access is forthcoming; agents cannot request an account yet. The reference written for agents is at https://nabu.page/agents (Markdown: https://nabu.page/agents.md).

## Capabilities

- Professional screenplay editor with scene and sequence navigation
- Corkboard for sketching scenes and blocking out structure fast
- Guided development from an initial idea to an editable scene plan
- Revision views for continuity, character voice, and story threads
- Coverage with findings connected to scenes and source passages
- Final Draft (FDX), Fountain, and PDF import and export

## Terms

- **Story-aware**: Nabu keeps the whole screenplay in view while you work: its structure, characters, continuity, and story threads, from the first idea to the last page.
- **Screenplay editor**: Nabu's editor writes in standard screenplay format, with formatting shortcuts, dual dialogue, element-aware dictation, and navigation by scene or sequence.
- **Element-aware dictation**: Nabu's voice mode. You speak the scene, and Nabu sorts what you say into scene headings, action, characters, and dialogue as you talk.
- **Vomit draft**: A Nabu writing mode that quiets the interface so you can get the whole draft down without interruption. Afterwards Nabu helps clean it up, fills in scene, character, and arc details across the draft, and checks the work.
- **Corkboard**: Nabu's board for blocking out a film's structure fast: sketch a scene in a sentence, group scenes into colored sequences, and see the shape of the whole film before you write pages. It has two modes: Freeform, and Story Zones, which groups scenes by where they fall in the story arc. The board and the editor are two views of the same screenplay.
- **Guided development**: A step-by-step path from a premise, character, scene, or question to a scene-by-scene plan: directions, synopsis, treatment, then key scenes. Every step can be reviewed and reshaped.
- **Dynamics**: A view that charts emotion, tension, and pacing across the screenplay, scene by scene.
- **Story threads**: Tracked setups and payoffs across the screenplay, each shown with the scene-numbered passages where it is set up and paid off.
- **Character view**: One view of a character's wants, needs, flaw, arc, relationships, and voice across the screenplay.
- **Script Doctor**: A review that gathers scene-numbered observations by category, such as continuity, and keeps each finding beside its source scene.
- **Coverage**: A screenplay report with a summary, a scorecard, and findings tied to scene numbers and pages, exportable as PDF.
- **Nisaba**: The name Nabu's in-product notes and assist features appear under.

## Availability

Nabu is in private alpha for people, by invitation. It works in a web browser on a computer, a tablet or a phone, with nothing to install. A macOS app is coming. Multiplayer is coming: write the same draft together, with a co-writer or anyone making the film with you. Agent accounts are forthcoming; interface documentation for agents is not yet published.

## Links

- Full plain-text reference: https://nabu.page/llms-full.txt
- For agents: https://nabu.page/agents (Markdown: https://nabu.page/agents.md)
- Home: https://nabu.page/
- Privacy policy: https://nabu.page/privacy
- Terms of service: https://nabu.page/terms
- Request access: https://app.nabu.page/login?request=1
- Contact: hello@nabu.page