
First Readv1.1.0Version updatev1.1.0Sep 2, 2026Provenance signing shipped. Documents are cryptographically signed at save using Ed25519. The public key is published in DNS and mirrored on GitHub, so anyone can verify a record independently without needing First Read.
Overview
- Write in a voice that is provably yours, with every document signed at save using Ed25519 and a public key mirrored outside First Read's infrastructure so studios, guilds, or opposing parties verify records without the company's cooperation.
- Get notes that defend your creative standards instead of generic taste, with a Voice Profile built from a 30-minute structured interview covering instincts, structural preferences, tonal boundaries, and project vision.
- Generate material that stays in your lane, with all generation running against your own voice profile rather than a corpus of other writers' work.
- Develop traditional television, film, and vertical drama from concept to production draft, with support for outlines, beat sheets, episode maps, and scripts.
- Keep your drafts private by default, with nothing you upload training any AI model.
- Move between tools without friction, with Final Draft (fdx), PDF, Fountain import and export, PDF export, speech-to-text dictation, voice capture, and API access.
- Push back on vague or safe choices before they reach the draft, with evaluation that measures work against the writer's own profile at every stage.
- Complement WGA registration with a per-save record of which voice profile a document was made against and a fingerprint proving the content is unaltered since save.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Voice capture is a structured 30-minute interview rather than inference from a corpus of your old work
- Evaluates a draft against your own stated standards instead of a generic idea of good
- Every saved document is cryptographically signed, and the signature is verifiable without the company
- Built for screen formats specifically, including vertical drama alongside traditional TV and film
- Nothing you upload is used to train any AI model
- Built by a working television writer with fifteen years of credits
Cons
- There is no instant-value path. The 30-minute interview comes first and the product is not useful before it
- The signature establishes which voice profile a document was made against and that neither has changed since. It does not prove who typed the words
- Built for professional screenwriters. General-purpose prose and marketing writers are not the audience
- Small and new. There is no large support organisation behind it
- At $20.99/month it is priced above hobbyist writing tools
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Logan Slakter
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wrote:It generates. It leads with evaluation and it starts from voice capture, and where it generates it generates against your own profile rather than a corpus of other people's work. Any tool claiming it does not generate at all is being loose with the word.
Logan Slakter
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wrote:Roughly thirty minutes for the voice interview. That is the whole onboarding, and the profile gets sharper the more you use the product.
Logan Slakter
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wrote:It establishes which voice profile a document was made against, and that neither the profile nor the document has changed since it was saved. It does not prove who typed the words, and the record says so.
Logan Slakter
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wrote:Yes. The public key is published in a DNS TXT record and mirrored in a public GitHub repository, and the verification method is standard Ed25519. Nothing about checking a record requires our cooperation.
Logan Slakter
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wrote:No. Nothing you upload trains any AI model.
Logan Slakter
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wrote:Traditional television, film, and vertical drama, from concept through production draft — outlines, beat sheets, episode maps and scripts.
Logan Slakter
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wrote:No. It is a complement to it. Registration gives you a dated record of your claim; this gives you a per-save record of what the work was made against.
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