Break down a feature before your coffee's cold.
ScriptSift reads your screenplay, marks every element in every scene, and pulls it into a breakdown you can actually edit — each one carrying the exact line it came from.
PDF in → color-coded breakdown + Excel out. No plugins, no training on your pages.
INT. HALF-MOON MOTEL — ROOM 7 — NIGHT RAIN needles the window. MARA (30s, soaked) shoulders the door and drops a revolver on the nightstand. She peels off a wet leather jacket, catches her reflection in the cracked mirror, and lights a cigarette with a shaking hand. Outside, a neon sign buzzes and stutters red.
A hired-out breakdown runs up to $5,000.
An experienced 1st AD or line producer will tag every element and hand back a thorough breakdown — for a few thousand dollars and a week of your schedule. Go cheaper and you're rolling the dice: entry-level gigs miss elements, mislabel them, and give you a sheet you have to re-check line by line.
ScriptSift does the breakdown itself — every element, sourced to the exact line — in minutes, for $49. The pros still build the schedule and budget on top; this is the part every one of them charges for, done before your coffee's cold.
Three moves. You're in charge of the last one.
Drop in the PDF
Upload the script. ScriptSift splits it into scenes the way an AD would — INT./EXT., location, time of day, page range — and lets you fix any boundary by hand.
It marks every scene
Fourteen categories, scene by scene, each element pinned to the verbatim line that put it there. Same wording across scenes collapses into one entry.
You review and export
Approve, reject, rename, or merge duplicates — then export a clean Excel breakdown, one tab per category, ready to hand to your team.
Fourteen categories, in the color code you already read.
The same markup an AD makes on a script by hand — cast in red, props in violet, stunts in orange — done in one pass and never tired by page 90.
If it's on the sheet, it's in the script.
Most AI will happily hand you a prop that was never written. ScriptSift won't. Every element has to quote a line that actually appears in the scene — anything it can't source is thrown out before you ever see it.
- ›Each element carries its exact source line, so you can check it in a glance.
- ›Unsourced guesses are dropped automatically — not flagged, dropped.
- ›Your call is final: approve, rename, or reject anything before export.
She peels off a wet leather jacket, catches her reflection in the cracked mirror.
One script. One price. Every element.
A professional breakdown runs $500 to $5,000. ScriptSift is $49 a script — no seats, no monthly bill, no meter per scene. You pay once, and everything's included.
Feature, short, or pilot — one flat fee, start to finished Excel.
- ✓Every scene parsed, all 14 categories marked
- ✓Verbatim source line on every element
- ✓Full review workspace — approve, rename, merge duplicates
- ✓Excel export, one tab per category
- ✓Private storage — your script is never used to train anything
Breaking down a whole slate? Volume pricing on request.
The questions a producer actually asks.
How accurate is it, really? +
Accurate on what's written, honest about the rest. It only lists elements it can quote from the scene, so you won't get phantom props — but a breakdown is still a judgment job, which is why you review every entry before it's final.
What do I upload? +
A standard screenplay PDF. ScriptSift finds scene headings the way an AD does — INT./EXT., location, time of day — and lets you correct any scene boundary by hand before it marks anything.
Is my script private? +
Yes. Scripts are stored privately, never exposed by public link, and never used to train any model. The line text stays yours.
Can I edit what it finds? +
That's the whole point. Approve, reject, rename, change a category, or merge two entries the script named differently. Nothing exports until you say so.
What comes out at the end? +
A clean Excel workbook with a tab per category and every element's scenes and source line — ready to drop into your scheduling or hand to a department head.
Does the flat rate really cover a feature? +
It does. $49 is the whole script, however long — no per-scene metering and no surprise second invoice.
Hand us the PDF. Take back your afternoon.
Upload a script, watch it get marked up, and export the breakdown before the coffee goes cold.