Another big update. Four changes that together make GEM feel a lot more like a real place where writers can grow.
1. Community reviews on every script
Every public script on GEM can now be reviewed by other GEM writers. Score from 0 to 100, leave detailed notes, suggest a sharper move for the next draft.
The point: you already get a producer-grade Selznick read on every script. Community reviews give you a second, independent signal — what your peers actually think. Two signals are a lot more useful than one when an agent or producer is deciding which script to dig into.
Peer reviews · your report
Tonal control is great in the cold open. Page 14 turn could land harder if Joel doesn't telegraph it in the diner scene.
Suggestion for next draft → Try delaying Joel's read of the room until after the coffee lands.
The mob-therapy premise hooks instantly. Second act sags — try collapsing the courthouse beats into one scene.
You can also invite specific writers — friends, mentors, your writers' room — to review a script even if it's not public yet. Send them a link, they leave a private review only you see, and you decide whether to make it public.
Invite a reviewer
Send a one-time link. They review your script — public or private to you, your call.
A few details writers tend to ask about:
- You stay in control. You can hide any review from your report — your page, your call. Hidden reviews don't count toward your peer average and don't show on your script card.
- Reviews live on the reviewer's profile too. Good reviews build the reviewer's reputation as much as they help the writer.
- No drive-by drama. Reviews are tied to real GEM accounts with public profiles. If the community is going to mean something, the people in it have to mean something.
2. A real public profile
Every writer on GEM gets a public profile at gem.studio/w/your-handle — your photo, your headline, your bio, every script you've published, and the reviews you've written for other writers. It's the page you'd actually want to drop in your Twitter bio or send a producer who asks "what else have you written?"
The profile fills in as you go. Post a script, it shows up there. Leave a review, it shows up there. Pick up followers, that shows up too. By the time an industry partner clicks through, they don't see one script — they see a body of work.
Public profile
Jordan Sato
@jordansato
Half-hour comedy + features. Looking for staffing.
You can edit any of it from your dashboard — photo, headline, bio, IMDb link. Or skip it and the profile still works on the basics.
3. Free writers can now publish on GEM
We've always wanted GEM to be a place writers could use for free. Now it really is.
If you're on the free plan, you can publish your script publicly, get peer reviews, and build a profile that other writers and industry partners can find. The two things still on Pro: submitting multiple scripts and drafts, and direct industry contact.
Free vs Pro
- ✓Selznick read on every script
- ✓Publish publicly on GEM
- ✓Peer reviews + invite reviewers
- ✓Public writer profile
- ·One script at a time
- ·No direct industry contact
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Submit multiple scripts and drafts
- ✓Direct contact with producers, agents, managers
- ✓Priority placement in the community
The shape of it: GEM is open to anyone who writes. If you want to send producers your script directly through the app, or you've got more than one script to put out, that's where Pro picks up.
4. Simpler privacy
Privacy used to be a per-section toggle. It was thorough and kind of a lot. We've collapsed it down to three account-level defaults that apply to every script you post.
Your privacy defaults
New scripts go live the moment they're scored. On
Other GEM writers can read and review your work. On
Producers, agents, and managers can read and reach out. On
Set them once and they apply everywhere. You can override any of them on an individual script — every report has a privacy menu in the top-right where you can flip the defaults for that one script.
Privacy · this script (overrides your defaults)
e.g. invite peer reviews on a sensitive draft without exposing it to industry yet.
If you change a default later, we'll ask whether to apply the change to all your existing scripts or just to new ones from now on. No surprise public-or-private flips.
The arc. Post a script. Get a producer-grade read in a minute. Get real notes from other writers. Build a public profile that grows with your work. Get on the radar of the people who actually buy.
If you've got a script ready, drop it at gem.studio — first read on us.
If you want to see what other writers are working on, the community page is open.
— Anuj