What Your Quilty Score Means.

What it measures

The Quilty Score is the 0–100 number on a full analysis. For a feature screenplay, Quilty builds it from four pillars. The shares below are from Quilty’s methodology page, checked October 6, 2026. This article uses those public pages. It does not include a screenplay we scored ourselves. Our September 29 review is about the report around the number.

35% 30% 20% 15%

35% Story & Craft

The script itself: structure, character, dialogue, and originality. Quilty treats this criterion as stable over time, so a change of year is not supposed to expire good structure. A rewrite of the story is what should move it.

30% Market Viability

Commercial potential: genre heat, market trends, and audience demand. Quilty calls this dynamic. The same file can score differently later because the market moved. The page uses the western and the superhero cycle as examples.

20% Culture & Resonance

Whether the themes meet the moment. Also dynamic. Quilty’s example is Cold War anxiety reading differently in 1984 than it does now.

15% Feasibility

Budget, technical complexity, and production risk. Quilty calls this semi-static: it can shift as production methods change, more slowly than a genre cycle. The page’s example is visual-effects work getting cheaper.

Read the pillar scores with the headline. A 70 built mostly from Story & Craft is a different report from a 70 built mostly from the market.

How to interpret it

The methodology page calls the feature scale the Greenlight Scale.

The ranges match. The words do not. A June 2026 Quilty Research article uses the names in the right-hand column, and it also renames three pillars Commercial Viability, Cultural Resonance, and Production Reality, calling those three dynamic. The methodology page calls the fourth pillar Feasibility and semi-static. On that page, Pass is the bottom band. Neither page, as of October 6, 2026, says the other wording has been retired. Use the names printed on your report.

Television, theatre, and other formats use different scales, so a feature 70 is not a television 70 or a theatre 70. The weights and band names for those formats are on the methodology page. Read the scale named on the document you have.

The score is one input into a development decision, read with the notes and with the film you are trying to make. Quilty’s methodology page says a high score is not a promise the film will succeed, and a low score is not proof it will fail. The page includes misses. The Blair Witch Project is an era-locked 1999 assessment of 58, labeled a sleeper, and the page says the model would not have predicted that outcome. That example is Quilty’s. The same page separates the score from reviews published after a film is released.

A later score, by itself, cannot establish that a rewrite improved the script. Market and culture can move because time passed, and Quilty’s limitations page says outputs can change across model versions. Compare the notes with the scenes.

What to do next

Write down the date, the format, the headline, each pillar, and the band name on the report.

Read Story & Craft, and the roadmap if the report includes one, before you treat the headline as the decision. A story note that names a scene can go on a rewrite list. A market or culture note is information about the moment, unless you decide the story itself should change to meet it. You Got Your Screenplay Coverage. Now What? is a way to sort those notes.

The score is not in the free preview. Quilty’s homepage says a preview typically includes a logline, notes, and a market read, and that the score comes with the full analysis. The free preview is the public way to start that report. A full feature analysis was listed at $49.99 on the pricing page on October 6, 2026.

If you run the script again, keep both reports. Compare the pillars, the notes, and the dates together.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Quilty Score?

For a feature screenplay, Quilty describes it as a 0–100 composite of four pillars: Story & Craft at 35 percent, Market Viability at 30 percent, Culture & Resonance at 20 percent, and Feasibility at 15 percent. Television and theatre use different scales, so the same number is not the same judgment.

Is the Quilty Score included in the free preview?

No. Quilty’s homepage says the score is part of the full analysis, not the free preview. A full feature analysis was listed at $49.99 on October 6, 2026.

Do Quilty’s pages use the same names for score bands?

No. On October 6, 2026, the methodology page used Strong Greenlight, Greenlight, Conditional Greenlight, Development, Significant Revision, and Pass. A June 2026 Quilty Research article used Exceptional, Excellent, Strong, Promising, Developing, and Early Stage for the same numeric ranges.

Does a high Quilty Score mean the film will make money?

No. The number is one input into a development decision. Quilty’s methodology page says a high score is not a promise the film will succeed, and a low score is not proof it will fail. The page gives The Blair Witch Project an era-locked 1999 score of 58 and says the model would not have predicted that outcome.

Can a higher score show that my rewrite worked?

A change in the score, by itself, cannot establish that a rewrite improved the script. Quilty says market and culture move with time, and that outputs can change across model versions. Compare both reports, including the pillars and the dates.

Sources

Checked October 6, 2026.

1. Quilty Score methodology. Feature weights and bands, separate television and theatre scales, and the Blair Witch example.
2. “What is the Quilty Score?”, Quilty Research, June 2026. Alternate pillar names and alternate band names for the same ranges.
3. Quilty homepage. The score is not in the free preview. Free preview is the entry point.
4. Pricing. Full feature analysis listed at $49.99. The same price is on the feature-film pricing page.
5. Known AI limitations. Outputs can change across model versions.