How to Storyboard With ChatGPT or Claude (2026): A Simple AI Storyboard Workflow From Script to Frames

Key Takeaways

• Storyflow is the simplest AI storyboarding tool for people who plan in ChatGPT or Claude, because its connector lets the assistant build the storyboard directly on a shareable board, next to the references, shot list and schedule, and read it back for changes.
• Boords is the closest rival: it also has an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT, on every plan including Free during its beta, and it is the stronger tool for animatics and tracked client approvals.
• Neither Boords nor Storyflow generates frames through the connector. In both, the assistant builds the structure and the frames are generated inside the app, or you bring your own pictures.
• Claude does not generate photos or illustrations at all, per Anthropic's own help center. ChatGPT does, but frames made in a chat drift: the same character changes jacket, face and age from panel to panel.
• Storyflow keeps characters consistent by name: put a picture captioned "Ana" on the board, and every later frame prompt that names Ana uses that picture as its reference automatically (up to three named references per frame).
• A 30-second spot usually needs 8 to 12 panels. The worked example below boards one in 8 panels with 7 generated frames and 1 placeholder for the designer's end card.
• Storyflow costs $7.99 a month billed annually for Plus (structure, web references, your own frames) or $14 for Pro (adds AI image generation). There is no free plan during early access; anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free.

Why a Storyboard Made Only in a Chat Window Breaks Down

You paste a script into ChatGPT and ask for a storyboard. Back comes a numbered list of panels, a shot size next to each, a line of action, maybe a camera move. It reads well. Then you ask for pictures, and the problems start: the courier in panel 2 has short hair, the courier in panel 5 has a ponytail, and by panel 7 she is ten years older. You ask for a fix and get a new image that is better in one way and worse in another. Twenty minutes later the panels are spread across forty messages and nobody else can see any of them.

The thinking part of a storyboard (which moments matter, how many panels, what size and angle each one needs) is something language models do well. The failures happen after the answer arrives, in four specific places.

A chat is a feed, not a board

A storyboard is read left to right, panel by panel, with the frame on top and the notes underneath. A chat is read top to bottom, one reply at a time. Every revision ("make panel 3 a close-up", "swap 5 and 6") produces a new version further down, and the version you present is whichever one you remembered to copy. By the third pass there are three storyboards in the conversation and none of them is marked as the agreed one.

Frames drift because nothing pins the character

Image models generate each picture fresh. Unless the same reference picture goes into every frame, a character's face, wardrobe and build wander. In a chat you can attach a reference by hand each time, but you have to remember to, and the reply that holds the reference scrolls away.

Nobody else can open the chat

Your director of photography, your client and your editor do not have access to your ChatGPT or Claude history. A shared conversation link shares the whole transcript, including the rejected drafts. So the panels get pasted into slides or a PDF, and from that moment the assistant can no longer see the copy people are working from.

The storyboard lives away from the rest of the shoot

A storyboard feeds the shot list, which feeds the schedule. If the boards are in a chat, the references are in a folder and the shot list is in a spreadsheet, every change has to be made three times. The fix is to let the assistant do the thinking and put the result somewhere it can read back, beside everything else the shoot needs.

How We Chose the Tools and Weighted the Criteria

This guide judges tools on one job: turning a script or a brief into a storyboard with ChatGPT or Claude doing the breakdown, simply, and getting frames a client can look at. That is a narrower job than "best storyboarding software", where a dedicated panel editor with animatics might win, and the criteria below are the points where this workflow breaks.

The six criteria and their weights

• Assistant builds it (25%). Can ChatGPT or Claude create the storyboard inside the tool and read it back, or do you copy and paste panel by panel?
• Frames and consistency (20%). Can the tool make or hold a frame per panel, and keep a character, location or product the same across frames?
• Pre-production in one place (15%). Do the storyboard, the references, the shot list and the schedule sit together, or in four tools?
• Client review (15%). Can a client open the storyboard by link, and comment?
• Simplicity (15%). How many steps and new concepts from a script to frames you can show?
• Cost for a solo creator or small team (10%). What one person pays to get frames, as of October 2026.

Each tool scored 1 to 5 per criterion. The weighted total is out of 100.

The scores

Storyflow and Boords are three points apart, and that gap is honest: Boords wins client review outright with approval statuses and animatics, and Storyflow wins on keeping the storyboard on the same board as the references, the shot list and the schedule. If your storyboard is the final deliverable rather than a step toward a shoot, weight client review higher and Boords comes first.

What we did not weigh

Hand-drawn artistry, 3D previs and full animated previz are out of scope. A storyboard artist drawing in Storyboard Pro, or a director blocking in a 3D tool, is doing a different job from a producer who needs a readable board by Thursday.

Comparison Table: Simple AI Storyboard Tools That Work With ChatGPT or Claude

Sources for the competitor columns, all checked on 9 October 2026: Boords pricing, Boords MCP server docs, Boords storyboard software, StoryboardHero pricing, StoryboardHero, Canva's connector listing in Claude's directory, Katalist pricing, Katalist and LTX Studio pricing.

How to Storyboard With ChatGPT or Claude, Step by Step

This is the whole workflow, from an empty chat to frames a client can open. Ten steps. The first decides whether the other nine survive the first round of client notes.

Step 1: Decide where the storyboard will live (Storyflow first)

Decide before you type a prompt, because it decides what you ask the assistant for. Use Storyflow: connect it to your assistant once, and every panel, revision and reorder lands on a board the crew and client open by link. The alternatives fit specific cases: Boords if the board is the final deliverable and needs an animatic, StoryboardHero for a branded PDF with optional hand-drawn frames, Katalist or LTX Studio for moving previz.

To connect Storyflow:

1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, click Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Storyflow, paste https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp, click Continue, choose Sign in now, click Add, and sign in to Storyflow. Claude's custom connector guide confirms that the Free plan can add one custom connector.
2. In ChatGPT on the web, open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode (on Business and Enterprise an admin does this). Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click the plus button, name it Storyflow, choose Public endpoint, paste the same address, create it and sign in. Developer mode needs ChatGPT Plus or above.
3. When Storyflow asks, pick the project for this storyboard and allow changes. Without changes the assistant can only read.

Steps for Gemini, Grok, Claude Code and other tools are in the connection guide, and the overview is on the Storyflow MCP page.

Step 2: Give the assistant the real material

Paste the script, the brief or the treatment, and the deliverables: a 30-second spot in 16:9, three 9:16 cutdowns, a 6-second bumper. Add what you know about the look (two or three reference films or photographers), the cast and the locations. If you have a style sentence the client already approved ("warm tungsten interiors, cold blue exteriors, 35mm grain"), paste it; you will reuse it in every frame prompt. Everything you leave out, the assistant will guess.

Step 3: Ask for the beat breakdown first, not the panels

The first pass is beats only: number, timecode range, location, who is in it, and one line on what the audience must understand. Read it against the script. This is where you catch a merged moment or an invented location, and it costs thirty seconds. For a commercial, check the timecodes add up to the runtime.

Step 4: Turn beats into panels, one per key frame

Now ask for panels, and say the rule: one panel per moment the audience must see, numbered in narrative order, with shot size, angle, movement, the action, any dialogue or voiceover, and the duration. A rough guide for ads is one panel every 2 to 4 seconds; a 30-second spot lands at 8 to 12 panels. Ask the assistant to justify any beat that gets more than two panels. For a commercial, our guide to storyboarding a commercial covers the panel count by format.

Step 5: Have the assistant build it on the board

Tell the assistant to build the storyboard in your Storyflow project as one wall per panel, left to right, each with an empty frame first, then a note with the action and the shot specs. Through the connector it builds each wall and its cards in one call (the build_section tool), and places them on the board in order. If the board is open, you watch the walls appear; in assistants that support MCP apps, the show_board tool shows the live board inside the chat. If you number panels 4A to 4E, say so: five walls, not one.

Step 6: Choose a frame source for each panel

There are four honest ways to fill a frame, and most storyboards mix them:

• Generated in Storyflow (Pro and Max). Ask Storyflow's built-in AI to fill the empty frames. It writes one prompt per panel and repeats your style descriptors in each, so the set reads as one board.
• Web references. Real photographs of a real place or product, captioned "Reference" on the board so nobody mistakes them for footage you already shot.
• Your own pictures. Paper sketches, location scout photos, stills from the client. Ask the assistant for an upload link: it returns a link that is good for 15 minutes, you pick pictures on your phone or computer, and each one lands in the empty frame it was meant for.
• Images made in ChatGPT. If you prefer ChatGPT's image generation, download each frame and drop it in through the same upload link. A picture you attach in the chat never reaches Storyflow by itself.

The connector itself does not generate images; that happens in Storyflow's own AI, which runs on your plan's AI allowance, or in ChatGPT.

Step 7: Pin the characters before you generate the panels

This is the step that fixes drift. Before any panel frame, generate (or upload) one picture per recurring character, location or product, and caption each with its name: "Ana", "Teo", "Spoke & Chain shopfront". From then on, when a frame prompt names Ana, Storyflow passes the picture captioned Ana as the reference automatically, up to three named references per frame, and if there are two pictures of Ana it uses the most recently added. You do not have to attach anything by hand. If you want a different take ("a new version of Ana, not the one on the board"), say so and it draws fresh.

Step 8: Generate the panels in narrative order

Generate one frame per panel, in order, and look at each one before the next. Each frame shows a shimmer on the board while it is made and takes several seconds. When one is wrong, ask for that frame to be redone in place: the new picture lands in the same frame, keeping its spot in the wall, so nothing on the board moves. Storyflow asks before it overwrites a picture, because the old one is gone once replaced.

Step 9: Read the board back and tighten it

Ask the assistant to read the storyboard back and check it against the script: every beat covered, panel durations adding up to the runtime, no panel that needs a location or prop the script does not have. Because the assistant reads the board rather than its memory of the chat, "what changed in the last day, and who changed it?" gets a real answer.

Step 10: Share the link and build the shot list from it

Send the view-only link. The client opens it with no account, and signs in to comment. Then ask the assistant to build the shot list from the panels on the same board, as shot cards with the frames or as a per-scene table. Our guide to the difference between a storyboard and a shot list explains why the two are different documents with the same source.

The Six Tools Ranked for Storyboarding With ChatGPT or Claude

1. Storyflow

Verdict: the simplest place to storyboard when ChatGPT or Claude does the breakdown, because the assistant builds the board itself and the storyboard sits beside the rest of the shoot.

Best for: producers, creators and agency teams boarding commercials, brand films, social batches and shorts.

Pricing: Plus $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly); Pro $14 ($19 monthly) adds AI image generation; Max $39 ($49 monthly) adds a team workspace with roles and permissions. No free plan during early access; a Free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free now. See pricing.

Storyflow is a visual project planning workspace: an infinite canvas board that holds notes, tables, documents, images, mood boards, storyboards and slide decks, with an AI agent that reads the board and builds on it. Its MCP connector, launched in October 2026, lets the assistant you already use build on that board. For a storyboard, that means walls built in one call each, empty frames ready to fill, reordering, and reading the result back. The connector runs on your assistant's model, so it does not spend Storyflow AI credits, and paid plans have no connector limit.

Inside Storyflow, the built-in AI has its own storyboard workflow if you would rather skip ChatGPT or Claude. It asks two things at most: how many scenes (unless your script or breakdown settles it) and where the frames come from (web search, AI generated, or empty placeholders). It honours a supplied breakdown as written, at whatever length it runs, and builds one wall per scene or shot, each with a title, its own colour, a frame, a beat note with short labels and a checklist of 3 to 5 steps, connected left to right. It reads attached scripts, including PDFs and Final Draft .fdx files.

• One wall per panel, frame first, in narrative order with arrows
• Characters, locations and products kept consistent by caption name
• Web reference frames captioned "Reference" so they never read as footage
• Shot list, strip board and references on the same board as the storyboard
• View-only link opens with no account; comments after sign-in

Limitations: browser only, with no offline mode; AI image generation is on Pro and Max, not Plus; no animatic or MP4 export; no approval statuses with an approve button; no free plan during early access.

2. Boords

Verdict: the strongest classic storyboard editor here, and the one rival with a real connector for Claude and ChatGPT.

Best for: agencies and studios whose deliverable is the storyboard itself, with an animatic and client approvals.

Pricing: a free plan with 5 active storyboards, 3 active scripts and 8 sample AI image credits; Solo $26 a month billed annually ($39 monthly) with 250 AI images; Pro $50 billed annually ($75 monthly) for up to 5 users and 1,000 AI images, per Boords pricing.

Boords' MCP server at app.boords.com/mcp works with Claude, ChatGPT in developer mode, Claude Code and other clients. It can create storyboards (including from a script), add, update, delete and reorder frames, attach images made in other tools, manage the asset library and read and add comments. Its docs are explicit that Boords' own image generation is not available through the connection: you generate in the app or bring images. In the app, Boords has a custom cast for character consistency, animatics with audio exportable as MP4, passphrase-protected review links with frame comments and approval statuses, and PDF export.

• Real MCP server, on any plan including Free during its beta
• Animatics with timing and audio, MP4 export
• Approval statuses and frame-level comments

Limitations: the storyboard lives apart from your mood boards and planning notes; script-to-storyboard is a snapshot, so later script edits do not flow into the frames; AI images are capped per plan.

3. StoryboardHero

Verdict: a fast brief-to-storyboard tool for agencies, fed by hand from your assistant.

Best for: video agencies that send clients a branded PDF storyboard.

Pricing: Solo $19 a month with unlimited standard AI images and 100 premium; Starter $59 for 5 seats; Advanced $199 for 10 seats; a 7-day free trial with no card, per StoryboardHero pricing. Hand-drawn frames from its artists are bought separately.

StoryboardHero drafts a scene-based script from a short brief (duration, style, video type, a reference video) or takes your script as a CSV in its template, then generates frames. It exports branded PDFs that do not mention AI or StoryboardHero, shares a comment link with clients, and offers in-house sketch artists when AI frames fall short. For this guide's job it ranks third because ChatGPT or Claude cannot write into it: the assistant's breakdown becomes a CSV you upload.

• Brief or CSV script to storyboard
• Branded PDF export
• Optional human sketch artists

Limitations: no assistant connector found; no permanent free plan; its own page says it does not suggest story improvements.

4. Canva

Verdict: the design tool most people already have, with a real Claude connector that does not know what a storyboard is.

Best for: a marketer who will lay out a short storyboard on a Canva template and already pays for Canva.

Pricing: plans and prices are on Canva's own pricing page; check whether your plan includes the connector before you rely on it.

Canva's connector, listed and verified in Claude's connector directory, lets Claude search, create, autofill and export Canva designs and add comment threads. That makes Canva a reasonable place to finish a storyboard someone else broke down: Claude can create the design and fill a template. It does not build panels from a script, track shots or keep a character consistent across frames, so you do that structure yourself.

• Familiar editor and templates
• Verified Claude connector from Canva
• Polished export for a client deck

Limitations: not storyboard-aware; no shot specs per panel; consistency across frames is manual.

5. Katalist

Verdict: a script-to-storyboard-to-video studio with strong character consistency, outside your assistant.

Best for: performance marketing teams that want storyboards and video variants in one tool.

Pricing: Essential $19 a month with 200 image and 700 video credits; Pro $39 a month; Unlimited $99 a month for two users; a 7-day free trial, per Katalist pricing. API access is listed on Enterprise only.

Katalist imports or writes a script, breaks it into shots and generates a storyboard, and a character cast from a reference keeps the same look across the storyboard and the video. It is a good answer to the consistency problem. It ranks fifth here only because the assistant you plan in cannot reach it, and because the storyboard stays inside a video studio rather than beside your planning.

• Script to shots to storyboard
• Characters cast from a reference
• Storyboard to video in the same tool

Limitations: no ChatGPT or Claude connector found; no permanent free plan.

6. LTX Studio

Verdict: the furthest-reaching tool here, built for moving previz more than for a simple board.

Best for: directors who want to see the sequence move before the shoot.

Pricing: a free plan with 800 one-time credits; Lite $12 a month billed annually ($15 monthly), personal use only; Standard $28 billed annually ($35 monthly) with 28,000 credits; Pro $100 billed annually ($125 monthly), per LTX Studio pricing.

LTX Studio lists AI storyboards, pitch decks and saved "Elements" for consistent characters, with several image and video models on its plans. It goes well past a storyboard into generated video. That reach is also why it ranks last for this job: it has the most concepts to learn, it is credit-metered, and nothing in it is reachable from ChatGPT or Claude.

• Storyboards that become moving previz
• Consistent Elements
• Multiple image and video models

Limitations: no assistant connector found; Lite cannot be used for paid work; the steepest learning curve here.

Prompts You Can Copy for Each Stage

These prompts assume Storyflow is connected. If you are pasting into another tool, drop the parts about the board and ask for a table you can copy.

Breakdown prompts

Board prompts

Frame prompts for Storyflow's built-in AI

Worked Example: A 30-Second Bike Shop Spot in 8 Panels

Here is an illustrative run, set out the way you would run it. The client, Spoke & Chain, is a made-up neighbourhood bike repair shop, and the counts below are what this example would use, not a measured job. The deliverable is one 30-second spot in 16:9 for local pre-roll and social, plus a 9:16 cutdown. The idea: a courier's chain snaps in the rain, the shop fixes it in minutes, she rides on.

The brief and the breakdown

You paste the one-page brief, the 30-second script, the line "same-day repairs while you wait" that the client wants on the end card, and the style sentence the client approved from the mood board. Claude returns six beats. One is wrong: it gives the end card its own beat and a separate "logo reveal" beat, which is one 3-second graphic. You merge them, and the spot has five beats.

The eight panels

The durations add to 30 seconds: 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 4 + 3. Eight panels in 30 seconds is one every 3.75 seconds, inside the 2 to 4 second guide for ads.

Building it on the board

One prompt to Claude builds the row: eight walls, each with an empty frame, a note with the shot and the action, and the duration. Then three character frames go on the board, captioned Ana, Teo and Spoke & Chain shopfront. That is the whole structure, and it has cost no image generation yet.

The frames and what they cost

Inside Storyflow on Pro, you generate the three character pictures first, then the seven panel frames, each prompt naming who is in it. Panel 3 names Ana and Spoke & Chain, so both pictures go in as references; panel 5 names Teo. That is 10 generations. Two frames need a redo (panel 2 framed the face too wide; panel 6 drew a watch instead of a phone), so the board costs 12 generations in total, each taking several seconds. The end card stays an empty frame for the designer, who drops in the real logo through an upload link.

What needed a human

Three things. The merged end card, already mentioned. Panel 6, where the assistant first wrote "a watch shows 12 minutes" although the script says phone; caught in the gap check. And the 9:16 cutdown: a vertical crop of panel 1's low wide loses the snapping chain at the bottom of frame, so you add a ninth wall, 1V, a vertical-only medium of the chain snapping. All three were caught because the storyboard was on a board you could read against the script, with the frames in place.

What the client saw

The client opened the view-only link on a phone with no account, signed in to leave two comments ("can Teo be older?" and "the sign should read Spoke & Chain, not Spoke and Chain"), and you fixed both: one by regenerating Teo's reference picture and redoing panels 4 and 5, one by correcting the caption and the prompt. The same board then became the shot list.

The Consistency Problem, and Four Ways to Solve It

Character drift is the reason most AI storyboards look like a mood board rather than a sequence. Here is what works, from most to least reliable.

Pin a reference and reuse it automatically

The most reliable method is a single reference picture per character, passed into every frame that character appears in. Storyflow does this by caption name; Boords does it with a custom cast; Katalist casts characters from a reference; LTX Studio saves Elements. The method is the same: one source of truth for a face.

Repeat the same style descriptors in every prompt

Lighting, palette, lens feel and grain have to be written into every frame prompt, word for word. Storyflow's storyboard workflow repeats the style descriptors in each frame's prompt for this reason. If you generate in ChatGPT, paste the same style sentence at the start of every image request.

Keep the frame shape fixed

Mixing square and landscape frames makes a board look inconsistent even when the characters match. Pick one shape for the storyboard (3:2 landscape for 16:9 deliverables, portrait for vertical) and say it in every prompt.

Use empty frames where AI is the wrong tool

A real product shot, a client's actual shopfront or a celebrity cameo should not be generated. Leave an empty frame and fill it with the real photo. Our guide to storyboarding when you cannot draw covers sketches, photos and stand-ins.

What It Costs: Solo Creator vs a Small Agency Team

Solo creator or producer

Claude prices from Claude's pricing page; ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month from OpenAI's help center.

A small agency team of four

On Storyflow, one paid member invites the other three to the board; invited collaborators join free and edit in real time, so the cost stays at one subscription. Max at $39 a month billed annually adds a team workspace with roles and permissions, which matters when one producer runs several clients. Boords Pro covers up to five users for $50 a month billed annually. StoryboardHero Starter is $59 a month for five seats. Each Boords teammate connects their own account to the MCP server; there is no shared team connection, per its docs.

The real cost of a storyboard is not the subscription. It is the round of client notes spent on the wrong version.

Decision Rules: Which Tool for Which Storyboard

A commercial, brand film or social batch heading for a shoot

Storyflow with ChatGPT or Claude doing the breakdown. The storyboard is a step toward the shoot, so it belongs on the board with the references and the shot list, and the assistant can keep editing it.

The storyboard is the deliverable, with an animatic

Boords. Animatics with audio, MP4 export and approval statuses are what it is built for, and its MCP server means your assistant can still do the first draft. Our Storyflow vs Boords comparison goes deeper.

A branded PDF for a client by tomorrow

StoryboardHero. Brief in, PDF out, with hand-drawn frames available when the AI frames will not do.

Moving previz before the shoot

Katalist for performance ads, LTX Studio for directors who want to see the sequence move. Read our guide to storyboards vs animatics before you pay for video credits you may not need.

A one-off storyboard for a deck you already make in Canva

Canva, with Claude creating the design through its connector, and the panel structure written by you or the assistant in the chat.

Common Mistakes When You Storyboard With an Assistant

Mistake 1: One prompt for everything

"Storyboard this script" asks the model to read, break down, frame and draw in one pass. Beats first, panels second, frames third. Each pass is checked before the next.

Mistake 2: Generating frames before the structure is agreed

Frames cost AI allowance and time. Agree the panel list with the director or client while every frame is still empty; changing a note is free.

Mistake 3: Letting each frame invent the character

Without a pinned reference, every frame draws a new person. Put the character pictures on the board first and name them in every prompt.

Mistake 4: Panels that do not add up to the runtime

A 30-second spot with 45 seconds of panels is a spot that gets cut in the edit. Ask the assistant to total the durations on every pass.

Mistake 5: Forgetting the vertical cutdown

A 9:16 crop of a 16:9 wide keeps less than a third of its width. Run the deliverables check before the panels, and add vertical-only panels where the crop fails.

Mistake 6: Keeping the storyboard in the chat

The chat is where the storyboard is written, not where it lives. Once it is right, put it where the client can open it and the assistant can read it back.

When Storyflow Is Not the Right Choice

Storyflow earns first place for this job, and it is still the wrong tool for some storyboards.

You need an animatic or MP4 export

Storyflow has presentation mode for walking a client through the board, but no timed animatic with audio and no MP4 export. Use Boords.

You need tracked approvals

Storyflow has comments, not approval statuses with an approve button. If your agency signs off frame by frame, Boords tracks that.

You need a free tool today

Storyflow has no free plan during early access; its Free plan launches before the end of 2026. If your budget is zero, Boords' free plan with its MCP server and Claude's Free plan is the honest start.

You need AI frames on the entry plan

AI image generation in Storyflow is on Pro ($14 a month billed annually) and Max. On Plus you get web reference frames, empty frames and your own uploads, which is plenty for many boards but not for a fully illustrated one.

You work offline or on a desktop app

Storyflow runs in a browser only, with no offline mode and no desktop or phone app. Paper thumbnails, photographed later, will serve you better on a plane or a location with no signal.

Storyboard Template You Can Paste Into Your Assistant

Use this as the column spec in your panel prompt, or ask the assistant to build it as walls on your board.

The standard panel fields

Swaps by format

If you would rather start from a ready board, the storyboard template and the AI storyboard generator start from the same structure, and script to storyboard walks through the built-in route.

The Bottom Line

ChatGPT and Claude are good at the thinking half of a storyboard: breaking a script into beats, beats into panels, and arguing for each shot. They are bad at the half where the storyboard has to look like one sequence and live somewhere a client can open. Connect Storyflow, run the three passes, let the assistant build the walls, pin your characters by name, and fill the frames on the board. If the storyboard itself is the deliverable and needs an animatic, Boords is the better home for it, and its connector means your assistant still does the first draft. For most commercials, brand films and social shoots, one board and one assistant is the whole stack. Start on the Storyflow MCP page.