Extremely reliable pre-production
Turn the client's brief into a production plan
with ChatGPT, on one board.
For producers at agencies and production companies: ChatGPT reads the brief and builds what is being made, who makes it, when, and what nobody has answered yet.
Creatives working for these brands already got early access
- Red Bull
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See how easy it is to get started
Watch a real project come together, from a blank board to a finished plan, clicked through step by step.
Start from a ready-made template
Pick a board to see what you can build, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.
Pre-Production
Pull the brief, script, shot list, and moodboard into one pre-production hub so the whole shoot is planned in one place.
How do I turn a client brief into a production plan?
Read the brief for four things and write each one down where the whole team can see it: what is being made, who is needed to make it, when each part happens, and what the brief leaves unanswered. Storyflow is an AI visual workspace that turns a client brief into a production plan on one infinite canvas: the deliverables, the crew, the shoot days, the budget and the open questions. Connected to Storyflow, ChatGPT reads the brief on your board and builds that plan there itself, using its own model, so it costs you no Storyflow AI credits.
Here is what ChatGPT does well without any connection. Paste a brief and it lists the deliverables the client did not count, notices that the deadline leaves nine working days for the edit, estimates a crew, and writes the ten questions you should send back before you quote. What it hands back is a long answer in a chat. The producer copies the deliverables into a sheet, the schedule into a calendar and the questions into an email, and by the kickoff call the three copies no longer agree.
Connect ChatGPT to Storyflow and ask for the plan on the job's board. If the client's brief is a PDF or a Word file on that board, ChatGPT reads it from there. Then it builds the plan one section at a time, each a column with its cards: the deliverables as a table, the crew and cast as a table, the key dates, the budget lines, and the open questions as a checklist you tick off with the client. Once there is a script or a scene list, ask for the shooting schedule and ChatGPT builds it with one column per shoot day and a strip for every scene. Ask for the shot list and every shot lands as a card.
A worked example you can copy without signing up. The brief asks for one 60-second film, three 15-second cuts and twenty photos, which is 24 deliverables, for $60,000, in six weeks. Week 1 is the treatment and casting. Week 2 is locations. Week 3 is prep. Week 4 holds the two shoot days. Weeks 5 and 6 are the edit, the colour, the sound and delivery. The crew is nine people: director, producer, camera, camera assistant, lighting, sound, styling, hair and makeup, and a runner. The budget splits into $9,000 for pre-production, $30,000 for the shoot, $15,000 for post and $6,000 held back, which adds up to $60,000.
Every production plan answers the same seven questions, whatever the job. What are we delivering, in which format, length and shape, and how many of each? Who is on the crew and for how many days? Who is in front of the camera? Where do we shoot? What happens in which week? What does each stage cost? And what has the client not told us yet? The last one matters most. A missing answer found in week one is an email. The same answer found on the shoot day is overtime.
ChatGPT has no tool to delete a card on your board, and it cannot replace a section it already built: ask for the crew again and a second column lands beside the first. It can change the words on a single card when you ask. Storyflow does not send call sheets, collect crew confirmations or track what was actually spent. A file you attach in the ChatGPT chat does not reach Storyflow, so put the brief on the board or paste it into the chat. The same connector works with Claude, Gemini and Grok.
Ultra fast from brief to board
From brief to plan in four moves.
Most of it happens the afternoon the brief lands, before you send a quote.
01
Connect ChatGPT to Storyflow once
In ChatGPT on the web, open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click the plus button, name it Storyflow, choose Public endpoint, paste https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp and create it. Sign in to Storyflow when asked and pick the job's project.
02
Put the brief on the board
Drop the client's PDF or Word file on the job's board, or paste the brief into the chat. Ask ChatGPT to read it and list what is missing first. For example: "Read the brief on the Ridgeline board and tell me what the client has not answered."
03
Ask for the plan, section by section
Ask for the deliverables, the crew, the key dates, the budget and the open questions on the board. Each one appears as a column with its cards. Read each column as it lands and correct what ChatGPT guessed.
04
Add the schedule and share the board
When the scene list exists, ask for the shooting schedule and the shot list. Then invite the crew, and send the client a view-only link to the plan and the open questions.
What is being made, who, when and what is still open.
ChatGPT reads the brief and writes the plan. Storyflow holds it where the crew and the client can see it.
The whole job
The plan as columns on one board
Each part of the plan is a column: the project, the facts, the cast and crew, the next steps. The brief stays on the same board, so anyone can check the plan against what the client asked for.
See brief to project board →
The numbers
Crew, kit and budget as tables
Ask for the crew and the budget as tables with a row per person or per line, and columns for the supplier, the cost, the due date and the status. Pick Sum for the cost column in Storyflow and the table adds it up.
See the film budget planner →
The shoot
Shot cards and a schedule by shoot day
Every shot becomes a card with a frame, tags, a tickable list of what to get, a direction note and the gear. The shooting schedule is one column per shoot day with a strip per scene, and Storyflow adds up each day's pages.
See the shot list with Claude →
Any assistant
One address for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok
Storyflow's MCP server is one web address. Add it to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok, sign in, and pick the projects each one may use. A director who prefers Claude builds the shot list on the board you planned with ChatGPT.
See how to connect your assistant →ChatGPT does the work. Your Storyflow plan does not pay for it.
ChatGPT runs on its own model, so building a production plan over the connector uses no Storyflow AI credits. A free account (today, one invited by a paid member) gets 50 actions a week from its assistant, and Plus, Pro and Max have no limit. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly). A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free.
No Storyflow AI credits spent on anything ChatGPT builds
No limit on connector actions on Plus, Pro and Max
Invite the director and the crew to the board free
The brief, the plan, the schedule and the shot list on one board
Pick which jobs ChatGPT may see, and whether it may change them
Built for people with taste
Where a production plan from a chat falls apart.
ChatGPT reads a brief well. The trouble starts when its answer has to become a plan people work from.
The translation
A long answer is not a plan
It lands where the crew works: The plan is built on the job's board as columns and tables. There is no sheet to paste into and no document to format before the director sees it.
The brief is read from the board: ChatGPT reads the client's PDF or Word file where it sits on the board. Long files come back cut short, so for a long brief, ask about one part at a time.
Deliverables nobody can misread: One 60-second film, three 15-second cuts and twenty photos become rows in one table, each with a format, a shape and a due date. The editor and the client count the same list.
Start from a shape that works: Ask ChatGPT to apply the Film Plan template to the board. It arrives with its own example, and ChatGPT rewrites those cards for your job.
The gaps
The question nobody asked until the shoot day
Open questions get their own column: Everything the brief does not say goes on a checklist: usage, music, who approves the cut, how many rounds of changes. You tick each one off with the client.
The schedule counts the days: Ask for the key dates week by week. Two shoot days in week four and delivery in week six leaves two weeks for post, and everyone can see that before they agree to it.
Shoot days built from the scene list: Give ChatGPT the scenes and it lays them out one column per shoot day. Storyflow sets each strip's colour from interior or exterior and day or night, and adds up each day's pages.
The budget is a table, not a paragraph: Four budget lines with a cost each sit in a table on the board. Pick Sum for the cost column in Storyflow, and the total follows when you change a number by hand.
The changes
The client changes the brief in week two
Change a card by asking: The film is now 45 seconds. Ask ChatGPT to change that line on the deliverables, and it edits the card that is already there.
Old and new side by side: Ask for the schedule again with three shoot days and the new one lands beside the old one. Compare them, keep one, and remove the other by hand.
Ask what changed: Ask ChatGPT what changed on the job's board this week and who changed it. It reads the board's history and tells you, card by card.
One link for the client: The client opens a view-only link in a browser without an account and reads the same plan the crew works from, open questions included.
Explore templates for your project
Every template opens as a real, editable board on the infinite canvas. Pick the closest fit and make it your own.
Pre-Production
Pull the brief, script, shot list, and moodboard into one pre-production hub so the whole shoot is planned in one place.
One app instead of five
Where Storyflow fits in a production plan made with ChatGPT.
It holds the plan ChatGPT builds from the brief. It does not send call sheets or run a union budget.
Storyflow with ChatGPT
Recommended
Plan drafted from the client's brief in one conversation
Deliverables, crew and budget as tables on your Storyflow board
Shooting schedule with one column per shoot day
Shot list as cards the crew ticks off
Brief, plan and references on one open canvas
Sends call sheets and tracks who confirmed
Budget with rates, fringes and actual spend
Day-out-of-days report
ChatGPT on its own
Plan drafted from the client's brief in one conversation
Deliverables, crew and budget as tables on your Storyflow board
Shooting schedule with one column per shoot day
Shot list as cards the crew ticks off
Brief, plan and references on one open canvas
Sends call sheets and tracks who confirmed
Budget with rates, fringes and actual spend
Day-out-of-days report
StudioBinder or Movie Magic
Plan drafted from the client's brief in one conversation
Deliverables, crew and budget as tables on your Storyflow board
Shooting schedule with one column per shoot day
Shot list as cards the crew ticks off
Brief, plan and references on one open canvas
Sends call sheets and tracks who confirmed
Budget with rates, fringes and actual spend
Day-out-of-days report
What creators are saying
Join early creators getting structured workspaces and AI that remembers their projects
“Storyflow has sped up my workflow by at least 3x, which means more flow state and more projects I can actually ship. It truly changed the way me and my team create.”
Reilin Joey
Director & YouTuber
“One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.”
Justkay
YouTuber & Freelance Filmmaker
“I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.”
George
@fernwehchronicles
Production plans with ChatGPT: questions
What producers ask before they let ChatGPT near the job.
In Storyflow, put the brief on the job's board and work through it in order: list the deliverables, name the crew, set the key dates, split the budget by stage, and write down every question the brief leaves open. Connect ChatGPT and it does that first pass for you, building each part as its own column. You correct it, then add the shooting schedule and the shot list.
Storyflow is built to do exactly this: your assistant reads the brief and builds the deliverables, the crew, the budget, the shoot days and the open questions on one board the crew and the client share. It works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. StudioBinder still sends call sheets and tracks who confirmed, and Movie Magic still produces the union budget and the day-out-of-days report.
Yes. On its own ChatGPT reads a pasted brief and writes a sound plan, as a long answer or a file you download, and you copy the parts into a sheet, a calendar and an email. Connected to Storyflow, it reads the brief on your board and builds the same plan there as columns and tables: deliverables, crew, key dates, budget and open questions.
Seven things: the deliverables with format, length and quantity; the crew and how many days each works; the cast; the locations; the schedule week by week, with the shoot days; the budget by stage; and the questions the brief leaves open. In Storyflow, ChatGPT builds each one as its own column on the job's board, with tables where rows share the same fields.
In ChatGPT on the web, open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click the plus button. Name it Storyflow, choose Public endpoint, paste https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp and create it, then sign in to Storyflow. It needs ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu, on the web. On Business and Enterprise an admin turns on Developer mode.
Yes, if the file is on your Storyflow board. ChatGPT reads PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, CSVs and text files from the board, up to 25 MB each, and long files come back cut short. A file you attach in the ChatGPT chat is read in the chat, but the file itself does not reach Storyflow.
Yes, once there is a scene list. Give ChatGPT each scene's number, heading, pages and cast, and say which scenes go on which day. In Storyflow it builds one column per shoot day with a strip for every scene. Storyflow sets the strip colours and adds up each day's pages, so the totals do not depend on ChatGPT's arithmetic.
Ask ChatGPT to change the cards that are affected, and it edits them in place on your Storyflow board. It has no tool to delete a card, and it cannot replace a whole section: ask for the schedule again and the new one is built beside the old one. Remove the old one by hand. Deleted items stay in the trash for 7 days.
No. Storyflow does not send call sheets, collect crew confirmations or track what was actually spent against the budget. The budget on the board is a table you fill in and total. For call sheets that go out by email with confirmations, and for a union budget with rates and fringes, keep a production tool such as StudioBinder or Movie Magic.
No. ChatGPT runs on its own model, so what it builds over the connector uses no Storyflow AI credits. A free Storyflow account (today, one invited by a paid member) gets 50 actions a week from its assistant, and every read and every change counts as one. The count resets every Monday (UTC). Plus, Pro and Max have no limit.
Yes. Storyflow's MCP server is one address, https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp. In Claude, add it under Customize, then Connectors; Claude's Free plan allows one custom connector. Gemini's custom apps need a personal Google account with Keep Activity on, in the US, for people 18 or over, in English. On Grok Business and Enterprise, a team admin adds it in the xAI console first. Each one builds on the same plan.
Only the ones you pick. When you sign in, Storyflow asks which projects ChatGPT may use and whether it may make changes, so one client's job is not open to a chat about another. Without changes ChatGPT can only read. Every connection ends after 30 days and ChatGPT asks you to sign in again.
No. Storyflow runs in the browser, with no native apps to install. ChatGPT connects to it from your ChatGPT account on the web with one address, and the crew opens the plan in any browser, in the office or on set.
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Deliverables, crew, shoot days, budget and open questions, built in one conversation and kept on one board.