Screenburn's Writers Room drafts an 80 episode microdrama season in hours and scores it with its own engine
The subscription costs $1,350 a month on a 12 month contract for one season a month. Its Retention Engine grades every episode out of 100, but no outside test shows the score predicts what viewers do.
Screenburn's new Writers Room drafts all 80 episodes of a microdrama season in a few hours, then hands every episode to a second piece of Screenburn software for a grade. At $1,350 a month on a 12 month contract, the question for anyone making vertical series is whether that grade is worth paying for before a single scene is shot.
The writer supplies the plan: a title, a one line summary, the characters and answers to a set of story questions. The Writers Room returns about 29,000 words of screenplay, written to rules the company says it drew from data on more than 100,000 vertical series. Its Retention Engine then scores the season out of 100 on how episode one opens, how each episode ends, how often it tells the viewer something new and how the tension builds. A score of 80 earns the company's own Screenburn Certified mark.
The subscription covers the writer plus up to five colleagues and one season a month, extra seasons cost $1,350 each, and unused seasons do not carry over. Screenburn's pricing page says every script it writes for you is yours. It also sells its own slate of 20 finished scripts, all scored between 82 and 97 by the same engine; the top score belongs to a script credited to its chief executive, Charles Kriel.
Our take: a tool that grades its own seasons is making a pitch, not offering proof. Microdrama viewers watch the first episodes free and pay for the rest, so the grade that matters is how many of them keep paying, and Screenburn has published no outside test of that. The patent behind the engine is still an application.
Sources: Broadcast, Nov 12, 2026; Screenburn pricing and scripts pages, Nov 13, 2026.
