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Pre-production intelligence · Entertainment AI

Where great stories
meet smarter decisions

Discera is the AI intelligence layer that helps studios, streamers, and production companies greenlight with clarity — before a single dollar is spent on set.

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The Blind Spot

The industry runs on
gut feeling.
Discera changes that.

Every year, entertainment studios commit hundreds of millions of dollars to productions based on weekend reads, room chemistry, and instinct. The greenlight decision — the single most consequential capital allocation in media — has remained stubbornly analogue.

Discera inserts a precision intelligence layer into that exact moment: when a project exists only as a script, before casting, before production, before it's too late to change course.

~70%
of studio originals fail to recoup their budgets
The majority of greenlit projects don't earn back what was spent — a systemic failure rooted in the absence of data at the decision point.
$42B
in global content production spend annually
A capital-intensive industry with no standardised intelligence infrastructure for pre-production risk evaluation.
18mo
average lag before ROI failure becomes visible
By the time a project underperforms, the decision is 18+ months old — and hundreds of millions have already been committed.
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Global entertainment analytics market size (USD)
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CAGR — content intelligence sector (2024–2030)
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Addressable production companies globally
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Films in Discera's comp-title training corpus

Six intelligence modules.
One decisive advantage.

Script Intelligence Engine
Ingests raw screenplays (PDF/FDX) and outputs pacing scores, archetype mapping, dialogue sentiment, and comp-title matches against 40K+ produced films — at scene-level granularity.
Greenlight Forecast
Predicts opening-weekend revenue range, streaming retention quartile, and awards probability before casting begins. Actionable confidence intervals, not vague guidance.
Cast Chemistry Modeler
Simulates audience response to casting combinations using social graph data, historical pairing performance, and demographic affinity clusters — before talent is approached.
Territory Revenue Splitter
Projects revenue by geography — streaming vs. theatrical, SVOD vs. licensing — segmented by genre, language dub viability, and cultural resonance index per market.
Risk & Sensitivity Radar
Flags reputational risk vectors: cultural sensitivity by territory, regulatory hurdles, talent controversy exposure, and IP clearance red zones — before they become crises.
Release Window Optimizer
Recommends optimal release windows by analysing competitive slate overlap, audience seasonality patterns, and genre saturation curves in real time.

From script upload
to greenlight clarity

01
Ingest
Upload screenplay or connect to your development tracker via API
02
Analyze
LLM + proprietary models parse structure, tone, and comp signals at scene level
03
Enrich
Real-time market signals and streaming trends layered on top of script data
04
Forecast
Discera returns a Greenlight Scorecard: ROI range, audience quadrant, cast shortlist
05
Decide
Executives greenlight, pass, or request AI-guided revision briefs tied to score improvements
The Opportunity

A market ready for
intelligent disruption

The global entertainment industry generates over $2.5 trillion in revenue annually, yet the infrastructure for capital allocation decisions has not meaningfully evolved in decades. Development executives still rely on coverage notes, personal relationships, and a handful of comparable titles.

Discera targets the segment of this market where intelligence has the highest leverage: the pre-production window. Our platform serves major studios and streamers, independent production companies running 15–30 slate projects per year, literary and talent agencies looking for packaging intelligence, and film finance funds performing due diligence.

The AI-in-media market is expanding at 35% CAGR through 2030, and Discera sits at its most defensible intersection — where proprietary training data, workflow integration, and relationship-based distribution create compounding advantage.

$329M
Entertainment analytics market
Global addressable market size (USD)
35%
CAGR through 2030
Content AI & analytics sector growth rate
2,400+
Addressable buyers
Production companies globally with 10+ projects/yr
$180K
Estimated ACV per studio
Annual contract value for enterprise tier
AC
Abhik
Choudhary
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Abhik Choudhary founded Discera out of a conviction that the entertainment industry's most consequential decisions deserved the same rigour that financial markets apply to capital allocation. Growing up at the intersection of storytelling and business, he developed a deep appreciation for both the artistry of filmmaking and the structural challenges of making it commercially sustainable.

Before Discera, Abhik spent years studying how data asymmetries play out in creative industries — observing how the absence of intelligence infrastructure at the pre-production stage caused even experienced executives to make avoidable, costly missteps. He saw an opportunity to build the infrastructure that the industry was missing: a system that could honour creative ambition while giving the business side a fighting chance.

He believes the best films get made when the people behind them aren't spending the entire production afraid of the outcome. Discera exists to give studios the clarity to back the stories that matter — without the existential uncertainty that follows them through production.

Entertainment Technology
AI / Machine Learning
B2B SaaS
Creative Industries
Venture-Backed

Built for the next generation of entertainment

The best stories deserve
better decisions

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