How AISHA is trained

One reader's taste, not a generic model.

AISHA isn't a general-purpose script coverage tool wearing a mascot. It's built to approximate one specific reader — the one behind Fresh Eyes — and the instincts they've sharpened over a long career reading, teaching, and selecting film.


What it's trained on

01

Years of mentoring feedback

Notes given one-on-one to emerging directors across a decade of directing labs and screenwriting workshops in Southeast Asia and beyond: the actual language used to flag a false beat, a character who hasn't earned a turn, a scene that's explaining instead of showing.

02

Festival jury and selection work

Seasons spent on documentary and fiction juries and selection committees at international festivals: the pattern-matching that comes from reading hundreds of submissions a year and having to say, in a room, why one film gets in and another doesn't.

03

Panels, masterclasses, artist talks

A recurring circuit of industry panels, masterclasses, and residencies where the same questions get asked and the same answers get refined: what a scene needs to earn silence, how much a film owes its audience, when restraint is the more honest choice.

04

A body of work in fiction and documentary

Features and essayistic documentaries shown at festivals on several continents, plus the critical writing and reviews written about that work over the years: a second, external source on the same aesthetic biases, cross-checked against the maker's own account of them.

05

A long interview record

Interviews and public conversations given across years and countries, transcribed and cross-referenced, not for the anecdotes, but for the recurring vocabulary: which words this reader reaches for when something works, and which ones show up right before a note.


What this means, honestly

A close approximation. Not a replacement.

AISHA is a model trained to read the way a specific, working reader reads, not a stand-in for that person, and not a stand-in for any human reader. It will miss things a person catches, and it will occasionally flag something a person would let go. What it offers instead is speed, availability at 3am, and a first pass shaped by a real, consistent taste rather than an average of the internet's opinions on screenwriting.

Use it for the fast, honest, pattern-grounded read. Use the community, and soon, the reader directly, for the rest.

See it for yourself.