Catch the weak draft before your client does
You write for other people's channels, so "I think this reads well" is not a defensible answer. Run the script through a quality gate first, fix the highest-risk passages, then send it for review.
The Challenges You Face
Review common script risks for this format
The client review finds the hook problem
When a client is the first person to say "the opening drags", the revision is on your time and the credibility cost is yours. A pre-review pass moves that finding earlier, where it costs a paragraph instead of a relationship.
Every channel has different rules
A finance client cannot use the phrasing a gaming client can. Switching voice between drafts is where writers introduce pacing habits from the wrong channel, and it is invisible when you have read your own draft five times.
Policy risk lands on the client, and then on you
A script that touches medical, financial or sensitive subject matter can cost the client monetisation on a video you delivered. Reading the draft against YouTube's published guidelines before delivery is cheaper than the conversation afterwards.
How PrePublish Helps
Features designed with agencies and freelance scriptwriters in mind
A gate you run before delivery
Paste the finished draft, get hook, structure and pacing scores, the passages most likely to lose attention, and a copy-paste rewrite for each flagged passage. The first check needs no account.
Policy pre-flight on the same pass
The check also reports which YouTube policy categories the script may touch and links the official page for each. It is a risk read against published guidelines, not a monetisation decision.
Output you can paste into your own delivery note
The flagged passages and their rewrites are text. Paste them into whatever document you already send clients. There is no client-facing portal here, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
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Script Review Checks for Agencies and Freelance Scriptwriters
Script QA and client approval are two different jobs, and trying to buy them as one product is why agency tooling gets expensive. Approval is a document problem: comments against exact passages, suggested edits, version history, a clear sign-off. Your document tool already does that well, and PrePublish does not attempt it. What PrePublish does is the pass before that document goes out, so the draft your client reads has already survived a hook, structure, pacing and policy read. The four steps below are the whole practice. They are manual on purpose: no integration to configure, nothing for a client to log into, and nothing that breaks when your client changes their process.
Step one: writer finishes the draft, then runs the check
The writer who wrote it runs the check on their own draft before anyone else reads it. That ordering matters: a flagged passage is cheap to accept when nobody has seen it yet and expensive to accept after a client has commented on the same paragraph for a different reason.
Step two: fix the highest-risk passages only
The check names one improvement as the priority fix and returns the exact current text with a rewrite. Take that one plus anything in the first thirty seconds. Do not rewrite the whole draft to raise a score; the score is a comparison inside your own draft, not a target to farm.
Step three: send the document for approval as you always have
Comments, suggested edits, version history and sign-off stay in your document tool. Nothing about this practice asks your client to learn a new surface, and nothing here needs their email address.
Step four: calibrate against the client's own retention graphs
Before you trust the tool on new work, run a few of that client's older scripts through it and compare the warnings against what YouTube Studio actually shows for those videos. Where they agree, you have a signal worth acting on. Where they disagree, you have learned something specific about that channel that no score can tell you.
How It Works
Paste Your Script
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AI maps script-level attention risks and identifies weak points
Improve & Publish
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can several writers work under one account?
There are no team seats and no shared workspace today. A Creator plan is one account at $19 a month or $200 a year, and each writer would need their own. If a multi-seat arrangement is what you need, use the contact page and say so plainly, because the honest answer is that it does not exist as a self-service product and a contact conversation is the only route.
Does it handle client feedback and approvals?
No. Comments against exact passages, suggested edits, version history and sign-off are document-collaboration features, and tools like Google Docs already do them properly. PrePublish deliberately stops at the quality gate before the document goes out. Anything on this page that sounded like an approval workflow would be a promise we do not keep.
Is there agency pricing?
Nothing is published. The self-service option is the Creator plan at $19 a month or $200 a year, and the contact page exists for anything beyond that. We would rather say "ask us" than invent a tier we have not built.
Can I show the audit to a client?
Yes, the output is text you own: the flagged passages, the rewrites and the reasoning. Paste them into your own delivery note if it helps justify a revision. What you should not do is present the scores as a prediction of how the published video will retain viewers, because they are not that and the report says so.
Does it work on scripts written by someone else?
Yes. The check reads a finished draft, which is exactly the agency case: a writer hands you a script and you want to know where it is weak before you approve it. It does not need the channel history, the client's account or anything from YouTube. Paste the text and it reads the text.
What does it not check?
Script text only. Delivery, editing, thumbnail, music, footage, topic choice and distribution are all outside it, and several policy categories are decided mostly by footage rather than words. It also does not verify whether a claim in the script is true: a sentence is flagged for how it is phrased, not for whether the underlying fact is correct.
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