Built for writers.
Never instead of them
Arqo is nothing without the writer. That is the whole product. A tool can make you faster and meet you in more of the moments you actually write. The moment it tries to replace the person doing the writing, it has misunderstood the work.
There is an army on the other side
Studios and their tech partners are building tools to generate scripts, cut writing staff, and remove screenwriters from development. The pitch is explicit: fewer writers on contract, shorter rooms, AI-generated first drafts that writers polish on a work-for-hire day rate rather than negotiate as series regulars. The WGA went on strike in 2023 partly because of it.
Arqo is not one of those companies. We are on the other side from them.
What Arqo does
It remembers everything you wrote — your characters, their speech patterns, the way your protagonist trails off mid-sentence. It stays in your voice across a 120-page draft when you can't. It picks up where you left off when you open a script at midnight on your phone. It holds the structure together while you write through the messy middle.
What it doesn't do
It does not generate a scene you didn't write. It does not autocomplete your dialogue into something that sounds like everyone's work and no one's voice. It does not substitute for you when you are not in the room.
The four vows
- We will never write the writer's work for them.
- We will never sell the writer's work to anyone.
- We will never tell a studio our tool replaces a writer.
- We will say what we believe in public and live with the cost.
A principle you keep internal is just a preference. A principle you say out loud — where writers and press and the WGA can read it — is a constraint on our own behavior. That is the point.
What we will not build
- No blank-page scene generation
- No “write a script from a logline”
- No auto-coverage or auto-notes that bypass the writer
- No features designed as replacements dressed as productivity tools
- Nothing sold to studios as “reduce writer headcount”
- No monetization of user-written work — no training data sales, no resale, no syndication, ever
This list is on our public site, not buried in a privacy policy. If we violate it, you can point here.
The deal
Your scripts export to Final Draft and Fountain on demand. Your data leaves with you if you do. We will never use what you wrote to build anything that competes with you. The work stays yours.
If you want a tool that writes for you, we are not it. If you want one that stays out of your way and keeps your work consistent, we are building it.