Hi, early birds, welcome! Please settle in while we work on a few things. The site is live but we have not yet launched. It's just me working on everything here. Preparing to open fully soon. Expect a few more people to trickle in before we fully engage. This is a real community we hope to build on at Skool. I'm working on a film that is about to premiere soon, so half my efforts are there now. A lot of myself is invested in Fresh-00, and I'm excited to meet you all soon.

New here? This is the one post that ties everything together. Read this first, then go wherever you need. 1. Understand the concept 2. See "Welcome to Fresh Eyes" in this category: what this is, why it's cold, why it might sting, and why that's the point. 3. See what a read actually looks like 4. Sample Notes (coming soon), a few real teardowns so you know exactly what you're signing up for before you submit. 5. Know how submissions get picked 6. See "Fresh Eyes, Submission Guidelines" in this category: the eligibility checklist, what I'm actually looking for, and the one random slot every cycle. 7. Know the mechanics 8. See "How to Submit" in this category: format, deadlines, where to post, what happens if you're not picked. 9. Know how to behave here 10. See "Community Guidelines" in this category: the one rule that matters most, only I give teardown-style notes. Everyone else keeps it constructive. 11. See what's available beyond the free tier 12. See "Membership Tiers & Pricing" in this category: what's live now (including the Founding Cohort), what's coming soon, and what's just a waitlist for right now. That's it. Read those posts, in that order, and you'll know everything you need before you submit a single page.

Fifty spots. $19/month, locked for as long as you stay subscribed. Everyone after the fifty gets $29/month. That's it, that's the offer. Guaranteed queue placement every cycle, early access to featured picks, a higher AISHA cap, a Founding Member badge, and a permanent spot on the founding members list. No bonus toward stuff that isn't built yet. No upsell sequence. Just an early rate that never goes up while you're here. Submitting your pages for a shot at a featured read is still free, always will be. This is for the people who want in on the guaranteed lane now. Spots are limited. Link in Membership Tiers & Pricing, or comment below and I'll send it your way.

Here's the full picture of what this community offers, now and coming soon. FOUNDING COHORT: 50 spots, closes when they're gone Fifty people get in at $19/mo. Everyone after that pays $29/mo. No catch, no upsell sequence, just an early-member rate that never goes up, for as long as you stay subscribed. (Cancel and come back later, and you rejoin at whatever the standard rate is then, not $19, that's the one condition on the lock.) Everything in Priority Read, plus a Founding Member badge on Skool and a permanent spot on the founding members list. No bonus credit toward anything not live yet (Inner Circle, 1:1 Coverage, Consultancy, Ebook, Course). Cost: $19/month, locked for as long as you're subscribed. Free, Fresh Eyes Community Submit your logline + first 10 pages each cycle. Chance to be featured for a full public breakdown. One random draw slot every cycle, everyone's got a real shot. Full archive of past breakdowns. Free, instant AISHA reads (rate-capped per hour). Cost: Free This is where it starts. Read the guidelines, submit, watch how the notes work. No credit card, no catch. Tier 1, Priority Read (available now, $19/mo while Founding Cohort spots remain) Everything in Free, plus guaranteed queue placement every cycle, early access to the featured picks before they're posted publicly, and a higher hourly cap on AISHA reads. Cost: $29/month (or $19/month locked-in as a Founding Cohort member, while spots last) Tier 2, Inner Circle (coming soon) Everything in Tier 1, plus a monthly live group note session, one written note included per month outside the public cycle, priority everything. Cost: $99/month, opening soon. Drop a comment below and I'll notify the list first, before it's announced publicly. 1:1 Paid Coverage (coming soon) Full written notes on your complete script, not just 10 pages. Same cold-read philosophy, same directness, applied to the whole thing. Cost: $150 for shorts/pilots, $250 for features, opening soon. Consultancy Call (coming soon)

This community runs on one rule that matters more than the rest: only I give teardown-style notes. That's not ego, it's structure. The whole model works because there's one cold, distant read, from one person, with nothing to gain either way. The second other members start piling on with their own "brutal honesty," this turns into a mob, and nobody's pages are safe to post here. So here's how it actually works. On my notes When I break down a submission, that read is mine to give. It'll be direct. It might sting. It's not personal, and it's not up for debate in the moment, the whole value is a fresh, undiluted read, not a negotiation. On your comments When you're commenting on someone else's featured breakdown: stick to what's useful, a genuine reaction, a question, a related observation. No dogpiling. If I already said the dialogue felt flat, you don't need to say it four more times. No "well actually the story is secretly great" arguments. This isn't about defending the writer or attacking my notes, it's about learning from the process. If it's not your pages being discussed, it's not your fight. On receiving notes If you're the one who got featured: you don't have to agree with anything I said, you don't even have to respond. What you don't get to do is explain your intentions after the fact to relitigate the read. The read already happened. That's the deal you signed up for when you submitted. Take what's useful, leave what isn't. That's true of any notes, from anyone, ever. General conduct No harassment, pile-ons, or personal attacks, on me, on featured writers, on anyone. Feedback on someone's pages is fair game. Feedback on someone as a person is not. Self-promo, unrelated pitching, or recruiting people to other services: keep it out of this space. Repeated violations get a warning, then a removal. I'd rather have a smaller room that's safe to submit real work into than a big one that isn't. Why this matters The entire premise of Fresh Eyes is that you can trust the read because it's fair, cold, and consistent. That trust is the product. Guard it like it's the only thing keeping this place worth showing up to, because it is.