Story Consistency Check

The Story Consistency Check is the last step before you start writing the screenplay. It is an AI pass that reads everything you have planned for the episode so far and produces a single report flagging problems while they are still cheap to fix.

It is deliberately different from the steps before it. In the Story Structure Lock step you author your story — the objective, the core conflict, the arc, what carries over from the last episode, and the hook into the next one. Those are creative decisions only you can make. The Story Consistency Check does the opposite job: it verifies. Rather than asking you to fill in another field, it gives you a button that runs the AI and hands back a report you read.

What it checks

The check cross-references the whole picture you have built up to this point — the project's premise and world, your series arcs and timeline, the full cast, locations, and props with their established details, the previous episode, and this episode's objective, conflict, beats, outline, arc, and carry-over notes. From all of that it looks for:

• Continuity with the previous episode — unresolved threads, where characters were left emotionally, and world changes that should carry over (or a deliberate reset).
• Consistency with series canon — anything that contradicts established character backstory and traits, your world's rules, the state of a running arc, or earlier events on the timeline. It distinguishes a deliberate extension of canon (fine — it just notes it) from a contradiction (it flags it with the established fact it breaks).
• Arc alignment — whether this episode's contribution fits where each relevant arc is in its progression, both before and after this episode.
• Internal coherence — whether the objective, conflict, beats, outline, arc, and setup-for-next all hang together and reinforce each other.
• Setup and payoff gaps — elements introduced with no payoff, or payoffs with no setup, worth resolving before you write.

It does not expect a screenplay, dialogue, shots, or any finished visuals yet — those come later, so their absence is never reported as a problem.

How to use it

Open the Story Consistency Check from the episode pipeline and press Generate. The report streams in as the AI works and is saved with the episode, so you can come back to it later. Read it, fix anything important while changes are still cheap, and Regenerate after you make edits so the report reflects your latest plan.

This check runs against your plan, not your script. There is a separate, later review of the screenplay itself (Screenplay AI Review) once the pages exist — the two look at different stages and ask different questions.