Laper is the all-in-one creative OS for screenwriters, directors, and production teams — Cursor meets CapCut meets Figma for filmmaking. AI screenplay editor with industry formatting, AI scene breakdowns, AI storyboards, cast management, location scouting, and budgeting. One platform for entire pre-production. ₹24L/month on TrustMRR, growing 53% MoM. Solo founder → 5-person team.
Laper's insight is that screenwriting and pre-production involve dozens of separate tools — Final Draft for scripts, Photoshop for storyboards, spreadsheets for breakdowns, Google Docs for notes, separate budgeting tools. A filmmaker switches between 6-8 apps daily. Laper collapses everything into one AI-powered workspace where the script generates the breakdown, the breakdown generates the storyboard, and the storyboard feeds the budget — all connected.
Industry-standard formatting (Courier 12pt, proper sluglines, action, dialogue) happens automatically as you type. AI auto-completes scene descriptions, suggests dialogue, and maintains character voice consistency across the entire script.
One click: the AI reads every scene and extracts cast required, props, wardrobe, VFX notes, locations, time of day, and estimated shoot duration. This is work that takes a production team 2-3 days — done in seconds.
Describe a scene in text, AI generates a visual storyboard frame — camera angle, composition, lighting mood, color palette. Directors can iterate on framing before a single camera is set up on set.
Writer, director, cinematographer, producer — all in one workspace. Comments on specific scenes, version history, locked pages for production drafts, and a shared breakdown board that updates as the script changes.
India produces over 1,800 films per year — more than any country in the world including the US. Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood, Mollywood, and dozens of regional industries all need pre-production tools. Almost none of them use specialised software — scripts are written in Google Docs, breakdowns in spreadsheets, storyboards on paper. An India-first AI filmmaking tool has a massive untapped market.
Scope to AI screenplay editor + AI scene breakdown for v1. Skip storyboard generation and budgeting for the first weekend — the editor and breakdown alone are already a complete product filmmakers will pay for.
The foundation of the screenplay editor — customised with screenplay formatting rules, Fountain syntax, and block types.
Auto-completes dialogue and action, generates scene breakdowns, and analyses character arcs.
Stores scripts, breakdowns, user accounts, and powers real-time collaborative editing.
Native Hindi typing support in dialogue blocks for Indian screenwriters.
Exports scripts in industry-standard screenplay format (Courier 12pt, correct margins).
Rs999/month and Rs2,499/month tiers. UPI-first.
Where: Vercel for the app, Supabase for database and real-time. The main cost is Gemini API tokens for auto-complete and breakdown generation — these are cheap per scene. Model the cost per breakdown before setting your price.
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