Broadcast-ready documentary exposés, formatted for the editor you’re pitching.
Commissioning editorial expertise, encoded in 98 format profiles.
98 broadcasters. 10,000 competing producers. But you have an unfair advantage.The pitch your commissioning editor actually wants to read — written against BBC, PBS, ARTE, Netflix and 94 more.
Exposé · BBC Storyville
The Last Signal
In a cabin above the Arctic Circle, radio operator Eirik Halvorsen [confirmed] listens for a transmission that has been repeating for forty years — and no one knows who is sending it [to verify].
A 90-minute observational documentary for BBC Storyville, built around one protagonist, two verified scientific sources, and a landscape that does the dramaturgy for you.
Formatted for the desks of:
98 broadcaster profiles
Each encodes the tone, structure, and editorial expectations of a specific commissioning desk — not what the broadcaster says on its website, but how it actually reads submissions.
How it works
Three beats between a topic and a broadcast-ready exposé.
Pick your target. Ninety-eight broadcaster format profiles. BBC Storyville, PBS Independent Lens, ZDF 37 Grad, NHK, and 94 more. Or go format-free and get slot recommendations at the end.
Describe your topic. Your film idea, angle, and any existing access. One paragraph is enough. If the topic is too thin, the coach tells you before you spend twelve minutes on it.
Read the exposé.Ten specialized stages research, develop, verify, and write a format-compliant exposé in about twelve minutes. Researched and fact-checked, with source citations. Export as PDF or DOCX.
Not a writing tool. A production workflow.
Commissioning editorial judgment, encoded into ninety-eight broadcaster format profiles and enforced by ten specialized pipeline stages.
The Format Knowledge Base is real commissioning editorial knowledge, not generic AI training data. Each of the ninety-eight profiles carries the tone, structure, length, and what-doesn't-fit that a commissioning desk actually expects.
Every claim the pipeline produces is tagged [CONFIRMED], [PROBABLE], or [TO VERIFY]. Two-source rule enforced. No invented people, dates, or quotes. The pipeline refuses to guess.
In format-bound mode, every agent works within the broadcaster's editorial guidelines. Your exposé reads like what the commissioning desk expects — not what a generic template produces.
The pipeline delivers research, structure, and a format-compliant first draft. What stays with you: the creative vision, the access, the final call. Three days you would have spent on research, compressed into twelve minutes.
- Catalog
- 98 profiles
- Pipeline
- 10 stages
- Rule
- 2 sources / claim
- Format
- Broadcaster-bound
- Authorship
- Yours
- Soon
- Mood-board graphics
- Soon
- Prep-for-Editor
- Soon
- Virtual Editors Round
Your first exposé is free.
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See what gets produced
Same idea, three desks, three different documents. Read full exposés for BBC Storyville, Channel 4, DR Dokumania, PBS, and France 5 — with Critic-score breakdowns.
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Score your pitch in 60 seconds
Paste your text, get a 6-dimension Critic score and three specific fixes. No account needed. Same Critic the production pipeline uses.
Pricing
Priced against a freelance researcher
Solo from €149/month. Producer €990. Studio unlimited. Free tier: two exposés, no card. 30-day money-back.
Questions
Things producers ask before they sign up.
What is The Pitch Doctor?
The Pitch Doctor is an AI-powered exposé generator for documentary producers. It takes a topic idea and runs it through a 10-stage pipeline (Planner, Researcher, Fact-Checker, Story-Finder, Protagonist-Finder, Plausibility-Checker, Expert-Scout, Dramaturg, Composer, Critic) to produce a broadcast-ready pitch document in approximately 12 minutes.
How many broadcaster formats does The Pitch Doctor support?
The Pitch Doctor includes 98 international broadcaster format profiles covering BBC, PBS, ARTE, Netflix, ZDF, HBO, NatGeo, Discovery, CNN, ESPN, and 88 more. Each profile contains the broadcaster’s exact editorial expectations: tone, structure, length, target audience, and what they explicitly do not want.
How does the anti-hallucination system work?
Every claim in the exposé is tagged as [CONFIRMED] (cross-referenced against at least two independent sources), [PROBABLE] (supported but not independently verified), or [TO VERIFY] (couldn’t be grounded strongly enough — do your own check). The Fact-Checker agent runs before the Story-Finder to prevent narratives built on unverified research. The 2-source rule is strict: a single source is never enough to reach [CONFIRMED].
What is the difference between Free and Format-Bound mode?
In Free mode, The Pitch Doctor writes an open exposé and recommends suitable broadcasters at the end. In Format-Bound mode, you select a specific broadcaster (e.g., BBC Storyville, ZDF 37 Grad, PBS Frontline) and the Format Knowledge Base profile is injected into every agent, ensuring the output matches that broadcaster’s exact editorial expectations.
How much does The Pitch Doctor cost?
Free: €0 for 1 lifetime exposé. Single Credit: €49 one-time for one more pitch. Solo: €179/month for 3 exposés (€149/month in the open beta, 6-month lock) — designed for producers pitching without a researcher. Producer: €990/month for 10 exposés. Studio: €1,990/month for unlimited exposés. Or buy a Pitch-Pack one-time: €149 for one exposé, €499 for five, 90-day expiry. For comparison, a freelance researcher costs approximately €960 for 3 days on a single pitch — Producer ships 10 format-compliant exposés for roughly the same price.
What language does The Pitch Doctor output in?
The Pitch Doctor runs a full native pipeline in both German and English — not a translation. All 98 broadcaster profiles exist in both languages, and every pipeline stage has native prompts in each. DACH visitors default to German, everyone else to English. Beta members default to English regardless of region. Override in Account → Preferences at any time. French is on the roadmap for a later release.