Gaurav Sharma Isn’t Using AI to Write Scripts. He’s Using It to Stop Film Projects From Falling Apart. Storyvord, applies AI to that layer rather than the creative one.
Storyvord has supported 64 film projects to date, with a specific focus on cross-border co-productions where different regulatory frameworks, cultural contexts, and operational environments make coordination particularly difficult. The platform works across pre-production — from script breakdown through scene planning — giving teams a shared system that tracks how one decision affects budgets, locations, crew, and timelines simultaneously.
The systems thinking framework behind Storyvord treats a film production not as a sequential list of tasks but as an interconnected structure. Change the location of a scene and the budget moves. Shift a filming date and crew availability changes. Adjust for a regulatory requirement in one territory and the co-production agreement may need revision. Sharma built Storyvord to make those dependencies visible before they become problems.
That approach earned him the Best AI Contribution in Films award at the Khajuraho International Film Festival 2025. The platform has also received financial support and formal recognition from the Government of India, and Sharma is developing it further in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Four international incubation programmes shaped the work along the way: Cyberport Hong Kong, HEC Paris at Station F, Startupbootcamp Netherlands, and the Block71 global network — a geographic spread that reflects the cross-border ambition of the product itself.
The direction of that ambition becomes clear in how Sharma describes what the technology should eventually feel like.
“Technology is at its best when you don’t notice it — when it fades quietly into the background and allows people to focus on what they do best,” he said. “My vision is not to make filmmakers think about artificial intelligence. It is to make them think only about their stories — while the system takes care of everything else.”
