The "Discover" Tab

Discover is a conversational search that finds film, TV, and game projects that are in motion right now — announced, in development, or in production — where the role you pitch for may still be open. You describe what you're looking for in plain language; Discover plans the searches, reads the sources, and returns leads you can add straight to your Gigs pipeline.

How a search works

Type what you're after — as specific or as loose as you like:

"indie horror features announced in the last month that don't have a composer attached"

Hit Go. You'll see the real stages as they happen: planning the searches, searching the web, reading sources. When it finishes you get a set of lead cards, each with the project's title, why it matches your ask, the logline, key people (production company, director or showrunner), and a link to the source it came from.

• + Add puts the lead into your Gigs pipeline (it lands in the Not Researched stage).
• ↗ In pipeline means you've already saved it — click to jump to it.
• × dismisses a lead from the results.

Discover is a conversation, not a one-shot search. Reply below the results to refine — "only features, no shorts", "what about video games?" — and it builds on what it already found.

What each search costs

Running a new web search costs 2 credits. Everything else is free: refining in chat, asking questions about the results, recalling saved searches. You only pay when Discover actually goes out and searches the web again.

The three search modes

The strip at the top controls where Discover looks:

• Open — searches the whole web; your sources aren't prioritized.
• Balanced (default, recommended) — blends Your Sources with a broader search.
• Targeted — searches only the sources you've saved.

Your Sources live behind the ⛭ gear next to the mode selector. Add up to 8 sites, subreddits, or handles you trust — deadline.com, r/Filmmakers, a production company's news page. There's also an Exclusions list (also up to 8): sources you never want to see, dropped from results in every mode.

Filtered results

Below the leads you'll often see collapsed rows like "N filtered out". Discover shows its work: leads it found but dropped, each with the reason — already released, role already filled, or the source was a roundup/listicle. If you disagree, + Add anyway puts it in your pipeline.

Pinned and recent searches

The 📌 button saves the current query (and the mode you ran it in) so you can re-run your best searches whenever you want. The 🕘 library holds your pinned searches plus your last 10 recent ones. Recalling a search fills the box but doesn't run it, so browsing your library never spends credits.

Why repeat searches return fewer leads

This surprises people, so it's worth saying plainly: if you search the same topic twice in one session, the second search will return few or no new leads — by design. Discover remembers what it already showed you in the conversation and suppresses duplicates, and anything already in your pipeline shows as "In pipeline" instead of a new result. It's not broken; there just isn't much new under that stone yet. Start a fresh search on a different angle, or come back in a few days when the trade press has new announcements.

One honest caveat

Discover reads real articles and press coverage, but AI can misread a source — a project may be further along than it looked, or the role may have quietly filled. Verify a lead before you build an outreach on it. The source link on every card exists exactly for that; and the Gigs tab's research tools (Find Sources, Find Contacts) are the next step once a lead earns your attention.