Showcanon

Long-running productions accumulate character history, timelines, locations, props, relationships and intentional exceptions across scripts and revisions. The supplied research confirms three Western competitors covering show bibles, knowledge graphs and continuity assistance. The market is therefore partially filled; Showcanon's proposed difference is reviewable contradiction detection while a draft is being written.

Showcanon would preserve each source script, revision, scene and extracted assertion with a source span and confidence. Script supervisors or other authorized owners would promote assertions into a versioned canon with effective episode, timeline position, scope and notes. A draft change would be compared against that approved canon and explicit continuity rules to produce candidates, not errors.

A character may lie, forget, dream, time-travel or appear in a retcon. A contradiction may be intentional, unresolved or based on an extraction mistake. Deterministic rules only enforce constraints someone authored; they do not make the underlying canon true. Model confidence cannot substitute for showrunner or script-supervisor authority. Every dismissal and override should remain available so later drafts are not repeatedly flagged without context.

Unreleased scripts, cast details and production plans are confidential intellectual property. The product needs project isolation, narrow roles, retention controls, export, deletion and explicit policy for whether customer material may improve shared models. The buyer hypothesis is a showrunner, script supervisor or production-development leader, but production size, episode count, workflow authority, budget, union or employment constraints and current competitor need validation.

A showrunner, script supervisor or production-development leader responsible for maintaining an authorized show bible and reviewing continuity.