Protects dramatic function, conversational flow, setup/payoff and episode handoffs.
- What changes in this beat?
- Does the next line react?
- Is the twist discovered?
How the work is reviewed
Production Roles
The original prototype personified writing, design and engineering tools as a fictional AI team. The current series documents the real responsibilities instead: one creative owner, AI-assisted production and explicit human approval.
Transparent creditsNo fictional production claimsRole-based review
Cast versus production
On-screen characters have identity, performance and voice continuity. Production roles are review lenses; they are not characters and do not receive invented biographies.
On-screen people and agents
The cast belongs in the character bible.
Sam, Gil, Jan, Marcus, Sofia, Aster and SACRED have canonical images, ages, chronology and playable voice references.
Open actors & voicesCurrent review roles
Each pass asks a different set of questions. One person or AI-assisted session may perform several roles, but the acceptance criteria remain separate.
Protects chronology, audience knowledge, character age, wardrobe and institutional memory.
- What does the viewer know?
- Which year and location?
- What crosses episodes?
Owns sets, equipment, interface eras, exposure, palette and generated-asset references.
- Is this the same room?
- Who owns the monitor?
- Does the wardrobe fit?
Owns shot variety, cuts, reaction timing, reveal holds and stable motion-plate selection.
- Where is the cut window?
- Did the plate restart?
- Can the evidence be read?
Owns role distinction, dialogue priority, score continuity, room tone and motivated effects.
- Can speakers be distinguished?
- Is music below speech?
- Does the effect have an action?
Owns the canonical clock, deterministic frames, mix assembly, decode validation and master promotion.
- Is every effect time-driven?
- Is the output 60fps?
- Was the actual MP4 inspected?
Separates documented events, sourced categories, creative inference and fictionalised incident detail.
- Is the primary source linked?
- What is inference?
- Is fictionalisation clear?
Jon makes the final story, aesthetic, voice, cost and release decisions after reviewing the finished work.
- Does it feel like the series?
- Is it worth the runtime?
- Is this the accepted master?
Assists across writing, engineering, images, motion, voices, music and analysis under scoped direction and review.
- Record the source and prompt.
- Do not invent approval.
- Preserve reproducibility.
Credit language
The public wording should be accurate without making the collaboration sound smaller or more magical than it is.
Use
“Created by Jon Leahy · Made with AI assistance.” Supporting production notes may name the models and tools used for particular tasks.
Retire
“Made by AI personas,” fictional job titles presented as real credits, or claims that an autonomous named team independently wrote, designed and engineered the series.