From the Founder
Every great story deserves a screen. Most never get one. We're fixing the math.
Narrathon is a community-powered platform where untapped narrative IP becomes vertical drama series at near-zero production cost. Writers post the work no studio has touched. Generative AI artists adapt it. Audiences decide which adaptation wins. Everyone shares the upside.
The vertical drama category is a fourteen billion dollar market growing toward forty by 2030. The top three platforms run staffed writers' rooms churning out trope velocity. They cannot, by their own economics, touch the world's largest body of unproduced premium narrative.
That corpus, self-published novels, Black-List screenplays, longform journalism, Wattpad fiction, sits dormant because licensing it one-by-one at studio rates never penciled. Narrathon's legal architecture and community production model make it accessible at a fraction of the cost.
If you have stories no one has produced, the skill to bring them to life, or the appetite to watch them, you belong here.
Novelists, screenwriters, journalists. Post the work that got passed on. Keep your rights. Earn when it becomes a series.
Submit a story → No. 02 — ProductionClaim a story from the board. Adapt it into a vertical series. Compete for the monthly Winner's Purse. Build a reel that actually pays.
Apply to adapt → No. 03 — DemandFifteen minutes free, then unlock the episode. Vote with your watch time. Pick the adaptation that wins.
Request early access →Story goes to the bulletin board with clean, non-exclusive terms drafted by our Yorn Levine partners.
One IP, many interpretations. Each artist builds their adaptation. Multiple takes ship in parallel.
First fifteen minutes are free. Then viewers pay per episode or subscribe. Watch time and upvotes set the leaderboard.
Every month, the top adaptation earns a cash prize. Split between the IP owner and the winning artist.
We are quietly seeding the first wave of writers, artists, and viewers before public launch. Whether you have a story, a craft, an audience, or capital, we want to hear from you.