How Quilty Is Opening Hollywood's Gates ft. Simon Horsman & Daniel Wood, Quilty.app

Cortney Harding steps in as guest co-host this week, joining Charlie to unpack a genuinely strong Meta Connect, new occluded VR glasses aimed squarely at the Vision Pro, a camera-free Ray-Ban, and Muse AI's surprise climb to the top of the app stores. From there, the conversation turns to Disney's newly created CTO role, the quiet fate of its big-money bets on Epic Games and Sora, and Jeffrey Katzenberg's open letter arguing entertainment has always been a technology business. They close out the news with a sharp exchange on Amazon's push into drone delivery and a pointed critique of DraftKings' use of AI to target its most engaged, and most vulnerable, customers.

Simon Horsman and Daniel Wood, co-founders of Quilty.app, join to talk about building an AI-powered script coverage tool for screenwriters who have no access to Hollywood's traditional gatekeepers. The two walk through how Quilty scores a script the way a studio story analyst would, the leaderboard system built to surface strong writing, and a striking real-world comparison Simon shares from his years running a film fund: a big-budget historical epic north of $220 million versus a hybrid AI production covering similar ground for under a million dollars. The conversation closes with how Quilty is trying to connect writers directly to producers in a system that's traditionally shut most people out.

Key Moments:

[01:35] A confident, glitch-free Meta Connect and what it signals

[11:35] Disney creates a company-wide CTO role, hired from Character AI

[13:35] The quiet status of Disney's Epic Games and Sora deals

[15:35] Jeffrey Katzenberg's open letter on tech and entertainment

[19:35] The backlash brewing over Amazon's drone delivery push

[21:35] DraftKings, AI, and the ethics of targeting engaged gamblers

[24:35] Simon Horsman and Daniel Wood join to introduce Quilty.app

[30:35] A real budget comparison: $220M studio epic vs. under $1M hybrid AI film

[34:35] How Quilty scores scripts and connects writers to producers