HIBC Beta helps writers and producers organize the AI-era project record before legal, insurance, and studio review.
Hollywood’s creative workflow changed almost overnight. The paperwork did not.
Generative AI is now part of the conversation around screenwriting, development, production, visual development and post. Some creators use it heavily. Some use it sparingly. Some do not use it at all. But regardless of where a project falls on that spectrum, a new question is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore:
Can you clearly show what happened?
That is the problem behind HIBC — Has It Been Cleared?, a new platform now entering beta at hasitbeencleared.com.
From Creative Chaos to a Project Record
A screenplay rarely exists as one neat document. There are drafts, notes, character references, location ideas, source materials, rights questions, collaborators, research, visual references and increasingly, AI tools that may or may not have played a role somewhere along the way.
HIBC is designed to bring that material into a single structured project record.
The goal is not to tell writers how to write or producers how to produce. It is to make the history of a project easier to organize, understand and present when other people eventually need to review it.
That can include attorneys evaluating rights and supporting documents, insurers looking at project risk and disclosure information, and studios or partners reviewing a package before moving forward.
The AI Question Is Bigger Than “Did You Use It?”
The timing of HIBC is intentional.
AI arrived in the creative process before most creative teams had a consistent way to document it. A simple yes-or-no question is often not enough.
If AI was used, what tool was involved? Where in the process did it appear? Was it used for brainstorming, research, development, images, rewriting or something else? What source material was involved? What should be disclosed later?
And there is another side of the same issue: what if AI was not used?
HIBC is being built around the idea that both use and non-use can become part of a project’s record. That creates a clearer trail for the people who may later need to understand how the work was developed.
A Five-Step Path Toward Presentation
The HIBC workflow is built around five practical checkpoints:
- Organize — Bring scripts, notes, characters, locations, references, rights information and source materials into one project record.
- AI Disclosure — Document AI use or non-use, along with relevant tools, prompts and source information.
- Attorney — Prepare a more organized record and supporting materials for legal review.
- Insurance — Assemble the documentation that can support conversations with insurers and E&O reviewers.
- Present — Build a polished project summary and supporting packet that can be shared with studios, partners and other decision-makers.
Each HIBC project receives its own project record ID, creating a consistent reference point as the project develops.
Not a Clearance Stamp — A Better Record
The name Has It Been Cleared? gets directly to the question creators eventually face, but HIBC is not positioning itself as a replacement for legal review, insurance underwriting or studio approval.
Instead, the platform is intended to help creators arrive at those checkpoints better prepared.
That distinction matters. HIBC organizes the information supplied by the project owner; it does not independently verify ownership, legal clearance, insurability or approval.
Think of it less as a digital rubber stamp and more as the project’s organized paper trail.
Why This Matters Now
For years, creative teams could afford to let project history live across email threads, hard drives, notes, cloud folders and individual memories.
AI makes that approach harder to defend.
When questions arise later, reconstructing the process can become a scavenger hunt. HIBC is based on a much simpler premise: build the record while the project is being built.
That can make later conversations with attorneys, insurers, production partners and studios more efficient — and give creators a clearer picture of their own project before anyone else asks for it.
HIBC Beta Is Live
The beta is now open, and the HIBC team is looking for feedback from writers, producers, filmmakers, entertainment attorneys, insurance professionals and others working around AI-assisted media.
If your first reaction is, “Why didn’t something like this already exist?” — that is exactly the gap HIBC is trying to fill.
Explore the beta at hasitbeencleared.com.
For more background on the chain-of-title problem HIBC was built to address, read Matt Allen’s earlier Medium article: “Hollywood Has a New Chain of Title Problem — HIBC Is Being Built to Solve It.”