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May 22, 2026

Arc

“Your life has no plot. We fix that. Arc adds a soundtrack, a three-act structure, and a small film crew to your otherwise structureless Tuesday.”

The Problem

Narrative tension · your Tuesday · hour by hour
climax threshold
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
That lone amber spike at 2pm: you found $5 in a coat. The average adult experiences 0.3 climaxes per week and zero establishing shots. Your life is technically footage, not a film.

The Solution

A discreet earpiece and an app that score your life in real time. Arc pipes in music, cues slow-motion at meaningful junctures, and dispatches a B-roll drone when the moment calls for it.

8:42 AMARC●●●
Now filming · Scene 34
“The Commute”
♪ now scoring02:14 / 09:30
“Pensive Strings (You Forgot Your Badge)”
Tension
Rising ↗
Dramatic irony
ON
B-roll drone arriving in 3 min

The Three-Act Restructure

Our writers’ room takes the raw, plotless events of your day and arranges them into a satisfying narrative. Same events. Now they mean something.

Act I
The Ordinary World
7:00 – 9:14 AM

Our hero wakes. They do not yet know that today the dishwasher must be unloaded. Open on a slow push-in over the ceiling.

Act II
Rising Action
9:14 AM – 4:30 PM

The printer is out of toner. Stakes escalate. A mentor (IT) is summoned via ticket and is never seen again. All seems lost.

Act III
Resolution
4:30 PM – onward

You locate a pen that works. The score swells. You are, in some unspecified way, changed. Credits roll over your commute.

How It Works

You
live a beige day
Arc Cloud
logs every dull beat
Writers’ Room
adds meaning, retroactively
Composer + Crew
score · B-roll · slow-mo
You
the protagonist, finally
latency: 1 frame · fourth wall: load-bearing · reshoots: not possible

The Score Library

Every cue is licensed from our 900-track library. Tip per use. The narrator is union and bills separately.

Pensive piano — you open your laptop
$0.40· per cue
Strings swell — you reverse into a tight spot
$1.20· per cue
Ominous cello — a “quick call” is scheduled
$2.50· per cue
Triumphant brass — you find the other AirPod
$3.00· per cue
Record scratch + freeze-frame
$5.00· per cue
Narrator: “you’re probably wondering how I got here”
$4.50· per cue

Pricing

Extra
$01 scored hour/day
  • Royalty-free stock score
  • Crew is one guy with a phone
  • Plot holes not covered
Supporting
$24/mo · most popular
  • Full-day scoring
  • Live writers’ room
  • Weekly B-roll drone
  • Cliffhanger every Friday at 5pm
Lead
$199/mo · 1 seat
  • 24/7 narrative coverage
  • Dedicated composer
  • Antagonist casting (see also: Nemesis)
  • Final-season guarantee*
  • *renewal not guaranteed

TAM

Total addressable plot
8.1B people living unscored lives × $24/mo × 12 mo
= $2.33T
(excludes people whose lives already have a plot; we searched and could not find any)

The Ask

$8M seed for: 4 engineers, a writers’ room of six people recently laid off from a streaming service, one composer, and a fleet of very quiet drones.

Series A pitch:“We’re Spotify Wrapped, but it runs continuously, in real time, and you cannot turn it off.”