Author    Founder    Speaker

N.D.
Zerman

Author · The Hollywood Chronicles of a Female Tech Founder
Founder · ScriptBook · DeepStory AI · Building Mindful AI

Building AI at the crossroads of technology and storytelling for over a decade. Two companies founded. One unfiltered memoir. Now speaking the truth about power, disruption, and what Hollywood never tells women founders.

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CNN Variety The Guardian Vogue CNBC The Times TechCrunch
N.D. Zerman — Author, AI Founder and Keynote Speaker

N.D. Zerman

Author · AI Founder · Belgium

About

Disrupting the systems that run on silence

N.D. Zerman is the founder of ScriptBook — the first AI company to predict box office success from a screenplay alone — and DeepStory AI, a proprietary story generation platform she built before the GPT era.

Over seven years, she built her technology inside Hollywood: shuttling between studio backlots and venture capital boardrooms, navigating an industry that welcomes disruption only when it protects existing power.

Her work has been featured in CNN, The Times, Vogue, CNBC, Variety, The Guardian, and TechCrunch. She speaks at AI, film, and leadership events worldwide.

"In both Hollywood and venture capital, funding flows not to what works — but to who controls the narrative."

— from The Hollywood Chronicles of a Female Tech Founder
7
Years building ScriptBook
2
AI companies founded
86%
Box office prediction accuracy
1
Memoir. Unfiltered.

Background

From Engineering & Applied Economics to Hollywood AI

With a background in Engineering & Applied Economics, N.D. Zerman set out to build what Hollywood had never seen: a machine that could read a script and predict its future — before the GPT era.

ScriptBook's patented technology — now registered in both the EU and US — has analysed thousands of scripts. DeepStory AI followed: a proprietary story generation platform built before the world knew what GPT was.

She lives in Belgium, where she devotes her time to building mindful AI for the betterment of humanity — and writing about the systems that make that necessary.

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The Book

The Hollywood Chronicles of a Female Tech Founder

This is not a startup success story.

An unfiltered memoir about building ScriptBook AI over seven years inside an industry that sells dreams and punishes disruption. Hollywood doesn't fear technology — it fears exposure.

Shuttling between venture capital boardrooms and studio backlots, N.D. Zerman pulls back the curtain on two parallel ecosystems built on the same rules: backstabbing disguised as networking, exclusion justified as instinct, and a ruthless hierarchy that rewards loyalty over truth.

For a woman founder, the margin for survival is narrow: conform, diminish, or disappear. This is the story of a third path.

Published
March 2026
ISBN
9789083667201
Format
Hardcover · Kindle
Genre
Memoir · Business

Speaking

Talks that challenge what the industry pretends to know

Available for keynotes, panels, and fireside chats at AI, film, leadership, and women-in-tech events worldwide.

01
AI & the Future of Hollywood

How artificial intelligence is reshaping script development, box office forecasting, and the gatekeepers who control which stories get told — and which never will.

02
Mindful AI — Technology with Conscience

What it means to build AI responsibly in an era of hype, and why the ethics conversation in entertainment is a decade behind where it needs to be.

03
Women Founders & the Power of Disruption

The unwritten rules governing who gets funded, who gets heard, who gets credited — and how to build a company that matters anyway.

04
When Data Meets Storytelling

Seven years of machine learning applied to human creativity — and what the data reveals about bias, taste, and the stories we choose to fund.

Past & upcoming events

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Press

Coverage & recognition

TechCrunch

"Machine learning algorithms capable of automatically reading and analyzing a script — and generating financial forecasts from nothing but words."

CNN

"A thought leader at the intersection of AI and entertainment — shaping how the industry thinks about the future of storytelling."

Variety

"One of the most serious attempts to bring data science to the art of greenlight decisions in Hollywood."

Vogue

"The female founders rewriting the rules of tech — and refusing to disappear when the industry pushes back."

The Guardian

"An entrepreneur who has navigated both Hollywood and Silicon Valley — with the scars, and the clarity, to prove it."

CNBC

"Pioneering the use of AI in entertainment finance, challenging decades of gut-feel decision making in film."

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