Every time a creator submits content, or a post goes live, 1stCollab's review tools read your Creative Brief and the submission, then draft the review for you: a recommended decision plus ready-to-send feedback.
You stay in control the whole time. The tools do the first pass so you never start from a blank page, and nothing reaches the creator, and nothing is marked verified on a live post, until you send or confirm it yourself.
Before drafting anything, the tools read your full Creative Brief (both your Creative Guidance and your Submission Requirements), the submission itself, any previous rounds and the feedback you already sent, your recent chat with the creator, and any explanation the creator has given for a flagged item. If any of that changes, for example the creator resubmits or you edit the brief, the draft updates to match.
Script Review Tool
The Script Review Tool reviews a creator's concept or script before they film, so problems get caught while they are still easy to fix.
When you open the review, you will see a recommended decision, either Approve or Request a Revision, along with a short list of feedback point cards sorted by importance:
Recommended cards are clear issues against your brief. They are checked by default because the tool is confident you will want to send them.
Needs review cards are things the tool could not fully verify on its own and wants your eyes on. They start unchecked.
Suggested cards are softer, optional improvements. They also start unchecked.
Dismissed cards are points the tool decided not to raise. You can expand this group to see what it set aside and why, for example that the creator explained it, or that it is not relevant at this stage, and re-add any of them if you disagree.
Each card shows the exact wording the creator will receive, so there is no hidden rewrite between what you see and what you send. Keep the cards you agree with, uncheck the ones you do not care about, edit any wording, or add your own point in your own words. Approve is only available when you are sending no feedback. The moment you keep a point or write a note, the action becomes Request a revision. Nothing sends until you send it.
If the creator explained or pushed back on a flagged item:
You will see their case in a "What the creator said" panel before your feedback box, with the category, their reason, and the tool's own finding side by side. An explanation does not clear the flag. It stays flagged and the decision stays yours.
When a creator resubmits their script:
The review tool checks whether your earlier feedback was addressed and whether the new version introduced a new problem. It will not invent a fresh round of nitpicks it could have raised the first time, though a true must-have or a genuinely new issue is always fair game.
Creator-facing checks:
Creators get their own check before they ever submit to you. Anything tied to a Submission Requirement that fails is shown to them under "Before you can submit" and blocks their submit button, while optional Creative Guidance shows up only as "Suggestions" that never block submission.
Creators do not see predicted feedback on your creative direction, so submissions arrive cleaner without a creator being able to game an AI preview. Anything that still fails is either fixed or sent to you as a flagged item with the creator's explanation attached.
Draft Review Tool
The Draft Review Tool reviews the video draft itself, before it goes live.
It works the same way as the Script Review Tool, recommended decision, point cards, a "What the creator said" panel, nothing sent until you send it, but it reads more than text.
For a video, the tool both reads the caption and watches the video itself, then reconciles the two so its draft never contradicts what you will see on the checklist. It also learns from your brand's recent review decisions, your tone, how long your notes usually run, and how often you actually approve versus request changes, so drafts come out sounding like you.
Pinned comments and video timestamps
On a video draft, you can attach feedback to an exact moment instead of only writing an overall note:
Pause the video on the exact frame you want to comment on. Pausing just parks the marker, it never creates a comment on its own.
Type your note and click Pin, or press Enter.
To comment on the whole video instead of one frame, toggle the timestamp off before pinning.
Every timestamped comment shows a clickable time badge that jumps the player to that moment, and the player shows a row of markers under the video so you and the creator can both see at a glance where the notes land. The creator sees the same seekable timestamps on their revision request. The tool may also suggest its own timestamped comments on a video it watched. Keep, edit, or delete them like any pin you added yourself.
Each pinned comment becomes something the creator has to respond to when they resubmit. On the next version, the tool re-checks whether each comment was addressed. If it cannot confirm one was handled, the creator has to either fix it or write a reason before they can resubmit, so your specific asks do not quietly get skipped.
Live Verification Tool
The Live Verification Tool checks a published post against your Live Requirements, and gives the creator a chance to confirm anything it could not verify on its own. You always get the final review.
The tool reads the public post itself (caption, title, description, bio, comments, and the video where available) and returns a pass, a fail, or a needs confirmation for each rule in your Live Requirements. A rule that does not apply to a given post or platform is simply left off, not shown as a failure.
Creator attestations
For anything the automated check could not confirm on its own, the creator completes a short confirmation step:
Needs confirmation items ask the creator for the evidence you asked for, a screenshot, a link, or a written confirmation. That evidence is the confirmation.
Failed items ask the creator to either fix the post or file a reason, the same as a flagged item at the draft stage. A reason does not clear the flag, it comes to you.
When a creator backs up a needs confirmation item with a screenshot or link, an automated check quietly verifies whether the evidence actually shows the requirement is met. It can only mark something verified, it can never turn a pass into a fail. Anything it cannot confirm needs to be confirmed by you.
You see the live checklist with its verdicts, plus a "What the creator said" rollup of the creator's confirmations and evidence. The checklist always reflects the current live post, so if the creator fixes something and it now passes, it moves out of your attention list on its own.