Pearl

Your next breakthrough production is one search away. Dive into a sea of content and let our stories become your stories. Pearl grants exclusive access to our trove of over 13 million stories with AI tools that empower partners to develop and discover their next project with access to our reporters, materials and promotional power.

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Finding a pearl

Pearl was born out of a desire to give partners an easier path to discover and engage with our stories in intuitive ways. Accessed through AI-integrated tools, partners can review and select compelling narratives from our vast archive. To make this process efficient and seamless, our journalists can provide story materials—including reporter records, documents, existing audio and video—and make themselves available to provide story consultation or access to subjects.

How we’ll work with you

A Pearl partnership has three components. Some partners engage with all three, others with only one or two—but together they define how Pearl supports discovery, development, and long-term value.

Pearl Access: Your exclusive story pipeline

Partners begin by tapping into Pearl’s discovery engine loaded with a customized collection of story topics based on their needs whether they are searching for true crime narratives, feel-good films, rom coms, dramas, thrillers—or all of the above. It’s the upstream layer of the relationship, a feed of rights-ready ideas with access to reporters and subjects that fuel creative development across multiple projects.

Licensing & Options: Select your next project

When a specific story is chosen for development, partners license a fully packaged, rights-clean suite—arcs, character maps, timelines, supporting documents, and source reporting from Pearl’s 13-million-story archive. This is the creative partnership that unlocks the IP and accelerates development.

Project Completion: Sharing in success

When a story advances through production and a release, Headline Studio participates in the success of each benchmark and uses the power of Advance Local’s promotional might to help each project reach the widest audience possible, adding an invaluable layer to the partnership.