Skip scenes, not stories.

You sit down to relax, maybe with your family or a friend, and a scene comes on that you weren't ready for. For some people it's deeply distressing. For others it just isn't right for that moment, their kids, a classroom, or their mental health. Right now there are only two options: push through, or turn it off. A lot of people have stopped watching certain shows entirely because of it.

Skipit gives people a third option. Viewers get a heads-up before a sensitive scene plays, and they can skip it or read a one-line summary so they still know what happened. The story stays intact.

What Skipit is

Skipit is a Chrome extension that works on Netflix, YouTube, Disney+ and Paramount+. It runs on top of the stream you already pay for. It doesn't host, copy or download anything.

Our team and our detection model find sensitive scenes ahead of time and timestamp them. When you watch, Skipit already knows where those scenes are, so it can warn you before one starts.

How it works

1. Pick what you want to be warned about from 12 categories and 53 specific triggers, like sexual assault, domestic abuse, self-harm or animal harm. Set each one to warn you or skip automatically.
2. When a flagged scene is coming up, Skipit lets you know before it plays.
3. Skip it or keep watching. If you skip, a one-line summary tells you what happened so you don't lose the plot.

Every warning shows where it came from: our detection model, viewers who marked the scene, or our own team. Viewers help build the catalog by marking scenes, and sensitive categories go to our team first.

Who it's for

Skipit is for trauma survivors, highly sensitive viewers, and families who want more control over what plays on their screen. Over time we want to reach therapists, schools and universities, and wellness programs too.

"Skipit restores choice where trauma often removes it, allowing people to engage with media on their own terms. It extends agency beyond the therapy room, supporting regulation, awareness of triggers, and meaningful tracking of progress over time."

— Jillian Hosey, LICSW, Trauma Specialist

"I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, and the work you're doing aligns closely with the needs I've seen in my clients."

— Lauren, LMFT, PTSD and Anxiety Specialist

Skipit doesn't decide what anyone should watch. It gives each person the choice.

Why it matters

About half of U.S. adults experience a traumatic event in their lifetime, and most never get a PTSD diagnosis. Content warnings today are fragmented and only cover whole titles. They tell you a film contains something, but not when.

We asked the people on our waitlist. 83% have been upset by something they watched, and 8 in 10 already work around upsetting content themselves, usually by skipping scenes by hand. Skipit does that for them at the scene level, so they can watch what they want on their own terms.

Where we are

We launched on the Chrome Web Store on August 15, 2026, with no paid marketing.

1. 144 installs since launch
2. 150 people on our waitlist
3. 29 pre-orders
4. 992 scenes timestamped across up to 48 films
5. $18,950 in non-dilutive prizes, including $10K at the Boston Globe Tech Innovation Summit
6. Nine clinicians and advocates helped shape our trigger categories
7. Patent pending on scene-level trigger detection
8. A community ratings agreement with Does the Dog Die?

Where we're going

Phase one is the Chrome extension, which is live now and building our scene dataset. Phase two is mobile and TV, so families can use Skipit wherever they watch. Phase three is licensing to streaming platforms and institutions.

Skipit is free right now. Paid plans start once our catalog reaches 500 titles, beginning at $1.99 a month.

Why a community raise

I want the people who care about this problem to be able to own a piece of it. This campaign is for people who believe everyone should get to enjoy stories on their own terms, and who want to back Skipit early.

The terms

This campaign is part of a pre-seed round of $250,000 to $1,000,000, raised on the same terms through Wefunder and directly from angel investors. It's a convertible note with a $7M pre-money valuation cap, 6% interest, no discount and a 24-month maturity. Full terms are in the investment contract.

Use of funds

Everything goes toward one milestone first: indexing 500 titles, when paid plans switch on. That means engineering, catalog indexing and detection costs, legal work including our trademark, and getting me full-time on Skipit. A full breakdown is in the use of funds section.

Join us

Backing Skipit means helping build a world where people can take back control of what they watch without giving up the stories they love. Check out the deck and demo below to see how it works.

Looking forward to building this with you!

Emily

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBR6Rypcg4