Research, verification, and SEO at source.
The research layer
most podcast workflows
leave until later.

Not while they are talking, and I will not pretend otherwise. What I do instead runs on both sides of the recording. Before you record, guest research goes through what they have already said publicly: prior interviews, published claims, who funds the evidence they cite, and where their public version and the documented record do not quite match. That becomes a question list, so you know where to ask for a citation while the mic is still on. After you record, the transcript fact-check goes through what was actually said, attributed per speaker, and flags anything unsupported before it reaches your show notes, your descriptions and your clips. It cannot un-say a sentence. It stops one loose sentence from ending up in twenty places.

Yes, that is a separate service and it runs in two steps. The review is $297 for a block of ten episodes, and you choose which ten — either pick the ones you most want working, or say the last ten. Worth thinking about before you answer: if your strongest evergreen material sits further back and your recent run is time-pegged, the last ten may be the least valuable ten you own. For each episode you get a verdict on the four things that decide whether it is findable: whether the title matches how people actually search, whether the description names the mechanisms, studies and tools discussed or is just filler, whether timestamps and chapters exist, and what search demand the episode misses. You also get the priority order, which episodes are already fine and should be left alone, and one episode fully rewritten as a worked example. Larger archives run in further blocks of ten at $197 each. Then the rewrite is $47 for each episode you decide to fix, and the review fee credits in full against it. Episodes I tell you to leave alone are not billed. Everything the review finds is stated plainly whether or not you buy the rewrite — you are paying for the hours and the craft, not for access to the findings. Two honest limits: it cannot change what is in the episodes, and indexing on edited metadata takes weeks rather than days. Back-catalogue gains compound, they do not spike.

No. THE INSIGHT SOURCE works before the transcript exists. You provide the episode topic. I deliver a research brief, verified claims, and SEO architecture before you record. Tiers 3 and 4 add post-production deliverables — those require the audio or transcript after you record.

Because every brief gets first-hand research and a human fact-check, I take on a limited number of episodes each month — you book a slot rather than drop into an anonymous queue. Once your slot opens the turnaround is fast: Tier 1 and 2 in 2–3 business days, Tier 3 in 4–7, Tier 4 in 5–9. Express turnaround — about 50% faster — is available as an add-on to jump ahead. You always know your delivery window before you commit, so a busy week never turns into a missed promise.

Because every claim in your brief gets checked, and every flag gets my eyes before it reaches you, and there's only so much of that I can do in a month without starting to skim, which is the one thing I won't do. So I take a set number of episodes and that's it, and you know when yours is coming before you sign anything.

No, it sits next to them. I don't edit, publish or post anything, your producer keeps all of that. What I take on is the research and the claim checking before you record, which is a different job from producing. Could your producer do it? Sure, given the hours, but checking a health claim properly means getting past the press release and the abstract to what the study actually measured, and even with AI doing the digging someone still has to go through every result and decide, every episode, and that time comes straight out of their editing and clips. You also get someone who isn't invested in the episode looking at it, and a written record of what was checked and what couldn't be traced, which is the part you can show anyone later. On Tier 3 I also go through what was actually said after the recording, which mostly helps your producer when they're picking what to clip.

Yes, and a lot of what I do was set up with you in mind. Claims in your episode brief get traced to a source you can look at yourself before you record, and the source tracker comes with the brief so you can check my work. It isn't clinical review though, and it isn't medical or legal advice either. You stay the authority on what you say, I tell you what a source supports and where it stops, and if something needs a clinician's or a lawyer's call I hand it back to you as that.

You share one published episode and a topic you are planning to record next. I assess the research gap, the SEO opportunity, and what pre-recording production would have changed. No commitment. No sales pitch. A direct, honest assessment of what is there and what is missing.

Yes, it's AI-assisted, and I'd rather say that up front than have you wonder about it. Honestly the whole service is built on what my custom-built AI research tools can do now, they get through the papers in a fraction of the time it would take me by hand, so I can check this much on every single episode. They don't make the calls though, I go through what they turn up before any of it reaches you, and the source tracker comes with every brief, so you can follow any claim back to where it came from yourself.

Yes. Every tier is available per episode. There is no minimum commitment. Retainer pricing is available for consistent publishers — but the first engagement can always be a single episode, and there is no obligation to continue.