Commands

You work with Marketing Podcast in the app, on the Podcast page of the Marketing area. When Slack is set up for the agent, finished show notes are also posted there as a card. Audio is attached in the app, and Slack has no way to upload it.

Create an Episode

On the Podcast page, choose New Episode. The form asks for:

• Episode Topic: one sentence about what the episode covers. Required.
• Brand: which brand voice to write in. Leave it blank for your default brand.
• Season and Episode Number: optional, for organizing.
• Guest Name and Guest Background: leave blank for a solo episode. The background helps the planner write specific talking points.
• Audience: the listener segment the episode speaks to.
• Run the Planner Now: leave it on for the usual flow, or turn it off to create the record and plan later.

Choose Create Episode. The episode plan appears with segments, talking points, a call to action, and a rationale. Use Regenerate Plan on the episode for a fresh version.

Attach Audio

On the episode, under Audio, enter either a Local Path to the file or a Remote URL, then choose Attach Audio. Extracting a clip's audio later needs the local path, so use that when you want clip files.

Run the Transcript

Choose Transcribe. It needs attached audio. When it finishes, the transcript is available under View Transcript, with speaker labels and timestamps.

Suggest Clips

Choose Suggest Clips. It needs a transcript. Each suggestion shows its time window, hook, quote, speaker, and suggested caption. Per clip you can:

• Extract Audio to make an audio file for that window from the local audio file.
• Promote to Social to create a Marketing Social draft from the clip's caption. It is available once the audio is extracted.

Write Show Notes

Choose Write Show Notes. It needs a transcript. The summary, chapters, quotes, and social captions appear. Click the summary to edit it; it saves when you click away. When Slack is set up, the card is posted at this point.

Approve, Reject, and Publish

• Approve needs show notes. When Brand checking is on, the summary and captions are checked first. If a check blocks the episode and Brand checking is not Off, Approve Anyway lets someone with permission to approve exceptions override it with a written reason, which is recorded in the audit log.
• Reject closes the episode.
• Publish needs an approved episode. Enter the Public Episode URL and the RSS Feed URL, then choose Publish. It records the two addresses. It does not upload the episode to a host.

The Podcast page lists episodes by stage: In Review, Approved Awaiting Publish, and Recently Published. In Review rows have Approve, Edit, and Reject, and a menu with Regenerate Plan and Generate Show Notes.

Approval Buttons

When Slack is set up for the agent, a card is posted once show notes are written. It shows the topic, the state of the plan, transcript, and notes, the summary, up to six chapters, and the social captions. The buttons are:

• Approve: the same as Approve in the app.
• Publish: asks you to confirm and then for the Public Episode URL and RSS Feed URL. Despite what the confirmation says, it records the addresses and does not publish to a podcast host.
• Reject: asks you to confirm and lets you add a reason.
• Edit notes (in the more menu): a form for the summary only. Chapters and quotes are edited in the app.
• Regenerate notes (in the more menu): writes the show notes again.

There is no Slack command for starting an episode, planning, or processing audio. The same episode is in your Work Queue, where you can Approve or Reject it.