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AI Guest Researcher

Research a podcast guest and create a concise briefing with background, work, recent activity, and talking points.

Produces the briefing a host would write if they had two spare days: who the guest is, what they have built, what they have said recently, and what is worth asking that nobody else has. It reads the interviews, the writing and the coverage, and cites where each fact came from.

What a v1 does5 features
  • A one-page brief with background, current work and recent activity
  • Every claim linked to its source
  • What they have already been asked, so the obvious can be skipped
  • Contradictions and changes of position worth exploring
  • Export to notes or a teleprompter before recording

The market

New categoryInterview and guest research
No one sells this yet

Interviewers prepare in documents today. Descript sells production tooling and Apollo.io sells research data at an estimated $150M ARR, but neither assembles a guest briefing. Priced at $39 a month for a working interviewer or producer.

Where these numbers come from
CompanyEarnsReachSource
Apollo.io$150M ARR, 2025275M+ contacts in databaseIndependent estimate
DescriptPaid tiersNot publishedPublished pricing
OpusClip$10.3M to $20M ARR10M+ usersIndependent estimates

Why this audience

This audience contains people making their own long-form interviews, drawn by watching the format done at length. Guest research is the invisible work behind every good episode and the first thing that gets skipped. A briefing with sources is the part they cannot fake.

Before it can launch

No licence, certification or data agreement stands between this and a launch — app-store review and an ordinary privacy policy aside.

What it earns

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Paying users1,000

0.032% of 3.1M followers · capped at 50,000

Price per month$39

Opens on the price this idea was costed at, $39.

1,000 paying — 0.032% of 3.1M followers — × $39 a month = $39,000 a month

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Fifty thousand paying users is the ceiling every one of these pages is drawn against, not a forecast. It opens at a thousand, the bottom of the range, so the first figures you see are the modest ones. What the cap buys is comparability: the same range on every app, and the percentage of the audience it takes as the number that moves.

Is this the one for your audience?

We fund it, build it, and run it. You bring the audience and take a share of the revenue. Nothing to pay and nothing to build.

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