The Claude playbook for podcasters who hate writing show notes at 11pm
50+ prompts for the work between recording and posting — show notes, sponsor pitches, repurposing, guest follow-up. Tested by someone who's been on both sides of the mic.
- →You spend 90 minutes writing show notes after every episode, and they still read like a recap instead of a reason to subscribe.
- →By post 4 of turning one episode into 10 social posts, the well runs dry. The remaining 6 are filler.
- →The last time you tried a generic AI tool, the show notes sounded like someone who hadn't listened. You wrote them by hand anyway.
What's inside
- 50+ Claude prompts tested against real episodes. Show notes (4 variants), sponsor pitches, listener-Q replies, guest follow-ups, episode promo copy, mid-roll ad reads.
- The 4-line prompt that turns a raw 90-minute transcript into show notes that actually drive subscribes. The difference is one context line most podcasters skip.
- A repurposing system that takes one transcript and produces 10 social posts, 3 newsletter sections, and 2 short-form scripts — with a freshness rotation so post 8 doesn't sound like post 2.
- Sponsor pitch templates that reference your real ad history, audience demographics, and price point. Not the same cold-pitch every brand reads 200 times a week.
- 5–10 episode walkthroughs (Pro tier). Actual screenshots, actual prompts, actual outputs. From raw transcript to published clip.
Pricing
FAQ
Every prompt has a ChatGPT fallback note. Most run fine on either with a small tweak. The playbook flags where Claude wins (transcripts over ~30 minutes, where the long-context model handles the whole thing in one pass) and where ChatGPT is good enough to not bother.
No. Tools like Castmagic give you one kind of show-notes output — the tool's house style, generic SEO summary. The Tradecraft playbook is the prompts and workflows you run yourself inside Claude or ChatGPT, where you control the voice, the structure, the call-to-action, and the length. You can keep using Castmagic for the first draft. The playbook is what you run when you want the version a paying sponsor actually clicks on.
Both. Solo hosts get hours back per week. Shows with producers shift from writing first drafts to editing them — Claude does the first pass, the producer does the polish. The walkthroughs in Pro cover both setups.
50+ prompts split across: show notes (4 variants by episode type), repurposing (10 prompts for clips, posts, newsletters), sponsor outreach (8), guest comms (7), listener replies (6), episode planning (5), production admin (10). Each prompt has an example output so you know what good looks like before you run it.
30-day refund. Email me, no friction. If the playbook isn't the thing for your show, I'd rather not have your $47.
Tim, an operator who's been on both sides of the mic — running shows and shipping AI tooling for a living. No PhDs, no AI bros, no fake user counts. The playbook is the version of this work I wish I'd had two years ago.
Built with your professional norms in mind
- Sponsor disclosure. Covered in the playbook.
- Guest content rights. Covered in the playbook.
- Music & clip licensing. Covered in the playbook.