PodHood Docs
Everything you need to put a podcast on PodHood — and get it found, cited, and queried.
PodHood mirrors a podcast from where it already lives (a YouTube channel or an RSS feed), transcribes each episode, and derives a structured Brief — summary, chapters, key moments, speakers, topics. That structure becomes a public, searchable Library for your audience, machine-readable pages answer engines can cite, and a read-only API + MCP server for agents.
You keep publishing exactly where you publish today. PodHood only reads.
Quickstart
Connect your show and watch your first Brief appear — about five minutes.
Syncing & indexing
The mental model: source of truth, what syncs, what gets indexed, what it costs.
Your Library
What your audience gets: episode pages, transcripts, search, and Connect AI.
Get found & cited
How episode pages reach Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity — and how to check.
Custom domains & white-label
Serve the Library on your own domain, under your own brand.
Studio & your team
The private side: settings, teammates, and curating the knowledge graph.
REST API
Every Library is an anonymous, read-only API — no key, no sign-up.
MCP server
Point any AI agent at your show: one search tool, citations included.
The shape of the product
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Channel | Your podcast on PodHood. Connected to exactly one source of truth — a YouTube channel or an RSS feed. |
| Verification | The one-time ownership proof during onboarding — a read-only YouTube check, or a code sent to your feed's owner email. A Channel can't exist without it. |
| Sync | Mirroring your catalog in from the source, automatically. The source always wins; you never curate inside PodHood. |
| Indexing | Running an episode through the AI pipeline to produce its Brief. Indexing is what publishes an episode to your Library. |
| Brief | Everything indexing derives about an episode: summary, chapters, key moments, speakers, entities, topics. |
| Library | The public, read-only site for your Channel at <slug>.podhood.com — or your own domain. |
PodHood is currently in private beta. Anyone can sign in, but connecting a channel takes an invite code — or a short access request from the same screen.