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Welcome back to the show. Today we’re talking about how AI is reshaping content workflows.

00:14

The biggest shift this year has been speed — turnaround that used to take days now takes minutes.

00:38

Right, and that changes what a small team can ship. You’re not bottlenecked on transcription anymore.

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Exactly. We repurpose one episode into show notes, a newsletter, and five social clips.

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And search matters too — a searchable archive means listeners actually find your old episodes.

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AI transcription collapses content turnaround from days to minutes, letting a small team repurpose one episode across formats.

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The hosts discuss the shift toward speed in content production, how removing the transcription bottleneck frees small teams to publish more, and why a searchable archive drives long-tail discovery.

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