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