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Prior podcast guests are a great source of qualified leads, but a source of recent guests with contact details does not exist.

An automated pipeline that extracts guest name from episode descriptions, then Googles for the domain and LinkedIn profile to understand the individual and discover their contact information, along with relevancy scoring and more.

I now am able to find valid email address for 87% of podcast episodes with a guest in the business genre at scale (1000s per day), leading to a 6-figure pipeline within month 1 of use. We launched and monetised a new product thanks to this experiment.

Our sister business wanted to be posting to LinkedIn and other social media platforms with high quality content, but did not have the time or resources to do so.

We collaborated on what the perfect content strategy would look like (podcast guest breakdowns requiring millions of tokens of research and writing), and then built a system that would automatically generate and post the content to LinkedIn and other social media platforms on autopilot.

Their social schedule is completely fully months in advance, and they're getting incredible engagement and leads generated from the content (which is better researched and written than most human content!). AI-generated images are added to further improve the quality of the content.

As customers move to the elusive chat-based textarea interface, they are expecting "answer engines" and not simply traditional search UX. One of our enterprise prospects wanted to implement Pod Engine entirely through MCP and not touch any API interfaces.

I built an MCP server on top of our podcast APIs, allowing customers to ask questions of our database directly within their AI client of choice. Included user-level permissions and feature toggles for MCP outputs, including tool selection toggle, profanity filtering, and more.

This uncovered new use-cases that we did not anticipate being useful (production research), and also acted as a significant USP in enterprise API discussion talks with prospects (also a surprise).