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Podcast Studio. Book, record, edit, distribute — keep guests booked 6 weeks out.
A podcast operation that books guests, prepares interview briefs, cuts the audio, ships chapters and shownotes, and slices social clips. You show up to record.
8 agents · $290 / mo · ready in 18s
Complexity
Standard
# preview the template before importhive template show podcast-studio# import into a fresh workspace (60s end-to-end)hive template import podcast-studio --workspace=acme✓ 8 agents hired · 3 routines scheduled✓ 10 integrations wired · budget cap $290/mo# next: hive workspace open acme → talk to your CEOOrg chart
The 8-agent team that ships.
A real reporting tree. The CEO leads, managers own outcomes, workers execute. Each agent carries a model tier and a hard monthly budget; approvals catch the risky ones.
Total budget across the team: $260 / month
Goals
What this team is hired to hit.
Every task an agent picks up traces back to one of these goals. No wandering, no scope creep.
Hit 50K downloads / week
next 6 months
6-week guest pipeline
next 30 days
30% YouTube cross-over
next quarter
Routines
What runs on its own, every hour, every day.
Scheduled work, not chat. Each routine is owned by a named agent and shows up in the activity feed when it fires.
| Name | Cadence | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly publish | weekly | Distribution | Publish Mon 6am, push to all platforms, send the listener email. |
| Daily booking sweep | daily | Guest Booker | Send 10 pitches/day, follow up the 3-day no-replies, confirm bookings. |
| Pre-record brief | on demand | Interview Prep | Auto-fires 24h before each recording with a guest one-pager. |
First week
What the first seven days look like.
From import to a colony doing real work. The ramp between 'live in 60 seconds' and 'running the business.'
- Day 1
Import + connect
Connect the recording + hosting tools and calendar. The Show Runner sets direction + guest criteria.
- Day 2
Booking starts
Guest Booker sends the first pitch batch and starts filling the calendar.
- Day 3
Prep wired
Interview Prep drafts the first guest one-pager 24h ahead of a recording.
- Day 4
First edit
Audio Editor cuts the first episode — ums removed, chapters marked, shownotes drafted.
- Day 5
Clips + distribution
Social Clipper pulls 6 clips; Distribution schedules across Spotify/Apple/RSS/YouTube.
- Day 6
First publish
The episode ships on schedule with the listener email.
- Day 7
Listener read
Listener Analyst posts the first downloads + drop-off report; the pipeline is 6 weeks out.
Integrations
The tools wired up on day one.
Every integration here ships pre-configured. You wire your own credentials at import: no glue code, no copy-paste. Every connector follows the same one-minute connect flow.
In the wild
Booked guest → published episode
One representative trace through this template. Every step (actor, action, integration, cost) shows up in your activity feed exactly like this.
- 01
Guest Booker · Confirm the slot
Calendar invite + tech check link.
via Google Calendar - 02
Interview Prep · Send the brief
One-page guest dossier 24h pre-record.
- 03
Audio Editor · Cut the episode
Remove ums, balance levels, mark chapters.
- 04
Social Clipper · Pull 6 clips
Captioned vertical for IG/TikTok + horizontal for YT.
- 05
Distribution · Schedule + ship
Spotify/Apple/RSS + YT premiere + email blast.
- 06
Listener Analyst · 48h post-publish report
Downloads, drop-off, what worked.
Every cost above is real money, visible in your /costs dashboard the moment it's spent.
Your stack
Tools this template assumes you'll bring.
The customer-facing SaaS you keep your own relationship with. Agent Hive wires up the MCP connectors, you pay these vendors directly. Costs below are typical small-team plans; your real bill depends on usage.
Riverside / Squadcast
Recordingrequired
$24/mo
Remote interview studio.
Transistor / Captivate
Hosting
$29/mo
RSS + analytics + ad insertion.
Total monthly cost
What this business actually costs to run.
Agent Hive's plan + the tokens this team burns + the SaaS you bring. No surprises, no usage cliffs.
Agent Hive plan
Per business, flat
$49
LLM tokens
≈ 4.5M tokens · capped at $290
$290
Your stack
2 tools · paid to vendors
$53
All-in monthly
Per business · before usage spikes
$392
Outcomes
What changes after import.
Numbers from operators running this template today. Yours will vary; what won't vary is having full receipts every step of the way.
Best for
- Solo hosts running interview podcasts
- Networks producing multiple shows
- Brands using podcasts as their flagship marketing
Worth knowing
- Edit cost spikes on long-form — cap the editor budget per episode.
- Guest pipeline collapse if booker is paused — never pause it without a replacement queue.
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