TABLE OF CONTENTS
Automated Transcription and Content Discovery
Turn hours of audio into searchable, quotable, shareable moments.
Every podcast episode contains dozens of potential social clips, blog quotes, and audience highlights—but finding them traditionally requires listening through entire episodes or relying on imperfect memory. Shade automatically transcribes every recording with speaker identification, making your entire catalog searchable by keyword, topic, or speaker.
Search for "entrepreneurship advice" across 200 episodes and instantly find every relevant moment. Looking for every time a particular guest mentioned a specific book or concept? Shade surfaces all instances immediately. This searchability transforms your back catalog from forgotten content into an active library that continues driving value long after publication.
For video podcasts, Shade's AI also identifies visual moments—gestures, expressions, and reactions—that make compelling social content, helping your team quickly identify the most engaging clips without watching hours of footage.
Streamlined Multi-Platform Distribution
Create once, distribute everywhere—from full episodes to 30-second clips.
Modern podcasting isn't just about the audio feed. You're creating YouTube videos, Instagram Reels, TikTok clips, audiograms for Twitter, and quote graphics for LinkedIn. Shade's unified workspace lets editors work from the same source files whether they're cutting the main episode, pulling social clips, or creating transcription-based graphics.
With transcripts synced to video timecodes, editors can quickly identify and extract compelling moments for social distribution. Shade's version control ensures that everyone works from the latest edit, whether they're finalizing the main episode or creating promotional clips for launch week.
Custom Collections make it easy to organize content by episode, guest, or campaign—then share secure review links with guests for approval before publication, or with sponsors to verify ad placement and messaging.
Guest and Sponsorship Management
Keep guest content organized and ensure sponsor compliance with searchable records.
Managing guest recordings, release forms, and promotional assets becomes exponentially more complex as your show grows. Shade provides organized storage for all guest-related content—full episodes, pre-interviews, bonus content, and B-roll—all tagged and searchable by guest name.
For sponsored content, Shade's transcription and tagging capabilities help ensure sponsor compliance. Search transcripts to verify that required talking points were covered, track ad placement across episodes, and maintain records of sponsor-approved content for renewals and reporting.
When guests or sponsors request specific content—episode files for their own promotion, or verification of ad placement—you can quickly locate and share exactly what's needed through branded Collections with appropriate access controls.
Build a Valuable Podcast Archive
Your back catalog is an asset—make it searchable, accessible, and monetizable.
Most podcasters produce hundreds of hours of content that becomes progressively harder to leverage as the catalog grows. Shade Vault maintains your entire library with full transcription and metadata, enabling you to rediscover and repurpose past content indefinitely.
Creating "best of" compilations, identifying evergreen episodes for new listeners, or developing premium content packages from your archives becomes trivially easy when everything is searchable. If you're developing a course, writing a book, or creating paid content tiers, your transcribed archive becomes source material you can query and reference without re-listening to everything.
The searchable archive also creates new sponsorship opportunities—brands can identify episodes relevant to their products, and you can quickly pull together topic-specific content packages that command premium advertising rates.
One source of truth for every stakeholder
Enable editors, producers, and stakeholders to work from the same source of truth with real-time review and approval tools.
Podcast production involves distributed teams—hosts recording remotely, editors in different time zones, social media managers creating promotional content, and sponsors reviewing ad integration. Shade's unified platform ensures everyone works from the same source of truth, with instant file access and seamless collaboration tools that maintain quality and consistency across all outputs.
Editors start working immediately without downloading large files, guests can review clips through secure branded links, and sponsors can verify messaging compliance—all within the same interface that handles the creative workflow. Version control keeps everyone aligned, eliminating confusion about which edit is final and ensuring smooth launches across all platforms.
Maximize every episode's potential
Business Impact
Increase content velocity: Publish episodes faster with streamlined editing and instant file access
Maximize episode value: Transform each recording into dozens of social clips, quotes, and promotional assets
Grow audience reach: Repurpose content across platforms with searchable transcripts and AI-assisted clip discovery
Ensure sponsor satisfaction: Track ad placement and messaging compliance with searchable records
