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How it works

From show setup to recording-ready brief.

PrepCast doesn't try to replace your judgment. It does the part you keep procrastinating: scanning, filtering, and structuring the week's most relevant signal into something you can actually use at the mic.

01

Tell us about your show

A 4-minute setup wizard. Niche, audience, voice, and a few recent episode titles. The more honest you are about what your audience actually cares about, the sharper the briefs.

02

We scan the signal

Every Sunday night, PrepCast pulls trending topics from Reddit, X, Google Trends, and a curated set of niche news sources. Then we re-rank them through your show's lens - what would land with your audience, what's been talked to death, what's contrarian.

03

You get a brief

3-5 topic cards. Each with a hook, structured talking-point bullets, source links, and one contrarian question your audience would actually ask. Print it, export it to Markdown, or open it on your phone in the studio.

Example brief

What lands in your dashboard each week.

Topic 01

The quiet death of the 'AI wrapper' narrative

Six months ago, every indie hacker was building a GPT wrapper. Now the survivors are doing something different - and it's not what Twitter says.

Contrarian question

What if the issue wasn't the wrapper - it was that founders shipped before finding a workflow worth wrapping?

Topic 02

Why 'boring' SaaS is suddenly hot again

Invoicing tools. Booking systems. Inventory dashboards. The most-funded indie acquisitions of the last 90 days have been deeply unsexy.

Contrarian question

The 'AI-native' rebuilds you keep hearing about are mostly losing to the boring incumbent that just shipped a working API.

Topic 03

The new pricing playbook: usage + outcome hybrid

Per-seat is dying for AI tools. But pure usage-based pricing scares finance teams. The middle path that's quietly winning.

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