# PodHood — be the podcast AI cites > PodHood is discoverability infrastructure for podcasts. It connects to a YouTube channel or podcast RSS feed, decomposes every episode into a structured Brief — summary, chapters, key moments, speakers, entities, topics, and a word-level transcript — and publishes the catalog as a searchable Library that people find on Google, answer engines cite, and AI agents query over MCP. ## Four ways a podcast gets found - **Searchable** — Your listeners find any moment. Across the whole catalog, by what was actually said — and they jump straight to it. - **Queryable** — Your archive is a live tool. It connects to Claude and ChatGPT over MCP — agents query it and answer with timestamped citations. - **Crawlable** — Audio can’t be crawled; this can. Every episode becomes a real, server-rendered page — the text search engines and AI can actually read. - **Citable** — The structure answer engines quote. A disambiguated graph of the people, topics, and moments in each episode — what ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI cite as the source. ## Then close the loop - **See who finds you** — People and AI agents, side by side. Access Analytics shows library visitors, the links and AI answers that sent them, and the questions agents ask your catalog — on every plan. - **Hear what they want next** — Your comments already know your next episode. YouTube comments mirrored read-only, labeled by sentiment and intent in any language, and clustered into recurring asks — every number one click from its evidence. - **Own the relationship** — An email list, built into your Library. Visitors subscribe in one click, and every new episode automatically emails them its brief — under your show's name, linking back to your domain. The list is yours, on every plan. ## Pages Append `.md` to any of these URLs for the Markdown version. - [Product — how PodHood works](https://podhood.com/product) - [Pricing](https://podhood.com/pricing) - [Podcast search](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-search) - [AI citations](https://podhood.com/solutions/ai-citations) - [Podcast SEO](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-seo) - [Podcast clips](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-clips) - [Podcast analytics](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-analytics) - [Podcast comments](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-comments) - [Podcast email list](https://podhood.com/solutions/podcast-email-list) - [For YouTube channels](https://podhood.com/solutions/youtube-channels) - [About](https://podhood.com/about) - [Contact](https://podhood.com/contact) ## Frequently asked questions ### What is PodHood? PodHood is discoverability infrastructure for podcasts. It connects to your YouTube channel or podcast RSS feed, decomposes every episode into a structured Brief, and publishes your catalog as pages people find on Google, sources answer engines cite, and a live tool AI agents query over MCP. ### How does PodHood make a podcast discoverable? Four ways, from one connection: every episode becomes a real, server-rendered page search engines can crawl; the whole catalog becomes searchable to the exact second for listeners; structured markup makes episodes citable by answer engines; and an MCP endpoint lets AI agents query the archive directly with timestamped citations. ### Is PodHood for YouTube channels too? Yes — YouTube is a first-class source, not an afterthought. Connect a YouTube channel and every video's conversation becomes searchable pages, AI citations, an email list, and mirrored comment insights. If your channel is talk content — interviews, education, commentary — everything on this page applies to it. ### Do I need to change my host or my workflow? No. Your podcast host, feed, and channel stay exactly as they are — PodHood mirrors your published catalog and keeps itself in sync, checking for new episodes hourly. You keep curating at the source; the Library follows. ### Is there a free plan? Yes. The Free tier includes 10 hours of processing over the lifetime of the account — enough to index a few episodes and see your library live before upgrading. ### How do AI assistants use my podcast? Two ways: answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI read and cite the structured episode pages, and agents like Claude connect to your archive as a live MCP tool — every answer linking back to the exact moment in your episode. ### Can listeners subscribe to my podcast by email? Yes — every Library has Subscribe built in, on every plan. Listeners follow your show in one click, and each new episode automatically emails them its brief: summary, chapters, and key moments deep-linked to the second, sent under your show's name with links on your own domain. The roster — names, email addresses, subscribe dates — is yours in the Studio, with no newsletter tool to wire up. ### How do I know it's working? Access Analytics, on every plan: see who visits your library, which links and AI answers sent them (visits from ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants wear an AI badge), and the questions AI agents ask your catalog over MCP — refreshed hourly, no tracking script to install. ## For agents & developers - [Developer & agent guide](https://podhood.com/developers) (also at `/developers.md`) - [OpenAPI spec](https://podhood.com/openapi.json) - [llms.txt](https://podhood.com/llms.txt) — platform index and public-channel directory - Every podcast library lives at `https://.podhood.com`, with its own `llms.txt`, sitemap, MCP endpoint at `/mcp`, and `.md` companion for every episode page.