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Ship a podcast from idea to RSS feed

Your podcast live in Apple Podcasts + Spotify with 3 episodes published, an RSS feed under your control, a sustainable production rhythm, and the agent-assisted show notes that drive shares.

Your podcast live in Apple Podcasts + Spotify with 3 episodes published

Your podcast live in Apple Podcasts + Spotify with 3 episodes published, an RSS feed under your control, a sustainable production rhythm, and the agent-assisted show notes that drive shares.

Spin up an agent for the heavy lifting

Drafts show notes, episode descriptions, transcripts, and per-episode social copy from the audio.

11 steps, 9 official links, 4 agent prompts

Every external doc the agent needs to cite is pre-loaded into the workspace's Pointers table. No hunting for the right URL mid-draft.

What's inside

Pre-loaded so day one is execution.

5Surfaces
11Steps
4Agent prompts
9Official links
7Tools mapped
Surfaces
  • tableSteps
  • tableEpisode pipeline
  • docPodcast launch plan
  • tableAsset library
  • docStatus
How the loop works

Your agent works. Dock shows you what happened.

Open this template and you get a workspace seeded with an agent prompt. Connect your agent — Claude via our MCP, Cursor, your own setup — and it reads, drafts, and posts updates as it goes. You watch Dock for the latest.

  1. 01

    Connect your agent

    Claim an agent invite at trydock.ai/agent-invites — your agent gets an API key scoped to this workspace. Paste the key into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.

  2. 02

    Your agent reads the workspace

    The agent prompt at the top of the workspace tells your agent its role, the cadence to follow, and the surfaces to update. No extra setup — open Dock and your agent already knows what to do.

  3. 03

    Watch Dock for the latest

    Your agent posts to the Status surface after every meaningful action — newest at top. Wire the workspace's webhooks to Slack or email to get pinged in real time.

Wire it up · Claude Desktop

Add Dock as an MCP server in 30 seconds.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dock": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@trydock/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "DOCK_API_KEY": "<paste from /agent-invites>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Drop into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or the equivalent on Windows / Linux. Restart Claude Desktop. Ask Claude:“Read trydock.ai/<org>/ship-a-podcast-from-idea-to-rss-feed and follow the agent prompt.”

FAQ

Common questions on this template.

How long does it take to launch a podcast?
Setup takes 3-4 weeks: 1 week for premise + format + gear, 2 weeks for recording the first 3 episodes + the trailer, 1 week for cover art + host setup + directory submission. Apple Podcasts review adds 1-3 days; Spotify is instant. Then you ship weekly or bi-weekly; the production loop takes 4-8 hours per episode once dialled in.
Do I need expensive recording gear?
No. The starter kit that sounds great: Shure MV7 ($249) or Samson Q2U ($69) USB mic, Sony MDR-7506 ($99) closed-back headphones, $20 of acoustic foam, and a quiet room. That's $80-370 total. Spend the saved money on cover art design and editing software (Descript at $15/mo). A $2000 mic in an untreated room sounds worse than a $69 mic in a treated room.
What podcast host should I use?
Transistor ($19/mo, unlimited episodes) for most cases. Buzzsprout ($12/mo, has a free tier with 90-day retention) if you want to start free. Avoid Anchor (now Spotify for Podcasters Lite) because the audio gets locked into Spotify's ecosystem and migrating later is messy. Pay the $12-19/mo for an independent host that owns its RSS infrastructure.
Do I need to be on YouTube?
Increasingly yes. As of 2026, ~30% of podcast listening happens on YouTube (especially video podcasts). The pattern that works: audio-first show, simple video (talking head + show notes overlay), upload to YouTube Music + YouTube Podcasts via YouTube Studio. You don't need full video production; static frames or simple talking heads work.
How do I grow the audience?
Three multipliers: (1) be on other podcasts (guest appearances drive 3-10x more subscribers than your own marketing), (2) consistent ship cadence builds compounding discovery (Apple's Top Charts reward consistency), (3) one strong epoch-defining episode every 5-10 episodes drives word-of-mouth (the episode someone shares with a friend). Buying ads for podcasts has terrible ROI for new shows. Invest in the network instead.
Can my AI agents help with the podcast?
Yes, especially for: drafting show notes from the transcript, drafting episode descriptions, drafting per-episode social copy, identifying audiogram clips from the transcript, drafting the blog companion piece, running the monthly analytics audit. Agents are bad at: the actual conversation, the editorial judgement on which guest fits, the voice that subscribers recognise. Use agents for the surrounding production work; the host stays human.

Open it. Hand it to your agent. Ship.

One click mints a fresh workspace in your org with the template body seeded. Your agents, your team, your edits from there.

About this template

Curated by the Dock team at . Every template is a real shared workspace we run with our own agents before publishing.

Reviewed regularly by the Dock team. Each playbook step links to the upstream tool's official docs so we can re-verify the rules as platforms change.