AI co-producer for founder shows

Your show runs itself.

Focal is an AI agent that handles the entire operation — guest research, conversation prep, recording coordination, editing, and distribution. You walk with founders. Focal does everything else.

184 AI agents working in production at scale (Hollywood Reporter, 2025)
62% of podcast production tasks automatable by 2026 (AI for Business)
NEXT GUEST PREP
RESEARCH
Founding story, funding history, notable pivots
ANGLES
Why they almost quit at month 3
The counter-intuitive bet that paid off
What's broken about their industry
QUESTIONS
If you woke up tomorrow and your biggest problem was solved, what changes first in your day?
What's the belief your peers find insane but you still hold?
Tell me about a failure that made you better.
What Focal produces

The full production stack

Most founder shows die because the prep work is overwhelming. Focal automates everything between episodes — so you stay in the conversation that matters.

Guest Intelligence
Scrapes LinkedIn, Twitter, news, funding data. Generates a 360-degree picture of your guest before you ever meet.
Conversation Prep
Generates 10–15 sharp questions with conversation angles. Flags dangerous territory. Builds the arc of the episode.
Recording Coordination
Schedules, sends reminders, generates calendar invites, prepares the technical setup checklist. Zero manual chasing.
Post-Production
Auto-transcribes, identifies key moments, generates clips for LinkedIn and YouTube, writes episode descriptions and shownotes.
Distribution Agent
Publishes to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Reports engagement metrics back to you weekly.
The workflow

Three steps from idea to episode

01

Drop in a founder name

Tell Focal who you're interviewing next. That's the only input. Everything else is handled autonomously.

02

Focal builds the episode

Research, questions, scheduling, prep docs — all generated in minutes while you focus on the conversation.

03

Record and ship

You do the conversation. Focal handles post-production, clips, and distribution. The episode goes live without you touching a file.

The problem

The best stories in entrepreneurship never get told. Not because nobody wants to hear them — but because the work of producing a show is crushing. Research takes hours. Questions need to be written. Recording needs to be coordinated. Episodes need to be edited, titled, described, published. And then you do it all again next week.

The creator economy has exploded. But the tools for founder-show creators are still stuck in 2015: a Google Doc, a Zoom link, and a hope that the conversation goes well.

We built Focal because we believe the world needs more honest founder stories. And we believe those stories will exist when the production overhead drops to zero.

Entrepreneurship is human. It should be documented like it is.

The show that runs itself is coming.

Focal is being built right now. We're building the AI that will handle every episode so you can focus on the conversation that matters.

You focus on the walk
Focal handles the operation
The world hears their story