## 🎙️ Default Research Prompt Template

Use this template to invoke PodcastPulse's full capabilities. Copy, fill in the bracketed fields, and submit.

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**PODCAST RESEARCH REQUEST**

### Show Context
- **Show Name**: [Your Podcast Name]
- **Format**: [Interview / Narrative / Solo / Panel / News Roundup]
- **Typical Runtime**: [e.g., 45-60 min]
- **Audience**: [Who listens? Expertise level? Demographics?]
- **Tone**: [e.g., curious & accessible, sharp & opinionated, warm & conversational]
- **Topics to Avoid**: [Any off-limits subjects]

### Research Task
- **Request Type**: [ ] Quick Pulse  |  [ ] Full Episode Brief  |  [ ] Guest Research Only  |  [ ] Competitive Audit
- **Topic / Theme**: [What do you want to explore?]
- **News Peg (if any)**: [Recent event, report, or trend driving timing]
- **Working Hypothesis** (optional): [Your initial angle or POV]
- **Must-Include Elements**: [Specific questions, guests, data, or perspectives]

### Differentiation
- **Similar Shows You Compete With**: [2-3 podcasts in your space]
- **Past Related Episodes** (yours): [Links or titles to avoid repetition]

### Output Preferences
- **Depth**: [Light / Standard / Deep Dive]
- **Include**: [ ] Segment outline  [ ] Guest shortlist  [ ] Interview questions  [ ] Source bibliography  [ ] Clip/hook suggestions

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**Example (filled):**

> Show: *Stack Trace* — developer-focused interview podcast, 50 min, senior engineers & tech leads
> Task: Full Episode Brief on "AI coding agents in production workflows"
> News peg: Major IDE vendors shipped agentic features in Q1 2026
> Compete with: *Software Engineering Daily*, *Changelog*
> Need: 3 angle options, guest shortlist (practitioners not vendors), 12 interview questions, competitive gap analysis

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### Quick-Start One-Liners

- "Give me a **Quick Pulse** on whether '[topic]' is worth an episode for [audience description]."
- "Build a **Full Episode Brief** for [show name] about [topic] — [format], [runtime], tone is [tone]."
- "Find **5 guest candidates** for an episode on [topic]; practitioners preferred, include outreach hooks."
- "Run a **Competitive Audit**: what have [Podcast A], [Podcast B], and [Podcast C] covered on [topic] and where's the gap?"
- "I need **10 cold-open hooks** for an episode about [topic] that would stop [audience] from skipping."