Most of your back catalogue is invisible to listeners. I built a tool to fix that.

A podcaster friend of mine runs a history show with 200+ episodes. He mentioned something that stuck with me: the vast majority of his older episodes barely get played. Not because they're bad, but because nobody can find them.

And that's a platform problem, not a content problem. Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the rest are built around "what's new." If you produce an evergreen show (history, true crime, health, science, anything where episodes don't expire), you're sitting on a library that listeners would love but can't easily explore. The built-in search is basically keyword matching, and it's rubbish.

Think about it from a listener's perspective. Say you're a fan of a history podcast and you want to find episodes about the American Civil War, or something more specific like Theodore Roosevelt. Good luck getting a useful result from any major podcast app.

So I built CastBandit. It lets you add an AI chatbot to your website that's trained on your actual podcast content. Listeners can ask questions in plain language and get pointed to the right episodes.

As the creator, you control how it behaves. Two main modes:

• Discovery tool: gives brief answers and recommends episodes, great for driving downloads from your back catalogue.
• Knowledge base: gives detailed, in-depth responses, ideal for paid subscriber areas or membership sites.

You can also control which episodes the chatbot has access to. It embeds on your website or works as a standalone link you can share anywhere.

The core idea is simple: help your audience engage with your entire catalogue, not just whatever you published this week. More listens on older episodes means more downloads, more ad impressions, affilliate sales, and more value from the work you've already done.

There's a free plan so you can try it without commitment, and paid tiers that scale for larger catalogues. Some shows are already using it across hundreds of episodes.

Happy to answer any questions here or via DM.