Your Library

The Library is the public site for a Channel at <slug>.podhood.com or a verified custom domain. Anyone can read it without signing in. It contains only successfully indexed, non-archived episodes; the complete private catalog stays in the Studio.

Its Interface language follows Settings → General → Podcast language. Episode content remains in its source language unless a visitor asks for a Transcript Translation.

Library home

Visitors can browse and sort the published catalog, then narrow it by:

• Topics.
• People (including Hosts).
• Companies and Products.
• YouTube-derived Collections.
• Publication year.

The filter rail narrows the catalog; Search ranks episodes by relevance. Search combines semantic and keyword retrieval across transcript text plus episode titles/descriptions. Results are episodes, each carrying the best matched transcript moments with links to the exact second.

Two audience actions

Subscribe lets a signed-in visitor follow this Channel and receive new-episode email. It is a PodHood audience relationship, not a YouTube subscription and not Studio membership. Channel Members can see the resulting roster under Studio → Subscribers; subscribers can mute email without removing the follow. See Subscribers & new-episode email for the full loop — who receives mail, what it contains, and when it sends.

Connect AI installs this Channel's anonymous, read-only MCP server in the visitor's own AI tool. The current catalog contains 28 client recipes, including Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and Gemini CLI. The supplied Try-it question is grounded in the current surface — a recent episode question on the Library, that episode's question on an episode page, or the current subject on a Hub.

Episode page

Each indexed episode becomes a server-rendered discovery document with:

• Summary and source show notes.
• Chapters and typed Key moments, each linked to a timestamp.
• Q&A pairs phrased like questions a listener may ask an AI assistant.
• Speakers with Host/Guest roles.
• A word-aligned Transcript synchronized to playback.
• Topics, People, Companies, and Products.
• Related episodes.

Visitors can search inside the Transcript, copy a quotation or moment link, follow playback, and share a URL that starts at the exact moment.

The Translate transcript menu creates a stacked bilingual view. A Translation is generated once per episode/language and cached; selecting the episode's source language is intentionally unavailable.

Hubs — the knowledge graph as pages

Every active Person, Company, Product, and Topic can have a canonical Hub:

• /people/<person>
• /companies/<company>
• /products/<product>
• /topics/<topic>

A Hub collects the published episodes and moments about that subject. Episode chips link to Hubs, and a single-facet Library URL canonicalizes to the corresponding Hub so search engines see one stable answer object instead of duplicate filtered URLs.

Human corrections flow through

Speaker assignments and entity curation in the Studio are not separate private notes. They are the authoritative overlay used by the public reader and Hubs:

• Segment-level speaker corrections change the displayed attribution.
• Entity renames update the public name.
• Merges consolidate aliases and episode associations.
• Archived entities leave active filters and Hubs.
• Host flags and avatars improve speaker presentation.

See Studio & your team for the editing workflow.

Machine-readable twins

The Library is designed for browsers and machines from the same content:

• llms.txt lists the Channel, published episodes, and MCP endpoint.
• sitemap.xml lists discoverable pages.
• robots.txt permits the intended search/AI crawler access.
• Episode pages include Schema.org JSON-LD with PodcastEpisode, speakers, entities, chapters, and deep-linked Clip nodes.
• Append .md to an episode URL (or request Accept: text/markdown) for the structured Markdown twin.
• /.well-known/mcp advertises the MCP server card.

The Library always keeps one discreet Powered by PodHood Attribution link at the foot of each public surface, including when Studio white-label is enabled. See Get found & cited for the launch checks.