Candidates and surrogates talk loosely on a two-hour podcast in a way they never would on TV. We transcribe the podcasts that matter in full, so your oppo team can search every candid remark, get an alert when a target speaks, and quote it with the source attached.
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Example alert hit
Saved search: "Jane Doe" AND "property tax"
"Honestly, between us, I'd scrap the property tax cap on day one. Nobody on my team wants me saying that yet."
New episodes are usually searchable within a few hours of publication, and alerts run every hour.
Sputnik connects to your AI agent over MCP. Add it once in Codex, Cowork or any other MCP client, and your agent can search every transcript, read whole episodes, set up alerts and write the memo, quoting the source for every line. You ask in plain language and check the work.
How to connect your agent →Most podcasts publish no transcript, and media monitoring tools only read the title and the show notes. We run the audio through our own transcription, so the whole conversation becomes text you can search.
We transcribe the podcasts that matter ourselves, every episode in full, with the speakers labelled where the audio allows it. For the other shows we track, we use the publisher's transcript when there is one. Not a summary: the exact words.
Long-form audio is where people lower their guard. A loose comment 90 minutes into a friendly interview is in the transcript like everything else, and you can search for it.
Podcasts are dark media for most monitoring tools: they are audio, so they are not indexed. Our index holds the spoken word as text, next to tens of thousands of newsletters.
Save a search for a candidate, a surrogate or a policy phrase. New matches arrive by email or webhook within the hour, with the quote, the show and the episode attached. Your agent can read them too.
Follow everyone who speaks for a campaign. See whether they stick to the approved talking points, and how the message shifts between a mainstream show and a niche activist one.
Every hit carries the exact wording, the speaker, the show, the date and a link to the episode, so research holds up when it goes to the press team or into an ad.
An analyst listens to a two-hour episode to find one remark.
You search the transcript and read the paragraph that matters.
You only hear about a podcast appearance after the clip goes viral.
An alert reaches you within the hour of us picking up the episode.
You hand-transcribe a quote and hope you got it right.
You copy it from the transcript, with the speaker and episode attached.
You track one candidate at a time, on the shows you already know.
One saved search covers the candidate, their surrogates and every show we track.
We track 5,000 podcasts and 18,000 newsletters. We transcribe the podcasts that matter ourselves, every episode in full, and for the others we use the publisher's transcript when there is one. Politics and policy coverage is growing, so tell us which shows matter to your race.
Yes. Email peter@helpfulintelligence.co with the shows. We add them and transcribe new episodes, plus the episodes from the last 90 days.
Usually within a few hours of publication. Alerts run every hour after that, so a hit reaches you up to an hour after we pick up the episode.
Machine transcription is very good but not perfect, and names are where it slips most. Every hit links to the episode, so check the audio before a quote goes into a press release or an ad.
Only when the show also publishes as an audio podcast, which most do. We don't index shows that are only on YouTube.
Only your team. Your searches, alerts and collections are private to your team, and the people and shows you track are never notified.
Add Sputnik as an MCP server and sign in with your Sputnik account. There is no key to paste. The steps are in the MCP docs.
Yes. The Startup plan covers up to 20 people, and the Scale plan has no limit.
$200 a month on the Startup plan, after a 14-day free trial. You add a card when you sign up, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel any time. All plans are on the pricing page.
14 days free, nothing charged until the trial ends, cancel any time.