Cut podcast guest prep from 2 hours to 5 minutes.

Give it a guest name, a podcast feed URL, or three articles — get back a skimmable research brief with the questions your guest hasn't been asked on the last 10 shows.

$3.99

Works in Claude (Pro/Max/Team) or ChatGPT (Plus/Team) · paid AI plan required

Both Claude + ChatGPT packages included — you can't pick the wrong one.

Updated May 26, 2026

Included

01Bio snapshot in plain prose — no Wikipedia dump, no padding, reads like a producer briefing the host in the green room

025 specific questions tied to your guest's actual recent work — ordered warm to sharp, with producer notes on why each is unasked

03Flags 'the overplayed hits' — the canned origin story, morning routine, advice-to-younger-self — so you skip the dead-air questions

042 productive disagreement angles with the counter-evidence already cited, so you can push back without ambushing

05Handles famous guests AND niche experts with thin online presences — explicit playbook for both

06Bundled Question Craft Guide — the four question types that generate great audio and the failure patterns to avoid

What it does

Solo podcast hosts spend one to two hours researching every guest, and most of it gets thrown away once the interview starts. This skill does the boring part — pulling recent interviews, articles, and public statements — and hands you back a one-page podcast guest research brief built for the green room: bio snapshot, recent talking points, five questions they probably haven't been asked, and two angles where a smart host can push back respectfully. It's tuned for the actual job a host has to do — prep for a podcast interview when you have one slot of free time before recording. It treats famous guests (filter ruthlessly for what hasn't been covered in the last 12 months) and niche experts with thin online footprints (work from what exists, flag confidence honestly) as genuinely different problems and routes accordingly. Two annotated example briefs ship inside so you can calibrate format before you trust the output. The Question Craft Guide is bundled too — a short reference on the four question types that actually produce great audio (The Reversal, The Origin Story You Haven't Heard, The Belief Challenge, The Future Stake) and the warning signs that a question is too generic to ask.

Frequently asked

How do I prep for a podcast guest interview in under an hour?

Give the skill the guest's name (or a feed URL, or 2-3 articles) and let it run. In about 5 minutes you get a bio, recent topics, 5 specific unasked questions, and 2 disagreement angles. That's the prep — you spend the rest of the hour on the questions that opened up new ground.

What questions should I ask a podcast guest that they haven't been asked before?

That's the core deliverable. The skill scans recent interviews and articles, identifies the canned answers and overplayed topics, and writes 5 questions grounded in specifics from the guest's actual body of work — ordered warm to sharp, each with a producer note explaining why a great answer would surprise the audience.

Does it work if my guest has almost no online presence?

Yes — thin-presence guests are an explicit case. The bundled example brief covers exactly this (a soil microbiologist with one podcast appearance and two papers). It'll tell you what it could and couldn't find, label confidence honestly, and shift the question framework toward someone the audience doesn't already know.

Can't I just write a ChatGPT prompt for this myself?

You can write a prompt. But the structure (warm-to-sharp ordering, the overplayed-hits filter, the disagreement angle format with counter-evidence cited) and the bundled Question Craft Guide are the parts that took iteration. This is the shortcut to consistent output every time you book a guest.

Does it work for household-name guests with 200 interviews already out there?

That's where it earns its keep. Famous guests have well-worn talking tracks — the skill is specifically built to filter out what's been covered and surface what hasn't. The instructions explicitly flip the strategy for high-profile guests toward last-12-months activity and documented disagreement angles.

Install — no Terminal required

After checkout you land on a page with a one-click download and a pre-built install prompt. Pick the AI you already pay for — both packages are included, so you can't pick wrong.

What you'll see the second your payment clears

Your license key

ST-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX · permanent

Pre-built install prompt⧉ Copy

ChatGPT package (ZIP)⬇ Download

No setup work before you buy — copy, paste, done.

Have Claude Pro, Max, or Team?

Copy the prompt, paste into Claude

Copy the pre-built install prompt from the success page, paste it into any Claude Code chat, and Claude installs the skill itself — about 10 seconds. Using the app instead? Drop the downloaded folder into a Claude Project's knowledge and ask Claude to use it.

Have ChatGPT Plus or Team?

Build a Custom GPT — ~2 minutes

Click Download ChatGPT package (included with every purchase).
Unzip it — inside is a SETUP.md and a knowledge/ folder.
Go to chatgpt.com → your profile → My GPTs → Create a GPT → Configure.
Paste the Name, Description, and Instructions from SETUP.md into the matching fields.
Under Knowledge, upload every file in the knowledge/ folder.
Click Create/Save, open your GPT, and describe your task in plain English.

A paid plan on either platform is required — Claude (Pro, Max, or Team) or ChatGPT (Plus or Team). Comfortable with Terminal? A one-line npx skilltree-network install path is available too.

Cut podcast guest prep from 2 hours to 5 minutes.

What it does

Frequently asked

Install — no Terminal required

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