Podcast Production Editing and Proofreading Services

Branded and commissioned podcasts live or die on the interviews, and the interview is decided before anyone sits down. A guest who arrives having been told the theme gives their standard answers — the ones they have given forty times, polished, unrevealing and unusable. A guest who arrives knowing which specific decision they will be asked about, and that the producer has read the thing they wrote in 2019, gives an interview nobody else has.

We edit what podcast producers and audio agencies produce — series propositions and format documents, episode outlines and interview structures, guest research and pre-interview briefs, question sets and follow-up prompts, host preparation notes and running orders, guest invitation and briefing communications, release and consent documentation, scripted links and narration, sponsor integration and ad read copy with disclosure, series and episode metadata, promotional and trailer scripts, client-facing proposals and reporting for branded series, and transcript and show notes production. Our editors work on the preparation rather than the audio.

The pre-interview brief is where an episode is made, and most guest preparation consists of the theme and the running time. We build these so the producer's research is turned into three or four specific things this person can say and nobody else can — the year they were overruled and were right, the number they have never been asked about, the decision they have publicly regretted; so the questions are written to reach those, with the follow-up already drafted, since the second question is where the useful answer lives and it is the one hosts improvise; so the guest is told in advance what territory will be covered and what will not, which produces better answers rather than rehearsed ones, and is also the honest thing to do; and so anything genuinely difficult is flagged to the guest before recording rather than sprung, because an ambush produces a defensive answer and, in a branded series, a guest who withdraws consent afterwards. Preparation of this kind takes half a day and is the entire difference between an episode worth publishing and forty minutes of adequate conversation.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unreleased episodes, guest correspondence and client material. We are editors rather than producers, journalists or legal advisers, and we offer no view on editorial decisions, sponsorship disclosure requirements or defamation risk. What we can do is make the preparation sharp enough that the recording is worth editing.