How Hugo Bowne runs a podcast with an AI executive producer built on Codex
hugobowne · x · 2026-10-07
Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains how he built an "AI executive producer and marketing team" for Vanishing Gradients, covering guest outreach, research, production and promotion. In his podcast prep workflow, Codex pulls the Circleback transcript, applies personalized skills he wrote, and returns topic suggestions, question drafts, a conversation flow, title options and thumbnail starting points; he then curates with the guest in mind before finalizing questions, livestream checklists and event copy. He describes the evolution: copy-pasting into ChatGPT → an agent harness → tools and skills → incremental automation. The diagram in the post maps the full post-prep-call pipeline — a replicable one-person-company content playbook.
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