I have been doing all of this by hand since before podcasting existed. Now you do not have to.
In 1996, me and a buddy started The Dan and Scott Show on AudioNet out of a retirement home basement in Wisconsin. AudioNet became Broadcast.com, which Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. Both of them publicly credited our show. Cuban called us the first internet broadcasters. Time Magazine put us in their cover story. That was over 30 years ago. I never stopped.
Back then, I was calling my buddy Derk in Indiana and asking him to search the show directories for our image. We would change it, check if it stood out, change it again. That became the Squint Test. I was calling our listeners by name and asking them what they thought before we changed anything. That became the Living Avatar. I was figuring out what words people would type into a directory to find us. That became the Bucket Builder.
Every tool on this page is something I figured out the hard way over 30 years of making internet audio. The AI just automates what used to take me weeks. I broke it all down into what I call the three Podcast Grow Gears.