For podcasters
A personal CRM for podcasters — the guest who comes back for episode 100 was booked years earlier.
Your show is a guest pipeline wearing headphones: the dream guest who said "ask me after my book ships", the episode-12 guest who introduced you to three others, the one whose return episode will outperform them all. Endearist is being built to keep that pipeline warm.
Not launched yet Endearist is in development — there is nothing to download yet. This page describes how the app is meant to work. The first release is intended for Android and Windows; end-to-end encrypted sync over your own storage is planned for v1. See the roadmap →
"Ask me again in the fall" is a booking, not a rejection
Dream guests rarely say no — they say "after the funding round", "once the book ships", "when the season ends". Most hosts lose those threads in a spreadsheet tab. In Endearist, each maybe-guest is meant to get a journal note with the exact phrasing and a per-contact cadence timed to their milestone, so you write the follow-up in the week their book actually launches. The host who remembers the timing is the one who gets the booking.
Your best future episodes are repeat guests
The episode-37 guest whose startup just got acquired, the researcher whose controversial paper finally published — round two with someone your audience already loves reliably outperforms a cold first interview. That only works if you stayed in touch in between. Log what you talked about after you stopped recording, congratulate them when their thing happens, and by episode 100 you have a bench of guests who answer your email within the hour.
Guests are your distribution — track who actually shares
Some guests post the episode once and vanish; others share every clip, bring their newsletter audience, and introduce you to two future guests unprompted. That second group is your growth engine and deserves deliberate care. Note in the journal who promoted, who introduced whom, and who quietly did neither. A warmth score could then show you at a glance which of your champion guests you've neglected since their episode aired. Warmth tracking: scope and availability are not confirmed. Status: not decided yet.
Show up to the recording knowing the off-air stuff
How their name is actually pronounced. The story they told in the pre-call that they don't want on the record. The topic their PR person asked you to avoid. The fact that they were mid-house-move during your last chat. Two minutes in Endearist before you hit record and your first question lands like a continuation, not an introduction. Guests feel the difference immediately — and it's the guests who felt heard who say yes to round two.
Planned as a one-time licence, not another subscription
CSV import of your guest spreadsheet is planned, and the pricing proposal is a one-time licence — not another subscription competing with your hosting, editing, and transcription bills. Everything is meant to stay local on your device; sync across devices is planned, end-to-end encrypted with your key. Drafting outreach with AI is planned with your own OpenAI or Anthropic key — the prompt you send is meant to be all that leaves the machine. And if you ever wind the show down, every guest note is meant to export as plain Markdown, yours forever. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local core and data export. The proposed 25-contact limit is not a confirmed entitlement. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local app and AI with your own key (planned for v1). Sync over your own storage is planned for v1. Managed cloud services are not a lifetime feature. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: managed AI (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only) and Endearist Cloud (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only). Specific budgets, routing and prices require approval. Family sharing: not decided yet; no included family seat is promised.
When Endearist isn't the right fit
There is no booking workflow, no scheduling and no audience analytics here, and if guest logistics is the pain, a booking tool solves it more directly. Endearist is meant to hold the after: the guest whose episode did well and who would come back, the one who introduced you to two more, the person you had a great conversation with and have not spoken to since it published. Early on you will remember all of them. The tool earns its place somewhere around episode forty.
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