Landing high-value podcast guests is not a numbers game. Until now.

A context engine that knows your show, your shortlist, and the angle nobody else has pressed on. It builds the pitch with you, hands you the finished package, and you land the guest looking like you did the homework.

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It's not you, it's your pitch.

The truth is, it's easier than ever to write a pitch, yet harder than ever to land one. The problem is every other host's inbox is getting flooded with pitches that don't move them. We built our system to fundamentally solve this problem. By deeply understanding your show, content, and plans. Then doing the same with your guest. We find the overlap no one else pitched. What you send is specific enough to be un-ignorable.

What you get from ChatGPT
Research this person and write me a pitch
"Something they probably said"
No source link. No verification. No way to check.
Plausible. Unverifiable. Forgettable.
vs
What you get from hadef
QA passed · 5/5 checks
"We invested in context engineering underneath the sales enablement agents. The first six months were dead in the water until we did."
🔗 public record · March 2026 · Verified
Golden Thread The conversation that hasn't happened yet: what "context engineering" means when the AI budget runs out.
5 questions prepared Episode concept ready Tracked at pitch.hadef.io
Grounded. Verified. Specific to your show.
Research depth

Transcripts from audio no one else has

We extract full transcripts from podcast episodes that were never publicly transcribed. Your pitch opens with a line the guest said on an episode with 200 listeners. That's homework no LLM can replicate from training data.

Compounding context

A system that remembers your show

Show Brain stores your voice, your audience, your rules, your wins and losses. Every pitch is shaped by everything that came before it. ChatGPT starts from zero every single time. The gap compounds with every pitch you send.

Operational layer

A pipeline, not a chat window

Who you pitched, when, whether they opened it, whether they replied, when to follow up, which angles convert. That's a booking operation. ChatGPT gives you text and walks away. You're left managing the rest in your head.

Context is the difference

You want your work to speak for itself.

Which means the pitch has to speak for the work first.

You don't want to send a pitch you'd wince at a week later. So HADEF reads your show as deeply as it reads the guest. Every episode you've recorded, every recurring theme, every position you've taken on the record. Then it pulls every interview the guest has given in the last eighteen months, every article, every talk, and finds the one overlap no one else has pitched. What you send is specific enough that the reader can tell who was paying attention.

Reads every interview before you do.

Your guest's published record, podcasts, keynotes, press, becomes the brief that writes the pitch.

Writes in your voice, from their quotes.

A DM drafted around something they actually said, in the rhythm of how you'd write it yourself.

You protect the people who say yes.

Verified titles, current company, risk-audited questions. Guests leave willing to recommend you to the next one.

Sends where the guest actually is.

LinkedIn DM, email, X, Substack. Hadef picks the channel the guest responds to, not the one that's convenient.

Context engine

Your show's memory, captured the moment it happens.

Speak it, type it, drop a link. Hadef builds your context the way you actually work, then surfaces it when you're ready to pitch the next guest.

How it works

Context. Pitch. Send.

Three moments that map to how booking actually works. Each one earns the next.

Reading
  • Forbes · Mar 2026
  • Bloomberg · Feb 2026
  • MarketWatch · Jan 2026
Hit · latched
"AI agents for sales enablement were dead in the water. Until we invested in the context engineering underneath them."
Jordan M.
Context

We read every interview so you don't have to.

Hadef ingests your guest's public record and surfaces the one line that's worth pitching around. You don't scroll. You don't search. You arrive at the hit.

Golden thread
Hook quote
"AI agents for sales enablement were dead in the water. Until we invested in the context engineering underneath them."
Jordan M.
94%fit
Pitch

You pitch like a journalist, not a vendor.

Which starts with a thread your guest has been pulling on that nobody else has picked up.

You don't want to seem salesy. HADEF drafts the first sentence around a real overlap: something the guest has just said in public, a gap in your show's recent arc, a timing trigger that makes the conversation feel inevitable now. The reader opens the message, and the archive door doesn't close on you. Vendors write the other kind of email.

Channel
  • LinkedIn DM Picked
  • Gmail
  • +3
Drafted · LinkedIn DM

Hey guest name, noticed your interview in publication where you said hook quote. Would love to dig deeper…

Pitch package
Send

Hand-off to LinkedIn, in your voice.

LinkedIn is where these conversations actually start. The pitch lands in the composer formatted the way you would have written it. You hit send.

Pricing

Fewer pitches. Higher hit rate. That's the point.

The threshold isn't price. It's how much of the work you want to be in the room for.

Starter
For hosts testing the thesis. Five pitches. See what a researched pitch actually looks like.
$49 / month
Start free
  • 5 pitches per month
  • 1 show connected
  • Show Brain (text deposits)
  • 1 GB storage
  • QA verification on every pitch
Elite
For hosts who run studios. MCP access. Your agents call HADEF directly. You approve, you send, HADEF does everything else. What operators are building with custom agents, you get with a single MCP endpoint.
$499 / month
Talk to us about MCP access
  • 25 pitches per month (unused roll over, max 40)
  • Unlimited shows connected
  • 50 GB storage
  • Multi-channel send (LinkedIn + email)
  • API access + custom integrations
  • Dedicated onboarding call
Done For You
For hosts whose time is the product. We handle the pipeline. You host the show.
Per result
Hand us the pipeline
  • You tell us what a booked guest is worth
  • You only pay when a pitch is accepted
  • Hadef team runs the whole workflow
  • Booking targets agreed up front
  • Direct line to the founders

All plans include the Show Brain, golden-thread pitch packages, multi-channel send, and the QA layer. Cancel any time. Annual plans save 20%.

Why this exists

Why podcast hosts need help.

After putting in 10,000+ hours of manually securing high-value guests for podcasts, webinars, and panel discussions, we've automated the end-to-end workflow.

A message can fail a hundred ways.

One wrong line and you've left a trail of half-read pitches in a prospect's DMs. The opportunity is done before the draft even made sense.

Context decays faster than you can track.

Keeping an AI co-pilot current on every podcast, article, LinkedIn post, and Substack your prospect ships is tedious. Finicky. Usually stale the day you use it.

Generic LLMs run out of room.

You want a pitch with nuance. LLMs without the right APIs can't reach voice-only transcripts, hit context limits, and stall on the searches that actually matter.

Built on MCP — plug it into the agent you already use.

Hadef's tools (research_prospect, get_pitch, approve_pitch) expose over MCP. Equip your agents with them, or let the app handle the whole flow. Same result.

FAQ

Questions hosts ask before they trust us with their pitches.

Is HADEF right for my kind of show?
If you think pitching is a craft, yes. If you describe yourself as an interviewer more naturally than as a podcaster, yes. If you'd rather send five pitches that land than fifty that don't, yes. HADEF is built for hosts who take the conversation seriously. If you're running volume plays with cold templates and you just want them automated, Smartlead or Lemlist will serve you better. HADEF is built for hosts who treat each pitch as craft.
What if the pitch HADEF drafts feels like a template?
It won't, because it isn't. Every pitch is built from the last eighteen months of your guest's interviews, articles, posts, and public talks. The hook is a specific moment they haven't explored yet, not a category they've been asked about before. You see the sources HADEF pulled from; you check the draft; you decide whether it sounds like you. If it doesn't, you rewrite the 10 percent that makes it yours. Template tools send generic copy on your behalf. HADEF hands you a brief and asks whether you're ready to send.
What if I pitch someone HADEF finds and they're actually wrong for my show?
HADEF's research surfaces verbatim evidence for every fit claim it makes. You see which of your episodes are closest to the guest's territory, which of their arguments line up with your editorial arc, which overlaps feel forced. If the fit is wrong, you'll see it before you send. No credit consumed. Better to pass than pitch badly.
Is hadef going to make my pitches sound like AI wrote them?
No. Hadef writes in your voice using your own back catalogue and the guest's own quotes. The DM lands in your composer; you decide whether to send. Nothing leaves your inbox without your name on it.
What does hadef do that a VA can't?
A VA can mass-send. Hadef pitches with context. It reads your show's archive, finds the verbatim quote your prospective guest gave to a tier-one publication this month, and writes the angle that your show specifically is positioned to follow. That's not labor. That's judgement at scale.
Does "deep context" mean the system knows sensitive information about my business?
No, not by default. Context awareness is focused on your prospective guests: their public interviews, articles, and posts. You train the Brain on your own podcast through a controlled process. You choose what to share. HADEF reads what's already public, not what's in your private Notion or your personal inbox.
How long until I see my first booked guest?
Most hosts ship their first hadef-drafted pitch within 24 hours of connecting their show. Booking timing depends on the guest, the angle, and the channel. Hadef gives you the at-bats; the swing is yours.
Will it work if my show is brand new with no archive?
Yes. You can dictate or upload your show's premise, target topics, and the kind of guest you want. Hadef builds a Brain from your seed context and grows it as you publish. The earlier you start, the deeper your moat.
What if a pitch is wrong or the guest's quote is misattributed?

Every pitch passes a QA layer that verifies the quote against the source URL and flags anything that doesn't check out. You see the verification before you send. If something slips through, we want to know fast.

Other tools tell you they keep humans in the loop. We tell you exactly where: at send.

Can I cancel any time?
Yes. No annual lock-in on monthly plans. Annual plans save 20% if you want to commit.
Does hadef integrate with Riverside, Descript, YouTube?
Yes. You can ingest transcripts directly from Riverside, YouTube, Spotify RSS, Apple Podcasts, and most podcast hosts. Drop a link, hadef does the rest.
What happens if a pitch I send misses anyway?
Most pitches miss. That is the job, not a failure. HADEF logs the miss, keeps the context, and learns whether the angle was off or the timing was wrong. If the guest replies later, which happens more often than you think, the Pipeline remembers where you left off. You don't start over, you resume.

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