TRANSPARENT ROADMAP · UPDATED 2026-05-10
What's shipped.
What's next.
Every line below has a real status. No "coming soon" cards covering for vapour. The product is live — most of v1 and most of v1.1 are in production today.
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SHIPPED · LIVE NOW
4
NEXT · v1.1 QUEUED
8
HORIZON · v2+
SHIPPED · v1
v1
Live now
Status
Production-ready since 2026-05-08.
14-day trial open.
Founding tier active.
Production-ready since 2026-05-08.
14-day trial open.
Founding tier active.
The financial brain — core.
Everything you need to run your podcast as a real business, in production today.
✓ SHIPPED
Sponsor Rate Calculator
145 cited public benchmarks across 29 niches × 5 geos. Anchored to your top-quartile audience. Acast / AdvertiseCast / Adopter Media / Magellan AI / IAB-PwC sources.
✓ SHIPPED
AI Deal Advisor
Paste sponsor email → ACCEPT / COUNTER / WALK_AWAY verdict, red-flag clauses, draft reply. Anchored to your real benchmark + audience.
✓ SHIPPED
Sponsor Inbox + email forwarding
Forward inbound sponsor emails to a per-podcast address. AI parses sender / rate / format / term / exclusivity. One click promotes to deal.
✓ SHIPPED
Voice transaction entry
"Got two thousand from RetoolDB for a mid-roll on episode 142." Drawer pre-fills the form. You review, save.
✓ SHIPPED
Photo OCR (receipt scanning)
Drop a receipt screenshot. Payee, amount, date extracted via Claude vision. Pre-fills the expense form.
✓ SHIPPED
Episode-level P&L
Every dollar tagged to the episode that earned it. See profit per episode, format, sponsor.
✓ SHIPPED
9-stage sponsor pipeline
Lead → Qualified → Proposal → Negotiating → Agreed → Invoiced → Paid → Completed → Lost. Real ad-stages, not generic CRM.
✓ SHIPPED
Tax forecast — AU / US / UK
GST + Medicare / SE tax / VAT + Class 4 NI. The "set aside %" headline updates with every transaction.
✓ SHIPPED
Cashflow forecast (12 weeks)
Stage-weighted: INVOICED 95%, AGREED 80%, NEGOTIATING 60%, etc. Lean weeks highlighted. Recurring costs sharpen the burn line.
✓ SHIPPED
Recurring costs
Hosting, editing, software, music — paste once, auto-allocated to weekly cashflow.
✓ SHIPPED
Multi-currency invoicing
Sequential CM-YYYY-NNNN numbers. Net 30 / 60. Issued in the deal's currency, not yours. Print to PDF, send to sponsor.
✓ SHIPPED
Sponsor Campaign Report PDF
Three-page renewal pack — campaign summary, per-episode performance, three rate options for renewal.
✓ SHIPPED
Live Media Kit
Public, branded URL with your top-quartile audience and rate card. Sponsor-facing, no auth, sharable link.
✓ SHIPPED
Renewal Tracker
Dashboard widget surfaces every deal with a renewalDueDate inside 60 days. Color-graded by urgency. Snooze + edit-date inline.
✓ SHIPPED
Transistor download sync
Connect your Transistor API key. Episodes auto-match by RSS. Downloads sync on demand (nightly cron queued for v1.1).
✓ SHIPPED
Buzzsprout download sync
Paste your Buzzsprout token + podcast ID. 30-day, 90-day, and lifetime plays sync to every matching episode in one click.
✓ SHIPPED
Podbean download sync
Register an app in Podbean's Developer Portal, paste the client ID + secret. We exchange them for a bearer token via OAuth client_credentials and sync episodes. Per-episode play counts require Podbean Network plan; basic-tier users fall through to CSV import automatically.
✓ SHIPPED
Megaphone download sync
Paste your Megaphone API token + organization ID (the UUID from your CMS URL). 30-day and lifetime downloads sync to every matching episode. Enterprise / network tier only — Spotify-owned platform.
✓ SHIPPED
CSV import (every other host)
Captivate, Spreaker, Libsyn, Acast, Apple Podcasts Connect, Spotify for Creators. Paste their stats CSV — we auto-detect the title / date / downloads columns, match to your episodes by GUID or title+date, write the numbers in. Captivate's API is private (email-gated) so CSV is the durable path there.
NEXT · v1.1
v1.1
Building next
Trigger
5+ founding members
signed up. Some
features pulled forward
by user demand.
5+ founding members
signed up. Some
features pulled forward
by user demand.
Sponsor operations + automation.
Close the loop. Turn first deals into recurring relationships. Stop typing.
QUEUED
Captivate API integration
Captivate's API is currently email-gated (you must contact api@captivate.fm for credentials). Once they expose endpoint docs publicly we'll wire it the same way as Buzzsprout. Until then the CSV import covers Captivate cleanly.
QUEUED
Late-payment auto-chase
Inngest job watches INVOICED deals. Sends a polite Resend reminder at +7, +14, +30 days past due. You can cancel or customise the copy.
QUEUED
Renewal email reminders
When a deal's renewalDueDate hits 30 / 14 / 7 days out, sends you an email pre-drafting the pitch with this campaign's stats.
QUEUED
Sponsor memory
"They said ask in Q2." Surfaces on March 31. Notes you write on a deal stay attached to the sponsor across renewals.
PLANNED · v1.2
v1.2
Planned
Trigger
20+ users with
3 months of real data.
20+ users with
3 months of real data.
Full financial picture.
Deeper insight. Membership revenue. Tax packs for your accountant. Drag-and-drop pipeline.
Drag-and-drop kanban pipeline
Current click-to-advance works fine; drag is nicer at scale once users have 10+ deals in flight.
Membership revenue (Patreon / Memberful / Supercast)
Read-only ingest into your P&L. No money movement. Manual paste flow first, OAuth where APIs allow.
Annual tax pack export
One ZIP for your accountant. Pre-formatted for Schedule C / SA103 / BAS. CSV expense register, asset register, mileage.
Episode profitability ranker
Top episodes by net profit + the why. Format, length, topic, sponsor — what actually drives it for your show.
HORIZON · v2
v2
On the horizon
Trigger
50+ paying users
across multiple niches.
50+ paying users
across multiple niches.
Network effects.
When enough podcasters use CastMath, the product gets smarter for everyone.
Signature
Niche CPM Benchmark Index
Anonymised rate data from 50+ shows. Your Rate Calculator uses CastMath's own dataset, not just the public stubs.
Signature
Peer benchmark dashboard
"Shows your size in your niche earn 18% more from host-read than you do." Only possible at scale.
Sponsor radar
Brands currently advertising on shows like yours. Surface leads before they go to competitors.
Multi-show portfolio P&L
2-3 shows. One financial picture. One tax filing. Co-host revenue splits.
What we will never build.
Production tools are solved. We integrate with them — we don't compete with them.
Recording
Riverside and Descript own this. We pull from them.
Editing
Descript owns this. CastMath works with the episodes it produces.
Hosting
Buzzsprout / Transistor / Captivate — we import from their APIs.
Short-form clips
Opus Clip and Submagic do this. We don't need to.
Bank connections
Architectural choice, not a technical limit. Read why.
Newsletter sending
Beehiiv and Kit own this. We integrate with them.
The product is live. Founding pricing closes at 50 customers — 6 already claimed.