TRANSPARENT ROADMAP
What we're building.
In plain English.
No vague "coming soon" cards. Every version has a trigger — it ships when a real signal fires, not when a clock runs out.
SHIPPING AT LAUNCH
v1
Building now
Trigger
Validation gate cleared.
15 conversations,
3 substantive replies,
1 discovery call.
Validation gate cleared.
15 conversations,
3 substantive replies,
1 discovery call.
The financial brain — core.
Everything to run your podcast as a real business from day one.
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Sponsor Rate Calculator
Defensible rate from your actual downloads and niche benchmarks. Evidence, not guesswork.
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"Quit the day job" calculator
Pipeline + cashflow + tax → the month you can quit. You'll screenshot it.
Episode P&L
Every dollar tagged to the episode that earned it. See which formats actually pay.
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Sponsor Campaign Report PDF
One click. Branded PDF: downloads, UTM clicks, promo codes. Send it before they ask.
Sponsor CRM
Prospect → Pitched → Booked → Live → Paid. Built for ad slots, not generic deals.
AI transaction input
Voice, receipt photo, email forward → parsed, tagged, filed. 60 seconds per income event.
Tax forecasts
US Schedule C, UK Self Assessment, AU BAS. Live — based on this year's income.
Live media kit
Auto-updating public URL. Your downloads, rates, recent episodes — always current.
Cashflow forecast
From confirmed deals only. No bank connection — ever.
Money Monday digest
Weekly email: who paid, who's overdue, what's forecast.
NEXT
v1.1
Coming soon
Trigger
20+ users with an
active sponsor deal
in the CRM.
20+ users with an
active sponsor deal
in the CRM.
Sponsor operations.
Close the cycle. Turn first deals into recurring relationships.
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AI "Should I take this deal?"
Paste the email. Take it / don't / conditional — with reasoning tied to your rate and cashflow.
Auto-renewal tracker
Surfaces renewals 30 days before flight dates expire. Drafts the email. You review and send.
Sponsor pitch generator
Click "pitch" → personalised cold email with your live stats. First draft in seconds.
Sponsor memory
"They said ask us in Q2." Surfaces on March 31. Automatically.
PLANNED
v1.2
Planned
Trigger
50+ users with
3 months of data.
50+ users with
3 months of data.
Full financial picture.
Deeper insight. Membership revenue. Tax packs for your accountant.
Episode profitability ranker
Your top episodes by net profit and why. Format, length, topic, sponsor — what drives it.
Membership revenue
Patreon, Supercast, Memberful income in your P&L. Read-only. No money movement.
Receipt forwarding inbox
receipts@yourshow.castmath.com — forward any vendor email, AI files it.
Annual tax pack
One ZIP for your accountant. Pre-formatted for Schedule C, SA103, or BAS.
HORIZON
v2
On the horizon
Trigger
500+ paying users
across multiple niches.
500+ paying users
across multiple niches.
Network effects.
When enough podcasters use CastMath, the product gets smarter for everyone.
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Niche CPM Benchmark Index
Anonymised rate data from 500+ shows. Your Rate Calculator uses CastMath's own data, not public stubs.
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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.
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, Captivate, Transistor — 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.
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