What we touch.
What we don't.
Most podcaster tools want your bank login. We don't. CastMath was built specifically so it never has to. Here's exactly what that means in practice.
We connect to your podcast host for download stats. That's it. Your money is your business — CastMath helps you record and understand it, never reaches in to grab it.
Two columns. One choice.
What CastMath collects.
- Your email and authentication tokens — to give you an account.
- Your podcast RSS URL and episode metadata — to compute Episode P&L.
- Transactions you give us — typed, voiced, photographed or forwarded.
- Sponsor pipeline data you record — names, deals, stages.
- Your subscription billing — via Stripe (when you become a paying customer).
- Anonymous usage telemetry — to improve the product.
What CastMath refuses to touch.
- Your bank account. No Plaid, no Basiq, no Yodlee, no Open Banking. Ever.
- Your sponsor payments and invoices. Sponsors pay by bank transfer, invoice or direct deposit — not through any platform we touch. How you invoice and get paid is entirely between you and the sponsor.
- Your PayPal, Wise or Square. No payment-processor reads, anywhere.
- Your Patreon, Memberful or Substack income. You record what you've earned manually.
- Your raw bank statements. If you upload a CSV, we parse the entries you choose — never the whole file.
- Your data for AI training. Not now. Not in any future model.
Why we drew the line where we did.
Most podcaster finance tools sell on automation. Connect your bank — we'll do the rest.
The trade-off is read-access to every dollar that moves in your accounts. Not just your podcast. Your salary. Your mortgage. Your spouse's joint card. The Friday-night sushi. The whole of your financial life, in their hands, indefinitely.
Bank-feed aggregators have been breached. Their subprocessors have been breached. Their employees have left to start companies that compete with the ones whose data they had access to.
CastMath made a different bet. We give up the automation. We give up the bank-feed sales pitch. In exchange, you give up nothing of value to us. Your bank stays your bank.
What we ask instead is 60 seconds of your time per income event.
Voice memo: "ACME paid me eighteen hundred for episode forty-seven." Done. Photo of a deposit notification: AI parses it. You confirm. Done. Email forward of an invoice: parsed automatically.
The total time investment is measured in minutes per week. The ceiling on what we know about you is exactly what you choose to tell us. That's the deal.
This isn't a marketing claim. It's an architectural choice.
The CastMath codebase has hard-coded build-time blocks against importing any bank-feed, payment-processor or membership-platform SDK. Adding one would require a deliberate architectural change, a public commitment, and a versioned policy update. The trust pitch isn't a promise we could quietly walk back. It's a constraint we chose to live inside.
Our subprocessor stack, in plain English.
Take everything out.
Wipe everything any time.
Take it all with you.
From your account settings, click Export everything. We package every transaction, episode record, sponsor deal, voice memo and uploaded receipt into a downloadable archive — structured JSON for your data, plus the original media files.
No wait time, no email follow-up, no support ticket. Click and download.
Wipe it all instantly.
From settings: Delete account and all data. Two clicks. Active records removed within 24 hours. Backups purged within 30 days. Tax-relevant transaction logs may be retained up to 7 years per Australian tax law — but only the bare records required for legal compliance.
If you need expedited deletion or have a specific compliance requirement, email hello@castmath.com.
Trust isn't asked for.
It's earned.
CastMath made the architectural choice. The next move is yours.
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