Ep. 34: How Tracy Hazzard Leveraged AI and ClickUp Automations to Produce Over 50,000 Podcast Episodes.

Scale Tales

In the ever-shifting world of entrepreneurship, scaling isn't just about growth it's about building systems that can evolve with you. Tracy Hazzard, a trailblazing CEO and co-founder of Podetize, has mastered the art of combining human creativity with AI-powered efficiency to transform the podcasting industry from the inside out.

In this scale tale, Tracy shares how she helped scale Podetize into one of the largest podcast production platforms in the world, producing more than 50,000 episodes across 1,000+ shows. From custom workflow automation to bridging teams across five countries, she reveals how she turned a sprawling production process into a streamlined, AI-driven engine one that still feels deeply human at its core.

Tracy opens up about the early challenges of AI transcription, and how those hurdles led her team to engineer a proprietary feedback loop that makes their system smarter with every episode it touches. She breaks down how they trained AI models to understand complex industry lingo, adapt to brand voices, and even recognize nuances in gender and dialect closing transcription accuracy gaps that most tools still miss.

More than just adopting AI, Tracy explains how Podetize built its own tech stack on interchangeable large language models like OpenAI and Google's Gemini PaLM, giving their platform long-term adaptability and resilience. With a firm belief that innovation should serve the entrepreneur, not overwhelm them, Tracy offers a compelling look at how AI can be trained to scale not just content but culture, quality, and brand identity.

Key Takeaways:

• Why real growth starts with building smart systems that learn as you go.
• How feedback loops can teach AI to replicate your best team members.
• The role of proprietary data in creating high-accuracy, brand-aligned outputs.
• How to future-proof your AI strategy by staying platform-agnostic.

Tune in to hear how Tracy Hazzard is rewriting the rules of content production and what every entrepreneur can learn about scaling with purpose, precision, and a little bit of machine magic.

🏆𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐏𝐌𝐏? 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐃𝐔𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭!

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