The dossier
Know your guest like an old friend
Give Curious a name and a link. Minutes later you’re reading a working dossier — their philosophies and contrarian positions, recent work and media, books, previous appearances, the things they care about more than people realize.
Then go where search can’t. Curious writes a short set of questions and a share-ready note, and your guest forwards the link to the people who know them best — a former cofounder, an old editor. What those people choose to share becomes unique angles for the conversation. No cold outreach, no scraping — only what people volunteer.
The question pool
Never start from a blank page
Before you write a word, Curious has done the reading. Every interview opens with a pool of researched questions — organized by topic, each grounded in real sources you can open and check. The busywork is handled; the judgment stays yours. Keep what’s good, cut what isn’t, rewrite anything.
Four AI models research your guest in parallel, each from a different angle — so the pool is broad and well-sourced before you make it your own. You’re always in the driver’s seat.
- Claudethe close reader
- ChatGPTthe generalist
- Geminithe lateral thinker
- Perplexitythe librarian
Your voice
Ask questions only you could ask
The best interviewers work from principles — open, neutral, one thought at a time, written to draw out a story rather than a yes. Those principles are baked into Curious, so every question is well-formed to pull the most compelling answer from your guest.
Then make them yours. Curious learns how you sound and tunes every question to your voice — the more you edit and keep, the sharper the next set gets.
Live mode
Run the interview together
Co-hosts, producers, and researchers work in the same interview at the same time. A live chat with tapbacks runs beside the questions, and large signals tell each other when to go deeper or wrap soon — without a word spoken on tape.
A shared question queue lets you shape the direction of the interview together, live. And a Slack integration lets you ask your community for the questions they’re hoping you’ll ask — pulled straight into the pool, credited to whoever asked.
The retrospective
Run a retrospective on every interview
Drop in the recording or transcript and Curious gives you a coach’s read: the moments where a question sparked a compelling response, the follow-up you missed, your talk-time against the guest’s, and one thing to practice before the next conversation.
Every interview makes you better at the next one. Curious shows you what worked and what to try, so you get more out of every guest you sit down with.
After the interview
Show notes, done for you
Curious does the tedious part of publishing for you — collecting every book, link, and resource mentioned, and writing an episode description in your show’s voice. Transcripts come in by paste or audio, and you can export the whole doc to Word or PDF anytime. Your episodes give listeners compelling, accurate, valuable information without the busywork.