Semantic search · for podcast archives

Help your listeners find the episode they're looking for.

Your back catalogue is a goldmine — buried in chronology. Podcast Navigator turns it into a knowledge base your audience can actually explore, by topic, theme or question.

1,000+ Episodes indexed
2 Live archives
~80ms Avg. response
§ 01 — Live archives

Two real shows. Search them now.

No demo videos, no waitlist. These archives are running on the production system today — type a question and see what comes back.

§ 02 — How it works

Three steps. Then you're shipped.

No engineering effort on your side. We index your back catalogue once, then keep it in sync with your RSS feed.

i Ingest

We point the pipeline at your RSS feed.

Every episode — past and future — flows through an embedding model and an entity-extraction pass.

~5 min/100 eps · resume-safe · idempotent

e Embed

Each episode becomes a searchable vector.

Topics, people, places, periods. Stored in a vector database — searchable by meaning, not just exact words.

OpenAI embeddings · pgvector · entity tags

s Ship

A page or widget you drop into your site.

Hosted, branded to match your show. No backend, no build step on your side. We keep it updated automatically.

< 1 day from RSS to live page

§ 03 — The shift

From chronology to conversation.

Most archives still behave like a 2008 RSS reader. Yours doesn't have to.

What listeners get today

  • A reverse-chronological wall of titles
  • Search that only matches exact words
  • No way to follow themes across years
  • Anything older than a year, effectively gone

What you can offer instead

  • Ask a question, get the right episode
  • Browse by topic, person, era or theme
  • Surface related episodes automatically
  • Make the long tail discoverable again
§ 04 — What you get

A finished surface, not a stack to assemble.

Everything below is included by default. Customisation lives at the surface, not the plumbing.

Natural-language search

"Anything on Roman emperors who went mad" returns the right episodes — not a 404.

Two search modes

Close-match for direct hits, exploratory for serendipity. Listeners pick the energy.

Auto-tagged entities

People, places, periods. Browse the archive like a museum, not a feed.

Series-aware filtering

Multi-part series collapse cleanly so a single Cold War arc isn't 14 cards.

Members + public split

Premium and free episodes coexist with a single toggle — no parallel UIs.

Stays in sync, forever

New episodes get embedded automatically. You ship, we stay current.

Onboarding a small cohort

Make your archive worth re-visiting.

We're working with a handful of podcasts to refine the surface. If your back catalogue deserves more than chronology, get in touch.

hello@bernielabs.io