Aurilix Documentation

Overview

Aurilix is a podcast monitoring and relevance-filtering service. It watches newly released episodes from public podcasts, compares each matching episode with the interests a user has defined, records the analysis, and sends an email when the episode is relevant.

A user can monitor specific podcast shows, named guests across the public podcast catalog, or both. The goal is to find the small number of episodes worth the user's attention without requiring the user to inspect every new release manually.

How Aurilix works

Aurilix follows a continuing monitoring workflow:

1. The user describes the subjects they care about in an interest profile.
2. The user adds podcast shows or guest names as monitoring sources.
3. When a new public episode matches a monitored show or guest, Aurilix treats it as a candidate for analysis.
4. Aurilix evaluates the available episode data against the complete interest profile.
5. The analysis is saved as either accepted (relevant) or rejected (not relevant).
6. Accepted analyses are emailed to the user when report emails are enabled.
7. The Results page keeps accepted and rejected analyses available for review.

Monitoring is prospective. Adding a podcast or guest starts watching for new matching episodes; it does not automatically analyze that source's existing back catalog.

When analysis is active

Aurilix analyzes new candidates only when all of the following are true:

• The account is verified and its trial or paid subscription is active.
• At least one podcast or guest is monitored.
• The interest profile is not empty.
• Report emails are enabled in Account.
• The account has not reached its rolling 30-day episode analysis limit.

If any requirement is missing, analysis pauses. Configuration remains saved, so monitoring can resume after the account is reactivated, interests are restored, reports are enabled, or capacity becomes available.

Product scope

Aurilix is designed to decide which new podcast episodes deserve attention. It is not a podcast player and does not replace the publisher's episode page or the user's listening application. Every report links to the original episode so the user can verify the context and listen at the source.

Aurilix reports what its relevance analysis found in the episode data available at the time. It does not guarantee that every relevant passage, guest appearance, or mentioned entity will be detected.

Overview

Sources define which new episodes can become candidates for analysis. Aurilix supports two source types: specific podcast shows and named podcast guests. An account is configured when it has at least one source and a non-empty interest profile.

Sources select candidates; they do not decide relevance. A monitored show or guest match sends an episode to the interest analysis, which makes the accepted or rejected decision.

An episode is analyzed once per account even when it matches several sources, such as both a monitored podcast and a monitored guest.

Podcasts

Adding a podcast tells Aurilix to consider every newly received episode from that show. The user can search the catalog by podcast name, inspect the publisher and available catalog details, and add or remove the show from Sources or Explore.

Podcast monitoring is intentionally broad. Aurilix does not require the title or description to contain an interest before analyzing the episode. The separate AI relevance step uses the available episode content to make that decision.

Guests

Adding a guest name tells Aurilix to watch for that person's appearances across public podcasts, including shows the user does not monitor directly. Guest names are matched without regard to capitalization or surrounding spaces.

Guest monitoring depends on structured guest information supplied with an episode. It is not a general search for any mention of the person's name inside every podcast transcript. If a publisher or data provider does not identify the guest, Aurilix may not recognize the appearance.

New episode timing

Aurilix reacts to new episode data as it arrives. Notifications are normally delivered within a few hours of release, after source matching and analysis have completed. Delivery time depends on when the public episode and its supporting data become available.

Incoming episodes more than seven days old are ignored. Adding a source therefore starts future monitoring and does not create reports for an old catalog. Removing a source stops future matches but does not delete analyses already stored in Results.

Supported podcasts

Aurilix monitors public podcasts from the open podcast ecosystem. A show publicly available through services such as Apple Podcasts or Spotify can normally be found in the catalog.

Private podcast feeds, private Substack podcasts, and YouTube-only shows are not supported. Availability in one listening application does not by itself guarantee that a public podcast feed and episode data are available to Aurilix.

Overview

Interests describe what makes an episode useful to the user. Aurilix compares each candidate episode with this interest profile and uses it to decide relevance, assign a score, explain the match, and select supporting snippets.

All interest lines form one combined profile. Aurilix makes one overall relevance decision for the episode; it does not produce a separate accepted or rejected decision for every line.

Interest profile format

Enter one interest per line and begin every line with a dash followed by a space. Blank lines and lines without a dash are rejected so the profile remains unambiguous.

- SaaS pricing strategy- Customer retention for subscription products- Archaeological evidence about early civilizations- Clinical research into vitamin B1 treatment

The lines are natural-language descriptions, not catalog search queries. Boolean operators, quotation marks, and wildcard syntax are features of Explore search and are not required in the interest profile.

Writing useful interests

A useful interest is specific enough to explain what substance matters, but broad enough to recognize an unexpected conversation about it. Include the audience, context, problem, or kind of evidence when those details change whether an episode is worth hearing.

• Use "SaaS pricing for small bootstrapped products" when general pricing discussion is too broad.
• Use "evidence about the origins of urban civilization" when any casual history reference would be too weak.
• Use "practical customer-retention methods for subscription businesses" when the desired result is actionable advice.

Interests do not need to repeat podcast or guest names. Sources determine which episodes enter analysis, while interests determine whether their contents matter.

Changing interests

Saved changes apply to future episode analyses. Existing accepted and rejected results keep the decision, score, reason, and extracted information produced under the previous profile; Aurilix does not automatically reanalyze them.

Clearing the interest profile disables analysis without removing monitored podcasts, monitored guests, or historical results. Adding interests again allows future matching episodes to be analyzed.

Overview

Analysis is the AI evaluation performed after a new episode matches a monitored podcast or guest. Aurilix submits the available structured episode data and the user's complete interest profile, then requires a structured relevance result.

An analyzed episode consumes usage whether the final decision is accepted or rejected. Source matching alone does not consume an analysis; the episode must reach and complete the AI evaluation.

Relevance decision

Every completed analysis contains a relevant boolean, a score from 0 to 1, and a concise reason. A relevant result is accepted and can generate an email. A non-relevant result is rejected, saved for inspection, and does not generate an email.

The score represents the model's assessment of relevance to this user's interests. It is not a review score, a measure of general episode quality, or a prediction that every listener will value the episode.

Report contents

Depending on what is present in the episode, an Aurilix report can include:

• The episode title, podcast name, identified guests, and original episode link.
• The relevance score and a short explanation of why the episode did or did not match.
• Supporting snippets that contain the substance relevant to the interest profile.
• Books, websites, people, other podcasts, and products mentioned in the episode.
• A short contextual explanation for each extracted mention.

When a transcript is available, Aurilix prefers direct quotations with minimal cleanup. When no transcript is available, snippets can be faithful paraphrases derived from other available episode fields. Empty categories are omitted from the displayed report.

The reason and snippets form a concise, relevance-focused summary. Aurilix does not attempt to produce a complete chapter-by-chapter summary of every analyzed episode.

Interpreting analysis

The analysis is an attention filter, not a complete or authoritative transcript. Quotes, paraphrases, names, links, and explanations can be incomplete or mistaken. The original episode link remains the source for checking wording and context.

A rejected decision means Aurilix did not find enough clear relevance under the interest profile used at that time. It does not mean the episode has no value, and a different or more specific interest profile could produce a different decision for a future episode.

Overview

Results is the review history for completed episode analyses. It includes reports Aurilix accepted and emailed as well as episodes it analyzed and rejected. This makes the filtering decision visible instead of silently discarding every non-match.

The usage summary shows how many episodes were analyzed during the rolling past 30 days. That count includes accepted and rejected analyses.

Email reports

Aurilix emails only accepted analyses. The subject identifies the podcast and episode, and the message contains the same core details available in Results: score, reason, snippets, extracted mentions, and a link to the original episode.

The "Send me reports" switch in Account controls both new analysis and report delivery. Turning it off pauses analysis of incoming candidates, so no new accepted or rejected result is created while reports are disabled. Product announcements have a separate email switch.

Results page

The Results page displays the 30 newest analyses in reverse chronological order. Each card can contain the podcast, guests, episode link, score, reason, supporting snippets, extracted entities, and the age of the report.

The All, Accepted, and Rejected filters change which of those loaded reports are visible. They do not rerun analysis, change a decision, or alter usage.

Accepted and rejected

Accepted reports use the normal result style and are eligible for email delivery. Rejected reports are marked in red and remain available to explain what Aurilix filtered out. Both are completed AI analyses and therefore both count toward the analysis limit and usage-based charge.

History

Changing interests or removing a source affects future monitoring but does not rewrite previous reports. Aurilix retains stored episode analyses for approximately three months, while the interface presents the 30 most recent reports.

Overview

Explore helps an active account find additional public podcasts. Search queries the catalog directly, while Related finds shows associated with podcasts the user already monitors. Either view can add or remove a podcast without returning to Sources.

Catalog search

Search results can include the podcast name, publisher, description, activity status, audience estimate, episode count, and rating counts when those fields are available. Searches are case-insensitive and return up to 50 catalog results ordered by estimated audience size.

Catalog search requires an active trial or subscription. Adding a search result makes it a monitored podcast; removing it stops future monitoring for that show.

Search syntax

• Words separated by spaces use broad matching. podcast marketing can find shows containing either word.
• Quotation marks require an exact phrase, such as "podcast marketing".
• An asterisk inside a quoted phrase replaces zero or more words, such as "digital * marketing".
• AND, OR, and NOT combine or exclude terms.
• Parentheses group expressions, such as "podcast marketing" AND (strategy OR tips).

Related podcasts

Related combines catalog recommendations for the podcasts currently monitored by the user, removes shows already being monitored, removes duplicates, and presents the remaining shows by estimated audience size and then name.

Related is based on relationships between podcast shows. It is not personalized from the interest profile, relevance scores, or previously accepted reports. If no podcast is monitored, there is no source from which to generate related shows.

Overview

Account contains plan status, usage, billing controls, analysis spending control, email preferences, password reset, and account deletion. The current trial status or remaining trial days also appear in the top bar.

Trial and pricing

New Aurilix accounts receive a 14-day free trial and do not need a credit card to start. During an active trial, the user can configure sources and interests, search and explore the catalog, analyze matching new episodes, receive relevant reports, and inspect Results.

The current paid plan costs $9.95 per month plus $0.25 for each analyzed episode. An analyzed episode is a completed AI evaluation, so both accepted and rejected decisions are metered. Merely monitoring a source or receiving an episode that is skipped does not create an analysis charge.

Usage limits

Aurilix applies an episode analysis limit over a rolling 30-day window. The default limit is 100 completed analyses. Trial accounts stop analyzing when they reach that limit. A paid account can set its own maximum in Analysis spending control.

When the limit is reached, incoming candidates are skipped until older analyses leave the 30-day window or the paid account raises its limit. The Account page shows current 30-day usage, and paid accounts can see the pending metered charge for the current billing period.

Account controls

• Manage billing, update the payment method, or cancel an active subscription through the billing portal.
• Keep report emails and product announcements enabled or disabled independently.
• Reset the account password by email.
• Delete the Aurilix account after cancelling any active paid subscription.

Cancelling a subscription preserves access until the displayed access end date. Account deletion is permanent; associated application logs are scheduled for deletion within 30 days, while payment records can remain with the payment processor as required by financial law.