Where founders find their next stage.
Your story is the company's best distribution. PitchCentric finds the shows that move pipeline, scores your odds before you pitch, and books you without a retainer.
15-day free trial, card required.
Retainers price you out. DIY eats your week.
Podcasts are where your buyers and your investors already spend attention, and a founder telling their own story is the most credible guest a show can book. The problem has never been demand. It is that the two ways to get booked both fail founders. An agency retainer costs more per month than most seed-stage marketing budgets, bills whether or not placements land, and keeps the producer relationships when the contract ends.
Doing it yourself fails differently. The research is a rabbit hole, the pitch writing is a craft you learn by being ignored, and the follow-up is exactly the kind of administrative loop that founder calendars destroy. Most founder-run outreach programs do not fail; they quietly stop in week three.
The fix is not more effort. It is moving the research, drafting, and bookkeeping into a system, and keeping the judgment, your voice and your yes, with you. The full process is written up in how to get on podcasts; PitchCentric is that process, operationalized.
Fifteen minutes a week, not a second job.
The system is built so the only work left for you is the work only you can do: deciding which rooms are worth your story.
Matches arrive daily
Shows are matched to your profile and ranked by Booking Probability, refreshed as hosts publish new episodes. You review a shortlist, not a database.
Pitches come drafted
Each pitch is grounded in the show's real recent episodes and graded before you see it. Approve, edit, or discard; nothing sends without you.
Follow-ups are handled
Sending goes through your own Gmail or Outlook, follow-ups run on schedule, and producer replies are flagged the moment they land.
What it costs, next to a publicist.
An honest comparison of the two structures. Publicist terms vary by firm; the structural differences do not.
| Traditional publicist | PitchCentric | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Monthly retainer, usually a multi-month minimum | From $39 per month, month to month |
| What you can verify up front | References and past placements | Booking Probability on every target show, before you pitch |
| Who owns the inbox | The publicist; relationships leave with them | You; pitches send from your own Gmail or Outlook |
| Trying it | A contract | 15-day free trial, card required |
Questions, answered.
How is this different from hiring a publicist?
A publicist sells hours and relationships on a retainer, typically with a multi-month minimum, and the producer relationships stay with the publicist. PitchCentric sells the system: scored shows, pitches drafted from real episodes, sending from your own Gmail or Outlook, and reply tracking, from $39 per month. You approve everything, and every relationship stays in your inbox.
How much time does it actually take?
The workflow is designed around a short weekly review: check your new matches, approve or edit the drafted pitches, and let follow-ups run on schedule. Setup is a one-time profile build. How fast bookings come depends on your topic and how consistently you send; the 15-day trial, card required, is the honest way to find out for your specific story.
Find your next stage.
Scored shows, grounded pitches, and replies in your own inbox. Founder Solo from $39 per month.
15-day free trial, card required. Plans from $39 per month.