How it works
How Reducer works.
Text goes into a show's inbox from four places. Reducer produces it and drops the episode in your podcast app.
Your AI assistant, over MCP
Reducer runs an MCP server at mcp.reducerai.com. Connect Claude
(or anything else that speaks MCP) once, and your assistant can push segments,
see what's in the inbox, compile an episode, and publish it — all from inside
a conversation.
This is the shortest path from "read this for me" to hearing it on your commute. You finish some research, say "put that in tomorrow's episode," and it's done. Your assistant can also check whether it already covered a topic before adding a duplicate.
The other three ways in
Email. Every show can mint its own address at
in.reducerai.com. Forward a newsletter or an article to it and
the subject becomes the segment title. Revoke the address any time and mint
a new one.
The API. A REST API at api.reducerai.com with
an API key, for scripts and anything you've built yourself.
The web app. Paste text in directly when that's easiest.
The inbox model
Every show has an inbox. Things arrive as segments — short pieces of text, each with a title and an optional source. The inbox holds them until you've got enough for an episode.
That split is on purpose. You capture whenever; you publish when you mean to. Ten segments across a day, then one episode. Or one segment published right away. After you compile, you can reorder or cut segments on the draft before it goes out.
What Reducer adds
A producer pass writes a cold open — a short greeting with the date and a rundown of what's in the episode — and a sign-off to close it. You can give it tone direction, or turn it off.
Episodes come out with chapters you can tap to jump between and a transcript, both carried in the feed for podcast apps that support them.
One voice or two
By default a single narrator reads the show in a natural, lifelike voice — pick a preset per show and it stays consistent across episodes.
Turn on dialogue mode and episodes become a conversation between two hosts instead. Reducer picks a contrasting second voice for you, or you choose the pairing.
Courses
Point a show at a course and Reducer releases one lesson per episode, in order, on whatever schedule the show is on. There's a catalog of shared courses, and you can publish your own into it — every listener starts at lesson one on their own clock.
Your private feed
Each show gets a permanent private RSS URL. Subscribe once in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or any podcast app, and new episodes appear on their own. The URL includes a token, so only people you hand it to can subscribe.
For a single episode, generate a listen page instead — a shareable link with the audio, chapters, and transcript that opens without an account.
On a schedule
Put a show on a daily or weekly schedule, in your own timezone, and episodes publish themselves — a brief waiting for you each morning with no manual step. If the inbox is empty at publish time, Reducer skips that run rather than shipping a hollow episode.
Ready to set up your first show? Open the app.