What Kind of Podcast Partner Do You Actually Need?

How we built this

The result comes from a written rubric based on the JAR System: Job, Audience, Result. You tell us which capabilities your team already has. The rest are your gaps. Each gap has a weight, and the weights follow your main objective by fixed rules. A show for executive trust, for example, gives recording quality more weight than a show for pipeline does. ObjectiveConcept (Job)AudienceMeasurement (Result)Recording and editingDistribution Build executive trust 30 25 20 20 5 Pipeline and lead generation 25 25 30 10 10 Brand authority with a niche audience 25 30 15 20 10 Internal engagement 30 25 15 20 10 Sales enablement 25 25 30 10 10 Other 30 25 30 10 5 Three things are judged separately. Capability match is the share of your gap weight a partner type covers, shown as Strong, Moderate or Limited. Commercial feasibility compares your annual budget band with how much of the work the partner type would take on. That is a planning assumption, not a market price, so get quotes. Project readiness looks at your concept, audience research, measurement, success metric and project stage. Partner types are ranked by capability match, then feasibility, then by how little they overlap what you already have. A remaining tie is shown as a tie and the page names both options. Alphabetical order only decides which is listed first. A strategy-first approach is a next action, not a partner type, so it is never ranked. Your capabilities are self-reported, so the tool treats what your team does, how