Turn your archive into a body of work.

Every recorded conversation made searchable, source-linked, and traceable to the exact moment each idea was spoken.

You have spent years recording serious conversations — the kind that take preparation, patience, and a real respect for ideas. We've listened to enough of them to know how much thought goes into a single good hour.

Somewhere in episode 47, hour two, there is an explanation your listeners still write to you about. Somewhere else, a guest made a claim that quietly connects to three later conversations. You already know the truth of it: you haven't published a sequence of episodes. You've built a body of work.

But to almost everyone else, it still behaves like a feed. The newest episode gets the attention; the older ones sink; your best thinking grows harder to find with every week that passes.

Syntopic exists to change that. We turn a finished archive into something people can search, cite, trust, and study — transcripts synced to the audio, every claim traceable to the exact moment it was said, nothing paraphrased and nothing invented. We build on durable, well-understood foundations rather than whatever is fashionable this year, because an archive is meant to outlast the platform it lives on.

We do this work by hand, one archive at a time. You'll deal with the two of us — not a dashboard, not a support queue — and we'll treat your catalogue with the care we'd want for our own.

The easiest way to understand what we mean is to see it. Send us a single episode, and we'll show you what your archive can become.

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Chad Nantais
Chad Nantais, chad@getsyntopic.com
Co-Founder
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Paul Salazar
Paul Salazar, paul@getsyntopic.com
Co-Founder

From feed to body of work.

Finding an episode is only the beginning. The real value is helping people follow the argument, hear the source, and see how the ideas connect.

Before After
A back catalog buried in a feed. A structured archive people can actually use.
Listeners half-remember great moments. They can return to the exact passage.
Important ideas decay after each release. Older episodes keep working as part of the whole.
Your work is judged by the newest episode. Your archive is seen as a body of thought.
AI can flatten your voice into generic summaries. You control the source-grounded version of your work.

Click a claim. Hear the source.

A reader should not have to trust a floating summary. They should be able to see the claim, hear the original moment, and follow where the idea leads.

A claim is extracted

“A serious archive should reveal how the ideas connect.”

The idea is placed in context

Related concepts: Memory · Teaching · Institutions

Related moments: 8 other passages across the archive

A done-for-you teachable archive.

We turn long-form content into structured intellectual infrastructure — arranged so people can find an idea, follow the argument, and understand where it fits.

Synced transcripts

Every episode becomes readable, searchable, and tied to its original audio.

Timestamped claims

Important claims, definitions, arguments, and examples link back to exact source moments.

Concept pages

Recurring ideas, people, works, themes, and debates become durable pages across the archive.

Knowledge graph

Episodes stop standing alone. Their claims, themes, people, and references begin to connect.

Learning paths

Newcomers move from “where do I start?” to guided routes through the material.

Agent-ready structure

Stable pages and clean metadata make the archive easier for search engines, AI tools, and researchers to understand and cite.

Not a chatbot. Not a transcript app. Not more content.

Most tools stop at transcripts, summaries, or chat. Syntopic goes further: it gives the archive structure.

No orphaned summaries

Every important claim should carry its evidence.

No generic voice

We do not let a general model blur your ideas into consensus.

No content sludge

We organize the thought that already exists. We do not manufacture more noise.

Built for stewards of serious archives.

Best fit: you already believe your archive is more than content — and your audience wants to study, not skim.

Intellectual podcasters

Long-form hosts with years of conversations and an audience that wants to go deeper.

Authors & professors

People whose talks, interviews, lectures, and courses form a body of work.

Institutions

Think tanks, foundations, seminar programs, libraries, and academic projects with deep recorded material.

How an archive becomes teachable.

We handle the transformation end to end, from ingest to public archive to ongoing maintenance.

Ingest the archive

Episodes, transcripts, metadata, speakers, dates, source files, and existing notes.

Extract the intellectual structure

Claims, definitions, arguments, concepts, people, works, and recurring themes.

Build the public archive

Search, source-linked moments, concept pages, learning paths, and a polished front end.

Keep it alive

New episodes can be added so the archive compounds instead of decays.

The conversation stays free. The academy becomes the product.

Your public episodes remain open. The premium layer is the apparatus of study: learning paths, seminar guides, concept primers, claim maps, and study notes for your most serious listeners.

A few things people ask right away.

Can this work with hundreds of hours of audio?

Yes. Long-form depth is where the value is strongest.

Do you replace our current website?

Not necessarily. The archive can be a companion site, a destination layer, or a deeper section of your existing site.

Can every claim link back to the original audio?

Yes. A reader should be able to move from a claim to the original moment in the audio.

Is this just a chatbot over transcripts?

No. The core asset is the archive itself: organized, searchable, and grounded in the original material.

Do you guarantee academy revenue?

No. We do not forecast revenue. We build the infrastructure and align incentives where appropriate.

Let us show you what your archive could become.

Send us one episode. We’ll return a working sample built from your own material.

Request a sample episode