How I Automated 90% of My Content Workflow (With ChatGPT + Riverside)

Peter Yang · · 20 min

Peter Yang shows how he automated 90% of his podcast production workflow using AI tools, saving 5 or more hours each week while keeping creative control.

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The gist

  1. Map every manual step before automating anything; Yang found 15 discrete tasks in his podcast process, which shaped his entire system.
  2. Build a separate AI skill for each phase rather than asking one model to do everything, which keeps the system modular and easy to update.
    ChatGPT

What they recommend · 3 picks

ChatGPT Main topic · strong yes

OpenAI's conversational AI chatbot powered by GPT models.

"I use a system of AI skills that work together to automate 90% of this process. I just want to show you guys how I actually work with ChatGPT — instead of just doing a bunch of demos or trying a bunch of new tools, this is how I actually try to save time an..."
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What Peter uses it for: Automating podcast production workflow including guest research, interview guide prep, editor briefings, newsletter drafting, thumbnail/title brainstorming, show notes, social posts, and clip selection

159 creators recommend ChatGPT, including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson.

7:29
Linear Productivity

"It made a Linear ticket to include instructions for my video editors. Then it went off and put it into the Linear ticket — and it also decided to make some clip candidates too."

20 creators recommend it·Peter's productivity →
16:29
Typefully Productivity

"I said, looks good, go ahead and put both on Typefully, which is my social scheduling app, to schedule the post. And here we have the social post along with the full clip in Typ..."

2 creators recommend it·Peter's productivity →

Peter, Riley, Claire and Liam agree on 39 things

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Also mentioned

6:33 Google Docs · "I got ChatGPT to write all this stuff in Google Docs and send it over to Ethan and the team for review."
9:42 Substack · "For every episode that I make, I also create this newsletter post for my Substack."
11:39 Figma · "Once you have a repeatable thumbnail template like I have for my podcast, you can also just tell AI to use..."
17:27 Claude · "Just ask AI — ask ChatGPT or ask Claude — hey, here's all the manual steps I take, which parts of this can..."

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