AI is the biggest story in the world, and it moves in 30-day cycles.
The people building it are scattered across X threads, GitHub commits and half-finished feeds. The definitive show that puts them in one room, on camera, at the exact moment they matter, doesn't exist yet.
/last30days has already proven the appetite for precisely that signal, and a community that treats "what happened in the last 30 days" as the unit of truth in AI. The podcast converts that brand and that warm audience into a flagship media property, and turns Matt from the builder of a beloved tool into the host of the most relevant conversation in the field.
Peak momentum
The skill is at its high-water mark. That's a warm audience to convert on day one, not a cold start.
The talent is reachable
AI's biggest names are unusually accessible right now, and hungry for a credible, founder-to-founder venue.
Video is the discovery engine
Long-form video plus short clips is how audiences are found today. A genuinely high-end AI show is still an open lane.
It builds owned distribution
Every episode compounds an audience Matt controls, the most valuable asset to hold before launching anything new.
Keep the brand. Extend the thesis into media.
Every episode opens with a live /last30days brief, run on the guest. The host walks in having absorbed everything they've shipped, posted and argued in the last month, then opens with it.
It's the show's unmistakable hook, a living product demo, and the reason guests feel genuinely seen rather than press-toured. Nobody else can copy it without the skill.
And every episode closesthe way it opens, with the brief. We feed the guest's last-30-days into Suno and generate a one-of-one send-off track: their month, their shipping, their best takes, scored into a 30-second original theme that belongs to that episode alone. The same signal, set to music. The bookend nobody else can fake.
Cold open: the brief
"Here's what you've been up to in the last 30 days." Sets the tone in 90 seconds.
The build
What they're actually shipping now, and why it matters.
The take
One real argument, defended, not a highlight reel.
Best takes
A fast closing round. The sharpest, most shareable lines.
Where to find them
What they're building, hiring for, and where to follow.
Format & cadence
- Two surfacesYouTube as the flagship for discovery; full audio everywhere: Spotify, Apple, and the rest.
- RhythmBiweekly full episodes, a weekly clip drumbeat, and a monthly "state of the last 30 days" tentpole.
- SustainableBuilt to hold cadence around travel, enough to stay top-of-feed without burning out.
The quality bar is the moat
Most AI shows are webcam calls on Riverside. We travel to the guest and shoot in person. The production value signals that the people on this show are the ones who matter, and it's the hardest thing for a competitor to replicate quickly.
The top voices in AI, the ones the community already argues about.
Frontier labs
Founders, research leads and policy voices from the labs setting the agenda.
Agent & dev-tool builders
The people shipping the agents, CLIs and skills the audience uses daily, the skill's home turf.
Community celebrities
The indie builders and prolific posters the /last30days community already follows.
Operators & investors
Founders deploying AI at scale and the investors funding it, Matt's native network.
Matt's network
Lyft, Path, Digg, June and the investor circles around them open doors most hosts can't.
Built-in credibility
"The show from the creator of /last30days" is a warm intro before a word is spoken.
A format that flatters
Guests say yes faster knowing the host has done the homework and will make them look sharp.
We come to you
In-person travel removes the scheduling friction that kills bookings with busy founders.
Starting benchmarks to calibrate against real data, not promises.
| Metric | 90 days | 6 months | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube subscribers | 10k | 50k | 150k |
| Avg. views / episode | 25k | 100k | 300k |
| Audio downloads / episode | 5k | 20k | 60k |
| Clip views / month | 1M | 5M | 15M |
| Skill installs attributed to show | Baseline | +25% | +75% |
// Targets to align on, then refine against real performance. The flywheel: a top guest → a live brief on camera → installs → social proof → a bigger guest.
A small, senior crew, each already operating at the level this show needs.
Four things to move from plan to pilot.
Greenlight the pilot season
Approve a 6-month, in-person pilot season and the operating plan.
Commit the host time
Roughly a day every two weeks for recording, plus light promotion.
Open the first doors
Warm intros to 5–10 dream guests to seed the first wave.
Bless the brand crossover
Use of the Last 30 Days name, plus README and in-product cross-promotion.