Most production tools care about the file you end up with. Streamtools cares about the show itself -- the hour or two when remote hosts, panelists, guests, and producers all need to be on the same page at the same time. Live stream or recorded session, two people or twenty, here's what that looks like in practice. Seven capabilities and three live demos.
Every show has a few kinds of people working with it. The host runs the show from a single screen with full edit and broadcast controls. An optional producer drives the show from off-air -- when one is assigned, the producer's progress is what the audience and guests follow, freeing the host to read ahead at their own pace. Guests -- co-hosts, panelists, interview guests -- get the same page through an invite link, with a private send-to-host channel. Viewers see a broadcast surface that moves in real time.
All of them look at the same document -- the same script, the same layout, the same content. What differs is what each role can do with it, and whose progress drives the broadcast.
The host moves through the script in the normal way -- click a question to mark it asked, click an act header to start an act. Every viewer's page follows along automatically, scrolling to the same position over the same channel that broadcasts state.
On shows with a producer, it's the producer's progress that drives this -- so the host can read ahead while the audience stays locked to where the show actually is. Either way, no "where are we?" messages in chat, no catching up after a tab switch. The page is the script and the broadcast surface in one.
Try it -- click Advance below to move the host pane through the show. Watch what happens on the viewer side.
Each act has two columns. The left holds the read-aloud script -- hooks, questions, lead-ins. It's what the host says on air. The right holds the context -- stats, dates, named facts. It's what the audience needs to follow along.
The two columns scroll together but serve different jobs. Hosts can race through the right column visually while staying anchored to the question they're asking. Viewers absorb both at once.
Mid-show edits happen. A question lands flat and you want to swap it. A guest mentions something that becomes the next question. A breaking development changes the framing.
Edit mode is a toggle, not a separate page. Flip it on and every block becomes editable in place -- drag handles, annotation, reorder, rewrite. Flip it off and you're back to live mode without losing your place in the show.
Try the toggle below.
When something lands during the show -- a great quote, a reaction shot, a moment the editor will want -- the host clicks once and a timestamp gets recorded with an optional note.
When the show ends, all the marks become a downloadable markdown file. Editors get clip-ready time codes with context. The host gets out of the show without scrambling to write down where the good parts were.
A small pacing widget in the corner shows the current act's elapsed time, total show time, countdown to the next break, and how far through the outline you've moved.
When the show ends, the platform compares planned vs actual for every act and writes the comparison to a report. Useful on its own; uploaded back to Claude, it tunes the runtime estimates on the next outline.
A show outline is a lot of work. Five to seven acts, four or five questions per act, supporting stats, hooks, transitions. Hours of research per episode.
Hand a topic and a guest to Claude with the platform's brief. It writes the YAML for a full 100-minute reading guide -- acts, hooks, questions, stats, a steelmanned challenge, sources. Drop the file into the platform and you're ready for showtime.
Try the dummy generator below.
Every run captures the data that matters: how long each act actually took versus what you planned, which questions landed, which intermissions felt long, which moments the host flagged, what the guest thought.
At end-of-show, the host and guests submit a quick rating. The platform bundles the timing snapshot, the feedback, and the marked moments into a single markdown export.
Drop that file into Claude alongside next week's brief, and the model recalibrates -- shorter acts where you ran long, more questions where the guest paced fast, tighter sponsor reads, refined hooks. Every show informs the next.
Streamtools is small on purpose -- a handful of shows that care about how the live experience feels. If that's your show, we'd like to talk.
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