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Introducing Mato Voice: what it is and how it sounds
Mato Voice is Mato's own voice model for podcast conversation. Hear one script through Gemini, ElevenLabs and Mato Voice, then see how permissioned cloning, original voice design and guided Studio sessions work.
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Introducing Mato MCP: your podcast, in your AI assistant
Connect Mato to your AI assistant. Create podcasts and episodes, check analytics and rankings, and choose which workspaces your assistant can access.
ReadMato Joins MuckerLab to Build the AI-Native Media Company
Mucker Capital backs Mato as the company expands its AI-native platform for turning expert conversations into scalable business media.
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A new look for Mato, built around human conversation
Mato's new website, logo, portraits, and visual system are live. Here is how the design puts people, motion, and content ahead of software chrome.
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What does a business podcast cost in 2026?
Calculate business podcast cost by separating recurring labor, outside production spend, platform charges, one-time setup, and paid distribution.
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Meet the new Mato embed player
Meet Mato's redesigned podcast embed player with responsive layouts, cover-aware color, light and dark themes, and copy-ready episode and show embeds.
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Introducing blueprint: every episode now starts as a plan
Mato's new episode engine writes a typed plan before it writes a word, checks the arithmetic in code, reviews the script against cited evidence, and refuses what it cannot support. Hear the same show before and after.
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AI Slop Is Making Human Expertise More Valuable in B2B
B2B buyers still want expert judgment, not synthetic points of view. The winning AI content model uses automation to research, interview, produce, and distribute real human expertise.
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AI interviewers are fluent. Recent research says listening is the harder problem
New 2026 studies of AI-led interviews point to the same design problem: fluent speech is easy to notice, but probing depth, conversational grounding, repair, privacy, and human oversight determine whether the interview is actually useful.
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How to plan your first 3 podcast episodes before launch
Before naming or staffing a company podcast, plan three real episodes. Use this framework to test the audience, guest bench, editorial angle, cadence, and production workflow before committing to a show.
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Scaling podcast programs across organizations — compliance, multi-brand, and internal comms.
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Proving the business case for AI-native media with real benchmarks and case studies.
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