HEARD Interview Studio
HEARD builds artist interviews from the information you choose to share, paces your uploaded photos through the final editorial layout, and turns your answers into a publication-ready feature — without inventing your story.
The Basic Process
Choose Your Interview Type and Depth
Select a format (Behind the Song, Artist Introduction, Release Interview, and more), then choose your interview depth: Quick (6–8 questions), Standard (12 questions), Long (18 questions), or Deep-Dive (28 questions). You also choose an interviewer style, from The Journalist to The Conversationalist to Adaptive.
Add Artist and Project Context
Complete a pre-interview questionnaire grouped into: Essential details, Story Context, Credits & Connections, Interview Direction, and Privacy. Choose what HEARD may use as background — your artist profile, completed reviews, or previous HEARD interviews. More context produces more specific questions.
Upload Up to 8 Interview Photos
Optionally upload up to 8 images that HEARD can use to build the final editorial layout. Photos may appear as the lead image, full-width features, inline story moments, pull-quote backgrounds, or closing visuals. You assign roles (or let HEARD decide), set privacy status per image, and add captions and photo credits. Private photos are never published.
Answer Natural AI Interviewer Questions
Answer one question at a time. After each answer, HEARD analyzes what you said — detecting story threads, conflicts, identity claims, and narrative weight — then decides whether to follow up, deepen, challenge, or move on. Questions use a soft-transition formula: brief acknowledgment, connection to your answer, one focused question. You can skip any question, mark answers private, or save and return later.
HEARD Edits the Conversation Into a Polished Article
After you complete the interview, HEARD prepares a full editorial package: a structured article, clean Q&A version, editorial introduction, pull quotes, SEO title and meta description, and social copy. Photos are paced editorially through the article — not dumped into a gallery.
Review Photo Placement, Quotes, Captions, and Privacy
Before anything is published, you review the full article with image placements. You can move, replace, or remove photos, edit captions, change privacy settings, and restore unused images from a tray. Suggested captions are clearly marked and require your approval.
Publish or Keep Private
Nothing goes public without your approval. Publish the full article, share individual pieces, or keep everything private. Eligible interviews create an SEO-ready public page linked to your artist profile.
How Follow-Ups Work
After each answer, HEARD decides what to do next. It can ask a follow-up, challenge a vague claim, ask for an example, offer an interpretation, or simply move on if your answer was complete. It bases this on what you actually said — not a preset path.
HEARD follows a satisfaction threshold — it will not follow up on a topic forever. After one or two follow-ups on the same question, it moves on regardless. And there is always a "Continue now" button if you want to skip the thinking pause.
Interviewer Styles
The Journalist
Evidence-driven, structured, professionally skeptical.
The Cultural Interviewer
Understands scenes, narratives, and regional context.
The Therapist-Lite
Emotionally observant. Listens deeply. Not therapy.
The Executive
Ownership, strategy, business model, career positioning.
The Fan Who Did Homework
Catalog details, lyrics, prior reviews, deep references.
The Skeptic
Tests claims. Challenges easy answers. Never rude.
The Conversationalist
Relaxed, natural. Lets the conversation breathe.
Adaptive
Shifts automatically based on how you answer. Recommended.
What the time estimate means
If an interview shows 10–15 minutes, that is the estimated time an artist may need to answer the questions. It is not a promise that question generation, editing, or publication preparation will finish within 10–15 minutes.
Questions
12
Time to Answer
10–15 min
Estimated artist completion time. Processing happens separately.
Question preparation and post-interview publication processing happen separately.
Source Context
If you already have completed HEARD reviews, you can choose to let the interviewer use them as background. That can lead to questions about specific production decisions, lyrical themes, recurring strengths, changes between releases, or observations made across multiple songs.
Generic question
"What inspired your new song?"
Review-informed question
"Your previous HEARD review noted that the hook becomes more open and melodic than the verses. Was that contrast part of the original writing process, or did it develop during recording?"
HEARD should only reference source material the artist has permission to use.
Follow-Up Interviews
Artists who complete multiple HEARD interviews can choose to use previous interviews as context. A follow-up interview may revisit an earlier goal, release, creative decision, or statement without forcing the artist to repeat their entire background.
Follow-Up Example
"In your previous HEARD interview, you said you were trying to become more selective about releases. Has that changed how you approached this project?"
Quote Integrity
HEARD can organize and lightly edit artist answers for clarity, but it must not invent quotes, personal history, achievements, collaborations, hardships, or motivations.
Deliverables
Social Features
Eligible completed reviews and published interviews can be submitted for a separate HEARD Social Feature. If approved and purchased, HEARD can prepare a social post from the publication and request a collaboration with the artist's account where supported.
Learn About HEARD Social FeaturesHEARD is building toward audio and video interview experiences where artists can speak naturally with AI-powered interviewers trained for different editorial styles.
What's Planned
Future versions may allow artists to choose an interviewer style, complete spoken interviews, generate transcripts, create publishable Q&A articles, and export short-form clips for social platforms.
Audio Interviews
PlannedVideo Interviews
PlannedAI Interviewer Personas
PlannedSocial Clip Exports
PlannedFuture AI Interviewer Styles
The Journalist
PlannedThoughtful, magazine-style questions. Structured and professionally curious.
The A&R
PlannedDirect career, song, and artist development feedback with editorial precision.
The Culture Host
PlannedConversational, media-native energy with deep cultural fluency.
The Deep Dive Critic
PlannedCreative, lyrical, and artistic analysis drawn from the work itself.
The Release Strategist
PlannedRollout, audience, branding, and market-positioning questions.
Voice and video interviews are planned future features. They are not included in any current HEARD plan until officially released. No purchase or subscription today activates these features.
Roadmap Updates
Select the features you're most interested in and we'll reach out when they're ready.
Editorial Photo Guardrails
Start with a completed review, or begin with an Artist Introduction. Photos are optional but improve the final editorial layout.