How Cited works

From the words experts say to a searchable index.

Cited transcribes the podcasts and talks experts give, then indexes every product, practice, and substance they recommend — or warn against — with the exact quote, source, and timestamp.

The problem

Experts give thousands of hours of advice on podcasts, in talks, and in long-form interviews. Almost none of it is written down in a form you can search. If you want to know what one doctor actually recommends for sleep — or whether five experts agree on creatine — you would have to listen to everything.

Cited listens for you. It turns that spoken record into a structured index of what experts actually recommend: every product, practice, and substance they endorse or warn against, each one tied to the exact quote, source, and timestamp.

How a recommendation gets here

Every card on Cited comes from the same four steps.

  • Transcribe

    We transcribe a public episode end to end. For interviews, each speaker is labelled, so a host's recommendation is never confused with a guest's.

  • Extract

    A large language model reads the full transcript and pulls out every concrete recommendation — the item, whether the expert is for or against it, the dose or protocol, their stated reasoning, and a short verbatim quote with its timestamp.

  • Structure

    Each recommendation is classified: positive, negative, or neutral; how strongly it's stated; whether the expert uses it themselves or recommends it generally; and whether it's part of a sponsored read.

  • Index

    Recommendations are grouped three ways — by expert, by item, and by show — so you can read one expert's entire record, or see every expert who's weighed in on a single item.

What's on a card

Each recommendation is one card. It's built so you can judge the claim yourself, not just take ours for it.

Expert & stance
Who said it, and whether they recommend it, advise against it, or are just discussing it.
In their words
A short verbatim quote, plus our plain-language paraphrase of the point.
Dose / protocol
The specifics, when the expert gives them — amount, timing, or how to do it.
Source & timestamp
The episode it came from and the moment it was said, so you can hear the full context.
Sponsor flag
Whether the mention was part of a paid sponsor read.

Where experts converge — and disagree

Because every recommendation is tied to an item, Cited can show you the whole room at once: how many experts have recommended creatine, how many have cautioned against a given supplement, and where the weight of opinion sits. When credentialed experts genuinely contradict each other, we show the tension rather than smoothing it over.

What we don't do is pick a winner. Cited surfaces who said what; it doesn't tell you who's right. That's the whole posture — see our Methodology.

⚠ Cited is in preview, and auto-extracted

Recommendations here are extracted by AI and are not yet human-verified. AI can misattribute a quote, transpose a dose, or miss context. We're upfront about that.

The safeguard is built into every card: read the quote, and follow the timestamp to the original. If something looks wrong, tell us.

What Cited is not

Cited is an index, not medical advice and not an endorsement. A recommendation appearing here means an expert said it — not that it's right for you, and not that Cited agrees. Talk to a qualified professional before acting on anything you read.