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Both community stations ran themselves overnight — here's what the agents handled and what needs you.
Sponsorship (mo)
£3,140
Emails auto-handled
38
New volunteers
5
Invoices to QB
12
Overnight agent activity
Needs you
Analytics
Listenership, reach and revenue — pulled together so you don't chase dashboards.
Avg listeners
1,240
Peak (breakfast)
2,860
Social reach (wk)
18.4k
Engagement
+22%
Listeners by show (this week)
AI weekly digest
Breakfast show is up 14% — the new request-line segment is landing. Sunday graveyard slot is your weak spot; consider promoting it on TikTok where your 18-24 reach grew most.
Ad studio
Write, voice and schedule a sponsor read — voiced by ElevenLabs, no studio time needed.
Sponsor read AI draft
Sponsor Script (30s)Voice & mix …
ElevenLabs voiceVoicing uses your ElevenLabs credits — you'll get a cost confirm before it runs.
Scheduled reads this week
Social hub
One composer, every channel — drafted by AI, posted on schedule.
Composer
Presenter & agent queue Agent-scheduled
Presenters contribute posts, the social agent drafts & schedules across channels, and you approve the guardrails. Auto-posting goes live once the social connector is on.
Playout & schedule
Today's running order — presenters, sponsor reads and AI fill for unmanned hours.
Today · Tuesday
Website
radiofolkestone.com, controlled from here — edit content and publish straight to the live site.
Site status
Live
Visits (mo)
6,420
Last published
Today
Site content Live link
Hero headline Hero subline Announcement banner (optional — shows across the top of the site) Advertisers & sponsors (one per line)Edits here write to the live site instantly — open the site and refresh to see them land.
Pages & sections
Trail builder
Presenter loggers land here when a show ends. Bank the moments, cut a trailer voiced by ElevenLabs, then push it to a playout cart — ready to fire live.
Loggers in
3
Clips banked
14
Trails this week
6
On the carts
6
Incoming loggers
Clip & trail cutter …
Show recording — full path on this PC Moments to cutBuild the trail
Music bed — optional pathSpoken voice-over (ElevenLabs) drops in here once that connector's switched on.
Audio mastering
Fix a recorded show before it airs — lift sections where the level dipped, tame an over-hot presenter, and check it won't clip on playout. Real processing, on this PC, with the original never touched.
Source audio
Full path to the show file on this PC (the engine reads it directly — no upload)Tip: in File Explorer, Shift-right-click the file → “Copy as path”, then paste it here.
Normalise show
Finds any section where the level dropped (a dodgy fader, a quiet patch) and lifts it back to match the rest of the show — ramped so there's no click, then peak-limited.
Normalise speech
Tames an over-hot presenter mic with gentle compression — they stay out in front, just stop jumping out over the music.
StrengthClipping check
Measures loudness and true-peak levels and tells you if it'll clip on playout. If it's hot, make it broadcast-safe in one click.
Outputs are saved next to the original as …_normalised, …_speech or …_safe (320 kbps). Your original file is never overwritten.
Podcast export
Turn a finished show into an upload-ready file for Mixcloud or podcast — mastered to podcast loudness, topped & tailed with station idents, and tagged. Real processing on this PC.
Show & details
Show recording — full path Episode title Presenter Show / albumIdents & output
Top ident — optional path Tail ident — optional path Cover art — optional pathSaves an upload-ready …_podcast.mp3 next to the original (never overwritten), tagged and ready for Mixcloud/podcast.
Output logger
Ofcom requires you to keep a recording of everything you broadcast (community licence: 42 days minimum). This captures the live stream around the clock into a rolling archive you can scrub back through — running on this PC.
Recording
—
Days archived
—
Archive size
—
Retention
60d
Capture
Station Stream URL Keep for (days)Rolls a new file every hour. Older files past your retention window are auto-deleted. ~2 GB/day per station at 128 kbps — keep an eye on disk.
Archive
Loudness check
Point it at a folder of recordings and get a one-page report of which shows are too quiet, too hot, or clipping — so everything goes to air at a consistent level. Writes a CSV report into the folder.
Scan a folder
Folder of recordings — full pathReads every audio file in the folder — a folder of full shows can take a couple of minutes.
OK
—
Too quiet
—
Too loud
—
Clipping
—
Results
Scan a folder to see results.
Directory & advertisers
Members, incoming adverts and events, and your prospect-to-client pipeline. (Acorns = prospects · Active = paying clients.)
Directory members
34
Acorns (prospects)
11
Active clients
18
Stripe (mo)
£1,640
Prospecting pipeline Acorns → Active
Adverts to build From directory
Events to approve → What's On
Studio booking
One studio, the whole station. Live shows lock their slot automatically from the schedule — book pre-records and prep around them.
Today's bookings
6
Live shows today
4
Pre-records
2
Free hours
5
Today · the studio Live shows auto-locked from the schedule
Bookings sync with the volunteer hub and the live schedule — switch a show to pre-recorded and its studio lock releases.
Ideas & leads
Everything your volunteers send in — show ideas to review, and sales leads to work. Approve ideas onto the roadmap, push leads into the advertiser pipeline.
New ideas
5
Under review
3
Approved (mo)
4
New leads
6
Station ideas board
Sales leads inbox → pipeline
Events & What's On
Every event from presenters and directory members, auto-published to the website — admin never holds things up. You set the rules; agents handle the rest.
Live on site
2
Flagged for review
1
This week
4
Sources
3
Auto-publish Agent-run
This is the model: presenters & members feed events in, the agent publishes trusted ones instantly, and you only touch the exceptions.
All events
Brand kits
A polished kit per show — logo, colours, artwork, idents and a bio — assembled from the assets presenters provide. Chase what's missing in a tap.
Kits complete
12
Awaiting assets
6
Shows
38
Assets on file
120
Shows & kit status
What a kit includes
Built from presenter-supplied assets — the kit feeds the website, socials, trails and on-air idents.
Smart inbox
Admin + sponsorship email triaged, drafted and routed by AI. Auto-responder runs 24/7.
Auto-handled
38
Awaiting you
4
Avg reply time
3m
Volunteers
The heart of a community station — AI vets sign-ups, tracks DBS, schedules shifts and welcomes new presenters.
Active volunteers
31
New this week
5
Shifts unfilled
2
Sign-up monitor
Support bot
A deployable AI that answers in your social DMs and comments — and hands hot leads to the pipeline.
Live conversations
Deployment
Knowledge base — learned from WhatsApp AI triaged
Imported 1 volunteer chat thread · 3 support FAQs extracted · 5 non-support messages skipped (goodies drop, show cancellations, holiday, thanks).
The monitor auto-mutes when a mic fader is up, to stop feedback. If the mute light is lit under the volume, a mic fader is slightly raised. Turn the monitor volume down, make sure all mic faders are fully down, and check no channel has PFL pressed. Most often it's a sleeve or cuff that's brushed a fader — only needs the slightest flick.
Some fobs were wiped during the Quarterhouse changes. You won't know yours works until you try it. If it fails, go to Quarterhouse reception (open until 4:30pm) to have it reprogrammed. Reception advise all fob holders to update their fob even if it currently works.
Check your fob at Quarterhouse reception before your show, while it's open (until 4:30pm). If there's a risk it'll fail, arrange backup — ask a presenter nearby to meet you and let you in, or voice-track your show in advance so the air time is covered.
Sponsorship pipeline
Lightweight CRM — sponsors and grant leads move themselves as the AI works them.
AI qualifying
Finance & QuickBooks
Invoices raised to QuickBooks by AI; every bill and payment watched. Built for trustee reporting.
Outstanding
£2,310
Paid (mo)
£3,140
Bills due
£640
Overdue
1
Ledger Synced to QuickBooks
Recurring invoicing Auto every quarter
The finance agent raises the quarterly sponsor invoices to QuickBooks automatically — you just approve the run. No more chasing it up every three months.
Auto caller
Outbound AI voice — confirms bookings, chases payments, runs listener surveys. Office hours only.
Active campaign
Recent calls
Compliance log
Ofcom community-licence essentials — logged automatically so an audit is never a scramble.
Key commitments met
12 / 12
Output retained
60 days
Open issues
0
Auto-logged this week
AI agents
The workforce behind the station — toggle, supervise and set guardrails for each one.
Inbox & responder
Social agent
Finance agent
Caller agent
Settings
Station details, branding, the membership scheme, and who can do what.
Station profile
Station name Frequency Address Phone · emailBranding
Directory membership scheme
People & roles
Newsroom
AI news agents build your daily local news, what's-on and ready-to-read copy — drawn from agreed local sources, per station.
Bulletins today
4
Stories drafted
18
Local sources
9
Today's local bulletin AI drafted
News agents
Connected sources
Collaboration
Shared workspace across stations — joint adverts, schedule swaps and content shares. Each station keeps its own data; sharing is opt-in.
Joint campaigns
3
Schedule swaps (wk)
5
Shared sponsors
6
Joint ad campaigns
Schedule & content shares
Tenants & connectors
One shared version of FRDC Toolset, multiple community stations. Today: two tenants live, built to onboard more as we grow.
Tenants live
2
Shared version
v0.1
Connectors live
9 / 12
Stations on the toolset
Each tenant's operational data — finances, compliance, playout, broadcast health — stays isolated. Sharing happens only through Collaboration.
Active connectors connect your apps
Connect each app right here — enter the keys/login and authorise. Folkestone (FR) and Dover (DC) connect their own accounts so data stays isolated; some services are shared. Info flow is kept basic for now — reporting first.
What you enter is only used to mark the connection while we're running locally; at deploy these move to a secure server vault and real OAuth sign-in takes over. AI agents that act on each connection get wired up later in console.
Queue