Chain of Thought is a technical AI podcast. The audience: engineers, CTOs, and founders who evaluate and buy AI infrastructure and developer tools.
Email podcast@conorbronsdon.comTop listener cities: San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Seattle, London.
Chain of Thought is hosted by Conor Bronsdon. 67+ episodes across 3 seasons, weekly cadence.
Recent guests from AI leaders at:
And leaders from ServiceTitan, Twilio, Cohere, Scaled Cognition, and others.
Episodes get replayed and shared within teams. Top episodes see 6-8x replay depth per listener and keep getting plays for 12+ months after release.
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Email podcast@conorbronsdon.comFounding Sponsor
Galileo (AI observability) backed Chain of Thought as founding sponsor across Seasons 1–3 — from launch through May 2026.
"We had an amazing partnership with Chain of Thought across 3 seasons — this sponsorship was worth its weight in gold."
Jackson Wells, Sr. Integrated Marketing Campaigns Manager, Galileo
Season 4 Presenting Sponsor
Svix provides secure, enterprise-ready webhooks as a service, and presents Season 4 of Chain of Thought.
Everything in Starter, plus:
Everything in Value, plus:
For teams shipping something — a product launch, major feature release, or funding announcement. Timed to your date, embargoed until you're ready.
Bespoke packages available. Tailor commitment length, deliverables, and category exclusivity to your specific goals.
Reach out about a custom package →Every sponsored episode reaches your audience across multiple channels:
Those channels are where people first hear the ad. It spreads from there, and it stays live forever.
On most shows a host-read ad expires. Here it becomes a page. Every episode publishes to chainofthought.show with the whole conversation transcribed and speaker-labelled, so your name, your link, and what your product actually does are written into text that stays online.
Answer engines cite pages they can read. Check any of it yourself:
Some of this has already landed. Chain of Thought turns up in the training data of current large models, and not yet in the small open models we tested. Coverage varies by model and by training vintage, so treat it as a direction rather than a guarantee: every sponsored episode adds more permanent, well-crawled text to what the next training run reads.
Asked to describe this show, a fresh instance of Claude Opus 4.8 called it "often associated with the Galileo AI evaluation platform." Galileo was our founding sponsor through Season 3, and their flight ended in May 2026. The association outlasted the contract.
None of this promises an assistant will recommend your product; anyone promising that is guessing. It does put a technical conversation about your brand into the text search engines index, answer engines cite, and model builders train on.
And it compounds. The ad stays in the episode, the episode stays in the catalog, and the catalog keeps getting crawled and played long after your flight ends; 2025 episodes are still picking up listens.
We're just getting started on our AEO/GEO surface: we intend to be the best-indexed podcast for agents.
Rated 5.0 across 145+ ratings and reviews — Apple Podcasts (36) and Spotify (109).
★★★★★"Most AI podcasts drown you in really deep technical jargon or just rehash the same surface-level takes but Chain of Thought has found the perfect in between. Conor clearly knows the space well and asks the kinds of questions that make for interesting conversations..."
★★★★★"It is so refreshing to listen to a podcast that goes beyond clickbait headlines and actually considers the real world implications of the most significant technological changes of our time. Knowledgeable insiders are given the space to talk about what they have seen and what they are expecting."
★★★★★"New to the AI space and this podcast has been a game changer. Conor brings in leading experts and breaks down complex topics in a way that actually makes sense. Whether you're a college student just discovering AI, a curious newcomer, or already deep in the field — Chain of Thought fills a real gap."
★★★★★"Always a pleasant and informative listen. Do I want to drift off to sleep to the sound of Conor's voice? Absolutely! But can I? NO! Because I'm absolutely riveted by the education and insight."
★★★★★"This podcast goes over very relevant changes in technology with some of the biggest pioneers of our era. The host, Conor, has a great voice and does an amazing job leading the conversation..."
★★★★★"Conor does a great job of bringing the most relevant convos to the table, proving that timing + quality wins every time. Have this on auto-download."
Category exclusivity is included on the Presenting Sponsor tier for the full flight. We agree on what counts as a "direct competitor" on the kickoff call so there's no ambiguity later. Starter and Value tiers don't include exclusivity, but we'll flag any adjacent-industry deals before committing.
You provide the talking points, value prop, and any hard "do not say" lines. Conor writes the ad in his voice, reads it live into the episode, and sends a preview for your sign-off before publish. All ads are host-read — no pre-produced audio.
We'll share aggregate downloads and YouTube views at the end of your flight. For newsletter sponsorships we report reads and link click-through directly — a recent sponsored feature saw 647 reads and a 3% click-through rate, on a list about half its current size. Podcast show-notes link clicks come through on your side via the UTM parameters on your sponsor link, so you can track those directly in your analytics. We'll also pass along qualitative signal we pick up (listener replies mentioning the brand, guests asking about the product).
Raw clip files, usage rights, and captions — yours to reuse on your own channels, in ads, or in sales decks. We cut and distribute clips across Chain of Thought's LinkedIn and YouTube (Value tier and up), and we encourage you and your team to re-share to your own audience, which is often where the reach compounds. Approval rights on clips featuring your brand are available on higher tiers.
Yes — here's a host-read mid-roll ad, and a sponsored newsletter feature. Schedule a call to walk through more examples and performance.
Typical timeline is 1–2 weeks from first contact: kickoff call, ad draft, sign-off, and your first read can air in the very next episode — reads are produced as standalone segments, so they don't wait on a recording schedule. We can move faster if there's a specific launch or window you're targeting.
Limited sponsor slots — Season 4 nearly full, Season 5 booking now open.
Email podcast@conorbronsdon.comConor Bronsdon · Host, Chain of Thought