Summary
- Your past recordings and tapes are an untapped goldmine. Good Tape Explore changes that.
- Automatically connect thoughts, memories and insights that were previously lost or forgotten – just click the explore icon and see proactive insights.
- Explore will automatically display unique insights, contradictions, and patterns from your existing material.
- You retain full control, full security. Your data stays yours, and we never train on your data.
Explore at glance
- Surfaces contradictions
- Links discoveries with archived material
- Displays forgotten interview insights
- Reveals forgotten details
- Instant starting point for new stories
- Secure and private alternative to LLMs
Put your archive to work: four scenarios
The accountability check
Explore surfaces contradictions from your archives to provide instant accountability for your reporting.
You interview Politician A about income tax. In a passing comment, they mention they’ve always opposed a sugar tax. Since it’s off-topic, the quote is never used and eventually forgotten.
A year later, you’re reporting on public health. The same politician now claims they’ve always supported a sugar tax. Without Explore, that contradiction remains invisible, buried in an old file.
With Explore, the original statement surfaces the moment you transcribe the new session. You instantly have a documented contradiction with timestamps and context. It’s not just a better article, it’s accountability journalism powered by your own archive.
The hidden breakthrough
Explore links current discoveries with archived predictions to reveal exclusive breakthroughs.
You interview a botanist who mentions a newly discovered protein strain. It’s an interesting detail, but it doesn’t fit your current story.
In the background, Explore connects this comment to a “sidenote” from an interview you did four months ago. In that recording, a biochemist told you: “A breakthrough on this specific strain would change everything for our research.” At the time, you had no reason to link the two.
Now, those two fragments combine to form a major story: a breakthrough that one expert predicted and another just confirmed. Because Explore connected the dots, you’re the only journalist with both sides of the story on record.
The human angle
Explore surfaces forgotten interviews to provide the human evidence for clinical facts.
You’re reporting on the health effects of nicotine. An expert explains that it reduces sleep quality, a solid, clinical fact, but one that lacks emotion.
Explore surfaces an interview from ten months ago with a smoker you spoke to for a completely different story. In that recording, they mentioned struggling with insomnia for years, never knowing why. Your article just found its heartbeat.
The abstract medical claim now has a real person and a lived experience behind it. That’s the kind of nuance that turns a competent report into a resonant story and it came from material you already owned but had forgotten.
The instant deep dive
Explore gathers every past mention of a topic so you never start a new story from scratch.
Over a year, you interview 50 different people. Many mention the same topic: housing, immigration, or AI as a passing remark. Because it’s never the focus of the interview, these insights go unnoticed and unindexed.
One day, you finally sit down to write a feature on that very topic. Without Explore, you’re starting from scratch. With Explore, you discover you already have 50 unique perspectives on record. Supporting arguments, contradicting viewpoints, and expert anecdotes are surfaced instantly from your past work. Instead of a blank page, you have a story with incredible depth before you’ve even made your first new phone call.
Good Tape Explore is a powerful tool for journalists and researchers who want to utilize their archive.
Yumi Wilson, Journalism Professor San Fransisco State University
Your tape remembers, even when you forget
Most interviews follow a predictable, wasteful cycle: you record an hour of rich conversation, pull two quotes and a fact, and let the rest vanish. It isn’t discarded because it lacks value. It’s discarded because there’s no easy way to store and recall it.
Multiply that loss across a year, and you’ve buried thousands of insights that could have fueled future stories. Good Tape Explore changes the fundamental math of the newsroom. Instead of journalism being transactional where one interview serves only one article, we make it accumulative. We ensure your past reporting actively sharpens your future work.
90% of every interview
goes undiscovered
Less than 10% of an interview makes it into the story, while the other 90% of recorded insights are buried and forgotten within weeks.
Good Tape Explore turns that hidden 90% into a living asset. Rather than a static folder you have to dig through, Explore works in the background as an active collaborator. It knows who said what and when, surfacing the right fragment at the exact moment it becomes relevant again.
Journalists have the worst memory of all, as their job is to be bombarded with new information and sort through it to find one story.
Tav Klitgaard, CEO Zetland
Made for freelancers and entire newsrooms
Good Tape Explore is launching in journalism because that is where the “knowledge gap” is most acute and where the impact is most transformative. However, the mission is universal: anywhere people record vital conversations, they should be able to build on them over time.
Beat reporters, investigative journalists, and freelancers. Instead of starting every story from scratch, Explore turns your personal archive into a competitive advantage. It ensures the interviews you did months ago strengthen the work you’re doing today.
Editorial leadership and Newsrooms. Stop letting institutional knowledge walk out the door. Explore converts daily reporting into a compounding asset, reducing dependency on individual memory and ensuring the entire newsroom benefits from the content it’s already creating.
Security without compromise. Ever.
In journalism, a breach of confidentiality isn’t just a technical failure, it’s a professional catastrophe. With Good Tape Your data stays in the EU and we never train AI models on your data.
Total Sovereignty: Explore works within your personal archive. No recordings are shared with colleagues, editors, or your organization.
Encrypted & Compliant: Protected by AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. Our servers are GDPR-compliant and in the EU.
Verified Standards: We are ISO 27001 certified, meeting the highest international standards.
Trusted by professionals and teams
Help center (FAQ)
Will my anything be shared with other people?
No. Explore works within your personal archive by default. Nothing is visible to colleagues, editors, or anyone else unless you explicitly choose to share it. We’re building Explore with individual users first precisely so we can get the privacy model right before expanding to teams. When we do introduce team and organizational features, you will always have full control over what is and isn’t shared and with whom.
How is this different from searching my transcripts?
Search requires you to know what you’re looking for. You type a keyword, and you get results that match it. Explore is fundamentally different, it works proactively. When you transcribe a new interview, Explore automatically analyzes it against your full archive and surfaces relevant connections you didn’t know existed. It finds contradictions, supporting evidence, thematic patterns, and human stories across interviews that were recorded weeks or months apart, for entirely different purposes. You don’t query it. It comes to you.
Do I need to change anything about how I use Good Tape?
Nothing at all. You upload or record your interviews the same way you always have. Every transcript is automatically added to your archive, and Explore runs in the background. The only difference is that after transcription, you’ll start seeing enrichments, relevant moments from past interviews that connect to what you just recorded. No new workflows, no setup, no configuration.
How many tapes do I need before Explore becomes useful?
Explore starts working from your very first pair of interviews, but it becomes significantly more powerful as your archive grows. With 15-20 interviews, you’ll start seeing meaningful connections. With 50 or more, the enrichments become consistently surprising and valuable. The beauty is that it compounds, the more you use Good Tape, the more useful Explore becomes, without any extra effort on your part.
Will Explore be included in my current plan?
During the beta, early access users will get to use Explore as part of their existing Good Tape subscription. Once we move to general availability, Explore may be offered as a premium add-on or as part of a new plan tier. We’ll communicate this well in advance, and beta users will have input into how we shape the offering.
Is my data used to train AI models?
No. This has always been a core principle at Good Tape, and it extends fully to Explore. Your recordings and transcripts are never shared, sold, or used to train any AI models. All data is stored in the EU, encrypted in transit and at rest, and handled in full compliance with GDPR. Explore analyzes your archive to serve you, and only you.
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