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Build an interview dossier on any public figure
Every appearance, the stories they always tell, the questions they dodge — ask what no one has.
deep_searchdeep_queryrun_youtube_toolThe problem
Your guest has done this before. Whoever sits across from you next week has given the same interview forty times: the same origin story polished to a shine, the same three anecdotes deployed on cue, the same graceful pivot away from the one topic they'd rather not touch. Most hosts walk in having skimmed two of those forty appearances — and deliver interview forty-one.
The great interviews happen when the host has heard all forty: knows which stories are pre-loaded (and skips them), notices what the guest has never been asked, and catches the thread from an obscure podcast two years ago that deserves pulling. That's not talent; that's preparation at a volume nobody has time for. Which is exactly the kind of preparation you can now delegate.
How veridive MCP helps
deep_search assembles the full appearance record — interviews, podcasts, panels, sorted by date, the obscure alongside the famous. run_youtube_tool's key-quotes and podcast-notes compress each appearance into its beats: the stories told, the claims made, the moments that got clipped.
deep_query then does the dossier's real work — the cross-appearance read: "which anecdotes does this person repeat verbatim?" (skip those), "what topics do they consistently deflect?" (decide whether to press), "what did they say years ago that contradicts their current line?" (the question nobody else will have). Every finding cited to its moment, so your producer can verify the ammunition before you fire it. You walk in as the forty-first interviewer who somehow heard the first forty.
How to run it
- 1Connect veridive MCP
One-time setup: add the veridive MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and generate your API key. Takes about two minutes.
- 2Pull the full appearance record
Everything, not just the greatest hits — the obscure appearances are where the unrehearsed material lives.
Find all interviews, podcasts and panel appearances with <guest>, across all years, including smaller channels — use veridive's deep_search. - 3Compress each appearance to its beats
Key quotes and notes per appearance: the stories, the claims, the recurring lines.
For these appearances, pull key quotes and podcast notes — I want each one's main stories and claims: <links> - 4Run the cross-appearance read
The dossier questions: what's rehearsed, what's dodged, what's contradictory, what's never been asked.
Across <guest>'s appearances: which stories do they repeat, which topics do they deflect, and where do their past statements contradict their current line? Cited moments for each.
Problems it solves
- Guests arrive with forty rehearsed interviews behind them; hosts arrive having skimmed two.
- The unrehearsed material hides in obscure appearances no prep sheet ever covers.
- Rehearsed-anecdote detection requires cross-referencing every telling — impossible manually.
- The question nobody has asked is invisible until you know everything that has been.
Why it's valuable
- Prep depth that used to take a research team, delivered before one production meeting.
- Every dossier claim cites its moment — producers verify before air, not after.
- Skipping the pre-loaded stories buys minutes of interview time back for the material nobody's heard.
- The contradiction thread and the never-asked question are what make interviews get clipped — yours, this time.
Example prompts
All appearances by <guest>, all years, including small channels — use veridive's deep_search.Key quotes + podcast notes for these appearances: <links>Across <guest>'s record: repeated stories, deflected topics, contradictions — cited.FAQ
How long does a full dossier take?
The sweep and compression run in minutes; the cross-appearance read is a few prompts more. Budget an hour for a dossier that used to be a researcher's week — most of it your reading time, not the machine's.
Does this work for panel moderation and event prep too?
Anywhere you interview someone on the record: podcast guests, panelists, keynote Q&As, even executive candidates who speak publicly. The rehearsed-versus-fresh distinction is universal.
Isn't using contradictions adversarial?
That's an editorial call — the dossier just makes the record visible. Plenty of hosts use the same thread generously: 'you used to say X, what changed?' is often the question guests most enjoy answering.
Related use cases
Every prior appearance, key quotes and podcast notes — walk in knowing which stories they always tell, and ask what nobody has.
Find who said it, pull the transcript, quote to the second — attribution your editor can verify in one click.
Import their appearances, extract key quotes, and check delivered-message vs intended-message drift.
Run this in your own assistant
Connect the veridive MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and paste the prompts above — setup takes about two minutes.