Riverside Agents Guide: Hire a 4-Person AI Production Team — Record Once, Get the Edit, Clips, and Posts Done for You

In one sentence: this Riverside Agents guide is about a simple idea — imagine hiring a tiny production crew for your podcast or video show — one person preps the session, one edits the episode, one cuts the short clips, one writes the captions and schedules the posts — except the whole crew is software, it starts working the moment you stop recording, and it never publishes anything until you say yes.

Picture this: a creator who records one episode a week, then loses every evening to editing, and by Sunday the show still is not posted. That backlog is exactly who this is for. And the whole crew starts at $24/month billed yearly on the Pro plan ($35 month-to-month), with a 14-day trial before you pay anything.

Two terms, plainly: a podcast/video episode here just means a recorded conversation or show, usually 20–60 minutes, that you want people to watch or listen to. Separate tracks means each person’s voice and video is recorded on its own file, so one person’s cough does not ruin everyone else’s audio — it is the main reason creators pick Riverside over a plain video call.

Riverside Agents launched October 26, 2026, and topped Product Hunt’s daily board on November 1. Riverside calls it, in its own words, “the first AI production team built only for video” — that “first” is the vendor’s claim, not an independently verified fact. What is verifiable from Riverside’s own launch post is the shape of the product: four specialist agents, working on web and iOS, from prep before you hit record until your content is out in the world.

Meet the team

• The Producer preps your session and supports you while you record.
• The Editor builds an editing plan for the full episode and works through it with you.
• The Clipper finds the moments worth sharing and preps them for social.
• The Marketer writes your captions and show notes, then publishes or schedules your episodes and clips.

What this means for you: the work creators actually quit over is not the recording — it is everything after. The agents take the after-part. And per Riverside, they do not wait to be asked: you finish recording, and before you have watched it back, the Clipper has flagged the shareable moments and the Editor has a plan for the cut. When a clip is done, it moves to the Marketer with a recommendation for where it should go. You never manage the handoff — but nothing goes out without your sign-off.

What comes out: an input→output example (illustrative)

Illustrative example, drawn from Riverside’s own feature descriptions — we did not run the product ourselves, and this is not a real customer’s result.

• Input: one 40-minute recorded conversation, uploaded after you stop recording.
• Output 1 — edited episode: the full episode, cut to the Editor’s plan after your approval.
• Output 2 — short clips: a handful of shareable clips (say, 5) picked by the Clipper, each with captions.
• Output 3 — words to go with them: show notes and captions drafted by the Marketer.
• Output 4 — scheduled posts: those clips and captions queued for publishing, each only after your sign-off.

So one recording in, one edited episode plus clips, captions, and a week of scheduled posts out — with you only reviewing in between.

Why it matters to you

• The bottleneck moves from hours to minutes of review. Editing a 45-minute episode by hand can eat an evening; reviewing an agent’s plan and approving clips is a coffee break. What this means for you: a weekly show stops being a second job.
• Your back catalog becomes new content. Years of recordings have moments nobody has seen since the day they were recorded. What this means for you: the Clipper can mine old episodes for clips without you rewatching anything.
• It works on your phone, not just your desk. Everything the agents do on web, they do on iOS, with a notification when your clips are ready. What this means for you: you can approve a week’s posts between meetings.
• It learns your taste. The agents build a memory of how you like things done, and it grows the more you work with them. What this means for you: the tenth episode should need less correcting than the first — though you should still check every clip before it ships.

Price: no free tier on the pricing page, 14-day trial instead

Per Riverside’s official pricing page (checked November 1, 2026):

Plan	Monthly billing	Yearly billing (per month)	Separate-track downloads
Pro	$35/month	$24/month	15 hours/month
Grow (“Best Value”)	$45/month	$34/month	20 hours/month
Webinar	$99/month	$79/month	25 hours/month
Business	Custom (contact sales)	Custom	Unlimited

All four plans include unlimited recording hours, desktop video up to 4K, and no watermark on exports. AI credits for select features: 2,000 to start on Pro, Grow, and Webinar; 12,000 on Business. Core AI features like Magic Clips, Magic Audio, and the AI Co-Creator do not require credits; select features like AI Translation, AI B-Roll, and Animated Clips do — and when an agent applies one of those, it still uses credits.

One honesty note: the pricing page’s own FAQ still shows older monthly figures ($29 for Pro, $39 for Grow) while the plan cards show $35 and $45. This article quotes the plan cards, which were verified by toggling both Monthly and Yearly views. Also note: the pricing page lists no $0 plan — the free entry point is the 14-day trial on Pro, Grow, and Webinar. Do not quote a permanent free tier to clients.

What this means for you: a single Pro subscription at $24/month billed yearly covers the whole team for one creator. If you sell the service below, one client episode at $150+ already covers months of subscription.

Try it in 6 steps (14-day trial, about 30 minutes)

Step 1. Go to riverside.com and click “Start 14-day free trial.” Pick Pro — it is the cheapest plan with the full team and no watermark. You do not need to install anything; it runs in the browser.

Step 2. Create a studio and invite a guest with the link Riverside gives you. Guests join from the link with no account and no install. Record a short test: 5–10 minutes of real conversation, not silence — the agents need actual moments to find.

Step 3. Stop recording and wait. This is the part that feels strange: you do nothing. The Producer’s prep is already done, the Editor is building a plan, and the Clipper is flagging moments. You should see the episode appear with an editing plan and suggested clips.

Step 4. Open the Editor’s plan first. Read what it proposes to cut and keep, and change anything you disagree with — this is your sign-off moment, and it is where your taste matters. Approve the plan.

Step 5. Review the Clipper’s clips one by one. For each, check three things: does it start and end cleanly, does the caption say what was actually said, and would you share it yourself? Reject anything that fails one of those — a bad clip posted is worse than no clip.

Step 6. Open the Marketer’s drafts: captions and show notes, plus where it recommends each clip should go. Edit the caption in your own voice, approve, and schedule. What you should see at the end: one edited episode, a handful of approved clips, and scheduled posts — from a single recording, with you only reviewing.

The money play: the per-episode production service

• Who pays: small podcasters, YouTubers, coaches, and local businesses that already record (or want to) but never publish consistently because editing eats their week. They have the show; they lack the crew.
• What you sell: “You record once a week. I deliver the edited episode, 5 short clips, and a week of scheduled posts — $199 per episode, or $699/month for 4 episodes.” You run their Riverside studio; they record and approve. The agents do the heavy lifting; your product is the review, the taste, and the reliability.
• What to charge: start at $199 per episode. Your cost is roughly one Pro subscription ($24/month billed yearly) spread across clients, plus your review time of about an hour per episode once you are fluent. At 4 episodes a month for one client, that is $796/month against ~$24 in subscription — the margin is your time, so do not price at $49 and discover you are the bottleneck.
• 7-day validation: Days 1–2, use the 14-day trial to produce a full sample from your own test recording: one edited episode, 5 clips, scheduled-post drafts. Days 3–4, send 10 podcasters or creators this message: “I turned one recording into an edited episode + 5 clips + a week of posts — want me to do your next episode for $99 as a pilot?” Days 5–7, follow up once. The goal: 1 paying pilot or 3 creators who reply with interest. If 10 genuine outreaches get zero replies, the pitch — not the tool — needs rework before you spend another dollar.

Pitfalls and limits

• The agents are only as good as your review. An agent can clip a sentence out of context or write a caption that overpromises. If you publish without checking, the mistake is yours, not the software’s. Build review into every quote — never sell “fully automatic publishing.”
• No free tier on the pricing page. The 14-day trial ends. Price every client package on the $24/month yearly Pro cost (or $35 month-to-month), not on a free plan that is not listed.
• Agent ability depends on plan. Riverside’s Agents FAQ says the agents are available on every plan, but what they can do depends on your plan, the same as the rest of Riverside. Do not promise a Pro client a feature that lives on a higher plan — check the plan’s feature list before you quote.
• Credits still apply to select features. Video enhancement, AI translation, AI B-Roll, and animated clips consume credits even when an agent applies them. A clip-heavy client can burn the starting 2,000 credits; know the extra-credit cost before you promise unlimited enhancements.
• The pricing page contradicts itself. Its FAQ still shows $29/$39 monthly for Pro/Grow while the cards show $35/$45. Quote the cards, and re-check before you sign a client — if Riverside updates the FAQ, the numbers may move again.
• Trial discipline. The trial is 14 days. If you start it before you have a test recording and 10 outreach targets ready, you will burn half of it on setup. Prepare first, then click start.

Sources

• Riverside official launch post, “The first team of AI agents built for video” (last updated October 26, 2026): four agents (Producer, Editor, Clipper, Marketer), web and iOS rollout, agents start without being asked, nothing publishes without sign-off, agents build a memory of preferences.
• Riverside official pricing page, riverside.com/pricing (checked November 1, 2026): Pro $35 monthly / $24 yearly-billed, Grow $45/$34, Webinar $99/$79, Business custom; 14-day free trial on Pro, Grow, Webinar; no $0 plan card listed; unlimited recording, desktop up to 4K, no watermark on paid plans; separate-track downloads 15/20/25 hours and unlimited on Business; 2,000 starting AI credits (Pro/Grow/Webinar), 12,000 (Business).
• Riverside official Agents page, riverside.com/agents (reached from the pricing page, checked November 1, 2026): agents available on every plan, capabilities depend on plan, credit-using features still use credits when applied by an agent.
• Product Hunt daily board, November 1, 2026: Riverside Agents topped the day’s ranking (heat signal only; all product facts above come from Riverside’s own pages).