# Persona Journey: Podcast Producer

## Producer Goal
Coordinate research quality, production timelines, and render output consistency across every episode.

## Journey Stages

### Stage 1: Research Curation
!!! note "Annotated view: Producer research query selection"
    **Alt text:** Research query selection annotated for producer review, source locking, and query prioritization.

### Stage 2: Render Oversight
!!! note "Annotated view: Producer render queue"
    **Alt text:** Render queue annotated for producer monitoring of job status, retries, and SLA adherence.

### Stage 3: Catalog Management
!!! note "Annotated view: Producer project list and episode history"
    **Alt text:** Project list and episode history annotated for producer-level tracking of versions and publishing channels.

## Success Criteria
- Each episode has approved research scope.
- Queue health stays within SLA.
- History records are clear enough for postmortem and reuse.