The interactive storyboard for college sports that fills the gap between podcast drops.

An evidence board for college-sports storylines. Fans pull sourced facts together to see how they connect, lock a call, and get graded when the game is played. Your show gets it all back as a segment.

Try a real board See the pitch ↓

StatPrairie Ridge allows 2.9 yards per carry, best in the conferencePlains Conference stats · fictional

OfficialCoastal Tech is 3–0 at home, 211 rushing yards a gamePlains Conference · fictional

DateKickoff Saturday at Harbor Stadium, Coastal Tech's homePlains Conference schedule · fictional

Watch: two facts connect.Try a real board →

02 Why it's different to use

Not a thread. Not a poll. An interactive storyboard.

A thread

You post a take. It's gone by tomorrow, and nobody checks who was right.

A poll

You tap a button. No reasons, no evidence, no record.

Hot Board

You connect sourced facts, see what they mean and what they don't prove, lock a call, and get graded.

No other sports product lets fans reason with the evidence itself. That hands-on moment is the hook; the graded record is what keeps them.

03 The gap

Podcasts are episodic. Stories are continuous.

Between drops, your listeners keep arguing. They do it on platforms you don't own, can't structure, and can't bring back to the show. Nobody remembers who was right.

EpisodeTuesday

𝕏a thread on Xr/a Reddit post💬the group chat#a message board↳a comment section

6 days the show can't see

Next episodeTuesday

You lose the signal. What your audience actually believes is scattered across feeds you can't measure.

You lose the ritual. There's no reason to come back before the next drop.

You lose the receipts. Hot takes vanish. Being right early earns nothing.

04 Where fans go today

Every place fans argue today is missing something.

Social and forums
X · Reddit · Discord
Huge reach, but noise. Nothing is sourced, nothing is graded, and the show owns none of it.
Recruiting-site message boards
On3 · 247Sports
Team boards with premium insider content behind a paywall. Built for scoops, not for testing a call.
Platform comments and polls
Spotify podcast comments · YouTube posts and polls
A quick reaction, with no evidence and no grading.
Pick'em games
ESPN College Pick'em
Graded, but a pick is all you give. No case, no show, and prizes.
Prediction markets
Kalshi · Polymarket
Graded, with real money on college football. The NCAA has asked the CFTC to pause college-sports markets.

Sources: Spotify (Q&A replaced by comments) · YouTube posts · On3 boards · 247Sports boards · ESPN College Pick'em · CBS Sports on Kalshi and Polymarket · NCAA, Jan 2026 · Covers, Mar 2026. Map positions are our reading, not measurements.

05 A new category

Not a poll. Not a bet. Not a forum.

Hot Board is a new category: sourced forecasting, owned by the show. Fans reason from real evidence, commit to a call, and get graded against what actually happened, with no money anywhere.

	Polls	Forums	Pick'em	Prediction markets	Hot Board
Built on sourced evidence	○	○	○	○	●
A case, not just a pick	○	◐	○	○	●
Graded against reality	○	○	●	●	●
Owned by your show	◐	○	○	○	●
No money, no prizes	●	●	◐	○	●

● yes · ◐ partly or sometimes · ○ no

06 How it works

Question → evidence → case → call → receipts.

1The questionOne resolvable question per board, with a hard date and a named settlement source. "Who wins Saturday?", not "who's better?"
2The evidenceEditors write sourced cards: official stats, named reporting, rules, dates. Fans start with three and a highlighted pair.
3The caseConnect two cards. If editors flagged the link, the reveal explains it and what it doesn't prove. If not, it's your own labeled inference.
4The callPick an outcome and how sure you are. On a phone it's a quick call first, with the cards one tap away.
5The receiptsWhen reality answers, every call is graded, track records update, and the show gets its segment.

This is live in the demo. Open a board as a new fan, on a laptop or a phone.

07 For fans

For fans: a better way to argue, and proof they were right.

The reveal. Connect the right two cards and the board shows you why they matter, and what they don't prove.
Your reasoning, on the record. A Case Card you can share, stamped with the result when the board settles.
Early counts. Scoring averages over the whole window, so a correct call made early is worth more than one made at the buzzer.
One track record, every show. Your Scout profile follows you across boards and seasons.
Nothing to lose. No money, no odds, no prizes. Anyone under 18 is never shown publicly.

Case Card · The Gridiron Hour

Prairie Ridge · 64%

Who wins Prairie Ridge at Coastal Tech on Saturday?

Run defense, best in the conference Undercuts Coastal Tech's home run game
Kickoff at Harbor Stadium Explains the 3–0 home record

Engaged the counterevidenceUsed 3+ cards

✓ Called it

08 For hosts

For hosts: a segment that writes itself.

A recurring receipts segment. Every settled board hands you the split, how it moved, and the earliest correct call.
Your take, next to theirs. Your lean appears beside the community's, after fans make their own call, so you spark the debate without steering it.
A reason to come back between drops. "Link in the show notes, it locks at kickoff." One 20–45 second read per episode.
No homework. Adopt a board Hot Board already built and add your framing.

● On air · example

62%

of The Gridiron Hour board called it.

First correct call: RidgeRunner, three weeks early, 80% sure.

Host takePrairie Ridge · 60%

The communityPrairie Ridge · 68%

09 For producers

For producers: your audience, measured, before you record.

The Producer Brief. The split and how it moved, the connections fans make most, the counterevidence they ignore, and opted-in rationales.
Nothing made up. The brief is built only from stored records. Every sentence links to the board, card or call behind it.
Attribution. QR codes and tagged links show which episode, clip or newsletter brought fans in, and every follow is credited to your show.
Less prep. The next episode's angle is in the data: where your audience disagrees with you, and what they haven't considered.

The Producer Brief is planned for milestone HB-5. It isn't in the demo yet.

Producer Brief · The Gridiron Hour · example

Split68% Prairie Ridge↑ 9 pts since Sunday

Top connectionRun defense ↔ Coastal Tech home record41% of cases

Ignored"Prairie Ridge is 0–2 on the road"opened by 12%

Episode angleYour audience trusts the defense more than you do.host 60% vs crowd 68%

New follows+214from the Tuesday episode link

10 For shows and networks

Your board, your brand, your data.

Adopt

Take a board Hot Board already built. Add one or two cards of your own and your host take. The default for small shows.

Native

Write your own board from templates and library cards. Hot Board reviews the new cards and the settlement rule.

National

Hot Board's own boards bring fans who haven't found your show yet. Every adopted board links back to its National version.

You own the namespace. Your page, your branding, your verified badge.

You own the export. Aggregates always; per-fan data for fans who opt in. Leave, and your archive stays readable, with 90 days to export.

You control the neighbors. Switch off recommendations to rival shows. For networks: compare how each show's audience reads the same story.

11 Trust, built in

Built to stay on the right side of the line.

Team-level onlyNo boards about an individual athlete's commitment, transfer or NIL. No visit tracking. No boards about minors.

Sourced cardsEvery card names its source, publisher and date. Fan reasoning is labeled as inference and kept apart from facts.

Careful with jobsCoaching boards are team-framed, marked "fan speculation, not reporting", and settle only on an official announcement.

Two-editor settlementOne editor proposes the result with evidence; a different editor confirms. Corrections re-score everyone, in the open.

Privacy thresholdsNo split is shown until 20 fans call a board, and no comparison between communities until 50.

No gambling, everNo odds, prizes or deposits. No sportsbook or prediction-market sponsors. No data sold to them.

12 Why it compounds

Every settled board makes the next one worth more.

Anyone can copy a card interface. Nobody can copy years of settled, timestamped calls. Every board adds to the receipts ledger, every fan's track record grows with it, and the settlement standard keeps those records worth trusting.

For your show, that means a history of what your audience called, and a community whose reputations live on your board.

13 Start small

Start with one board and one read per episode.

Adopt a Hot Board National board that fits this week's episode.
Add your host take and one card of your own.
Read the question on air: "It locks at kickoff. Link in the show notes."
Next episode, read the receipts.

Try the demo board See Hot Board National

This is a demo of the v2.3 design. Every team, show, person and number in it is fictional.