Projects and collaborators

A project keeps one show or series together, and you can invite the people you work with into it. This page covers what a project is, how to move between them, and how to bring in an editor, a reviewer, or a client.

What a project is

A project is the home for a show or series. Everything you make lives inside one: the recordings you upload, the episodes built from them, and the clips you export. When you start a new podcast, take on a new client, or begin a new series, give it its own project so its recordings and clips stay together and don't mix with anything else.

You created your first project when you signed up and uploaded a recording. Make as many as you need; one per show or per client is a good rule of thumb.

Switching between projects

Your projects live on the Projects page, listed under your studio. Open the one you want, and the recordings, episodes, and clips you see all belong to it. Go back any time to move to another show.

screenshot: the Projects page listing your studio's projects

When you connect an assistant like ChatGPT or Claude, it works inside the project you point it at, so the recordings it can open and the clips it makes stay scoped to that show.

Inviting a collaborator

You don't have to do everything yourself. If you own a project, you can invite someone to work in it alongside you: an editor, a co-host, a reviewer, or a client. They open your recordings, and depending on the role you give them, they can pull their own clips in their own ChatGPT or Claude, or in the browser. You upload once, and your collaborators work from the same recordings.

When you send an invite, you choose what that person can do:

• Editor: opens your episodes and exports their own clips, just like you.
• Reviewer: opens your episodes and reviews the work, without exporting.
• Viewer: looks at the project without changing anything.

Pick the role that fits. A client who wants to pull their own clips needs editor access. A stakeholder who just wants to watch along can be a viewer.

To share a project:

1. Open the project you want to share and go to its invitations page.
2. Send an invite to your collaborator's email address, and pick their role.
3. They get an invite link. Their email arrives if delivery is set up, but the link is what matters, so you can also send it to them yourself.
4. They open the link and accept.

The link stays valid for about two weeks. If it lapses before your collaborator gets to it, resend the invite from the same page. You can also revoke an invite there to un-share the project, which cuts that person's access.

After someone accepts, the shared project shows up in their own studio under a Shared with you shelf. They keep their own home and projects; yours simply appears alongside them.

One thing to know: publishing to your connected channels stays with you. An editor can find, review, and export clips, but only you, the project owner, can post them out to your YouTube, LinkedIn, or X. So you can hand the clipping to a client and still keep the final say on what goes live.

Next steps

BitterClip is free to start. Create your account and you're in a working space right away. We'll email you a verification link when you sign up — click it to start uploading and transcribing recordings.