AI readiness and roadmaps
Separate useful opportunities from tool noise. Get a scored priority map, practical guardrails, quick wins, and a 12-month plan your team can own.
Nationwide service · Radio strategy · AI adoption · Connected audio
AI and connected audio strategy for broadcasters nationwide.
Practical, independent guidance for radio stations and media groups across the United States. Clear priorities, measured pilots, and hands-on delivery built around your team, audience, and business.
How we work
National reach. Your market in focus.
Your station's audience, team, and business priorities shape the work. Remote interviews, working sessions, and practical training bring programming, sales, news, production, and ownership into the process wherever they are based.
Remote collaborationOne station or multiple markets. Direct access. Practical follow-through.
What I do
Strategy built for your stations, teams, and markets.
Independent advice, with no software quota. Each engagement fits your team's goals, budget, and operating reality, whether you run one station or a group across markets.
Connected audio strategy
Plan streaming, on-demand, metadata, Siri, CarPlay, and voice discovery around real station operations - without forcing an all-at-once rebuild.
Pilot delivery and team enablement
Turn the strongest idea into a measured pilot with owners, requirements, vendor coordination, real-device testing, remote team training, and a defensible decision.
Featured engagement
AI and Connected Audio Readiness Audit
A focused four-week engagement, available remotely nationwide, that replaces scattered experimentation with a clear operating roadmap before leadership commits to a major tool, vendor, or platform build.
Weeks 1-2Discovery and workflow assessment
Week 3Opportunity scoring and risk review
Week 4Roadmap, executive brief, and pilot decision
What leadership receives
- AI and connected-audio readiness assessment
- Current-tool and workflow inventory
- Opportunity scorecard and quick wins
- Competitive and vendor landscape
- Prioritized 12-month roadmap
- Executive presentation and pilot brief
A disciplined path
Discover. Prioritize. Pilot. Decide.
The work is designed to create evidence, not momentum for its own sake.
Discover
Interview the people doing the work and map the tools, handoffs, bottlenecks, rights, and risks that shape the real opportunity.
Prioritize
Score each use case against impact, complexity, cost, time-to-value, editorial trust, and the capacity of the team that must operate it.
Pilot
Prove one focused idea with a small audience, clear measures, human accountability, and a budget ceiling before scaling.
Decide
Return to leadership with evidence and a clear recommendation: scale, revise, partner, or stop.
Connected audio
Make radio easier to find, hear, and value.
The next radio experience is not only an app. It is reliable streams, useful metadata, on-demand shows, voice actions, CarPlay, concise local briefings, and sponsor inventory that can be measured without weakening listener trust.
StreamingOn-demandSiriCarPlayMetadataBilingual workflows
About Tim Hopkins
Broadcast experience. Business judgment. Project discipline.
Tim Hopkins is an independent consultant, former radio program director, and certified project manager. Based in Santa Rosa, California, he offers nationwide support that connects station operations, programming, market strategy, and AI adoption with the execution needed to move from recommendation to working pilot.
Before consulting on AI and connected audio, Tim directed daily programming and operations at Broken FM, advised radio clients on station concepts and listener strategy, and helped build a leading Sonoma County photography business from the ground up.
Tim also runs RadioAI Stack, a free directory of AI tools for radio, filterable by the automation system your station runs.
Much of Tim's radio career has been in Christian radio, and he especially enjoys helping Christian and ministry-driven stations use new tools without losing the trust and mission their listeners count on.
PMP + CAPMMBARadio since 2009U.S. Army veteran
Let's work together · Nationwide
Bring the problem. Leave with a clearer next move.
Wherever your station or media group is based in the U.S., start with a practical conversation about AI, digital audio, or your next pilot. Connect directly with Tim to discuss your goals and the right next step for your team.