Frederick Tubiermont
Frederick Tubiermont is a solo founder who is building AI products designed specifically for independent station owners and podcasters. His first tool is the AI Jingle Maker, which lets stations create custom spoken jingles in minutes and has surpassed 165,000 signups since its September 2023 launch. (for a quick video demo.)
AI JingleMaker is part of a four-product suite aimed at independent broadcasters. Tubiermont built all four of those products on his own, working with AI assistants with no development team or outside funding. He told Radio World the effort says something about where station tooling is heading and what small radio operators can now afford to do. Tubiermont elaborates further in the Q&A below.
RW: What is the name of your company, and what kind of services does it offer that would interest radio companies?
Frederick Tubiermont: The service operates as AI Jingle Maker, which brings together all my AI-enhanced audio products under one roof: AI Jingle Maker itself for custom spoken jingles, DJ drops and station imaging; Radio Site Maker for station websites; Aithercast for ready-to-air audio weather bulletins; and, launching soon, Radio Host Live, which lets hosts broadcast a live show straight from their phone. The common thread: big-market production values at prices an indie station can actually afford.
Alongside these SaaS products, I also take on bespoke software builds for clients via ADSYME, my boutique development studio. So if a station needs something custom, that door is open, too.
AI Jingle Maker
RW: What is your background and how did you get started with this venture?
Tubiermont: I’ve spent 30 years at the crossroads of entertainment, media and technology. I actually trained as an interpreter, but my career started in music, working on Belgium’s Dour Festival in the ’90s, then founding my own label, Les Disques Modernes, where I produced Belgian indie acts and released the K’s Choice album Echo Mountain in the U.K.
I was a radio DJ for a while on various radio stations in Belgium (and most recently on Riverside Radio in London). I’ve also co-founded and run two live music venues, so audio and live radio-style production are in my blood.
In parallel, I kept building tech ventures: SMSMAG, Europe’s first mobile entertainment magazine (4 million-plus downloads across Belgium, France and the U.K.).
After moving to London in 2015, I led product and growth at several startups and worked as a product and marketing consultant.
The turning point came in late 2022, when I started coding with AI assistants after learning Python on YouTube (I was already 49 at that time).
For the first time, I could build the products myself instead of hiring teams and I’ve since become one of the most vocal advocates of AI-assisted coding.
I was invited on Talk Python in 2024.
AI Jingle Maker, launched in September 2023, was where my two worlds finally met: audio entertainment and software.
RW: What technology do you use to create these services? It seems impressive to do this without a dev team.
Tubiermont: My products are built on Flask, the Python web framework.
I’m a vocal advocate of it and run the website Flask Vibe on that very subject.
I work with AI assistants as my dev team (Claude Code Max ($100 monthly plan) and Codex ($20) in VS Code) for coding, debugging and architecture, while I keep product decisions, design and support in my own hands. The honest version: AI doesn’t replace judgment, but it collapses the cost and time of building software to the point where one person can ship and run four products. Two years ago this suite would have needed a funded team of five.
RW: Describe each offering in one or two sentences, including their cost ranges.
Tubiermont: AI Jingle Maker — Create royalty-free radio jingles, DJ drops, sweepers, station IDs and podcast intros in seconds, using 65-plus AI voices and 1,000-plus royalty-free intros, beds and effects, delivered as .MP3 and .WAV with full commercial license. No subscription: one-time credit packs from $39 for 100 voiceover generations — so a finished jingle costs cents — and credits never expire. For stations wanting sung jingles, there’s also a handcrafted tier: AI-generated, professionally edited and mixed, delivered within 24 hours (for a jingle showcase, click here).
Radio Site Maker — A website builder made specifically for radio: live player with now-playing info, program schedule, podcast hosting with RSS, events, charts, blog and listener email capture — live in about 10 minutes. One flat price: $99/year (under $8.25/month), everything included, with a free trial and no credit card required.
Radio Site Maker
Aithercast — Ready-to-air local weather bulletins in .MP3 and .WAV, delivered to your inbox three times a day at 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. local time. $29 for 90 bulletins (3 a day for 30 days) — under $1 a day, no subscription.
Radio Host Live, launching soon) — Broadcast a live show straight from your phone: talk on mic, fire off jingles, mix in your tracks, and every show gets its own link that becomes an instant replay when you wrap. $99 per year for unlimited live shows, jingles and audio mixing. Up to 300 simultaneous listeners, 6,151 listener-hours per year included.
You can already test it on iPhone (Android coming soon).
RW: Who’s actually using it?
Tubiermont: What’s struck me most about the 165,000 signups is who they are: hospital radio stations, community broadcasters, school and college stations, online DJs, podcasters, people who always had the creativity but never had the production budget. Some of the most touching emails I get are from tiny volunteer-run stations that sound genuinely professional for the first time. That’s the whole point: indie stations have always had big-market ambitions on small-market budgets, and AI finally closes that gap.
You can read a few testimonials here. (By the way, the testimonial app is also a custom build, as well as FloatingVideo.com, which I use on the AI Jingle Maker to share video greetings.)
Contact Fredrick Tubiermont: [email protected]
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