Interview quality is determined prior to recording by whether or not the question could have been asked to someone else. The question What inspired you to start the company is an example of a rehearsed question. Rehearsed answers are useless.
A good set does the reading first, finds the thing your guest has not been asked, and puts it where they are relaxed enough to answer it. Order matters here nearly as much as the questions themselves.
What Makes No-AI Interview Questions Work When Spoken?
Answers must be given all at once. If a question has to be asked in two parts, the first part gets answered, leaving the easier part of the answer for the other half of the question. It is also a bad practice to go back for the rest of the answer, because then the question resembles the questioning done by a prosecutor. Written questions create a sense of formality that makes guests uncomfortable, so we create the questions the same way as you would ask a question sitting across a table.
One question at a time, never two joined together.
Open enough to answer, specific enough to be interesting.
Ordered so trust is built before the hard one.
Where AI falls down on interview questions
Generated question sets use the same set of twelve questions, just with a different name swapped in. Guests are prompted to answer questions about their journey, the largest challenge, and advice for beginners. Guests easily recognize the repetitive pattern and shift to the generic answers they give to other guests.
Voice, Timing and Human Writing for No-AI Interview Questions
The writer analyzes the content your guest has published and listens to your guest’s interviews to understand what your guest is tired of being asked. The order of the set has each difficulty level represented, starting with easy and specific items first, moving toward more difficult items around two-thirds of the way through, and ending with something general.
How an interview question gets written here
Read the guest’s own work and listen to two prior interviews.
List what they are tired of being asked, then avoid it.
Order questions by temperature, difficult ones two-thirds in.
Write follow-ups for the answers that will arrive short.
Using No-AI Interview Questions for Better Video and Audio
Better descriptions reduce your edit time and produce better results. A completed answer doesn’t need three sentences to answer. You’re the host of a show, not a lacky for Charlie Rose. An audience member who you engaged with to create an interesting question produces a surprising answer and a video clip that everyone is going to post.
A researched question set ordered for a real conversation.
Follow-ups written for short or evasive answers.
Background notes on the guest, with sources.
Questions they are tired of, marked so you avoid them.
A closing question that reliably produces a usable ending.
What people commission interview questions for
Podcast bookings made with two days’ notice.
On-camera interviews for documentary and brand films.
Executive profiles for print or internal publications.
Panel moderation where the chair needs structure.
What interview questions cost
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
Typical interview question
Words
Writing
Fee (1%)
You pay
Quick set (10 questions)
250
$25
$0.25
$25.25
Full interview (25 questions)
600
$60
$0.60
$60.60
Series pack (five interviews)
2,000
$200
$2
$202
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting.
Full pricing breakdown.
No-AI Interview Questions Scriptwriting FAQs
Anything from 100 words up. Because you pay by the word you are never buying padding to fill a package tier.
Yes — that is exactly what the included revision rounds are for. Read it aloud, mark the lines that fight your mouth, and send it back. Rewriting for delivery is normal on any script and the writer expects it.
They are some of the better interviews. It requires similar questions, yet still less abstract, and more measurable. One we can put at the beginning that they can answer that doesn’t involve a lot of deep thought should calm their nerves. We also tend to make notes on which questions we should remove since they appear to visibly struggle.
Yes, as long as we have an advance script for them to reference on the day. How a question is phrased can make or break whether you get an answer or a blank wall. We write follow ups for their refusals. It is clear to us that the member of staff is going to end the conversation by that point.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews
What clients say about our interview questions
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
NQNoor QContent Manager, Lantern Row Games
The pacing started slow
Our audience left before 40 seconds because it was too slow. The section after the two minute mark is very good. A colder open was requested and we delivered and the drop off on the retention graph finally flattened where it use to be a steady decline.
Verified orderYouTube scriptsMay 2026
DKDorota K
A letter I avoided writing for years
It’s difficult to begin writing to someone you haven’t talked to since 2011. I explained the situation. I got a careful response. It didn’t apologize for me or explain anything. She answered my letter, which is everything I wanted.
Verified orderPersonal lettersMay 2025
IMIngeborg MEditor, Halden Press
Sold the book without spoiling it
Two hundred words that make you want to read a quiet novel about a lighthouse keeper, without giving away that he leaves. Our previous copywriter gave that away in the first line.