podcastdistributiona/app/(marketing)/about/page.tsx

import type { Metadata } from "next";
import Link from "next/link";
import {
  Sparkles,
  Wand2,
  ShieldCheck,
  Globe,
  Zap,
  HeartHandshake,
  ArrowRight,
} from "lucide-react";
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
import { JsonLd } from "@/components/seo/json-ld";
import { breadcrumbSchema, graph, webPageSchema } from "@/lib/schema";
import { pageMetadata } from "@/lib/seo";

/** Shared by the page metadata and this page's structured data. */
const DESCRIPTION =
  "Podcast Distribution AI is an AI studio that turns a single idea into a finished, publishable podcast — script, voices, and cover art — in minutes. Learn why we built it and what we believe.";

export const metadata: Metadata = pageMetadata({
  title: "About",
  description: DESCRIPTION,
  path: "/about",
});

const STATS = [
  { value: "3", label: "AI models in one workflow" },
  { value: "14+", label: "Realistic narrator voices" },
  { value: "13+", label: "Languages supported" },
  { value: "Minutes", label: "From idea to finished episode" },
];

const VALUES = [
  {
    icon: Sparkles,
    title: "Creativity for everyone",
    body: "Powerful production shouldn't require gear, a budget, or technical skill. If you can describe an idea, you can turn it into a finished episode.",
  },
  {
    icon: Wand2,
    title: "Quality you'd actually publish",
    body: "AI drafts are a starting point, not the finish line. Every script and voice is editable, so the final cut always sounds like you.",
  },
  {
    icon: ShieldCheck,
    title: "Built responsibly",
    body: "We screen content against a clear policy, never use your private work to train our models, and make sure you own everything you create.",
  },
  {
    icon: Globe,
    title: "Global from day one",
    body: "Stories aren't only told in English. With 13+ languages, you can produce for an audience anywhere — no re-recording required.",
  },
  {
    icon: Zap,
    title: "Fast, but never careless",
    body: "Minutes from idea to episode, with the controls to get the details right before you hit publish. Speed and craft aren't a trade-off.",
  },
  {
    icon: HeartHandshake,
    title: "Honest and transparent",
    body: "Simple plans, clear limits, cancel anytime. No dark patterns and no surprises — just a tool that respects your time and your work.",
  },
];

export default function AboutPage() {
  return (
    <>
      <JsonLd
        data={graph(
          {
            ...webPageSchema({
              path: "/about",
              name: "About",
              description: DESCRIPTION,
            }),
            "@type": "AboutPage",
          },
          breadcrumbSchema([{ name: "About", path: "/about" }])
        )}
      />

      {/* Hero */}
      <section className="bg-hero-wash">
        <div className="container max-w-4xl py-24 text-center md:py-32">
          <p className="text-[13px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.04em] text-brand">About us</p>
          <h1 className="mt-4 text-balance font-display text-5xl font-extrabold leading-[1.05] tracking-tight md:text-6xl">
            Making great podcasts possible for everyone
          </h1>
          <p className="mx-auto mt-6 max-w-2xl text-lg text-muted-foreground sm:text-xl">
            Podcast Distribution AI is an AI studio that turns a single idea into a finished, publishable episode —
            script, voices, and cover art — in minutes. No microphone, no editing suite, no production
            budget.
          </p>
        </div>
      </section>

      {/* Stats */}
      <section className="border-y border-border bg-card">
        <div className="container grid grid-cols-2 gap-8 py-14 lg:grid-cols-4">
          {STATS.map((s) => (
            <div key={s.label} className="text-center">
              <p className="font-display text-4xl font-extrabold tracking-tight text-brand md:text-5xl">
                {s.value}
              </p>
              <p className="mt-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground">{s.label}</p>
            </div>
          ))}
        </div>
      </section>

      {/* Mission */}
      <section className="py-24 md:py-28">
        <div className="container max-w-3xl text-center">
          <p className="text-[13px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.04em] text-brand">Our mission</p>
          <p className="mt-5 text-balance font-display text-3xl font-bold leading-tight tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
            To remove every barrier between a great idea and a published podcast — so anyone with
            something to say can be{" "}
            <span className="text-brand">heard</span>.
          </p>
        </div>
      </section>

      {/* Story */}
      <section className="border-t border-border bg-secondary py-24 md:py-28">
        <div className="container max-w-3xl">
          <p className="text-[13px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.04em] text-brand">Our story</p>
          <h2 className="mt-3 font-display text-3xl font-extrabold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
            Why we built Podcast Distribution AI
          </h2>
          <div className="mt-8 space-y-5 text-lg leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">
            <p>
              Podcasting is one of the most personal ways to reach an audience — and one of the
              hardest to start. Scripting, recording, editing, designing artwork, and publishing can
              take days and a stack of tools and skills most people simply don&apos;t have. Brilliant
              ideas die in that gap between &ldquo;I should make a podcast&rdquo; and actually
              shipping one.
            </p>
            <p>
              We thought the modern AI stack could collapse all of that into a single workflow. GPT-4
              can write a tight, on-brand script. ElevenLabs can voice it with realistic, multi-speaker
              narration. DALL·E can design cover art that matches the topic. Stitched together, they
              turn &ldquo;I have a topic&rdquo; into &ldquo;I have an episode.&rdquo;
            </p>
            <p>
              So we built Podcast Distribution AI: a studio that lives in your browser. Describe an idea, fine-tune
              the result in a real editor, download the MP3 — then repurpose it into a blog post, a
              social thread, or a newsletter. We&apos;re a small team of engineers, audio nerds, and
              storytellers obsessed with making production effortless without making it feel generic.
            </p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </section>

      {/* Values */}
      <section className="py-24 md:py-28">
        <div className="container">
          <div className="mx-auto max-w-2xl text-center">
            <p className="text-[13px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-[0.04em] text-brand">
              What we believe
            </p>
            <h2 className="mt-3 font-display text-3xl font-extrabold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
              The principles behind the product
            </h2>
          </div>
          <div className="mt-16 grid gap-6 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3">
            {VALUES.map((v) => (
              <div
                key={v.title}
                className="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card p-7 transition-all hover:-translate-y-0.5 hover:shadow-md"
              >
                <span className="flex h-12 w-12 items-center justify-center rounded-2xl bg-brand/10 text-brand">
                  <v.icon className="h-6 w-6" />
                </span>
                <h3 className="mt-5 font-display text-lg font-bold tracking-tight">{v.title}</h3>
                <p className="mt-2 leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">{v.body}</p>
              </div>
            ))}
          </div>
        </div>
      </section>

      {/* CTA */}
      <section className="pb-24 md:pb-28">
        <div className="container">
          <div className="relative overflow-hidden rounded-3xl bg-primary px-8 py-20 text-center text-primary-foreground">
            <div className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 bg-[radial-gradient(60%_80%_at_50%_0%,hsl(var(--brand)/0.35),transparent_70%)]" />
            <div className="relative">
              <h2 className="font-display text-4xl font-extrabold tracking-tight sm:text-5xl">
                Come make something worth listening to
              </h2>
              <p className="mx-auto mt-4 max-w-xl text-lg text-primary-foreground/75">
                Spin up a fully produced episode on the free plan in a couple of minutes — then decide.
              </p>
              <div className="mt-9 flex flex-col justify-center gap-3 sm:flex-row">
                <Button asChild size="lg" variant="brand">
                  <Link href="/sign-up">
                    Start free <ArrowRight className="h-4 w-4" />
                  </Link>
                </Button>
                <Button
                  asChild
                  size="lg"
                  variant="outline"
                  className="border-white/25 bg-transparent text-primary-foreground hover:bg-white/10 hover:text-primary-foreground"
                >
                  <Link href="/pricing">See pricing</Link>
                </Button>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </section>
    </>
  );
}