Built by Lightwork Digital × PaulKSaunders
STAVE is the workspace for independent artists and labels: releases, fans, shows, contracts and royalties in one place. AI staff do the groundwork. People make the calls.
Why STAVE
Most artists run their career across a dozen tools, a spreadsheet and their memory. The songs live in one place, the fans in another, the contracts in an inbox and the money somewhere nobody looks.
STAVE pulls it together. Every release, fan, show, agreement and royalty line sits in one workspace, so you can see the whole career at once and act on it.
Next release: ready for distribution
Your 5 Keys
What it does
The five lines of the treble stave are E · G · B · D · F. Each one is a Key to a career that lasts, and every part of STAVE sits under one of them.
Identity, catalogue, rights, baseline
How real fans find you and stay
Shows, rooms and paid live work
A live and fan experience worth paying for
Income that compounds, boundaries, longevity
Grow
Credits, splits, artwork and the record of what was human and what was AI, all checked before a release goes out. Every release gets its own player with a fan sign-up, so the people who listen can stay in touch.
Deliver
The show kit prints QR and NFC cards for the merch table and the stage. A fan taps or scans, says yes to hearing from you, and lands in your Fan Ledger before they reach the car park.
AI staff, people in the loop
STAVE's AI staff have real job titles and written briefs. They draft the work that eats an artist's week. Everything they produce lands in a review queue, where a person reads it, fixes it and signs it off. Signings, contracts and anything sent in an artist's name stay with a human.
You can also just ask. Chat with STAVE about your catalogue, fans or next release and it answers from your own data. It connects to Claude too, so you can work with STAVE from there.
Recommended for every STAVE user
Every artist and label on STAVE is encouraged to use TrueFans CONNECT, the way for fans to support the artists they love directly, with donations. It sits naturally beside the Fan Ledger: STAVE helps you find and keep your fans, and CONNECT gives them a simple way to back you.
Visit TrueFans CONNECTWho it is for
Who want their releases, fans, shows and money in one place they control.
Running a roster, sub-labels and artist pages. Human and AI artists both, with AI artists always disclosed as AI.
Managers, bookers and the people who check the AI staff's work before it goes out.
How it is built
Who built it
STAVE is built by Lightwork Digital, with Paul K Saunders. Paul has spent about 40 years in music: pirate radio, BBC broadcasting, major-label A&R, festival promotion, artist management and running an independent label. He has watched the industry's promises fail from every side of the desk.
STAVE is the tool he wanted artists to have: the money side of a music career, made plain, and help with the work that keeps the music going. Its aim is the same as everything on PaulKSaunders.com: help music artists build real careers, without selling their soul.
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