If the answer to a simple question about your own music requires an archaeological dig where you’re struggling to piece the connections together — Once again that's a systems problem, not a memory problem.

Genuinely curious — music artists, where are y'all at with AI and your music workflow? a) Haven't really started b) Using ChatGPT or Claude for random questions c) Connected AI in my tech stack but still figuring it out d) Fully integrated — agent workflows, mcps, cli No wrong answer. Most people are somewhere betwee... Show more

Here's a practical D2C exercise: Take your last release. Answer these: 1. How many people bought it directly (not streamed)? 2. Can you name them? 3. Can you email them? 4. Do you know what else they've bought from you? 5. Could you offer them something new right now? If you got through 1-3, you have a foundation. I... Show more

The concern: AI can generate music. It can mimic styles. It can produce "content" at a speed no human matches. And that puts downward pressure on the value of human-made art. I feel that. I think anyone making music honestly should feel that. But here's where I land: the response isn't to ignore the tools entirely. I... Show more

There's no shame in not chasing mainstream success, no shame in not caring about charts. There's no shame in building a quiet career D2C or on sync & licensing. But there is risk in not knowing what you own, because opportunity doesn't wait for you to get organized. No shame in wanting a system that could help you eit... Show more

I want to have an honest conversation about AI and music. Not the hype version. Not the fear version. The real one. I'm an artist who builds systems. I care deeply about the craft. And I have genuine concerns about what AI means for creative work. Both things are true at the same time. And I think pretending otherwi... Show more

Honest question for the Notion users in here: When an AI agent connects to your workspace, what does it find? Organized databases & data sources with clear relationships and described properties? Or a collection of pages that made perfect sense when you made them but wouldn't make sense to anything else reading them ... Show more

The most underrated metric in music is not streams, not followers, not even song/album saves... It's repeat buyers. How many people have purchased from you more than once? If you can answer that, you’ve got the strongest signal that tells you who your actual community is.

Here's a practical starting point: Make a list of every person who has ever: Bought your music directly Bought your merch Come to your show Shared your work publicly Told you your music mattered to them That's your fan database. Version 1. Now imagine that list connected to what they bought, when, and how you can r... Show more

If you got sick for two weeks, what part of your music business would break first? (Not what would wait for you—what would actually fail.) That's where your systems need work.

The Notion Agent has gotten quietly powerful and I don't think enough people have caught on yet. It reads your databases. Understands your schema. Answers questions about your data with context that used to require you to explain everything from scratch. For a music catalog, that means asking "which tracks have incom... Show more

If you're overwhelmed by all the AI options right now, you don't need to pick the "right" one. You need a system they can all point to. The AI landscape will keep shifting. Your data layer doesn't have to. Focus on structure & adapt to the right models based on their strengths.

Before I open my email & get distracted, I try to write down the one thing. Not a list. Just the one outcome that would make the day complete. Some days I forget. Some days the one thing changes by noon. That's fine. The practice isn't about perfection. It's about returning to it.