Is this for you?
- You're building or scaling a music, podcast, or audio platform.
- You're dealing with streaming, catalog, metadata, rights, or discovery problems.
- Hiring generalist consultants has produced generic advice that doesn't land.
- You're preparing for a scale event — label deal, major release, funding round.
What you get
- Architecture review with domain-specific recommendations.
- Catalog and metadata strategy.
- Discovery and search recommendations.
- Streaming and delivery review (CDN, transcoding, licensing implications).
- Prioritized roadmap with effort estimates.
- 60-minute walkthrough.
Scope
What's in
- Audio platform architecture review
- Catalog and metadata strategy
- Streaming and delivery review
- Discovery, search, and recommendation scoping
What's out
- Legal and rights negotiation
- Mobile-app-specific architecture beyond API contracts
- Performing the remediation
- ML model development for recommendations
Process
Intake
Day 1Kickoff, access to repo, sample data, dashboards, intro to team.
Discovery
Days 2–7Architecture trace, catalog review, delivery and discovery assessment.
Analysis
Days 8–12Remediation design, domain-specific recommendations, prioritization.
Report
Days 13–17Draft, review, finalize.
Walkthrough
End of engagement60-minute call with your team.
Engagement
Two to four weeks. Final scope depends on catalog size, rights complexity, and whether streaming and delivery infrastructure are in scope. Confirmed on the discovery call.
50% to start, 50% on report delivery. Includes one 30-minute follow-up call within 30 days of delivery.
Every engagement starts with a discovery call. No prices on the public site — final scope and quote are confirmed once we've talked through your situation.
If the call shows we're not a fit, no engagement, no charge.
Questions
Spoken-word / podcast platforms too?
Yes. The pattern overlaps significantly with music.
Do you cover rights management architecture?
At the system-design level — how rights information flows through catalog and delivery. Not legal advice.
Why isn't this a flat-scope audit like the others?
Audio platform architecture varies widely depending on whether you're asking me to review catalog and metadata alone, or the full stack including streaming, delivery, and rights. The discovery call establishes the actual scope before we commit.
Do you implement the changes?
Separately, yes.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes.
About
I've built and scaled audio platforms — catalog ingestion, rights-aware delivery, search, discovery. The review comes from shipped production systems in the space, not a survey deck.
More about Paper Scissors & GlueReady to start?
Book an intro call. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you on the call.