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ACME IDEA CORP builds software for independent artists and the people who work alongside them.

01Product

Now in closed beta for iPhone

CatalogTracker

The split sheet, generated from a musician's own catalogue — and confirmed by everyone named on it.

The CatalogTracker Catalogue screen, with recently opened releases above a grid of all 54, each showing cover art, artists, and type.
See CatalogTracker

02Writing

The business of an independent music career: the metadata, the agreements, and the admin nobody hands you a manual for.

  • Running a label with five artists: what has to be tracked

    What a label owes each artist, and when: the seven terms to copy from every contract, a running balance per artist, the statement and its objection clock, everyone else the records pay, and the forms each payment creates.

  • How to leave a distributor and take your catalogue with you

    Leaving is a second delivery, not a cancellation. What has to match, which goes first and where the three distributors disagree, what the cancel button really does, why Content ID runs the other way, and when the old account can close.

All writing