Syncopate
Reimagining music rights infrastructure
Music rights intelligence
The Challenge
Managing music rights remains surprisingly fragmented. Songwriters, publishers, producers, managers, and labels work across disconnected systems, inconsistent metadata, spreadsheets, and manual administration before a song is even ready to be considered for licensing. The result is lost opportunities, duplicated effort, and unnecessary complexity.
The Opportunity
Rather than building another catalog management platform, Syncopate is designed as an intelligence layer that helps creators understand the commercial readiness of their catalog. It combines rights management, metadata validation, catalog organization, contract intelligence, and AI-assisted readiness scoring into a unified workflow.
My Role
- Founder
- Product Strategy
- User Research
- Platform Architecture
- UX/UI Design
- AI Product Strategy
- Go-to-Market
- Roadmap
Product Highlights
- AI-powered catalog readiness
- Rights management
- Split sheet management
- Contributor management
- Metadata validation
- Executive dashboards
- Contract integration
- Sync opportunity management
Lessons Learned
The hardest part wasn't designing software — it was simplifying decades of industry complexity into workflows musicians actually enjoy using. Good products don't remove professional expertise. They remove unnecessary administrative friction.