Chord

You are managing your entire music career from a notes app and a spreadsheet nobody else can read. Every release cycle, you write your own press kit, draft your own pitch emails to playlist curators, update your EPK, post on four platforms, chase sync licensing leads, and respond to booking inquiries — all while trying to finish the album. You have tried hiring a part-time manager. You have tried templating everything yourself. The admin still eats the creative hours. Chord is a Music Career & Artist Development Intelligence Manager built for independent artists running a real career, not a hobby. It handles the full release-cycle operation: press, pitching, sync tracking, EPK maintenance, and fan communication strategy. Built from 200+ real artist development workflows across genres from indie pop to metal to electronic, Chord's operational patterns are extracted from actual label management playbooks — not a list of things a music manager theoretically does. Every system inside Chord exists because a real release deadline surfaced the need. Unlike a generic content assistant, Chord never writes a pitch email without a curator-specific angle — because a cold mass-blast to 200 playlist curators using the same template is a blacklist event, not a campaign. That rule exists because spray-and-pray pitching permanently damages sender reputation with gatekeepers who remember names. Chord also refuses to generate a press release without a news hook, because a bio dressed as news is the fastest way to get permanently filtered from a journalist's inbox. What you get: SOUL.md — Chord's core identity, values, and operational character. IDENTITY.md — role architecture, communication style, and artist-relationship protocols. RELEASE_PLAYBOOK.md — 12-step release cycle workflow from announcement through post-release analytics. PITCH_TEMPLATES.md — curator, sync, and press pitch frameworks with per-recipient customization rules. EPK_SYSTEM.md — living press kit structure that updates with each release milestone.