The tools, systems, and community that let musicians do the thing they became musicians to do. Built by someone who has spent 35 years in music and 20 years building organizations at scale.
"I just want to play. I don't want to worry about the money." Every working musician has said some version of this. The truth is, without the systems, the money worries you whether you want it to or not. The Working Musician exists so you can stop choosing between the music and the math.
Untracked expenses. Missed deductions. Royalties sitting with your name on them at organizations you have never registered with. One working musician found $10,000 from a commercial recorded more than a decade earlier. The tools to find what is yours have never existed. Until now.
When to say yes to a gig. How to ask for a fair fee. What a performance contract should include. The $600 corporate event that drains you and the $200 room that lights you up are not the same gig, even when you only look at the fee. These are learnable skills. Most musicians learn them the expensive way.
Live performance dries up. A venue closes. A season goes quiet. The musicians who weather it have two or three streams running at once. Not because they work harder. Because they built the right structure early and they know which number to watch.
Contracts, income structure, the mistakes, the real numbers. Successful working musicians rarely open up about this. The Working Musician community changes that. A room where serious musicians have honest conversations without judgment and help each other build careers that last.
A quiet companion for the money side of your music life. It lives on your device, nothing sent to a server, and it speaks up when it matters: a booking gone quiet, a strong month worth noticing, a royalty worth going after.
The Working Musician is not a software product with a community bolted on. It is a community of musicians who take their craft seriously and are building careers they can sustain. The tools serve that mission. The mission is the music.
The ones who play because the room changes when the music starts. Who show up to gigs they could decline. Who keep writing songs nobody is asking for yet. The Working Musician is built for the ones who have not stopped caring.
Real numbers. Real mistakes. Real wins. A private room where working musicians share what actually works without the performance of having it all figured out. The community where you can ask the question you have never asked anywhere else.
Not followers. Not streams. Careers. The kind built on knowing your real rate, having your royalties registered, understanding what you can deduct, and playing the gigs that fill the tank more often than they drain it.
"I have never been asked how much I actually enjoyed a gig. I have never seen a tool that shows me what my income looks like when you split it by the gigs I wanted to play versus the ones I had to play. That is the whole conversation nobody is having."
Every feature in this app came from a musician saying the thing that had been bothering them and nobody had ever built a fix for. If you are a working musician, your feedback builds this product. That is the deal.
Join the Community. Free.Every tier delivers real value from day one. Not a funnel trick. Not a teaser toward a paywall. The free newsletter alone is worth your time. The app is free to start. The membership and masterclass are for when you are ready to go deeper.
Short, specific, and worth your time. Tax tips, royalty recovery strategies, negotiation tactics, AI tools for musicians, and career moves that compound quietly over years. Written by someone who has spent a lifetime inside music and a career building organizations at scale.
The complete toolkit for running your music career like the business it actually is. The deductible review, the Found Money Tracker, and the Energy Ledger, all in one place.
In development now, shaped with input from the founding community. Six planned modules built from a lifetime performing and two decades building organizations at scale. Self-paced, practical, and built for the musician who is serious about the long game. Join the newsletter to help shape it and get first access when it launches.
A private room of hand-picked working musicians at different career stages and income models, running their careers like businesses together. The founding cohort is forming now. Honest conversations, real numbers, and a group that holds you to the standard you set for yourself. We also play together. That part matters. Join the newsletter to register early interest.
Not beginners looking for their first gig. Not hobbyists. This is for musicians who take their craft seriously, care about the long game, and are ready to run the business side with the same intention they bring to the music itself.
You are playing regularly, earning from music, and the business side is a mess that costs you time and money you cannot see. You need systems, not more advice. Start with the app and the membership. The Energy Ledger alone may change what you say yes to.
You have real talent and you are building an audience. You want a career, not just a following. The newsletter, and the Masterclass when it launches, give you the foundation before the expensive mistakes happen. Register your royalties now, while the clock is still running in your favour.
You have been doing this for years and something about the business side still does not feel right. The Inner Circle, forming now, is built for you. Honest peer conversations with other serious professionals, your real numbers on the table, and a community that builds careers together.
The Working Musician is built at the intersection of a life in music and two decades building commercial organizations at scale. Neither half works without the other.
Thirty-five years in music: on stages and in rehearsal rooms across the country, and internationally. Alongside it, a parallel career building and scaling commercial organizations. I know both worlds from the inside.
So many musicians say a version of the same thing: "I just want to play. I don't want to worry about the money." I built this because the systems that make that possible are learnable. They just need to be translated into the musician's world by someone who lives in both.
"A lifetime in music taught me what matters artistically. Twenty years of building organizations taught me what makes careers sustainable. The Working Musician is what happens when both of those finally talk to each other."
I have watched talented musicians, people with more skill than I will ever have, leave the industry not because they stopped loving music but because the business side wore them down. Disorganized finances, bad contracts, no systems, no community. That is a solvable problem.
Systems create freedom. The music is why you do it. The systems are what let you keep doing it. For the soul and for the rent. Both matter.