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Personalized 1:1 AI strategy sessions with Tim Stickelbrucks — CEO of Afacture, author of Entertainment Rewired, and an AI practitioner with direct DSP experience across Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube. No Suno. No Udio. No guesswork.
No commitment. We use the call to see if it's a fit.
Paid programs run $1,200 (1-hour audit) to $49,500/yr (embedded partnership).
DSP consulting experience across
Asset production has doubled. Catalogs are getting messier under the weight of new tags and formats. Every team has been told to 'use AI more' without anyone showing them what that means in practice. The teams who build the workflows now set the pace for everyone else.
Most consultants have never read a sync brief, mapped a release calendar, or untangled a back catalog with inconsistent metadata. Music has its own vocabulary. Your AI workflows should speak it.
Every release now ships with 4–6 visual variants — Spotify Canvas, Reels cuts, lyric videos, EPK pages. Your headcount hasn't doubled. Without a shared AI workflow, every person on the team builds their own — and the brand consistency that took years breaks down inside a quarter.
Teams that build their AI workflows in the next two quarters will spend 2027 running materially faster across marketing, A&R, sync, and catalog. Teams that wait will spend it catching up to competitors who already built the muscle.
Direct access to 10+ years in AI,
applied specifically to music, media, and entertainment.
Tim has spent over 10 years at the intersection of technology, creative media, and machine intelligence — building products and systems in the same industry you work in.
CEO of Afacture — AI consulting, creative technology, and music-industry advisory
DSP consulting experience across Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube — understanding how algorithmic curation and rights data intersect
Published author — Entertainment Rewired, on how AI is transforming the next generation of storytellers, musicians, and creators
Deep background in machine learning, film, VFX, branding, and experiential technology — across US coasts, working with artists, studios, and rights holders
Creator of Seekree and other AI-native applications deployed at scale across real creative business environments
Every session is with Tim directly — no junior consultants, no frameworks handed off to someone else. Real expertise applied to your specific situation.
Every session is 1:1, customized to your team, and built around action — not theory. Directly bookable below.
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Not because we don't understand them — but because we do. These tools are built on training data whose copyright status remains unresolved. The artists and rightsholders who created that training data are the same people many of our clients represent. Teaching those tools to labels and publishers would be a conflict of interest we're not willing to carry.
What we do instead: we help you build AI into every operational layer of your business that doesn't touch generation. Metadata enrichment. Catalog analytics. Rights monitoring and A&R signal detection. Marketing and pitching workflows. Contract and sync brief analysis. These are the tools that make your catalog more valuable, your team more efficient, and your position in the market stronger — without putting anyone out of a job.
| Role / Team | Where AI fits your work |
|---|---|
| Indie Record Label (A&R, Operations) | Artist discovery signals, release planning automation, metadata QC, DSP pitch prep |
| Music Publisher (Licensing, Rights) | Sync opportunity detection, catalog gap analysis, licensing brief parsing, royalty data audit |
| Sync Agency / Music Supervisor | Brief-to-catalog matching, search workflow automation, client reporting, pitching at scale |
| DSP Product & Partnerships Teams | AI feature evaluation, editorial automation assessment, label partner strategy |
| Talent Manager / Artist Manager | Revenue analytics, streaming optimization, brand partnership intelligence |
| Music-Adjacent Tech Company | AI product roadmap, rights-safe AI integration, go-to-market strategy for music industry |
Don't see your exact role? Book a free 15-minute call — Tim will tell you honestly whether this is a fit, and what it would look like for your specific situation.
Book Free Discovery CallChoose your tier and pick a time directly via Calendly. Instant confirmation, no back-and-forth.
Complete a short intake form so Tim arrives prepared with specific context about your business.
1:1 over video. No slides, no templates — real strategy built entirely around your situation.
Within 24 hours you receive a written summary and a personalized next-step action plan.
Yes — if you work in music, media, or entertainment in any capacity. The program is built for indie labels, music publishers, sync agencies, music supervisors, DSP product and partnerships teams, talent managers, and music-adjacent tech companies. If your work lives inside the music industry's infrastructure, you'll find this directly applicable.
No — and that's deliberate. Those tools carry unresolved copyright exposure and are displacing the very artists and rights holders most of our clients serve. We focus exclusively on AI that augments your operations — metadata, rights management, A&R intelligence, marketing, catalog analysis, workflow automation — without cannibalizing the creative ecosystem.
It's a short, direct conversation to understand your role, your team's AI familiarity, and what you're trying to solve. Tim will tell you honestly which program is a fit — and if none is, he'll point you toward something that is. No pitch, no hard close. If it makes sense, we book from there.
Every session is directly with Tim Stickelbrucks. No junior consultants, no account managers. You're booking Tim's time and expertise — and that's exactly what you get.
This is built for music, media, and entertainment teams — indie labels, publishers, sync agencies, music supervisors, DSP product teams, talent managers, and music-adjacent tech companies. Company size matters less than whether your work lives inside the music industry's infrastructure.
Not at all. These sessions translate complex AI capabilities into plain-language business strategy. If you can run your business, you can benefit from these sessions.
The AI Implementation Sprint is a focused 3-session program to get your team AI-ready fast — specific tools, workflows, and a roadmap you can execute immediately. The AI Transformation Partner is a full-year embedded partnership for labels, publishers, or media companies ready to make AI a structural part of how they operate, with ongoing iteration and direct access to Tim. Only 5 partner slots are available at any time.
Sessions can be rescheduled up to 48 hours in advance at no charge via Calendly. Cancellations within 48 hours are non-refundable. For multi-session packages, individual sessions can be rescheduled with 48 hours notice.
That depends entirely on your business. Tim will assess what you're already using, what your team's capabilities are, and what will generate the most ROI — rather than recommending the same stack to everyone. Expect specific, actionable tool recommendations, not generic lists.
Practical perspectives on AI for the music industry — no Suno, no Udio, no generalist hype.
Six workflows that save 5+ hours a week — playlist pitching, catalog metadata, A&R discovery, sync pitch generation, and more. Rightsholder-aligned.
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