AI Music Licensing Scout

    Inspiration:
    Sync licensing for film, ads, and games is huge. Music supervisors drown in submission emails, while indie artists struggle to reach decision-makers.

    Target Customers:
    Two-sided marketplace:

    • Buyers: Music supervisors at film/ad/game studios.
    • Sellers: Indie musicians looking to monetise via sync.

    Pain Points:

    • Supervisors: Needle-in-haystack search for the perfect track; inbox overload.
    • Artists: Nearly impossible to get music heard by the right supervisors.

    Solution (Micro-SaaS):
    An AI-driven licensing platform.

    • For supervisors: Natural-language or reference-track search ("Upbeat indie-pop female vocal about friendship, BPM ~120, HAIM vibe").
    • For artists: Upload catalogue; AI auto-tags each song on hundreds of dimensions: genre, mood, instruments, lyric themes, BPM, key, "sounds like", etc.

    MVP Core Features:

    • Artist portal: Simple bulk upload with metadata.
    • Supervisor portal: Powerful search bar + multi-faceted filters + reference-track search.
    • Auto-tag engine: Core tech generating tags & embeddings.
    • Projects & playlists: Curate candidate tracks per production.
    • Streamlined licensing: Pre-made licence tiers (YouTube, indie film, commercial spot).

    Development Effort (Tech Implementation): High.

    • Lyrics: Whisper-transcribe + GPT-4/Claude analyse themes/mood.
    • Audio: panns-inference, librosa for features; CLAP embeddings for similarity search.

    Traffic Acquisition & Validation (SEO Enhanced):

    • Step 1 – Validation
      • Curate a seed library of 1 000 indie tracks, auto-tag them, and demo to 5–10 supervisors; gauge wow-factor.
    • Step 2 – SEO Growth
      • Head terms: "AI music licensing", "sync licensing platform", "find music for film".
      • Long-tails: "submit music for tv shows indie", "music supervisor search tool", etc.
      • Site architecture: /for-creators, /for-artists, /blog.

    Competitor Analysis: DISCO, Artlist, Epidemic Sound, Songtrader.

    • Weak search, canned music = our wedge with semantic AI search + indie authenticity + transparency.