Your catalog, resolved, from any source that ever disagreed.
Arcke is building modern infrastructure for independent music, to make every independent artist’s catalog complete, accurate, contextual, and verifiable. Arcke brings all of it together, makes sense of it, and prepares artists for what comes next.
One song. Ten stages. No one place has all of it.
From the first voice memo or the first beat, to the statements that arrive months after release, your work passes through sessions, approvals, splits, credits, platforms, and people. Each stage adds another piece to the record. No single system connects it all, let alone show how it fits together.
- 01IdeaIt starts with a melody, a rhythm, a chorus. Voice memos, sketches, and demos capture the first versions of something new.
- 02Pre-productionDemos multiply as the arrangement develops, collaborators join, and the recording is planned.
- 03ProductionTakes and versions, tracks and comps, track sheets and session files multiply as the song is built and rebuilt.
- 04Post-productionEdits, pre-mixes, mixes, and masters move through revision until the final masters are approved. Stems, mixes, and alternate versions are archived.
- 05Rights & splitsContributions become credits and percentages on a split sheet, then agreements and registrations.
- 06CataloguingTrack and release titles, lyrics, names, roles, credits, metadata, identifiers, and codes are recorded across catalogs, registrations, and platforms.
- 07PackagingCover art, photography, campaign imagery, copy, and credits move through revisions, then become files for every format and platform.
- 08Release & distributionMasters, artwork, and metadata are prepared for platforms with different fields, specifications, and deadlines.
- 09PromotionPromotion becomes its own production: pitches, posts, clips, media assets, interviews, live shows, and tour logistics.
- 10Post-releaseStatements, royalties, and audience signals arrive from different places, on different timelines.
Bar = creative share versus administrative share of the work at each stage.
You know there’s more to a release than the recording.
The song, the people who contributed, the agreements about who owns what. Those connections belong in your catalog, too.
The recording is connected to the composition.
Separately identified, but disconnected.
The song and the recording are matched.
The credits are connected to the people.
The credit and performer weren’t connected.
Donald Mayer confirmed his vocal performance, credited as Don Mayer.
An agreement is recorded. The earlier claims remain.
125% claimed. 100% available.
The rights holders recorded an agreement about ownership of this recording.
As your catalog grows and agreements change, so does the picture of it. All records, changes, and decisions are preserved and auditable.
Fictional examples. Names are invented.
The truth about your music requires three things
All three are required over the full lifecycle of your music.
- Who made what
- From a crowded studio session to a file traded in the cloud, capture writers, performers, contributions, and rights holders. Get it right once, without breaking your flow or losing control of the data.
- Who gets paid
- Codify publishing and master rights with every party, and track how they change over time. Everyone who owns a part can see their part.
- Who said yes
- Know with certainty, long after release day, who contributed and who agreed to what and when, with proof. Manage what you consent to, and what you don’t.
The tools you already use often store only a piece of the full picture. A royalty tracker reconciles money after the fact, and inherits whatever the splits already say. A metadata cleaner makes fields consistent, but consistency is not always truth: four sources can be tidy, well-formed and still disagree about who wrote the song. Neither can tell you where the information came from, what's changed, why and when.
The threats and opportunities facing artists keep getting bigger. The infrastructure that exists today was built last century, for a world that no longer exists. Arcke is building the infrastructure needed for the next century.
Your music, your catalog, and everything you've never been able to see.
Everything Arcke can know about your music is always in your line of sight.
Everything is yours
If you made the music and you have rights, you are always in control of what is known about it, and who can legitimately make claims to it.
Everything is preserved
Did the label, or the engineer, or a bandmate change something? You will always know who changed what, and when.
Nothing is buried
The metadata and identifiers that protect your rights and get you paid are always in view, and always flagged when they need attention.
These are just a few of our commitments. See what else we're committed to.
Arcke is being built right now, and we welcome you to be one of the first.
Arcke will be shared with a small number of artists before welcoming everyone. We welcome you to be one of the first to try it. Registration is open for independent artists and record labels who wish to be a part of the first public preview, opening in late 2026.