Splits get fuzzy.
“We agreed in the room.” Six months later, no one remembers who wrote the bridge — and nobody put it in writing while it still felt obvious.
ColLabz turns rights, splits, contracts and consent into a single source of truth, so collaborations stay friendly, and the credits hold up a decade from now.
Not because anyone meant to. Because the tools weren’t built for the way music actually gets made — at 1am, in a group chat, between four time zones.
“We agreed in the room.” Six months later, no one remembers who wrote the bridge — and nobody put it in writing while it still felt obvious.
The template lives in someone's Notion. The session musician gets paid the night of the session. The paperwork doesn't follow them out the door.
The vocalist said yes over text. The producer said yes on a call. When the release lands on a sync brief, “they said yes” isn’t the same as proof.
A featured writer changes name, label, country. Three years later, royalties get held — and there's no clean way to reach the person who owns 7%.
Ten tools built around the three things that matter: ownership, protection, and resolution. One shared operating layer.
01 · Establish ownership
Register each work, classify ownership type, and tie every split to a verified person before it matters.
02 · Protect the work
Template agreements, binding signatures, and performer consent inside the same flow as the split sheet.
The Contributors hereby agree to the apportionment of composition rights as set out in the attached split sheet, and to the terms governing future modifications, dispute resolution and royalty distribution.
03 · Resolve and audit
A structured raise-to-resolve workflow backed by an immutable trail of every ownership and contract event.
Three pieces we’re building next, with a small group of beta artists. Each one is a real product — not a roadmap card.
Describe the deal in plain language and ColLabz drafts the legal agreement. You read it. You change it. You sign it.
“50/50, but Theo gets points if it lands a sync”
Works-in-progress, releases, and collaborator discovery — inside a community that already understands rights, splits, and credit.
DMs, session scheduling, writing camps and review meetings — all without leaving the platform. Conversations stay attached to the songs they are about.
Bridge chords are locked. Gonna lay down a scratch bass today
Synced — bridge section is incredible btw 🔥
Can we do a listening session before the mix? Setting up a call
Built with — and for — independent music
ColLabz is in closed beta. Join the whitelist and we’ll let you in when a spot opens — no marketing, just access.
Closed beta · Limited spots · Built by musicians.