Sygnaal
Launching July 2026

Grow Your Music Career
Like A Startup.

Direct to consumer infrastructure that comes with your own business operator and artist manager so you can focus on the music.

The most artist friendly company in the world.

Get Started

Start Free — No Upfront Cost

1%

Transaction fee. That's it.

99%

Revenue goes to you

50/50

Ad revenue split with artists

Sygnaal artist dashboard preview
The Math

See what you're
actually worth.

Enter your numbers. See exactly what you earn on streaming platforms versus selling direct to fans on Sygnaal, with 99% of every dollar going to you.

Streaming Platforms

Monthly streams

Streams this month

Rate per streams$0.004
You earn$0.36

Sygnaal

Units Sold

Singles
$1.29
Albums
$9.99
Vinyl
$30.00
Merchandise
$40.00
Show tickets
$25.00
Gross revenue$4,457.50
Sygnaal fee (1%)$44.58
You earn (99%)$4,412.93

This Month

Streaming Platforms

$0.36

90 streams

Sygnaal

$4,412.93

99% to you

Sygnaal earns you $4,412.57 more this month

Streaming rate based on industry average of $0.004 per stream for independent artists.
Sygnaal takes 1% of direct sales. Ad revenue split 50/50 between artist and Sygnaal.

Your own team, included.

Your Own Business Operator and Artist Manager. Free.
To Help You Achieve the Numbers Above.

Human. Not AI.

Most independent artists are doing it all alone. Making music, booking shows, running socials, chasing brand deals, responding to fans, figuring out where to tour next, and somehow finding time to actually create. All of it, with no one in their corner and no time left to breathe.

That changes when you join Sygnaal.

Our mission is simple. We want to help as many independent artists as possible earn enough money to cover their living expenses so they can make music full time. That is the only way the best music in the world actually gets made, and right now the system is designed to prevent it.

Every artist who joins gets a dedicated Business Operator and Artist Manager assigned to them from day one. Your Operator helps run the revenue side of your career. Fan map, GMV tracking, ad deals, merch drops, tour routing. Every dollar coming in and where it's coming from. Your Manager helps run everything the art needs to exist. Creative direction, release strategy, show production, press, brand relationships. Every decision that shapes how your music gets made and how it reaches the world.

Not an AI. Not a chatbot with a credit limit. Two humans working your career so you can focus on being the best artist you can be.

We only make money when you make money. That's why we staff real people against your career. Our incentives are yours.

The Truth

We know this sounds too good to be true. So here's the truth behind it.

We run a creative agency and startup studio. We have been building teams, managing artists, and doing this work professionally for years.

Sygnaal is our bet that the only way to actually fix the music industry is to put that agency infrastructure directly in the hands of independent artists at no cost.

Not because it's a gimmick. Because we believe it is the only model that makes sense. We make money when you make money. So your success is the only outcome we are building toward.

This is the team 99% of independent artists can't afford to hire. On Sygnaal, it comes with your account.

Meet Your Team

Your Business Operator

Runs the revenue side of your career. Fan map, GMV tracking, ad deals, merch drops, tour routing, booking thresholds. Every dollar coming in and where it's coming from. The person who makes sure your music is also a functioning business.

Marcus Liu

Marcus Liu

Business Operator

Your Silver Lake fans are spending three times more than any other neighborhood. That's your next merch drop location.

Your Artist Manager

Runs everything the art needs to exist. Studio time, creative direction, release strategy, show production, press, brand relationships. Every decision that shapes how your music gets made and how it reaches the world.

Sofia Martinez

Sofia Martinez

Manager

Portland is six weeks from threshold. I already started the venue conversation.

For Independent Artists

Your Music Is The Product.
Sygnaal Is The Infrastructure.

Most artist platforms stop at distribution or analytics. Sygnaal goes further by giving independent artists the infrastructure of a modern digital business. Fan intelligence, tour planning, payouts, brand partnerships, audience communication, storefront management, and revenue tracking all work together in one ecosystem designed around ownership and direct connection.

Instead of chasing fragmented tools across different platforms, artists can finally operate from a single source of truth built for long-term independence.

Sygnaal Fan Map dashboard preview
Fan Intelligence

Your Fans Aren't On A Chart. They Live On A Map.

Every purchase on Sygnaal is verified and mapped to a fan's actual neighborhood, not just a city or DMA. You see real-time fan density down to the block level.

Spotify tells you Portland. Sygnaal tells you there are 847 verified buyers within 12 minutes of The Roseland in the Pearl District.

  • Streetblock-level fan GPS — verified by actual purchases, not passive listens
  • Fan photos, profiles, and engagement stats on a live heatmap
  • Top cities ranked by real buyer density, not streaming numbers
Sygnaal Demographics dashboard preview
Analytics

Know Exactly Who Is Spending Money With You.

Demographics shows who your buyers really are, not just your followers or listeners. Age, gender, interests, and fan lifetime value are broken down by spending tier.

Your top 10% of superfans may only be 824 people, but they spend 3x more than everyone else. Sygnaal helps you identify and market directly to the fans most likely to buy again.

  • Age and gender distribution of verified buyers — not listeners
  • Top interest categories: vinyl, concerts, merch — ranked by your actual audience
  • Average fan lifetime value across your full base
Sygnaal Revenue dashboard preview
Revenue

Every Dollar You Earn. In One Place. Financial Clarity As Default.

Music sales, merch, tickets, ads, and brand deals all live in one revenue dashboard with real-time tracking. You keep 99% of every sale, with no monthly fees or hidden cuts. Sygnaal shows what's growing, what's slowing down, and which revenue streams are performing best.

  • Unified revenue across music, merch, tickets, ads, and brand deals
  • Daily bar charts with hover-to-inspect on any date
  • Per-category breakdowns with average sale value
Sygnaal Ad Revenue dashboard preview
Ad Revenue

Local Businesses Want To Reach Your Fans. You Get Paid For That.

Because Sygnaal knows where your fans actually live, local businesses can target them directly with relevant offers. When fans engage with those campaigns, you earn 50% of the ad revenue automatically. No other artist platform turns fan geography into a revenue stream. Sygnaal does.

  • See all active ad campaigns running to your fanbase
  • Track claims, revenue earned, and top-performing neighborhoods
  • Your fan reach and top market zone — always visible
Sygnaal Wallet & Payouts dashboard preview
Wallet

Your Money Moves When You Say It Moves.

Available balance, automatic payouts, manual withdrawals, and full payout history all live in one place. Sygnaal is built to be your primary financial layer, not a side account you check once a month. Most platforms bury payout data. Sygnaal puts your full financial record and payout control in your hands.

  • Available balance with growth percentage shown at a glance
  • Automatic scheduled payouts with estimated arrival dates
  • Instant withdrawal to your bank account at any time
Sygnaal Tour Planning dashboard preview
Tour Intelligence

Stop Guessing Where To Tour Next.

Based on your fan density data, Sygnaal recommends touring cities in the order that maximizes revenue. See expected ticket counts, optimal show windows, and pre-built tour periods. The system that books the tour is the same system that knows where your fans actually are.

  • Upcoming, ongoing, and completed tours in one view
  • Fan-density-based city recommendations with expected ticket counts
  • Tour period planning with optimal show window suggestions
Sygnaal Broadcast Messaging dashboard preview
Messaging

Message Your Fans By City. By Neighborhood.

Broadcast channels let you segment fans by location and message them directly — all fans, Austin fans, Nashville fans, VIP fans. Because fans opt in through Sygnaal, open rates exceed 67% and click rates top 23%. No algorithm. No feed dependency. Just direct access to your audience.

  • Segmented channels by city, fan tier, or custom group
  • Open rate and click rate tracked per channel, per message
  • One-tap message composition with instant delivery
Sygnaal Content & Storefront dashboard preview
Content & Storefront

Music. Merch. Tickets. Map Pins. All In One Place.

Sygnaal is your artist storefront and content hub. Upload music, sell merch, manage tickets, and drop content directly into the neighborhoods where your fans live. Four tabs. One platform. Everything you release and sell, connected to real fan geography.

  • Music catalog: albums, singles, full streaming and purchase management
  • Merch store: product drops with physical and digital inventory
  • Events: venue-level ticket tracking with live sales progress
Sygnaal Brand Partnerships dashboard preview
Brand Partnerships

Brands Find You. You Decide If It Fits.

Brands use Sygnaal's fan match data to find artists whose audiences align with their customers. Partnership offers arrive pre-qualified, showing fan match %, offer amount, partnership type, and duration upfront. Accept, decline, or counter. Sygnaal makes sure every brand already knows why they want to work with you.

  • Inbound proposals with fan match percentage scored automatically
  • Partnership type, offer amount, and duration shown upfront
  • Accept or decline in one click — no back-and-forth email chains
Fan Experience

Fans Don’t Just Listen Anymore. They Participate.

Sygnaal transforms fans from passive listeners into active participants in an artist’s world. Fans can discover emerging artists, own music permanently, compete in music battles, build collections, unlock fan identity systems, join communities, attend events, and directly support the artists they believe in.

Every interaction is designed to deepen emotional connection between artists and audiences while making music culture feel local, personal, and alive again.

Limited Editions + Fan Resale

Music you can own.
A market that never closes.

Release 500 copies. Sell out in an hour. Earn a royalty every time a fan resells to another fan. Your catalog builds value on its own, long after the release date.

01Scarcity

You set the number. It never changes.

500 copies means 500 copies. Permanently. Fans know what they're buying is genuinely limited, and that scarcity is what drives secondary demand.

02Ownership

Fans download the actual file.

ALAC. Offline. No streaming required. They own it the way they would own a vinyl record, with the ability to resell it to another fan directly on the platform.

03Perpetual income

You earn on every resale. Forever.

Set your royalty rate at 10% standard or 20% on limited editions. Every time that copy changes hands, you get paid automatically. No new release required.

How a limited release works

01

Artist sets the number

500 copies. 200. 50. Fixed, public, and permanent from the moment it goes live.

You control scarcity

02

Fan buys and downloads

Card or Apple Pay. 30 seconds. They receive an ALAC file they own outright.

Artist keeps 99%

03

The run sells out

Once it's gone, it's gone. Secondary demand builds naturally from there.

Real scarcity

04

Fans resell to fans

Any copy can be listed for resale inside Sygnaal. Artist royalty collected on every transaction automatically.

20% resale royalty

05

Catalog earns forever

Every resale is new revenue without a new release. The catalog works for you continuously.

Perpetual income

Fan Buyer

Original
Sale

Album price (500 copies)$25.00
What they receiveALAC file + resale rights
Platform fee$0.25
Fan pays$25

Artist

Revenue Across
The Run

500 copies at $25$12,375
Resale royalty (20%)Every secondary sale
Sygnaal takes1% ($125)
Artist keeps$12,375

On every resale

Secondary
Market

Fan resells at$60.00
Artist royalty (20%)$12.00
Seller keeps$47.40
Platform fee$0.60

Sygnaal — Direct-to-fan infrastructure for independent artists

Streaming Pays Fractions
of a Cent Per Play.

A 500-copy limited release at $25 generates the same revenue as 49 million streams. And the catalog keeps paying every time a fan resells.

Release your first limited run
Discovery

Independent Artists.
Unfiltered. Yours To Find.

Sygnaal is built for fans who are done with the algorithm deciding what they hear. The app opens on Artist Space — a feed of independent artists with unfiltered creativity, authentic voices, and real stories behind the music. No major label priority. No pay-to-play placement.

The artists you discover here are the ones who deserve to be found. You get there first.

  • Artist Space built entirely around independent and emerging artists
  • Follow artists to unlock exclusive updates, drops, and early access
  • No algorithmic gatekeeping — discovery based on your actual taste
  • Direct access to artists, their music, and their world
Artist Space — Discover New Artist
Onboarding — Music that moves you
Onboarding

Tell Us What Moves You.
Everything Else Follows.

Setup takes 60 seconds. Pick three genres and Sygnaal calibrates your entire experience — what artists you see, what battles you're matched into, what drops land in your feed. The more specific you are, the sharper your world becomes.

This isn't a preference toggle buried in settings. It's the foundation your entire music universe is built on.

  • 40 genres to choose from — indie to blues, classical to hip hop
  • Minimum 3 genres builds your initial discovery profile
  • Genre selection shapes artist recommendations, battles, and drops
  • Refine anytime as your taste evolves
Fan Identity

You're Not A Follower.
You're Fan #247.

When you follow an artist on Sygnaal, you become a numbered fan — a verified supporter in their actual community, not just an anonymous number on a follower count. Your True Fan Pass shows your standing, when you joined, and your tier. The earlier you show up, the more that matters.

This is what it feels like to actually belong to an artist's world, not just follow their account.

  • Numbered fan status — your exact position in an artist's community
  • True Fan Pass with Bronze, Silver, Gold tiers based on support history
  • Artist-to-fan direct messaging and exclusive updates
  • Your fan number is permanent — early supporters stay recognized
True Fan Pass — Mac Phill profile
Music Store — Buy song or album
Ownership

Stream It. Love It.
Own It.

Sygnaal is where music fans buy music again. Listen before you commit, then purchase the song for $1.29 or the full album for $9.29 — and it's yours permanently, living in your collection. Not a rental. Not a subscription you'll lose if you cancel. Ownership.

When you buy directly on Sygnaal, 99% of that purchase goes to the artist. Not to a label, not to a platform. To the person who made what you love.

  • Listen first — full preview before you buy
  • Buy songs from $1.29 or full albums from $9.29
  • Your purchase goes 99% directly to the artist
  • Every purchase adds to your permanent music collection
Community

Other Fans Of This Artist
Live On Your Street.

The Fan Map shows you where other verified fans of your favorite artists actually live — your neighborhood, your city, your block. Switch between all fans and friends-only to find people near you who share your exact taste. 2,737 fans of this artist in London alone.

Music has always been communal. Sygnaal makes the community visible and local for the first time.

  • Live heatmap of verified fans by neighborhood and city
  • Filter by all fans, artists, or friends near you
  • See who else in your area loves the same artists
  • Your location helps artists plan shows in your city
Fan Map — London, UK
Music Collection — Albums & Songs
Collection

Everything You Own.
In One Place. Forever.

Your Music Collection holds every song, album, and playlist you've purchased — organized by albums, songs, and playlists, sortable by recent. Not a streaming history. Not a liked songs list. A collection you actually own, that reflects real choices and real investment in music you love.

The difference between a playlist and a collection is that a collection means something. Sygnaal makes building one feel like it should.

  • Albums, songs, and playlists — all in one organized view
  • Browse by recent, albums, or songs with one tap
  • Everything you've purchased, permanently yours
  • Your collection grows with every artist you support
Music Battles

Two Songs. One Vote.
Your Taste On The Line.

Music Battles are live head-to-head matchups where two artists' songs compete and you vote in real time. The Indie Showcase, 10 songs, 9/10 rounds deep — 1:20 left on the clock. Vote A or Vote B. Your votes define your position on the leaderboard and shape what gets discovered next.

This is the most direct thing a fan has ever been able to do for an artist: put their music in front of people and let the crowd decide.

  • Live head-to-head battles between artists' tracks
  • Listen before you vote — no blind picks
  • Real-time scoring updated round by round
  • Every vote earns points toward your leaderboard ranking
Music Battle — The Indie Showcase
Create Battle — The Indie Showcase
Music Battles

Create The Battle.
Challenge Anyone.

Fans can build their own battles — pick the songs, set up the rounds, challenge another fan's taste directly. The Indie Showcase: 5 songs, Hannah Garcia vs. Jake Watkins, round by round. Your lineup. Your call. Let the platform decide who has better ears.

Music arguments used to happen in comments. On Sygnaal, they happen in the format music deserves — head to head, track by track, with a score at the end.

  • Build multi-round battles from your music collection
  • Choose 5 or 10 songs per battle lineup
  • Challenge any fan directly or open to the community
  • Battle results feed into the global leaderboard
Competition

Who Has The Best
Taste In The Room?

The Leaderboard ranks fans by points earned across battles — all time, this week, this month, or friends only. Hannah Garcia sits at #1 with 3,247 points. Your rank moves in real time as battles settle. Compete globally or filter to see exactly where you stand among the people whose opinion actually matters to you.

Your music taste has always been part of your identity. Sygnaal makes it something you can compete with.

  • Global and friends-only leaderboards updated in real time
  • Filter by all time, this week, or this month
  • Rank movement tracked with +/- position indicators
  • Points accumulate across every battle you participate in
Leaderboard — Best taste in the room
Fan Profile — Kate Wilson
Profile

Your Music Journey
Has A Record Now.

Your fan profile tracks everything — followers, following, your fan passes for every artist you support, your location as a music community member, and every achievement you've earned along the way. Kate Wilson. London, UK. Member since Apr 2023. 1.1K followers who care about the same music you do.

Most platforms treat fans as passive consumers. Sygnaal treats you as a participant with a history worth keeping.

  • Full fan profile with followers, following, and member history
  • All your True Fan Passes visible in one Fans Overview
  • Achievements tracked across battles, purchases, and community activity
  • Public profile — share your taste and your standing
Connection

The Artist Just Said
“See You Tonight.”

Messages on Sygnaal connect fans to artists, fans to fans, and fans to the groups they care about. Mac Channel: "See you tonight guys!!" Jake Watkins: "Want an early listen?" Mac Phill: "Order Shipped." These aren't broadcast notifications — they're conversations happening between people who are actually in each other's worlds.

No other platform puts artist messages, fan community chat, and order updates in the same inbox. Sygnaal does, because these things belong together.

  • Artist broadcast messages delivered directly to your inbox
  • Direct messages with other fans who share your taste
  • Group chats filtered by artist, friends, or community
  • Order updates and artist drops — all in one thread
Messages — Artist & fan inbox

The data layer
the music industry was missing

No upfront cost. No monthly fee. Start free — Sygnaal earns only when you do.

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Artists keep 99% of all sales · 1% transaction fee · 50% ad revenue share · Zero monthly cost