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Your rollout lives in 6 tabs and a prayer. ๐Ÿซ

Every release, you rebuild the same machine from scratch โ€” spreadsheets, ChatGPT prompts, email threads, Notion docs. We'd build you the ๐Ÿซ instead: an owned AI rollout worker that carries the load, branded with your mark. Not ours.

Brand your donkey ๐Ÿซ See the scramble

The ritual every indie manager knows

You're managing releases with duct tape.

A new release drops in 3 weeks. The scramble begins.

2:14 AM ยท Release Week

6 browser tabs. 4 spreadsheets. 3 half-written emails. The same work you did last month, rebuilt from zero.

EPKs

Rewriting bios, assembling press kits, reformatting photos for every outlet. Every. Single. Time.

Pitches

DSP pitches, playlist submissions, blog outreach โ€” all manual, all from scratch, all due yesterday.

Fan comms

Pre-save links, announcement copy, social captions, email blasts โ€” written in 4 voices across 6 platforms.

The panic

Did the distributor get the assets? Is the Canvas uploaded? When does the embargo lift? Held in your head.

Knowledge loss

Last release's playbook? Gone โ€” buried in a Notion page you can't find. So you start from zero again.

The meter

Paying for 8 subscriptions for tools that don't talk to each other and own your data anyway.

The ๐Ÿซ theory

AI is a ๐Ÿซ. Stop renting the magic.

Everyone's selling you a unicorn โ€” rented by the seat, repriced at will, gone when they pivot. We'd build you the ๐Ÿซ: a working AI rollout system that carries your load and belongs to you.

Rent a unicornOwn a donkey ๐Ÿซ
PricingPer-seat, forever โ€” the meter never stopsBuilt once, yours to keep
ControlRepriced at their whim, on their roadmapThe fork is your asset, on your terms
DurabilityDeprecated the moment they pivotRuns where you run it โ€” doesn't disappear
DataYour fan list lives on their platformYour catalog + fans stay yours, full stop
BrandYou're a tenant using their interfaceIt wears your label's mark, not ours

The load it would carry โ€” specifically

Not vague "AI-powered workflows."

Here's exactly what the ๐Ÿซ would do for your release rollout, every single time.

EPK assembly

Feed it your artist's specs once. It drafts and reformats the bio, press kit, and one-sheet for each outlet โ€” no more rewriting the same bio for 12 different blogs.

DSP & playlist pitches

Spotify editorial pitches, Apple Music submissions, playlist and blog outreach โ€” drafted in your voice, referencing your artist, ready for review in minutes, not hours.

Fan communications

Pre-save announcements, social captions, email blasts, SMS copy โ€” generated in your artist's voice, consistent everywhere, without writing it six times.

The checklist that compounds

The rollout checklist that never forgets and never needs rebuilding. Release N+1 is always smarter than release N. The playbook compounds โ€” it never resets.

Your owned release pipeline

One system. Your brand. Every release flows through it โ€” and it stays yours between releases, holding your catalog, your fans, and your playbook.

How it would work

We build it. You brand it. You keep it.

OYASS isn't a platform you log into. It's a bespoke build โ€” scoped to your workflow, branded to your label, and handed over. Before a line of code, your workflow would pass through our Founder Toolkit: a diagnostic that makes sure we're building something that carries real load, not a demo that collects dust.

You'd own the code, the prompts, the data, and the workflow. No kill switch. No sunset clause. Your ๐Ÿซ runs on your API keys โ€” you'd see exactly what you spend; we don't mark up inference.

Build + care

One build fee. One handoff. No meter running.

You'd pay to build the ๐Ÿซ and own it outright. Then you decide whether to keep us tuning it โ€” or walk away with everything.

The Build

$3kโ€“$10k

One-time, scoped to your workflow complexity. No hidden fees. You keep everything.

The Compute

Pass-through

Your keys, your accounts. You'd pay the model provider directly โ€” we never meter it.

The Care

$500โ€“$1.5k/mo

Optional. Scales with roster size, cancel anytime, keep everything. Ownership is spelled out in a plain handoff agreement.

It's an asset on your balance sheet, not a line item on ours. Cancel Care, take your ๐Ÿซ to another developer, modify it yourself โ€” it's yours.

Before you ask

The objections we'd raise if we were in your seat.

Isn't a custom build expensive vs an $20 subscription?

A subscription is rent โ€” and you're already paying for 8 of them. Five years of rent buys you nothing you keep. A ๐Ÿซ would be built once and owned. Different math, different posture.

Do I need to be technical to run it?

No. That's the difference between owning a ๐Ÿซ and self-hosting one. We'd deliver it working and branded; you'd run releases through it without babysitting infrastructure.

What would I actually own?

The fork โ€” the code, the prompts, the workflow, the data, and your label's brand on it. If we vanished tomorrow, your ๐Ÿซ would keep carrying your releases.

What if the AI models change?

The model is the commodity underneath. What you'd own is the workflow, the catalog, the fan data, and the brand wrapped around them โ€” the part that's actually yours.