The Thesis
The bet, stated plainly.
Chuka Chase
Co-founder, Symphony
July 2026
Everyone is using AI to make the song. Almost nobody is using it to make the song a business. That gap is the whole company.
Here is what I know after ten years running marketing and release strategy for artists. The craft is still the craft. A great song still takes everything you have. But the song alone was never the whole business. What makes music a living is everything around it. Getting it heard. Getting it sold. Getting it paid.
Nearly all the AI energy in music points at the product. The voice, the master, the generated track. However you feel about that, one thing is true: releasing music has never been easier, and cutting through has never been harder.
So we pointed the AI at the other side.
We’ve been running campaigns for artists since 2016. Global trends. Billboard charts. Grammy stages. That operating experience shaped how Symphony works. Most AI in music points at the audio. Ours points at what moves the business.
Symphony is now one workspace for the teams behind artists, with AI assistants that each support one job. Maestro coordinates the team. Maude keeps the business accountable. Simmy runs the media. Cue keeps every release on track. Echo drafts the fan messages. Your team decides what goes out.
The frontier labs taught models to reason. We taught ours to specialize. A record label is a locked room of operational knowledge: the staff, promo, budgets, relationships, the hundred small moves that decide whether a release lands. Nobody was writing that room down. So we did.
Symphony puts that room in your hands and shows you the next move. Make the song anywhere you like. The business around it was always the part that was missing.
We are pushing the industry from tools you operate alone to a workspace that takes on part of the work with you and leaves the decisions with your team. Welcome to the future.
More support across your artists.
More focus for your team.