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Set the date and the plan
Maestro briefs Cue with the release date and the plan your team approved. Cue maps the rollout backward from release day: announce, pre-save, single, video, release day.
Agent A-03● Live
Every release has a date.
Know what’s slipping while there’s still time to fix it.
Give Cue the release date and the approved plan. He maps the rollout backward, gives every task an owner and a date, and flags what is late each morning. Your team decides what ships.
Included with Pro, $49 per artist per month, and with Advanced. Start free with 150 credits.
- 40K
- Pre-saves on BigXthaPlug's release with UnitedMasters
- 1
- Link. Every streaming service, pre-saves before release, forever-saves after
- Daily
- Recap every morning through the rollout
- 1 owner
- On every release task, with a deadline
§ 01 · The job
A release is dozens of tasks with different owners.
The master, the artwork, the metadata, the splits, the pitch windows, the pre-save, the video. They sit with different people, inside and outside your team, and most of them wait on something else. When one runs late, the tasks behind it move too.
Cue counts backward from release day. He keeps every deliverable, owner, and deadline in one place, shows which tasks are waiting on others, and flags anything that is late or blocking. He files a short recap each morning.
He doesn’t write the strategy; Maestro drafts that with your team. He doesn’t make the calls either. Cue keeps the whole rollout in view so your team can make them early.
Ask Cue
›Set up the pre-save for the Nov 14 release.›Pull the lyrics off track 3 and clean them up for the page.›Put the video shoot on the team calendar. July 15th.
›Build Lennon's link-in-bio and get it live before the announce.›Plan the release runway. What happens each week, and who owns it?›Is the sound catching on TikTok? Keep an eye on it for us.
§ 02 · The workflow
How a release runs with Cue.
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Give every task an owner
Each deliverable gets an owner and a deadline, whether that is someone on your team, a partner like the distributor or the designer, or another assistant.
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Show what depends on what
Cue links the tasks that wait on each other, so a blocked item shows who it is waiting on and what it holds up further down the schedule.
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Flag what is late
The morning recap lists what is late or at risk, who owns it, and the fallback options. Your team decides what to do.
Every task, every owner, one timeline.
§ 03 · A release in flight
Nine days to drop.
Cue is tracking the Midnight Bloom release backward from release day. Here is every deliverable, who owns it, and the one thing standing between the artist and a clean launch.
MIDNIGHT BLOOM
T-00 daysDSPs · Pre-save · Socials67% ready
DELIVERABLES, 6/9 COMPLETE
✓Master + instrumental delivered to distributorT-14
✓Artwork final, 3000×3000, RGB, no logosT-12
✓Metadata + credits lockedT-10
✓Songwriter splits confirmedT-10
✓Lyrics transcribed + uploaded to MusixmatchT-9
✓Spotify editorial pitch submittedT-28
●Pre-save liveT-9
●Smart link built + tested across DSPsT-7
▲Visualizer export → YouTube premiereT-11
OVERNIGHT
21:40LockedMetadata + credits, ISRC and UPC verified against distributor record
22:15NudgedEditor on visualizer export, 4 days past due, blocking the YouTube premiere
06:30ConfirmedDistributor accepted master, scheduled to go live 00:00 local on release day
08:00Recap sentTwo items need a human. Everything else is on rails.
CRITICAL PATH
Blocking
1 item
Needs you
2 items
Move
Visualizer is the long pole. Cue has a backup plan: ship the premiere as an audio-only canvas if the export misses T-3.
Nine days out. On track. Next recap tomorrow at 08:00.
Illustrative release, mapped backward from release day. Names and dates are examples.
§ 04 · What Cue does
Six jobs, one release.
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The release checklist
Every deliverable, from the master and artwork to metadata, splits, ISRC recording codes, and the editorial pitch, tracked to an owner and a deadline, with what each one is waiting on.
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The release schedule
Cue plans the rollout backward from release day, so the plan stops being a document and becomes a calendar your team can work from.
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The release budget
Not just ad spend: the producer, the music video, the mix engineer, the PR firm, every vendor. Each cost is logged against the plan, so your team sees what has been spent, who was paid, and what is left.
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The content calendar
Teasers, behind-the-scenes clips, and release-day assets, lined up across the rollout so your team can see what posts when.
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Lyric transcription
Drop in the track and Cue transcribes and timestamps the lyrics, ready for the link page, the lyric video, and sync metadata.
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The link in bio
Cue sets up the link-in-bio page with pre-saves before release and forever-saves after, with every streaming service behind one link.
WHAT STAYS WITH YOUR TEAM
- ·The work. Cue tracks tasks owned by your team, your partners, and the other assistants. The people who own a task still do it.
- ·The calls. When something slips, Cue flags it and lays out the options. Your team decides whether to move a date, cut a deliverable, or ship a fallback.
- ·The budget. Your team sets the release budget. Cue logs each cost against it and shows what is left.
- ·Launches. Paid campaigns behind the pre-save wait for your team's approval, and fan emails and texts wait for sign-off in the CRM.
§ 05 · In practice
Release setups teams have run on Symphony.
Each story covers the release, the results, and where they were first published.
- Cash Cobain & Ice SpiceA pre-save with no release date, built so a surprise remix could collect fans without giving away the drop.Read the story
- Summer WalkerAlbum pre-saves with forever-saves, so fans who opted in get every future release.Read the story
- GammaA fan website with pre-save and RSVP links, set in motion from one Maestro thread.Read the story
§ 06 · Plan
Cue comes with Pro.
Pro
For a team running ads, pages and fan messaging.
- ·Cue included
- ·2 seats, $20 per extra seat
- ·Ads, websites, presaves, fans and messaging
$49
Per artist, per month.
250 credits per artist, every month
Advanced
For labels, managers and marketing teams.
- ·Cue included
- ·10 seats
- ·Everything in Pro, plus Catalog, Socials and Creators
$250
Per artist, per month.
500 credits per artist, every month
Credits are shared across the workspace and top up any time. Every new account starts with 150 free credits. Compare plans
§ 07 · Questions
Asked and answered.
Does Cue do the work, or just track it?
Some of each. Cue does the operational setup himself: lyric transcription, the link-in-bio page, pre-save and forever-save setup, the content calendar, and budget tracking. For work owned by people, such as the master, the artwork, and the video, he tracks the owner and the deadline, shows what each task is waiting on, and flags it when it runs late. Your team still does that work and makes the calls.
What if a deliverable is going to miss?
Cue flags it in the morning recap as soon as it is late or holding something else up, with who owns it and what depends on it. Where there is a fallback, like an audio-only canvas if the visualizer is late, he lays it out. Your team decides what to do.
How is he different from a project management tool?
A general tool starts empty. Cue starts from the release date and the approved plan, builds the checklist and schedule around them, and shows which tasks depend on which. The budget, the lyrics, and the link page sit with the release in the same workspace.
How is he different from Maestro?
Maestro drafts the strategy with your team: the campaign, the budget, the plan. Cue tracks the release that plan depends on: the tasks, the owners, the dates, and what is late. Maestro briefs him with the release date and the approved plan.
Does he work with the other assistants?
Yes. On a release, Cue hands splits to Maude, the paid campaign behind the pre-save to Simmy, and the fan list to Echo, and rolls the timeline up to Maestro. Their tasks sit on the same checklist as your team's, each with an owner and a date.
How do credits work?
Credits come with the plan and meter work across the whole workspace, Cue included. Simple conversations use a little; multi-step work uses more. Top up AI credits anytime. There is no separate charge per assistant. New accounts receive 150 initial credits; after 30 days, an unpaid account at zero credits may receive a fixed 50-credit refill once per calendar month.
§ 08 · Next step
See a release plan built around your artists.
Tell us which releases to start with. We walk the checklist, schedule and budget with them in it, then talk setup and cost.