Collab Chain

About Collab Chain

Forget the messy spreadsheets, the shady "trust me bro" DMs, and the endless email chains hunting for royalty statements. The music game is built on collaboration, but it's been running on blind faith and lost PDFs. Enter Collab Chain: your digital vault for verifiable royalty proof. This ain't a distributor or a payment processor—it's the truth serum the industry needs. Built for creators, producers, songwriters, and their teams, Collab Chain turns your official royalty docs from platforms like DistroKid, SoundExchange, and your PRO into locked, tamper-evident proof records. Upload your statements, confirm your splits, and generate a single source of truth that you can actually defend. It's about transforming opaque data into undeniable clarity, slashing disputes before they start, and giving you a legit credit locker to flex in negotiations, audits, or legal talks. Own your share, prove your part.

Features of Collab Chain

Deterministic Proof Engine

This is the core magic. You upload an official royalty statement (PDF/CSV), and Collab Chain doesn't just store it—it creates a deterministic, cryptographic snapshot of that exact moment. The original file is preserved forever, and the platform generates a verifiable record that can't be altered without detection. It's a permanent, unshakeable digital paper trail that screams "this is exactly what was reported."

Split Confirmation Guardrails

No more accidental 110% splits or forgotten collaborators. The platform forces clarity with track-level split statuses (Complete, Incomplete, Not Set) that are impossible to miss. You literally cannot finalize and lock a proof until every single track's splits are confirmed and total 100%. It's a built-in safety net that kills oversights and ensures every contributor gets their rightful, documented piece.

Secure, Read-Only Proof Sharing

Stop handing over your login deets or sending editable files. Once a proof is locked, generate a secure, shareable link. Send it to your manager, your label, your lawyer—anyone. They get a crystal-clear, view-only summary of the verified proof without ever needing an account or gaining access to your dashboard. Share the truth, not your password.

Supporting Evidence Lockers

When a platform is being difficult and won't give you a clean export, you're not stuck. Collab Chain lets you upload screenshot evidence (PNG/JPG) directly into the proof. Crucially, these are always labeled "Not an Official Statement" and are stored separately. They provide context without muddying the waters, ensuring your verifiable core data remains pure and untouchable.

Use Cases of Collab Chain

The Independent Artist Building a Portfolio

You're dropping tracks with different producers and writers on every release. Collab Chain becomes your centralized, professional credit vault. Upload every statement, lock in every split agreement. When it's time to shop for a label deal or secure sync licensing, you have a slick, verified portfolio of your earnings and collaborations that proves you're serious and organized.

The Producer Settling "Beat Lease" Agreements

You sold a beat with a 50/50 split on streaming. Months later, the artist claims they don't remember the deal. Instead of a he-said-she-said argument, you pull up the Collab Chain proof you both confirmed. The verified statement shows the track's earnings and your locked-in 50% share. Dispute resolved in seconds, protecting your income and your professional relationships.

The Songwriter Auditing Publishing Statements

Your publisher sends over a quarterly royalty summary. Before filing it away, you upload it to Collab Chain and map the splits against your co-writers. The platform validates the percentages, creating a permanent, timestamped record of what you were paid for that period. This becomes your audit trail, making it easy to spot discrepancies across statements or publishers over time.

The Manager Organizing a Roster's Paperwork

Managing five artists means a flood of statements from different distributors and PROs. Collab Chain is your command center. Organize proofs by artist and release, confirm splits on their behalf, and generate clean verification links to send to lawyers for contract reviews or to settle internal royalty distributions with absolute transparency.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Collab Chain collect or pay out my royalties?

Absolutely not. Collab Chain is not a payment processor, distributor, or collection society. We don't touch your money. We don't guess, scrape, or pull live data from your streaming dashboards. Our entire purpose is to take the official documents you already have and turn them into unchangeable, verifiable proof of what was reported.

What if a platform doesn't let me download a statement?

We got you. While official exports (PDF/CSV) create the strongest verifiable proof, you can upload screenshots as "Supporting Evidence." These are clearly labeled as not being official statements and are stored separately in the proof bundle. They provide the necessary context when an export is gatekept, without compromising the integrity of the verified data.

Can someone alter a proof after I share the link?

Never. Once a proof is finalized and locked, it is cryptographically sealed. The shareable link you generate is strictly read-only. Recipients can view the verified summary, track details, and supporting evidence, but they cannot edit, download the original files, or alter a single percentage point. You control the proof, they only see the truth.

What happens to my original files?

We preserve them, forever. Your original PDF or CSV statement is stored immutably as the foundation of the proof. Our deterministic engine creates a snapshot of that file's data at the moment of upload. This means the proof can always be traced back to the exact, unaltered source document you provided, ensuring the entire chain of custody is intact and verifiable.