Find the right co‑writers. Make the session happen. Keep the work organized.
Stanzary is a professional collaboration workspace being built for songwriters. It helps writers connect with the right collaborators, arrange co-writing sessions, and hold onto everything a session produces: notes, files, credits, and splits.
Stanzary is in development. We’re recruiting songwriters and industry organizations for early research and pilot testing.
The problem
Co-writing runs on scattered pieces.
A text thread to find a time. A calendar invite. A Zoom link. A voice memo on someone’s phone. A lyric doc in one account, a demo in another, and a split sheet that somehow never got signed.
The writing itself is the good part. Everything around it, from finding the right collaborators to coordinating the session to documenting what you made together, is still held together with tape.
Stanzary is being built to put the whole workflow in one place, designed specifically for how songwriters actually work.
The workflow we’re building
One workspace, four steps.
This is the workflow we’re building the first version of Stanzary around. As pieces become ready, we’ll clearly label what’s working, what’s in testing, and what’s still ahead.
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Build a professional writing profile.
Your genres, instruments, strengths, credits, affiliations, location, and how you like to work, whether remote or in the room.
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Discover relevant collaborators.
Find writers by real professional and creative criteria: complementary strengths, goals, availability, and working style, instead of browsing whoever happens to be nearby.
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Arrange the session.
Send the invitation, settle on a time, and coordinate remote or in-person co-writes without the twelve-message text thread.
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Keep the work organized.
Session notes, files, credits, and a split sheet everyone can review and document, attached to the session where it belongs.
What Stanzary is and isn’t
Built for the work.
Stanzary is not a swipe app for songwriters, a generic musician social network, a marketplace for hiring session players, or another video-conferencing product. And it is not an AI song generator.
It’s a workspace for the real life cycle of a co-writing relationship, from first introduction through the session to the finished split sheet, built for serious songwriters and the organizations that support them.
Where this is headed
The long game.
Remote collaboration is normal in nearly every professional field now. Songwriting collaboration still runs on personal networks, group texts, and paperwork nobody keeps. We think that gap is worth closing, and worth closing well.
The tools we’re building first (profiles, introductions, sessions, records, splits) are the beginning of something larger: a trusted place where a songwriter’s collaborative life accumulates over time. Collaborators, sessions, songs, credits, and relationships, all documented, organized, and yours. And for the publishers, PROs, writing camps, and schools that spend real effort connecting writers by hand, the same system becomes working infrastructure: rosters, introductions, camps, and records in one place.
None of that arrives on day one. It is the direction, and it rests on one conviction: technology should strengthen human collaboration rather than replace the people doing it.
Your work
Straight answers to the first question you’ll ask.
We know songwriters may eventually entrust Stanzary with unpublished ideas, demos, credits, and ownership information. We are building the product, policies, and technical safeguards needed to treat that work responsibly. Detailed content and privacy terms will be published before any creative materials can be uploaded.
For organizations
For publishers, PROs, camps, and schools.
Organizations spend enormous manual effort introducing writers, arranging sessions, and running camps. We’re looking for a small number of publishers, songwriting organizations, and educational programs to explore pilots with.
Stage & invitation
Where we are.
Stanzary is early. We’re building the first version now, and early participants will use preliminary features, encounter unfinished areas, and have a direct hand in shaping what this becomes.
One thing worth knowing: for the first early-access group, we’ll curate introductions personally while the community is small. We would rather make ten introductions that lead to real sessions than promise a crowd that isn’t there yet.
If you co-write regularly and want the workflow around it to be better, we want to hear from you. We read and reply to every application personally.
FAQ
Common questions.
Is Stanzary available now?
Not yet. We’re building the first version and recruiting a small group of songwriters and organizations for early research and pilot testing. Apply above and we’ll be in touch.
Who is it for?
Songwriters who collaborate in earnest, whether you’re signed, independent, or working toward your first cuts, and the publishers, PROs, camps, and programs that support them.
Does it cost anything?
Early access is free for participants. Long-term pricing hasn’t been decided yet.
Do you take a share of songs written on Stanzary?
No. Stanzary takes no publishing and no ownership interest in anything written here.
Are Stanzary split sheets legally binding contracts?
Stanzary helps collaborators document the credits and splits they’ve agreed to, in a form everyone can review and keep. It doesn’t determine ownership, register works, or provide legal advice. For those questions, talk to your publisher, PRO, or attorney.
Is this an AI songwriting tool?
No. Stanzary exists to make human collaboration easier. It doesn’t write songs.
Will Stanzary replace the tools I already use?
We’re not trying to rebuild every calendar, video, or storage tool. The aim is a songwriter-specific workflow that organizes the collaboration itself and connects to the tools you already use where that makes the experience better.
How are early participants selected?
It depends on what we’re testing at the time. We look at co-writing activity, working style, location, genre, role, and willingness to give honest feedback. Follower counts are not a criterion.
Who’s behind Stanzary?
See About. Short version: people who think the infrastructure around co-writing should be as good as the writing.