Creator OS

TLDR: Creator OS (FKA Artist OS) is a notion workspace designed to help artists and teams manage themselves. Here's what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Cmxk7lO8k

Who am I?

As an artist, I played 408 shows in 1 year, been streamed millions of times, and heard my music on television. Then I got into the music-tech world and joined the founding team of a startup called Treble. We launched an app that got 30k downloads and was covered by The Wall Street Journal and Complex and we hosted weekly events for 3 years in NYC that 10k+ people came to annually.

Now I write songs, manage artists with millions of streams, and work with companies at the intersection of music, mindfulness, and tech.

Why did I make Creator OS?

Over the past decade working on both sides of the industry, I’ve noticed a lot of similarities between artists and founders. Most artists don’t think of themselves as founders though because they know less about business. But they make products, distribute them to a market, and work with a variety of stakeholders and contractors along the way to grow their careers. They operate like traditional founders, they just don't use the same language or systems traditional founders do. But this is a symptom of the music industry at large. Knowledge is gate-kept and innovation isn't rewarded, it's a threat. Honestly most things get done over email and text and the systems music companies use are archaic. All that leads to more work spent on the same things and less time for everyone to grow and enjoy life. But since founders in other industries can leverage the best resources out there for their business, why can’t artist founders and their teams do the same thing?

That’s why I made Creator OS.

To help artists and teams work smart and grow fast. To ground the chaos. I'll be updating it in Notion with improvements monthly based on your feedback. It now includes the following sections:

• To Do’s - a template to manage notes and tasks
• Routine - a habit tracker for things you want to do for yourself and your career
• Create - templates for organizing writing, audio, and visuals 
• Business - templates for organizing budgets, agreements, and logins
• Contacts - template for organizing people you know or want to connect with.
• Research - template for organizing inspiration and any link you come across that you don’t want to forget. Already includes 100+ links to tools, templates, platforms, content, and communities you should know about. 

For the contacts and research databases, I also included a chrome extension that allows you to easily add people or links to each database in one click if you have a tab open so you don’t have to do it manually. 

That's it for now! Thanks for reading this. I hope this helps you as much as it helps me and the artists I work with. If you want to get updates on Creator OS and other things I’m working on, subscribe to my newsletter follow @usernamemicky on socials.