Patchbay — a new agentic operating platform for artist managers, labels, publishers and legal teams — announced its public launch on Tuesday (March 31). While in private beta, Patchbay onboarded a number of top artist teams to the platform, claiming to work with “over a third of the 2025 Billboard Year-End Hot 100,” according to a press release.
Patchbay’s goal is to streamline operations for artists’ teams and put it all in one place on a convenient dashboard. As it stands today, many music teams work across a slew of various email chains and text message groups, often juggling multiple deals, split sheets and invoices at once. “Behind every song is a complex operational chain of contracts, signatures, split sheets, registrations and payments, where one missed step can delay revenue across the entire system,” a press release states about Patchbay.
To date, Patchbay has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from strategic partners like 1916 Enterprises, Dundee Partners, PS Business Management, Mega House, KMGMT, Double Down 11, Ozone Management, Socransky Law, and Stent Music Group, along with executives including Andy Tavel, Mark Weiss, Jarred Arfa, Luke Heffernan and AJ Vaynerchuk.
Unlike other operating systems, which are generically designed to fit all industries, Patchbay was designed by CEO/co-founder Aidan Schecter, who has spent his career so far looking after musical talent as a manager. Inspired to remedy the inefficiencies he’s seen firsthand, Schecter teamed up with Jonathan Gordon, CEO/founder of 1916 Enterprises, to co-found and incubate Patchbay. Schecter also serves as 1916’s COO and partner, and together Schecter and Gordon actively invest in entertainment technology companies, including Vydia (acquired by Gamma), HiFi (acquired by Block), Audioshake, Big Effect, Offtop and Chordal.
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Patchbay’s rise coincides with a larger push towards using AI technology not to make music, but to eliminate the drudgery and tedium of the business behind the music. Other companies pursuing this path include CreateSafe, which is described by its founder, Daouda Leonard, as “a multi-modal generative AI operating system to automate the creation, management, distribution and marketing of music IP.” There are also a few players aiming to ease inefficiencies in contracts specifically, like Clearnote and Tone’s Contract Analyzer and Contract Check tools.
Schecter tells Billboard that “to me, the best version of the future is one where music teams get to build careers, AI agents do the admin.”
“The music business is full of creative people spending far too much time on admin work,” he adds. “Having spent thousands of hours talking to top teams around the world, we’ve seen that everyone needs the same set of capabilities: a platform purpose-built for the recorded music business. Not more spreadsheets.”
Patchbay is currently invite-only. Teams can request access at patchbay.xyz.
