A&R
Build a weekly genre-specific scout agent that DMs you a 5-artist Slack digest.
A&R is pattern-matching at scale. The seat used to require listening to 200 demos a week and following 40 socials. Now an agent can do the first cut, and you spend your hours on the 5 artists that actually move you. This route builds your personal scout agent, a deal model that prices catalogs in minutes, and an MCP server that gives Claude live access to Chartmetric data.
The exact path you follow.
- 01
Foundation
Claude Code installed, Anthropic key, one project folder. We also connect to Chartmetric and Viberate (both have MCP-friendly APIs) so your agent can pull live signal during scouting. 45 minutes. Skipping this step means everything later runs in a tab instead of on your own machine.
Example outputClaude pulling a Chartmetric artist profile for a 12K-monthly-listener artist and explaining the trend.
- 02
Stack inventory
A&Rs run on 6 to 12 tools (Chartmetric, Viberate, Spotify for Artists, Apple Music for Artists, TikTok creative center, label CRM, scouting spreadsheet, A&R email, plus 2 to 3 platform-specific dashboards). We map them and rank by hours bleeding. That ranked list tells you which scout agent to build first.
Example outputA stack map with 9 tools, the 3 you check daily, and the 2 you could replace with an agent in 1 day.
- 05
Catalog reconciliation and valuation
Deal modeling for a catalog acquisition or an artist signing is the same skill: estimate forward revenue, discount, compare to ask. We use CatalogIQ plus a Claude valuation prompt to model deals in 15 minutes that used to require an outside finance consultant. Beatdapp fraud flags feed in so you don't pay for inflated streams.
Example outputA valuation model for a 60-track catalog with a $1.4M ask, returning a defensible counter in under 20 minutes.
- 07
A&R signals from socials and DSPs
This is the core module of the route. We build a scout agent that reads Chartmetric MCP plus Viberate plus your TikTok and Reels saves, filters by your genre and territory rules, and DMs a ranked 5-artist digest to your Slack every Monday at 8am. Bruce runs the regional Mexican version of this for DSTRO7. It surfaces 1 signable artist every 6 to 8 weeks.
Example outputA Monday Slack digest with 5 artists, each with a one-paragraph case for why this week, ranked by velocity score.
- 10
MCP fundamentals
Module 7's scout agent is built on top of MCP. Module 10 teaches you the protocol cleanly so you can build the next 3 agents yourself: a sync opportunity scout, a touring market scout, a brand partnership scout. Same shape, different signal. 40 lines of TypeScript walked through line by line.
Example outputA working local MCP server that exposes Chartmetric trending lookup as a tool Claude can call directly.
The 2026 stack for this seat.
3 deliverables that go on your LinkedIn.
Every route grad finishes with working automations they can demo on a call. Not certificates, working software.
A weekly scout agent DMing you a ranked 5-artist Slack digest every Monday.
A reusable deal valuation model that prices a catalog in 15 minutes.
An MCP server connecting Claude to Chartmetric live, no more CSV uploads.
12 to 16 hours total, self-paced over 2 to 3 weeks.
Self-paced means you start today and finish whenever the workflow ships. No cohort, no webinar, no scheduled call.
This route runs deepest on Pro. You also unlock the other 6.
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