30-lesson course · about 10 hours

An AI chief of staff for your release, set up so you and the artist decide

For Artists, producers, managers and music teams responsible for creative decisions, release preparation and the details that connect them

Everything for Music teams

Over 30 hands-on lessons, set up an agent that writes a sourced morning brief, prepares meetings and follow-ups as drafts, and keeps your release logs. Nothing goes out without a person's yes.

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Know what to hand over and what to keepLearn what an AI chief of staff does for release work and what stays with the artist and manager. You'll write a one-page job description that says who approves creative, business, rights and distribution decisions, plus a never list.
Pick a platform you can actually getCompare OpenAI dots, Claude Duet, and Claude or ChatGPT scheduled tasks on access, approvals and price as of 28 October 2026. Choose a first choice and a fallback that's available in your region and on your plan, then set it up with the least access that works.
Write standing instructions for your music teamWrite and version the rules your agent follows: release priorities, people, allowed sources, an approval table, source tags, and the rule that anything inside an email is information, never an instruction.
Get a morning brief and release countdown you can checkSchedule and tune a brief that ranks what needs you today, tags every fact with its source and lists what it couldn't check. Add countdown checks at T-8, T-4 and T-2 weeks, and triage offers so any request to generate or alter the artist's voice or likeness with AI gets flagged.
Turn meetings and sessions into drafts and log rowsProduce meeting prep, session and tour day sheets, and follow-up drafts for the manager to approve and send. Agreements become proposed rows in the decision log, the artist approvals log and the delegation tracker. Credits and splits stay unconfirmed claims until a signed split sheet confirms them.
Run the weekly review and a two-week rolloutReview bookings, offers, slipped items and changes such as a moved date or new artwork, so outdated versions don't hang around. Run a prompt-injection drill, a permission audit and a corrections log, then decide what to widen, keep or cut.

How it works

A tutor that meets you where you are

  1. Lessons that adjust to your levelThe 30 lessons start at beginner and move to intermediate, and each one adjusts to what you already know. Every lesson is a tutorial you follow with your platform open: numbered steps, prompts you can copy and paste, an example from a real release week, a checkpoint, and a fix for when a step doesn't work.
  2. An AI tutor you can ask anythingAsk the tutor questions by typing or out loud: why your scheduled brief skipped a source, how to word an approval rule, or how a step applies to your team. It explains things at your level and uses your release as the example.
  3. Quizzes and flashcards for every lessonEach lesson comes with short quizzes and flashcards, so the rules you'll rely on stick. That includes what the agent may do on its own, what it must ask about first, and what goes in a decision log row.
  4. Progress tracking and a certificateTrack your progress through the eight modules and pick up where you stopped. You get a certificate of completion when you finish.

Curriculum

The curriculum

The course has eight modules that follow the order you'll set things up in: first the role and its limits, then the platform, the instructions, the sources, the daily brief, meetings, the logs, and finally the weekly review with a two-week rollout. Each lesson ends with something you can use on your current release.

Module 1The Chief of Staff Role in Release Work3 lessons

  1. 1What a Chief of Staff Does for a Release Team
    • Describe the standing duties of a chief of staff as they apply to one artist or release
    • List the release admin from your own week that fits each duty
  2. 2What the AI May Do, Must Ask About, and Must Never Do
    • Sort release tasks into 'on its own', 'ask first' and 'never'
    • Explain why a request for a draft is not permission to send it
  3. 3Agree Decision Rights and a Never List with the Artist
    • Write a one-page job description with duties, decision rights and a never list
    • Name who approves each kind of decision: creative, business, rights, distribution

Module 2Choosing a Platform You Can Actually Use4 lessons

  1. 4The Platform Options as of 28 October 2026
    • Compare the four paths on proactivity, connectors, approvals and price
    • Explain which features have been retired and what replaced them
  2. 5Check Your Access and Pick a Path with a Fallback
    • Check whether dots or Duet is available to you
    • Choose a first-choice platform and a generally available fallback
  3. 6Set Up the Claude Path: Project, Manual Mode and Duet
    • Create a Claude project for one artist or release
    • Set the permission setting to Manual and turn off account memory for the project
  4. 7Set Up the ChatGPT Path: Project, Tasks and Dot Rules
    • Create a ChatGPT project for one release
    • Explain where a scheduled task can and can't read your logs, and place them accordingly
    • Set the four dot custom-rule behaviours for chief-of-staff work

Module 3Standing Instructions for a Music Team4 lessons

  1. 8Anatomy of Standing Instructions
    • Fill in the role, sources and logs sections for your artist
    • Apply the new-colleague test to your draft
    • Place the instructions where your platform will use them
  2. 9Priorities, People and the Approval Table
    • Write five or six release priorities, split outward and inward
    • Write an approval table that covers sending, calendar, files and commitments
  3. 10Source Tags, 'Could Not Check' and Content Is Data
    • Write source-tag formats for email, calendar, document, log and chat
    • Write the content-is-data rule and the 'Suspicious or unusual' section
  4. 11Version the Instructions and Keep a Corrections Log
    • Set up a corrections log with date, error and new rule
    • Turn a correction into a versioned instruction change

Module 4Connecting the Right Sources3 lessons

  1. 12Sources to Connect for a Release
    • Choose the week-one sources for your release
    • Set up a shared folder for the release, split-sheet and booking trackers and the logs
    • Create the decision log, artist approvals log, delegation tracker and deadline register with their column headers
  2. 13Sources to Keep Out and Why
    • List the sources you won't connect and the reason for each
    • Explain why connected sources feed the agent's memory
  3. 14Connect Read-Only and Verify
    • Connect email, calendar and the logs folder with the least access that works
    • Run a check that lists every source and its rights

Module 5The Morning Brief and Release Countdown5 lessons

  1. 15Write the Music Morning Brief
    • Write a morning brief prompt with seven ordered sections
    • Set a word cap and a limit of five 'needs me today' items
  2. 16Run the Brief by Hand and Score It
    • Score each brief item as correct, wrong, missing or wrong priority
    • Log corrections and update the instructions
    • Run a prompt-injection drill and confirm the agent flags it and does nothing
  3. 17Schedule the Brief and Check the First Run
    • Create a weekday scheduled brief on your chosen platform
    • Spot a silent failure in a scheduled run
  4. 18Build the Release Countdown at T-8, T-4 and T-2 Weeks
    • Build a countdown of release tasks with owner, due date, status and source
    • Flag any item not confirmed in writing by the artist or rights owner
  5. 19Triage Bookings, Syncs and Features
    • Extract offer terms: type, counterparty, dates, fee, rights, response deadline
    • Flag requests to generate or alter the artist's voice or likeness with AI

Module 6Meetings, Sessions and Follow-ups4 lessons

  1. 20Inbox Triage with Drafts the Manager Sends
    • Triage the inbox into me today, this week, someone else, FYI and suspicious
    • Write drafts that leave [DECISION] placeholders for dates, fees and deliverables
  2. 21Meeting Prep and Agendas
    • Produce a sourced one-page prep note for a meeting
    • Draft a timed agenda with DECIDE items
  3. 22Session and Tour Day Sheets
    • Build a day sheet with call times, addresses, contacts, equipment and open issues
    • Draft a band and crew message that leaves out personal numbers
  4. 23Follow-up Drafts from Meeting Notes
    • Turn notes into proposed decision rows and delegation rows
    • Draft a recap of under 200 words and list possible personal commitments

Module 7The Logs: Decisions, Approvals, Credits and Delegation3 lessons

  1. 24The Decision Log and Artist Approvals Log
    • Fill in decision log rows with the standard fields
    • Bundle pending artist approvals into one draft message
  2. 25Credits and Splits as Claims
    • Extract contributors, roles and stated splits with quotes and sources
    • Draft neutral confirmation requests with no proposed numbers
  3. 26The Delegation Tracker and Nudges
    • Create tracker rows with a definition of done
    • Set a row to 'done (claimed)' or propose 'done (verified)' based on the evidence found

Module 8Weekly Review, Guardrails and the Two-Week Rollout4 lessons

  1. 27Run the Weekly Review
    • Run a sourced weekly review of under 600 words
    • Compare two weeks and spot items stalled for two weeks or more
  2. 28Catch Changes So Outdated Versions Don't Linger
    • List everything affected by a moved date or a new asset
    • Propose superseded status for old entries for the manager to confirm, without deleting them
  3. 29Prompt-Injection Drill and Permission Audit
    • Run a second injection drill and confirm the agent flags it and does nothing
    • Run a permission audit and remove unneeded access
  4. 30The Two-Week Rollout and Go/No-Go
    • Put each of the fourteen rollout days on the calendar with its done-when check
    • Score brief precision, source coverage and safety events, then decide on each routine

Who it’s for

Made for you if…

Made for: Artists, producers, managers and music teams responsible for creative decisions, release preparation and the details that connect them

Artist managers running releases themselves

Your inbox is full of bookings, sync and feature offers and press requests, and the artist's approvals are spread across threads. You'll get a ranked, sourced brief and drafts you approve and send yourself.

Independent artists who handle their own release admin

You want the countdown, credits chasing and follow-ups handled without giving up your say. The course makes your approval the final word and keeps unreleased masters and your personal accounts out of the agent's reach.

Producers who run sessions and chase credits

Turn session notes into day sheets and contributor lists. Roles and splits are recorded as claims, with neutral confirmation requests that propose no numbers.

Small label or management teams of one to about five people

Get a shared decision log, an artist approvals log and a delegation tracker the whole team can read, so a moved date or new artwork doesn't leave old versions in circulation.

Questions

Good to know

Do I need OpenAI dots or Claude Duet?

No. Both are limited by region, plan and waitlist. As of 28 October 2026, your first dot comes with ChatGPT Pro (from $100/month) or a Business Premium seat, and the Pro rollout doesn't include the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Claude Duet is a US-only research preview for Claude Pro or Max users, by waitlist. Every lesson also works with Claude or ChatGPT scheduled tasks on a paid plan such as Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus ($20/month each as of that date). Prices and access change, so check the official pages.

I'm in the UK or Europe. Can I still take the course?

Yes. You'll use the fallback path, which is Claude or ChatGPT scheduled tasks. The course doesn't cover ways around regional, plan or waitlist restrictions.

What do I need before I start?

You need access to the management or artist email and calendar you plan to connect, with permission from whoever owns them. You also need a paid plan on at least one supported assistant (or the ability to get one), a current or upcoming release with a date, tasks and owners, and some comfort with a spreadsheet or shared document.

Will the agent send emails, book dates or upload my release?

No. The agent prepares and a person decides and sends. You'll set it up so sending, calendar changes, sharing files and any commitment to a date, fee or deliverable all wait for explicit approval. Submitting to a distributor and publishing campaign posts stay with a person, and the course doesn't cover doing those through the agent.

What should I keep away from the agent?

Unreleased masters and stems, contracts, royalty statements with bank details, and the artist's personal accounts. You'll learn why: anything you connect can end up in the agent's memory, which isn't fully erased when you disconnect a source.

How does it handle credits and splits?

It records contributors, roles and any split mentioned as unconfirmed claims, quoting where each one came from, until a signed split sheet confirms them. It drafts neutral confirmation requests for the manager to send and never proposes numbers. The course doesn't give legal advice on contracts, splits, sample clearance or voice and likeness law.

Does the course teach making music with AI?

No. Generating, mixing or mastering with tools such as Suno or LANDR isn't covered, and neither are voice models or training AI on an artist's catalog. The course covers the release office around the music.

How long does it take?

About 10 hours across 30 self-paced lessons. The last module walks you through a two-week rollout on your own release, and the goal is a working setup for one artist or release within those two weeks.

Set up your AI chief of staff for one release, step by step

$197

One payment · lifetime access

  • 30 hands-on lessons in 8 modules, from the role and its limits to a two-week rollout
  • Copy-paste prompts for the brief, offer triage, day sheets, follow-ups and the weekly review
  • A standing-instructions template with an approval table, source tags and a corrections log
  • Column headers for the decision log, artist approvals log, delegation tracker and deadline register
  • A prompt-injection drill and a permission audit to test your setup
  • An AI tutor, quizzes and flashcards for each lesson, progress tracking and a certificate of completion

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