wavbee Technologies
The operating system for the music business.
wavbee Technologies is the infrastructure arm of wavbee. Catalogue, delivery, quality control, rights, royalties, payouts and release marketing — one platform, running under your name instead of ours.
Built and operated by a working distributor. Tell us what you run today — [email protected]
How it fits together
A release goes out. Money comes back. Both run on one system.
Every platform in this category lists the same modules. What decides whether you can run a business on one is whether they connect — and whether the loop closes without somebody rekeying a spreadsheet halfway round. Each stage below links to the part of the platform that does it.
400+
platforms addressable
40
modules, one platform
3
ways to deploy it
193
metadata languages
Who this is for
Four situations, and the same platform under all of them.
If none of these is you, say so in the email anyway — the useful answer is sometimes that this is not a fit, and we would rather give it early.
Launching a distributor
You have the artists, the relationships or the market, and no intention of spending three years building catalogue software before you can sign anyone.
The whole stack, on our supply chain, live in weeks.
Outgrowing your current platform
You licence a platform today and the limits have become the job — the interface your artists complain about, the report you export and rebuild by hand, the feature request that has been queued since last year.
A migration, and a vendor small enough that your roadmap matters.
Holding your own DSP deals
You have already negotiated the agreements. What you are missing is the software to operate them at scale — and no interest in giving up the deal to get it.
The platform on your contract, or built on your partner's API.
A label that became an operations problem
The catalogue grew, the spreadsheets multiplied, and royalty season now takes a person a fortnight. The music side works; the running of it does not.
Catalogue, royalties, payouts and support in one system of record.
At any scale
The same platform from a five-artist roster up to a full distributor.
Scale changes what you switch on, not what you run. Four of these five rungs work today; the fifth is the next structural change to the account model, and it is on this page rather than left for you to discover.
A manager with a handful of artists
Works todayCatalogue, delivery, statements and payouts for a roster you could count on two hands.
A label
Works todayMultiple artists, multiple imprints, splits that have to be right, and a royalty run that currently takes someone a fortnight.
A label group
Works todaySeveral labels under one roof, each with its own roster, reporting and payout schedule.
A distributor
Works todayYour own clients signing up on your domain, under your brand, with your support desk answering them.
A distributor whose clients are distributors
Next on the account modelA third tier, so your clients can administer clients of their own with their own branding beneath yours.
Three ways to run it
The platform does not require you to take our supply chain with it.
Serious platforms in this category will all let you keep your own deal, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What differs is how far that actually goes: whether it is gated behind a plan tier, whether it covers one endpoint or all of them, and whether the API you would drive it with is published or handed out under an account. Ours is not gated, not partial, and the reference is public.
Use the platform and our delivery relationships
The complete stack, with wavbee's own store relationships behind it. You get catalogue, delivery, quality control, royalties, payouts and support as one system, and you never negotiate with a store yourself.
Best for New distributors and labels that want to launch without building a supply chain first.
Keep the distribution agreement you already hold
You have already negotiated a deal you are happy with. Keep it. The platform delivers through your existing agreement rather than replacing it — your contract, your rates, your relationship, with our software driving it.
Best for Established labels and distributors with an upstream agreement worth protecting.
The entire system, built on the API you already have access to
Where your upstream partner exposes an API, we implement the whole platform on top of it end to end — artist dashboards, admin console, catalogue management, analytics, royalty reporting, payouts and the support desk — all on your supply chain and all under your brand.
Best for Companies with partner API access and no engineering team to spend on building against it.
The four parts
Take all of it, or the part you are missing.
Everything in it
The whole platform, and where each part actually stands.
Nothing is marked live until it is running in wavbee’s own distribution business. Everything else says plainly whether it is being built now or is on the roadmap — filter by it and see for yourself.
Showing 40 of 40 modules.
Distribution OS15
Read the detailCatalog & metadata
A full recording data model — releases, tracks, contributors, composers, identifiers.
Release builder
Three tabs, autosave, and a validation panel that gates submission on a clean report.
Delivery & store manager
400+ platforms addressable, and a delivery layer not bounded by any one contract.
Your supply agreement, our platform
Keep the distribution deal you hold. Ungated, on every endpoint, driven by a published API.
Release review queue
A working review queue with pre-submit validation — the human half, shipped today.
Rights & splits engine
Ownership, contributor roles and split definitions attached to the recording itself.
Royalty pipeline
Ingest statements from multiple reporting shapes, attribute to the ISRC, publish per-artist.
Payouts & auto-pay
Threshold-triggered monthly payouts with payee accounts and a permanent log.
Analytics & reporting
Revenue and performance by release, artist, store, territory and period.
Accounts, roles & isolation
Multi-tenant accounts with per-account capability switches and enforced data isolation.
Billing & invoicing
Three payment gateways, subscription and one-off charges, invoices with Indian GST.
Support desk
Ticketing with real email threading, shared mailboxes, SLA timers and a knowledge base.
Asset storage & delivery
Object storage with signed expiring URLs and direct-to-storage uploads.
Catalog migration
Bring an existing catalogue across without re-entering it.
Publishing & works administration
Works, writer and publisher splits, society registration and collection.
Release QC9
Read the detailMetadata rule engine
A rule catalogue built on the Apple Music Style Guide as the worldwide baseline.
Artwork inspection
Specification checks plus vision models for the things a specification cannot express.
Audio defect analysis
Silence, clipping, loudness, dropouts and fake hi-res, measured from the master.
Content matching
Cover, sample, AI-music and impersonation matching through content identification.
Clarification loop
Asks the uploader while they are still in the flow, with a proposed fix attached.
Verdicts & audit trail
Five outcomes, per-rule evidence, and a clean release approved automatically.
QC as an API
Submit a release, get a verdict — from any platform, not just ours.
Embeddable release builder
A drop-in upload flow with live QC, hosted inside someone else's product.
Audio intelligence
BPM, key, mood, danceability and hook timestamps — from the same analysis pass.
Creative & audience6
Read the detailArtwork Studio
Generate, edit and export store-ready cover art in the browser.
Video generation
Promotional videos, motion artwork, vertical loops and lyric videos, generated in the browser.
Pitch support workflow
Structured pitch intake with deadline enforcement and a drafted editorial pitch.
lnkbee
Smart links, pre-saves and artist bio pages on lnkbee.com and lnkb.ee.
Release social kits
Instagram and Facebook post and story sets generated automatically for every release.
Playlist engine
An owned playlist network placing roster tracks organically.
White-label platform5
Read the detailAudience analytics tags
Each account connects its own GA4, Meta Pixel and Tag Manager.
Your domain and your mail
Deployed per account on your own domain, with mail authenticated to send as you.
Your brand, top to bottom
Your domain, your logo, your colours, your emails — your artists never see ours.
End-user identity
Passwordless sign-in for your artists, on your domain, with no password to leak.
Sub-distributor tiers
A third tier, so your clients can have clients of their own.
Developer API5
Read the detailREST API
A documented HTTP API over the whole catalogue, with the spec enforced by the build.
Machine keys & end-user tokens
Two separate credential types, and a switch that can refuse one without touching the other.
Webhooks & events
Signed, retrying callbacks for the events you would otherwise poll for.
Typed clients & sandbox
Types generated from the specification, and an environment safe to break.
DDEX & bulk ingestion
Standards-based delivery in and out, for the partners that expect it.
Build it or run it
Building this yourself is a real option. Here is the honest comparison.
Every serious buyer in this category weighs building against licensing, so the comparison may as well be on the page. Building it is a legitimate choice — it is simply a long one, and the part that gets underestimated is never delivery.
| Build it yourself | Run it on this | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first delivery | 12–24 months before a release reaches a store | Weeks — the delivery path already exists and is in daily use |
| Store relationships | Negotiated one at a time, most of which will not take a new applicant | Use ours, keep the agreement you already hold, or build on your partner's API |
| Royalty accounting | The part that is always underestimated, and the part that loses artists | Ingestion, attribution, per-artist statements and payouts already running |
| Quality control | A person reading a checklist, until the volume makes that impossible | Automated checks with a clarification loop, and a human queue for what needs one |
| Ongoing engineering | A permanent team, because stores change their requirements and never ask first | Included — store changes are our problem, and you hear about them after they are handled |
| Your brand | Entirely yours, eventually | Entirely yours, on day one — your domain, your logo, your emails |
What this is
We run a distributor on it. Then we hand you the keys.
Most music infrastructure is sold by companies that have never had to operate it. This platform runs wavbee's own distribution business — thousands of artists, hundreds of labels, real releases going to real stores every day, and a support desk answering for it when something goes wrong.
That is the whole argument. Every part of this stack exists because operating a distributor made it necessary, and every part of it is in production before it is offered to anyone else. When you licence it, you are not the first user of a feature — you are the second.
It also raises the obvious question, so here is the answer before you ask it. If we run a distributor and you run a distributor, we are competitors, and your catalogue and your earnings would be sitting on our infrastructure. Account isolation is therefore enforced in the query layer and checked by an automated scoping matrix on every build, not promised in a slide — and the contract carries the rest: no visibility of your roster, your signings or your revenue, and no use of your data to compete with you. Ask us to put that in writing. Every serious buyer should.
Receipts
Operated first. Offered second.
Since 2018
Operating as a distributor
This is not a platform looking for its first operator. It has had one for years.
3,000+
Artists on the platform
Real catalogues, real releases, real support tickets — the load the software is proven under.
700+
Labels on the platform
Multi-artist accounts with the roster, permission and reporting problems that come with them.
Every claim
Has a test behind it
Account isolation, branding rules, the platform list and the API specification are all machine-checked on every build.
Independent
Not owned by a major
Two of the platforms you would shortlist changed hands to major labels this year. Who owns your infrastructure decides who can see your catalogue.
Why this instead
The incumbents in this category are large, and it shows in the software.
Most platforms a label or distributor can licence today were built a decade ago by companies that have since become large, and several have just been acquired by major labels. The interfaces show their age, the release cadence shows it, and the answer to a feature request is usually a place in a queue. This was built recently and is still being built weekly — judge that by the changelog rather than by the claim.
An interface people will actually use
The artist-facing and admin surfaces were designed this decade, for the way people work now — fast, keyboard-friendly, readable on a phone, accessible by default. Adoption is a design problem before it is a training problem, and software nobody wants to open does not get used no matter how capable it is.
Weeks, not quarters
A capability that is a two-quarter project at a larger vendor ships here in weeks. Every change is atomic, tested and independently deployable, so there is no big-bang release to wait behind — and a feature you need is a conversation, not a place in a roadmap queue.
You can read the API before you talk to us
Most platforms in this category market an API and then hand the documentation out under an account. Ours is public and its specification is enforced by the build, so what you read is what is deployed — and you can judge whether this fits before anyone has your phone number.
Tested before it is claimed
The guarantees on these pages have automated tests behind them — the account isolation boundary, the branding rules, the platform list, the API specification. Claims only a person is checking are claims that eventually stop being true.
Operated, then offered
Nothing is marked live here until it is running in wavbee's own distribution business, with real artists and real releases behind it. You are never the first user of a feature. That order is deliberate and it is not negotiable.
Where this is going
A full operating system for a music company, inside eight months.
Horizons rather than dates, because a plan published as a date becomes a promise nobody agreed to. Everything below is scoped against how fast this team actually ships, not against a conventional roadmap.
Next 3 months
Quality control and audience tools reach general availability
The work already under way finishes: automated release QC moves from shadow mode to the default path, the smart-link and pre-save layer opens to every account, and release social kits generate automatically alongside the artwork.
- Automated release QC on the default upload path, with automatic approval for clean releases
- lnkbee smart links, pre-saves and artist bio pages, live for every release
- Release social kits generated with the artwork and the release date
- Signed webhooks and generated API clients
- Catalogue migration tooling for incoming labels and distributors
3 to 6 months
Publishing joins the same system of record
Recordings and works stop being two systems. Works become first-class records linked to the recordings that embody them, with writer and publisher splits, society registration, and mechanical and performance income flowing into the same royalty pipeline that already handles recording revenue.
- Works, writer and publisher splits as first-class records
- Society and CMO registration through the client's chosen partners, with the integrations to match
- Mechanical and performance royalty ingestion in the existing pipeline
- One statement across recording and publishing income
- Publishing partnerships brought onto the platform as they complete
6 to 8 months
A complete operating system for a music company
The end state this is all pointed at: one platform on which a distributor, a label or a publisher runs the whole business — catalogue, delivery, quality control, rights, works, royalties, payouts, marketing and support — under their own name, with an API for everything the interface can do.
- Recordings and works, rights and royalties, in one system of record
- Sync licensing and neighbouring-rights workflows
- The QC engine offered as an API and as an embeddable builder to platforms that use nothing else here
- The playlist engine placing roster catalogue organically
- Standards-based ingestion and delivery for partners that require it
Questions
The ones every enquiry opens with.
What is wavbee Technologies?
wavbee Technologies is the infrastructure arm of wavbee. It is the platform wavbee's own music distribution business runs on — catalogue and metadata, store delivery, release quality control, rights and splits, royalty processing, payouts, artist-facing creative tools and a full support desk — offered to distributors, labels and publishers to run under their own brand.
Can we keep our existing distribution agreement?
Yes. The software and the delivery relationship are separable. If you already hold a distribution agreement you are happy with, the platform delivers through it rather than replacing it — your contract, your rates, your relationship. Where your upstream partner exposes an API, we can implement the entire system on top of it, including the artist dashboards, admin console, analytics and royalty reporting.
Will our artists see wavbee's branding?
No. The artist-facing application is deployed per account on your own domain, with your logo, your colours and your typography. Email is sent from your address in your name, and the artist-facing templates are written so they never mention anyone but you. Your own analytics and verification tags are configured by you.
Is there an API?
Yes. Everything the console does is available over a documented REST API at /api/v1, specified in OpenAPI. The specification is enforced by the build — an endpoint added without documentation fails the test suite — so the reference cannot drift away from the implementation. Machine keys are issued per account and are separate from the short-lived tokens that carry an artist's own session.
How many platforms can the system deliver to?
Reach is a function of the relationships you hold rather than a limit in the software. Through aggregator and partner routes the addressable network runs past 400 platforms and sub-platforms worldwide — including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, Deezer, TikTok, Tidal, JioSaavn, Boomplay and Anghami — and the delivery layer is built to target any endpoint you hold a deal with. Each account then has its own catalogue, so you enable exactly the destinations you want your clients to see.
Why choose this over an established platform?
Two reasons. The software is recent: the artist-facing and admin interfaces were designed this decade and are markedly faster and clearer to work in than the platforms most labels licence today. And the release cadence is different — a capability that is a two-quarter project at a larger vendor ships here in weeks, so a feature you need is a conversation rather than a place in a queue.
What is automated release quality control?
An automated pass over a release before it is delivered: metadata checked against a rule catalogue built on the store style guides, artwork inspected for specification and content problems, and audio analysed for silence, clipping, loudness, dropouts and misdeclared resolution. Clean releases are approved automatically with a full audit trail. Where something is ambiguous rather than wrong, it asks the uploader while they are still in the upload flow, with a proposed correction attached.
Does the platform cover music publishing?
Publishing is the next major expansion. Works are being brought into the same system of record as recordings, with writer and publisher splits, society registration through whichever societies and partners the client already works with, and mechanical and performance income flowing into the royalty pipeline that already handles recording revenue.
How do we find out what this costs?
Write to [email protected]. There is no price list on this site, because what this costs depends on which parts you take, whether you use your supply agreement or ours, and how many accounts and releases you run. Describe what you operate today and we will tell you plainly whether this fits.
Tell us what you are building.
Whether you are launching a distributor, outgrowing the platform you licence today, or running a label that has become an operations problem — write to us and describe it. We will tell you what fits, what does not, and what is still being built.
Every conversation starts here. There is no price list on this site — what this costs depends entirely on what you need it to do.