Guest
Aidan Schechter
Aidan Schechter is CEO of Patchbay and Partner at 1916 Enterprises, as introduced on the show.
Episodes (1)
Aidan Schechter, CEO of Patchbay and partner at 1916 Enterprises, explains why independent music companies share the same workflows and need common software.
Questions these episodes answer
What does Patchbay do for music managers and labels?
Patchbay is a shared workspace built for managers, labels, publishers, lawyers and business managers to track an artist's releases, deals, invoices and touring in one place. It checks contracts against MLC, PRO and SoundExchange data so people can see whether royalty splits and credits match what was agreed, instead of using spreadsheets, Airtable or Notion.
Why did Aidan Schechter decide the music industry needed shared software like Patchbay?
After roughly 10,000 hours of conversations with music executives, Schechter found that independent companies were all solving the same problems with no shared back office. Everyone invoiced producer fees to the same labels and filed publishing splits in the same format at the same collection societies, yet each business hacked together its own solution in spreadsheets or Airtable instead of using one shared system.
How is AI changing how Patchbay builds its product?
Schechter says AI research tools would have saved Patchbay about a year of early architecture work if they had existed when the company started three and a half years ago. Now the team uses AI, including Claude Code, to rebuild front-end work such as onboarding, which frees them to focus on harder problems like automated catalog enrichment.
What does Aidan Schechter see as Patchbay's long-term competitive advantage?
He argues the moat is trust rather than software alone. Patchbay verifies client workspaces for managers and teams, including collaborators behind about 35% of last year's Billboard Hot 100, so that when a client's song involves someone else's team, both sides can transact through a shared, guarded network instead of starting from scratch.