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TemplatesWorking templates, not Wikipedia pages.
Every module ships with the artifact — a splitsheet, a release calendar, a one-page brief. They are working files the cohort rewrites for their own catalog, not PDFs to be admired.
Numbered catalogIssue 001Founded 2025Chicago / Worldwide
Run the business of the music you already make.
An online academy for independent artists who already make the music — eight pillars of catalog, release, royalty and brand work, taught by Byron E. Burke.
Byron E. Burke.Thirty-plus years of release, royalty and catalog work — turned into a curriculum.
Founding member, Ten City · Former Co-Executive Vice President, Prelude Music & Film Works · Principal, Popâ UR-Mää Global Consulting Enterprise.
He began his career as a founding member of Ten City, the Grammy-nominated Chicago house group, and went on to serve as Co-Executive Vice President of Prelude Music & Film Works — the catalog that ran through his hands included thirty years of releases, sub-publishing, mechanical rights, and the kind of paperwork that keeps a catalog alive longer than a release window.
Cataloghaus is the structured version of that work. Not the highlight reel — the daily ledger, the splitsheet, the registration, the renewal reminder. The templates and review Byron used to run a generation of releases, opened to the independents who now do this work themselves, through eight pillars of curriculum and a working library that meets the catalog where it is.
The curriculum already exists. It just lived on one résumé.
Cataloghaus is an AI-assisted online academy built for independent artists who already make the music and now need to run the business end of the career. The program turns thirty-plus years of release, royalty and catalog work into a structured, executable curriculum for DIY musicians.
Members move through eight pillars — metadata, branding, AI-assisted content production, release campaigns, merchandise, licensing, music-business documentation, and legacy catalog management — supported by downloadable templates, private AI assistants, recorded lessons, monthly group sessions and one-on-one catalog reviews.
A producer in Lagos and a singer-songwriter on the Westside of Chicago get the same working playbook, the same templates, and the same catalog review as anyone else in the room.
The curriculum
Eight pillars, in the order a working release demands.
Each pillar is a working module — a recorded curriculum, a folder of templates, an AI tuner scoped to the pillar’s task, and a monthly check-in at the monthly group session. Move through them in order, or jump in where the catalog needs it.
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Music metadata & royalty infrastructure
ISRC, ISWC, IPI, and the registrations that decide whether your music earns a quarter or stays invisible. Workflows, ledger designs, the unglamorous plumbing that decides who gets paid.
- 02
Artist branding & identity systems
Naming, voice, visual systems, the one-page artist brief. A working brand document that survives 12 releases, not a moodboard that changes with the algorithm.
- 03
AI-assisted content production
Private AI tuners trained on your catalog — for press drafts, captions, release copy, listening-party briefs. Used like a tool, governed like a publishing decision.
- 04
Release campaign development
The pre-release calendar, the asset ladder, the rollout plan that holds up under a 90-day window. Singles, EPs, albums, deluxe — each as its own working document.
- 05
Merchandise marketing
Drop calendars, partner briefs, fulfillment and unit economics. T-shirts and vinyl get designed the same way releases do — as calendar, not as afterthought.
- 06
Licensing preparation
Sync, film, brand briefs, mechanical rights, sub-publishing. The paperwork and the paperwork-adjacent conversations — what is a license ready to be signed, and what is not.
- 07
Music-business documentation
Producer agreements, splitsheets, label services agreements, distribution memos. Templates that have closed real deals, not Law Depot skeletons with the company name filled in.
- 08
Legacy catalog management
The catalog audit, the rights audit, what to renew, what to file, and how thirty years of releases become a working inheritance — not a pile of orphan masters.
How the program runs
Templates, AI tuners, group sessions, catalog reviews — four rails, monthly rhythm.
The course is not a library of video essays. It is a working room. Members arrive with their catalog, leave with the next 90 days mapped, and check back monthly for a working session.
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Private AIPrivate AI tuners, scoped to your work.
A small set of tuners — metadata editor, brand voice, royalty math, release copy — that run on your catalog, not on the open internet. They draft; you decide.
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RecordedRecorded lessons, replayed at any pace.
The curriculum is fully recorded, broken by module, indexed by pillar. Members move through at the rate the catalog needs — metronome-fast on a release week, slow-and-clean on a rebrand.
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SessionsGroup sessions, monthly, working-room format.
A monthly group call with the members — review in progress, ask in progress, listen in progress. A working session, not a webinar. The flagship cohort gets a private monthly hour; the working and library tiers join a joint livestream.
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Catalog reviewOne-on-one catalog review.
A standing catalog review with the founder for flagship members. You bring the catalog; we open it, audit the metadata, the rights register, the release calendar, and the next 90 days.
Admissions
Three seats, three depths. Pick the engagement.
The flagship cohort is depth-of-engagement: a ten-artifact private session each term and a direct studio line. The working community opens the full curriculum to the people rebuilding a release calendar. The library tier is the same library, opened wider for the early-career independents.
Founder Cohort
FeaturedTier · 10 seats per term · 12-week
$997/ per month
The deepest engagement. Curriculum plus a monthly private group session, one-on-one catalog review, and a direct studio line.
- One-on-one catalog review, each term
- Direct correspondence on releases & rights
- Private AI tuners for metadata, branding & royalty math
- Lifetime access to templates, recordings & alumni circle
Working Community
Tier · 40 seats · month-to-month
$249/ per month
The full curriculum, opened to a working community of artists rebuilding their release calendar together.
- Eight-pillar curriculum + working library
- Monthly group session, recorded
- Downloadable templates & checklist packs
- Recorded lessons catalogued for replay
Library
Tier · 100 seats · month-to-month
$99/ per month
Self-serve templates and recorded lessons for early-career independents building the habit before the business of music is the business.
- Eight-pillar curriculum, recorded
- Monthly group session, livestreamed
- Downloadable templates & checklist packs
- Direct path to upgrade into the working tier
Pricing listed in USD. All seats are month-to-month; the flagship cohort commits to a 12-week term with monthly billing. Invoicing and receipt on request — write to cataloghaus@polsia.app.
Notify
Get notified when doors open.
Doors open for the founding cohort in waves, not all at once. Drop an email and you'll hear from the studio the moment a seat in your tier is ready — no marketing list, no drip campaign. Just one note, from Chicago.
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Byron E. Burke.
Principal, Popâ UR-Mää Global Consulting Enterprise. Founder, Cataloghaus.
Founding member of Ten City — the Grammy-nominated Chicago house group — and the former Co-Executive Vice President of Prelude Music & Film Works. The catalog work at Prelude ran through thirty years of releases, royalties, sub-publishing, and the paperwork that keeps a catalog alive longer than a release window.
Cataloghaus is the structured version of that work. Not the highlight reel — the daily ledger, the splitsheet, the registration, the renewal reminder. The templates the studio has used for a generation, opened to the independents who now do this work themselves.
Inquiries
Questions, in order.
A working set of the questions the inbox gets most weeks. If your question isn’t here, write to cataloghaus@polsia.app — replies most days, from the studio in Chicago.
Apply
Reserve a seat in Cataloghaus.
Tell us where the catalog is, what the next 90 days are, and what would change if the business end of the work was as developed as the music. We reply with the next step.
Or write directly to cataloghaus@polsia.app — replies most days, from the studio in Chicago.
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Cataloghaus is the working academy of Popâ UR-Mää Global Consulting Enterprise. Founded by Byron E. Burke, Chicago · 2025.