StageForge — Musician & Audio Producer Business Command Center

Play it. Release it. Actually get paid for it.

StageForge is a complete, private, 100% offline business command center for a working musician or producer — 15 integrated modules and 39 tools in a single HTML file, plus a live 11-sheet Excel workbook. Nothing installs. No account. No fee, split or student name ever leaves your computer.

Music does not have one income. It has eight. They arrive in completely different currencies of effort, and almost nobody has ever put them side by side with the hours attached. That is the one thing StageForge really does — and it is enough to reorganise a career.

The comparison nothing else will make for you

From the worked year inside — the same musician, the same twelve months:

• Sync & licensing — $148 an hour, across 45 hours
• Publishing & PRO — $81 an hour, across 24 hours
• Teaching — $59 an hour, across 301 hours
• Production for hire — $55 · Session work — $52 · Merch — $50
• Live performance — $23 an hour, across 254 hours
• Streaming & DSP — $3 an hour, across 360 hours

Fifty times the difference between top and bottom, and the bottom took the most hours. No royalty statement, accountant or distributor dashboard will ever show you that.

Twenty-one screens

The money — Income Streams (all eight, with revenue, hours and the real hourly rate) · Gig Economics (what each show left you after travel, commission and the band split) · Recoupment & Royalties (what each record still owes, converted into how many streams that actually is) · Invoices & Getting Paid, including the session work nobody ever billed for.

Live & session — Gig Book with the diary and every played show · Session & Production work by role and client, with your implied day rate.

Catalogue — Release Catalogue · Streaming & Platforms (the per-play rate each service really pays you) · Sync & Licensing with a hit rate and a per-hour figure that counts the pitches that failed · Song Catalogue with splits · Rights & Registrations — the seven-box checklist between your catalogue and the money it is owed.

Teaching — Roster with attendance as the early-warning signal · Lesson Ledger pricing the slots that were cancelled and never resold.

Audience & stock — which channels you own and which you rent · merch unit economics · gear cost-per-use.

Eight calculators

True per-hour · Release recoupment · Gig break-even · Teaching floor · Sync deal value · Run of shows · Catalogue value (keep it or sell it) · Gear payback.

Twelve copy-ready messages

The fee reply that does not undersell you · the hold and release · the advance email · the invoice · the friendly chase · the job nobody invoiced · the split email, sent the same day · the quarterly rights sweep · the sync pitch · the one-stop clearance confirmation · the cancellation policy · the message to a drifting student.

What you get

• StageForge-Musician-Command-Center.html — the whole application, one file, works offline
• StageForge-Companion-Workbook.xlsx — 11 live formula-driven sheets
• Quick-Start-Guide.html — six steps to your first ranking
• How-To-Use-Guide.html — the full manual, screen by screen
• README.txt and LICENSE.txt

Genuinely private. It makes no network requests of any kind. Fees, splits, student names and royalty figures stay in your own browser, on your own machine, and are never transmitted anywhere. It works in a van, in a green room, on a ferry.

StageForge performs arithmetic on figures you supply. It is not accounting, tax, legal or music-rights advice, and a split recorded in it is a note to yourself rather than an agreement.