A label signs an artist and does everything else: production, distribution, promotion, the books. Buenos Records signs creators and builds them a subscription app — designed for your audience, run entirely by us. You promote it. You own a share of the revenue, and of the exit when the app sells. It costs you nothing but posts.
Three parts. You already have the hard one.
Your audience, your voice, your brand. If people already pay you — Patreon, courses, a paid community, or just deep trust — you're who we sign. Roster deals: promote on an agreed cadence, link in bio, done.
Concept, build, App Store launch, payments, support, analytics, growth, paid ads — with our own money behind what works. Before anything is built, we test a waitlist with your audience; if they don't want it, we tell you and nothing launches.
Your share of subscriptions, monthly, on a live dashboard where every number is visible. And because we build the portfolio to sell, your equity pays again at the exit. Work you did once, paying you twice.
The model is proven. Until now it required your own dev team.
These are independent apps, not Buenos Records releases — they're the proof the model works when a real audience meets a real app. Our job is making it available to creators without a dev team.
If any of this isn't in the contract, don't sign it. It's all in ours.
Nothing. Not the build, not the hosting, not the support. We take our share only from revenue the app actually makes. If it makes nothing, we made nothing — that's the point of the model.
We find out before building. Step one is a waitlist page tested with your audience for a few days. If sign-ups are weak, we tell you plainly and nothing gets built. You lose a week, not a reputation.
Your brand, your content and your audience are yours, always. The app publishes under your own developer account. The code and infrastructure are ours while we operate it together. The deal memo spells all of this out in one page of plain language before anything starts.
Roughly: 50k+ engaged followers, or any size audience that already pays you — patrons, course buyers, paid community members. Podcasts, experts, educators and niche communities tend to convert best. If you're not sure, apply anyway; the answer costs you two minutes.
Waitlist live within days of signing. If it validates, the app is typically live in weeks — we build on infrastructure we've already built many times.
Because the deal shape already exists and it works. A record label does everything except be the artist; the artist does the one thing the label can't. Same here: we build, launch, grow, run ads with our own money, and keep the books in the open — you bring the audience nobody can copy. And like a label, we build catalog to sell: when an app exits, everyone on it gets paid.
Two minutes. A human reads every application.