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I just want to play.
I don't want to worry about the money.

You want a career, not just a following. The tools, systems, and community that let musicians do the thing they became musicians to do. Built by someone who has spent 35 years in music and 20 years building organizations at scale.

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For the Soul
$1,820
from gigs that gave something back
The Energy Ledger
64% soul · 36% rent
For the Rent
$1,020
from gigs that paid the bills
The Energy Ledger: every gig rated by what it cost you and what it gave back, with the revenue split laid out honestly. The number that changes what you say yes to.
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The Real Problem

Nobody teaches musicians
the business side. That ends here.

Play more. Worry less. Every working musician has said some version of this. The truth is, without the systems, the money worries you whether you want it to or not. The Working Musician exists so you can stop choosing between the music and the math.

The Money

You are almost certainly leaving real money on the table

Untracked expenses. Missed deductions. Royalties sitting with your name on them at organizations you have never registered with. One working musician found $10,000 from a commercial recorded more than a decade earlier. The tools to find what is yours have never existed. Until now.

The Career

Nobody teaches you how to negotiate, contract, or price

When to say yes to a gig. How to ask for a fair fee. The $600 corporate event that drains you and the $200 room that lights you up are not the same gig, even when you only look at the fee. These are learnable skills. Most musicians learn them the expensive way.

The App. Try Free for 14 Days.

Your financial partner
on the road.

A quiet companion for the money side of your music life. It speaks up when it matters: a booking gone quiet, a strong month worth noticing, a royalty worth going after. Try it free for 14 days, no card required.

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Effective Gig Rate
What you actually earn per hour once you count the drive, the load-in, and the wait. The number that changes which gigs you say yes to.
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The Energy Ledger: For the Soul / For the Rent
Every gig rated by how it felt, with the revenue split shown honestly. The number most musicians have never seen.
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Found Money Tracker
Log every royalty organization you check, every claim you file, and every dollar that comes back. Royalties do not chase you. You chase them.
July 2026
Dashboard
Gig Log
Income
Rights
Me
Effective Gig Rate · July
$74/hr
6 gigs · $2,840 income · 38.5 hrs total
Income
$2,840
Expenses
$1,120
Net
$1,720
The Energy Ledger
For the Soul4 gigs · $1,820 · 70%
For the Rent2 gigs · $1,020 · 30%
Found Money: $850 recovered so far. One claim filed with The MLC is still pending. Royalties you went and got. Not luck. Homework.
The Community

A room built on passion,
purpose, and the music itself.

The Working Musician is not a software product with a community bolted on. It is a community of musicians who take their craft seriously and are building careers they can sustain. The tools serve that mission. The mission is the music.

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For the musicians who still feel it

The ones who play because the room changes when the music starts. Who show up to gigs they could decline. Who keep writing songs nobody is asking for yet. The Working Musician is built for the ones who have not stopped caring. A private community is coming. Newsletter subscribers hear first.

A Story That Changed the Product

"I have never been asked how much I actually enjoyed a gig. I have never seen a tool that shows me what my income looks like when you split it by the gigs I wanted to play versus the ones I had to play. That is the whole conversation nobody is having."

$0
Found by one working musician in royalties from a commercial recorded over a decade earlier.
That story is why the Found Money Tracker exists.

Every feature in this app came from a musician saying the thing that had been bothering them and nobody had ever built a fix for. If you are a working musician, try it free for 14 days. Your feedback shapes what gets built next. That is the deal.

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The Monthly Brief
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One insight per month that changes how you see your career. Written for musicians who take the craft seriously.

Short, specific, and worth your time. Royalty recovery strategies, negotiation tactics, AI tools for musicians, and career moves that compound quietly over years. Written by someone who has spent a lifetime inside music and a career building organizations at scale.

Monthly newsletter, always short and always actionable
AI tools for musicians, curated and updated as the landscape shifts
Full archive from day one
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The core product
The Working Musician App
$19/month
or $190/year, two months free
The subscription that pays for itself. One missed deduction can cost more than a year of this. One recovered royalty can cover a decade.

The complete toolkit for running your music career like the business it actually is. The deductible review, the Found Money Tracker, and the Energy Ledger, all in one place.

The full app: Energy Ledger, Found Money Tracker, Deductible Review, Booking Pipeline, and Gear Vault
Musician-specific expense categories with plain-language deductibility guidance for tax filers
Everything built for working musicians, in one place
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Who This Is For

Musicians who still feel
the reason they started.

Not beginners looking for their first gig. Not hobbyists. This is for musicians who take their craft seriously, care about the long game, and are ready to run the business side with the same intention they bring to the music itself.

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The Gigging Professional
+

You are playing regularly, earning from music, and the business side is a mess that costs you time and money you cannot see. You need systems, not more advice. Start with the app and the membership. The Energy Ledger alone may change what you say yes to.

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The Emerging Artist
+

You have real talent and you are building an audience. You want a career, not just a following. The free newsletter gives you the foundation before the expensive mistakes happen, and the app keeps you organized once the money starts moving. Register your royalties now, while the clock is still running in your favour.

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The Established Musician
+

You have been doing this for years and something about the business side still does not feel right. The app runs your numbers and gives you the clarity to make better decisions about the business side of your career.

Why Lorenzo

Two careers.
One platform.

The Working Musician is built at the intersection of a life in music and two decades building commercial organizations at scale. Neither half works without the other.

5x+
Revenue Growth
Across multiple orgs
500K+
Raised for Charity
Multiple causes
$125M+
Revenue Built
Commercial track record

The thinking that drove $125M+ in commercial growth, translated into the tools a working musician actually needs.

Built From Experience
About Lorenzo Levinson

Thirty-five years in music.
Two decades building.

Thirty-five years in music: on stages and in rehearsal rooms across the country, and internationally. Alongside it, a parallel career building and scaling commercial organizations. I know both worlds from the inside.

I built this because the systems that make that possible are learnable. They just need to be translated into the musician's world by someone who lives in both.

Lorenzo playing guitar on stage under red stage light

"A lifetime in music taught me what matters artistically. Twenty years of building organizations taught me what makes careers sustainable. The Working Musician is what happens when both of those finally talk to each other."

Lorenzo Levinson, Founder
Why This Matters

I have watched talented musicians, people with more skill than I will ever have, leave the industry not because they stopped loving music but because the business side wore them down. Disorganized finances, bad contracts, no systems, no community. That is a solvable problem.

Systems create freedom. The music is why you do it. The systems are what let you keep doing it. For the soul and for the rent. Both matter.

This is what The Working Musician does.

We show you what every gig really pays, what to charge, and when a gig is worth taking, so you can walk into every money conversation knowing your number.

We've been there: thirty-five years on stage, twenty years building businesses.

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The free monthly Brief

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The Working Musician Brief. Short, specific, and worth your time. Royalty recovery strategies, negotiation tactics, AI tools, career insights. Free, always. Join a community of musicians building careers that last.

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Common Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

Yes. Free forever, no credit card, no bait and switch. One useful email a month. If it ever stops being useful, unsubscribe in one click.
The app is nineteen dollars a month. The free way in is the newsletter, which is free forever, no card and no catch. You can try the app free for 14 days, no card required. When you are ready, you get the gig tracker, Energy Ledger, income and expense tracking, Found Money Tracker, and deductible review in one place, for one honest monthly price. No funnel tricks, no hidden costs.
If you earn any money from music, yes. Most working musicians have day jobs or multiple income streams. The tools are built for exactly that reality, not for the mythical full-time touring artist. The Energy Ledger in particular is useful for anyone trying to understand which part of their music life gives back and which part costs them.
A tool for tracking royalty claims across organizations like SoundExchange, The MLC, SOCAN, MROC, and others. You log where you are looking, the status of each claim, and when money comes in. One working musician found $10,000 in royalties from a commercial recorded more than a decade earlier. Most musicians are registered with none of the organizations that hold their money. This is where you fix that.
Your data is stored securely in the cloud, tied to your account, and accessible only to you. Nobody else can see it, it is never shared, and it is never sold. You can export your complete records anytime. Your career data belongs to you, full stop.
No. Everything here is educational and a starting point for a conversation with a licensed accountant. What the app will do is make you the most prepared client your accountant has ever had. The deductible review explains the reasoning behind each category in plain English. The year-end package generates automatically from your records and is ready to hand over on day one of tax season.
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