Clearnote, the artificial intelligence-powered legal platform for the entertainment industry, founded by the team at record label Good Boy Records, today announced its official public launch following months of public beta testing.

Originally built to handle deals in the music industry, Clearnote is expanding to assist other specialties across entertainment, including legal agreements in film, television and other creative economies.

Clearnote founder and Good Boy Records Vice President of Operations Cameron Siasi told SiliconANGLE in an interview that the solution was developed inside the record label to address an urgent problem: independent and small teams didn’t have affordable and efficient tooling to navigate complex legal dealmaking.

“We had an immediate pain point with contracting,” Siasi explained. “Having a background in music, whether I was doing management work or label work, the legal process isn’t as smooth as it should be.”

Although the company had talented attorneys and third parties to reach out to, he said that just wasn’t enough to tackle the massive volume of the growing industry. Siasi described it as an avalanche of music, almost 10,000 songs being uploaded a day, with only a small fraction of those getting legal representation.

“There is an exponential amount of music coming out every day,” he said. “The majority of it’s not papered whatsoever.”

Enter Clearnote

The company is pitching a “contract operations” layer for entertainment work. It provides template variables, clause toggles, collaboration and e-signatures. Rather than a chatbot that spits out legal documents, it’s a mechanism that turns the agreement interface into a template and makes it easier to execute it.

It does embed an on-screen AI assistant named Clara. Siasi described it as something users can toggle on and off to help reference legal language and compare drafts.

At its core, Clearnote is designed to give creators access to better starting points rather than questionable contracts they might download online, especially early-career creators who are among the most vulnerable.

Siasi repeatedly framed the product not as legal advice but emphasized that it’s an enabling platform to make the creation process faster. The AI within it doesn’t replace the actual legal work. Instead, it operates as a way to shorten the path to legal protection.

“We’re for attorneys, we’re for creators and we’re for companies,” John Zamora, co-founder and chief of operations at Good Boy Records, said in a statement. “There are so many independent contractors who need accessible, easy-to-use tools to get the job done efficiently and affordably.”

The intersection of AI and music

Clearnote stakes out an interesting position on a stage that is quickly becoming a battlefield in a profession where people fear AI is intruding into a very human creative process.

More songs are being uploaded to social media every day, with many never getting representation. Many of them are from independent human artists, some of them produced with the assistance of AI tools in part or in whole. It’s a new era of tooling.

Recently, an AI-generated country tune named “Walk My Walk” made headlines when it topped a Billboard chart on Spotify during November. Although the media latched onto the achievement, it wasn’t as notable as it sounded: Digital sales don’t represent reliable charts for popularity, nor are they necessarily a signal for what’s “good.”

However, the presence of an AI song topping these charts still sparked raucous debate about the presence of generative music amid the lyrical landscape.

“Music is so human. It’s probably the one thing that’ll outlive us,” Siasi said. “Music is a communication of emotion, and you can’t really communicate emotion when you’re just prompting it. I think AI will become a tool in its own right, and assist with music creation, not generation.”

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