Artist profile — gear, skills & inspiration

What it is

Aden gives every artist several ways to build out their team's profile beyond tracks and albums:

• Gear — a personal inventory of the equipment you own and can bring to studio sessions. Each item has a name, category (e.g. microphone, guitar, interface), optional brand, and notes.
• Skills — reusable markdown snippets that teach Aden's AI assistant how your team works. Think of a skill as a standing instruction: "always suggest vocal stacks", "our mix goes to streaming not vinyl", etc. Skills can be pinned (always active) or trigger-matched (load when a keyword is present).
• Inspiration sites — a curated directory of external websites (lyrics tools, sample libraries, music theory resources, community spaces) surfaced during songwriting sessions. Admins manage the list; every artist can browse it.
• Interviews — plan, draft, and publish interviews (written or video) about your team. Attach suggested and forbidden questions, link the resulting article or video, and manage an optional org-approval workflow before the piece goes public.

Using it

Managing your gear

Open Account → Gear from the personal account section. Click Add item, give it a name and category, and save. Your gear list is personal — it lives on your user account and you can choose to bring specific items when you join a studio session.

When you join a session, your gear list appears in the participants panel. Pick which items you're actually bringing and the session log records it.

Using skills

Team skills — in your team's sidebar, open Skills. Add a skill by writing a name and a markdown body (the instruction text). Mark it pinned to make it load in every AI conversation, or add triggers (keywords) so it loads only when those words appear. Skills with the same name are unique per team; renaming is fine but the old name is freed immediately.

Free-plan teams get up to 5 active skills. Pro, Ultra, and Max plans are unlimited and also unlock skill templates — pre-built bundles you can apply with one click.

Org skills — if your team belongs to an organisation, the org's managers can create skills that flow down to every team in the org. A team can copy any org-shared skill into its own library to customise it independently.

Admin skills — Aden's platform administrators publish skills available to all teams. Teams can browse and copy them; a copied skill becomes a team-owned row the team can edit.

Browsing inspiration sites

During a songwriting session, open the Inspiration panel. Aden shows a curated list of websites grouped by category (lyrics, moodboard, samples, theory, reference, community, and more). Click any site to open it. The list is managed by Aden admins.

Managing interviews

From your team's Interviews section, click New interview to create one. Fill in the outlet name, interview type (written, podcast, video, radio, etc.), and the scheduled date.

• Questions — attach a library of suggested questions the interviewer should ask, or forbidden questions they shouldn't. You can also keep a team-wide template of default questions that pre-populate every new interview.
• Agreement — upload a signed agreement document (PDF/image). The agreement can sit in one of four states: none → pending → signed → declined.
• Article / video — once the interview runs, attach the resulting article (external URL or Aden-hosted post) and/or video. Multiple articles and videos are supported per interview.
• Org approval — if your team is managed by an organisation, you can request the org to review the article before it goes public. The org approves or requests changes; once approved, you can mark the interview published.
• Public profile — published interviews appear on your team's public profile at /profile/[team]/interviews.