Skills & availability profiles

What it is

Your skills profile lists what you're good at — piano, chord writing, singing, vocal production — each with a score from 0 to 10 that you set yourself. Organisations you work with (like your publisher) can endorse a skill with their own score, so a profile isn't just self-reported. The more skills you list, the easier it is for collaborators and publishers to find you for sessions.

Your availability tells the ecosystem when you're unavailable and where you'll be. A travel window ("in Amsterdam from April 2 to May 5") tells everyone where you physically are, so sessions can be planned where you actually can show up — or people can come to you. A busy window simply marks you unavailable so you don't get invites you'll have to decline.

Using it

Add skills. Go to Account → Skills. Add a skill name and rate yourself 0–10 (half points allowed). Organisations that endorse a skill show up as badges next to it.

Add availability. Go to Account → Availability. Pick travelling or busy, set the date range with the calendar picker, and for travel add the city/country. Windows can repeat — daily, weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly, or yearly, optionally until a date — so a weekly day job or a recurring commitment only has to be entered once. You can also just tell the assistant in chat — "I'm in Amsterdam from April 2 to May 5" — and it records the window for you.

From your calendar. Your busy/travel windows also show on your personal calendar page (/app/calendar), repeating ones included. Drag a date range on the calendar (or right-click a day) and pick Mark unavailable to add a window without leaving the page — the same drag/right-click menu also creates sessions and milestones (with start/end/due dates) for your active team.

Link a calendar. In the same Availability panel you can link any external calendar (Google, Apple, Outlook — any iCal feed URL) and flip Use for availability on it. Events from that feed then count as busy windows next to the ones you add manually — on your panel you see the event titles and which calendar they came from; organisations and teams only ever see "busy", never the titles. Feeds you link here also show on your personal calendar page (they're the same calendar imports).

Sessions count automatically. Studio sessions you organise or accepted an invite to show up as busy windows on their dates — no need to add them by hand. Anyone allowed to see your availability sees only the busy dates; the session's title, team, and details stay private. Your own Availability panel lists them under "From your sessions".

Decide who sees it. The Who can see this section controls who can view your availability (manual windows and calendar-derived busy times alike): make it public, share it with all organisations you work with, with specific organisations only, with all your teams, or with specific teams. Until you save custom settings the default applies: organisations and teams you work with can see it. Turning everything off hides your availability from everyone.

For organisations. The Writers page shows each writer's skills (their own score plus your organisation's endorsed score), their current and upcoming travel/busy windows — including busy windows from their linked calendars ("· calendar") and from session commitments ("· session") — and whether they've connected a calendar. Writers whose sharing settings exclude your organisation show an "Availability not shared" badge instead of their windows. Owners and admins can endorse skills and, for writers without a calendar, send a friendly email nudge asking them to set one up — so you can check availability before inviting instead of sending blind invites people are likely to decline.