# Artist profile
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/promote-grow/artist-profile

Per-artist extras that enrich the team profile. A personal gear inventory, reusable skill/instruction snippets, curated inspiration sites, and interview management.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Aden gives every artist several ways to build out their team's profile beyond
tracks and albums. **Identity** (Settings → Info) is the act's optional
personal branding: persona, signature sound, visual motifs, colors, tagline.
Release plans read it. Empty is fine. You can still release.

* **Identity**: optional personal branding for this act (Settings → Info).
  Persona, signature sound, visual motifs, colors, tagline. Release plans and
  chat use it. Empty never blocks a release.
* **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 [#using-it]

### Managing your gear [#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 [#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 [#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 [#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`.