Labelmate, made for labels that pay their artists
Labelmate is made by the team behind vvault. We built it for one job: the royalty statements an independent label owes its artists twice a year, and everything it takes to put them together.
Why
Twice a year, the same lost week
In an independent label, royalty statements are often done in a spreadsheet. You copy each distributor's report, find each contract in your email, work out what is left to recoup on every advance, then lay out one statement per artist.
The work comes back every six months, and one formula copied wrong is enough to make a statement wrong. Yet record contracts usually call for a statement every six months, and in France the law even requires labels to account to each artist for how their pay was calculated, explicitly and transparently, at that pace.
We wanted this work to become simple, exact and checkable, without asking a label to hand its data to a server.
What we believe in
Four rules, in the app and in the team
Your data stays with you
The label's database is encrypted on its computers. To keep your computers in step, our servers only carry sealed copies we cannot read.
The AI proposes, you decide
The AI reads your contracts and invoices and quotes the passage each value comes from. Nothing is saved until someone at the label accepts it, and the maths never goes through the AI.
Every figure has a source
Every line of a statement points back to the report lines it comes from. Once a period is issued, its figures no longer change.
Nothing disappears quietly
Removing a report does not erase it: it stays in the history, and a report used by an issued statement stays in place.
Who we are
The team behind vvault
vvault is the platform thousands of beatmakers and artists use to share their music. Building it taught us what music asks of software: reliability, discretion, and tools that don't waste your time.
Labelmate is a separate product, designed only for labels. It is published in Belgium, so the GDPR applies to us directly.
vvault in numbers
What we already do for music
vvault's figures on 18 September 2026, rounded down.
8,100+
beatmakers and artists
77,000+
tracks shared
365,000+
emails sent
Where we are
Early access, with ten labels
We are opening Labelmate to 10 independent labels, in the US, Europe or anywhere else, with 5 to 50 artists to pay. It is free for them: we prepare their next statements with them, set up their distributor's format from one of their real reports, and check every figure by hand.
In return, we ask for their honest opinion. Labelmate runs on Mac and Windows, on the label's own computers. Three plans by the size of the label will follow, set out on the Pricing page.
How it is made
An app on your computers, not one more website
Labelmate is an app for Mac and Windows. It reads the label's mailbox read-only, files what it finds and does the maths on your computers.
Several people at the label can work in it, each on their own computer: every new computer joins the label with a twelve-word invitation. Our servers, in Ireland, only carry sealed copies between your computers.
- Read-only: nothing is moved or deleted in your mailbox
- Statements as PDFs, one per artist
- Servers in Europe, GDPR protection for everyone
Questions
Who publishes Labelmate?
Labelmate is a vvault product, published in Belgium. Our legal notice gives the publisher's name and contact details.
Is Labelmate tied to a distributor?
No. Labelmate is not a distributor: it reads the reports your distributor sends you, whoever it is, and you keep your current distributor.
Where are your servers?
In Ireland, in the European Union, with Supabase. They only carry sealed copies we cannot read; your documents and figures stay on your computers.
Does Labelmate pay the artists?
No. Labelmate works out and documents what is owed. The payment leaves from your bank, as it does today.
Read next
All resources
The lawRoyalty statements in the US
What record contracts usually ask, and California's audit law.
Read
The lawArticle L. 212-15, explained
What French law asks of labels: account for the calculation every six months, explicitly and transparently, and give the supporting documents to the artist's accountant.
Read
The lawThe GDPR and your label
What the regulation asks of you, who is responsible for what, and what Labelmate does with your artists' data.
Read
Your next statements, without spreadsheets.
Free early access for 10 independent labels.
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