How Compose:EP works.

Yes. Press "Listen to this guide" at the top of the page and a narrator reads the whole thing, section by section. You can jump to any section, pause, or skip ahead. It's one fixed recording shared by everyone, so it sounds the same every time and costs nothing to replay.

A Video Board can feature up to 4 songs. Each song is a segment with its own excerpt of 5 to 15 seconds and its own scenes, and between segments you pick a crossfade, a hard cut, or a slide — with optional song-title cards. The whole reel is capped at 60 seconds, the cover can bookend the start and end, and what you see in Preview is exactly what exports.

Exports are standard MP4 files (H.264/AAC, 1080p) that upload cleanly to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Substack — you post them yourself; direct posting from Compose:EP is planned for a later version. Finished videos are also saved permanently in your Video Locker: 3 on Demo, 30 on Artist, 100 on Label. Removing a saved video frees the storage but doesn't hand back a monthly export.

No. Drafts save as you go, and in the Gallery any unfinished board shows a Finish button that takes you straight back into the editor where you left off.

Yes — that's the point. You don't type prompts, you click chips (mood, palette, era, texture, etc.). Studio assembles the AI prompt for you and reformats it for whatever image tool you're using. If you want zero decisions, hit Surprise me and re-roll until you like the vibe.

That's the copyright attestation. In most jurisdictions (following the Feist standard in the US), a compilation is copyrightable only when a human attests they selected and arranged the works. Your legal name + citizenship + signature is what makes that claim legally usable. It's stored with your release and nowhere else.

The Demo plan caps you at 6 songs in Catalog, 1 AI critique, 1 A&R Group session, 1 saved release, 3 Mood Boards, and 1 signed Handprint for the life of the account. When you hit a cap the corresponding action is blocked — adding a 7th song, running a second critique, generating a second AI-sequenced EP, saving a second release, or signing a second Handprint — and you'll see an inline upgrade prompt. Nothing already saved is deleted: your existing songs, critique, EP, release, Mood Boards, and your one signed Handprint (including its Registry ID) stay fully intact and editable. If you were over a cap before it existed, those items are grandfathered in — only new ones past the cap are blocked. Artist ($12/mo, or $96/year at launch) gives unlimited AI critique, unlimited A&R Group sessions, and unlimited Handprint signing with a 36-song catalog; Label (from $39/mo, or $312/year at launch) adds an unlimited catalog, a priority AI queue, and early access to new Veridem features. Video Board is included on every plan: you can build and preview boards freely, and the Demo plan renders 1 export per month with a small “Made with Compose:EP” badge. Artist renders 10 clean exports per month, Label renders 40.

EP Planner is AI-first: the panel picks songs, titles, and sequence for you. Studio is hands-on: you drag the tracklist, build the cover art chip by chip, and sign the arranger attestation. Most releases move from Planner → Studio.

Every creative click — chip picked, song reordered, arranger signed — is logged as a Handprint. That MHAIX·V trail is your evidence, in a copyright dispute, that a human (you) made these selection-and-arrangement decisions. It's the difference between "AI made this" and "I compiled this using AI as a tool."

When you digitally sign a Handprint, we register it with the external Veridem Authorship Registry. The Registry mints a public Registry ID and a verification URL, both stamped onto your certificate as text and as a scannable QR code. Anyone — a distributor, a rights lawyer, a fan — can scan that QR and land on a Veridem page confirming that this release, at this timestamp, was signed by you. It's a public, third-party-verifiable authorship anchor, not just a claim.

Your Handprint is signed and valid locally — the cryptographic signature is done — but the call to the Veridem Registry hasn't come back with an ID yet (usually a network blip or cold start). A background job automatically retries every few minutes until it succeeds; you don't have to do anything. If you want to force an immediate attempt, hit the "Retry now" button on the certificate. Once it succeeds, the Registry ID and QR appear automatically.

Signing is step 1: your Handprint gets an Ed25519 digital signature and (once Registry sync completes) a Registry ID + QR. At that point it's real evidence — but you can still re-sign it if something changes (new track added, cover art updated, etc.), which produces a fresh signature. Finalizing is step 2: click the "I'm Finished — Finalize Certificate" button and the certificate locks. You get a gold FINAL badge, a finalized-at timestamp, and the Re-sign action disappears. The export file also gets marked "· FINAL." Only finalize when you're truly done — it's the "send to press" moment for the certificate.

Yes. In Studio, the platform dropdown re-formats the same prompt for Midjourney, DALL·E, Flux, SDXL, Sora, Runway, and more. Pick "Undecided" for a universal prompt with no platform-specific formatting.

Only if your release has tracks. A tracklist without a signed arranger can't be saved — that signature is what makes the compilation copyrightable. A visible blue notice appears near the Save button when it's disabled, pointing you to the panel to sign.