Melon. The AI-native operating system for live music.

Now building. Pre-launch waitlist open.

The AI-native operating system for live music.

Booking. Waterfall settlement. Payment rails. One platform.

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First 30 signups get free power-user access at launch.

The problem

Live music runs on duct tape.

Spreadsheets and group chats. Reconciliations that take weeks. Information scattered across five apps and no one's email. The people running the shows deserve infrastructure that matches the scale of what they actually do.

5+

Apps an average operator uses per show. Email, WhatsApp, Excel, Drive and whatever the venue happens to run.

21d

Average time from gig night to settlement payout. Three weeks of chasing receipts, splits and approvals.

$0

Of purpose-built software for the live music back-office. The industry has been told to make do for two decades.

What we believe

Three things we hold to be true.

01
Settlement should take days, not weeks.
02
Operators deserve enterprise software, not spreadsheets pretending to be one.
03
The infrastructure for live music should be built by the people who run the rooms.
Built for

The operators behind every show.

Four roles. One platform.

One platform across the roles that actually move a show from concept to payout. Designed alongside the people who do the work.

Free forever

Artist

Your gigs, your money, your data. Own the relationship.

Gigs Payments Data

Manager / Agent

Roster, bookings, tour operations. Waterfall commissions calculated automatically across every artist, venue and show.

Roster Waterfall Commissions

Promoter

From boutique club nights to festival mainstages. Offers, holds, confirms, settlements. One dashboard replaces six inboxes.

Contracts Settlement Reporting

Venue

Independent rooms through to civic-scale spaces. Booking calendar meets payment rails. Splits paid in T+48, not T+21.

Calendar Splits Reconciliation
We're not building another tool the industry has to learn. We're building the operating system it should have had all along.
Melon, est. 2026
Built by operators

Two decades on each side of the desk.

Melon is built by people who have lived the problems. The stage and the spreadsheet. The line check and the line item.

Hamish Pinkham, Co-founder and Director of Melon

Hamish Pinkham

Co-founder · Director
Founder, Rhythm and Vines

Founder of Rhythm and Vines. Over 20 years building New Zealand live music from the ground up. Leads brand, creative direction and revenue partnerships at Melon.

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Richard Chew, Co-founder and Director of Melon

Richard Chew

Co-founder · Director
Chartered Accountant · ex-PwC

Chartered Accountant with 20+ years as CFO and board advisor across media, entertainment, fintech and martech. Leads strategy, operations and capital at Melon.

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Why now

Three things line up for the first time.

01
AI-native workflow is finally viable.

Contract, rider, pricing and tour routing generated in seconds, not days.

02
Payment rails matured for multi-party splits.

Stripe Connect. T+48 settlement. Escrow to every stakeholder in one flow.

03
The category is opening.

Live Nation ruling. No dominant ANZ player. Post-COVID rebound.

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Be first through the door.

Operators shape what we build next. Earlier signups get earlier access.

First 30 signups get free power-user access at launch.