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  2. Wrote most of the implementation.
  3. Used Claude Code and Codex to polish it up.
  4. Reviewed and decided what shipped and what came next with the help of my agents.
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GROUNDSCORE
Music, Mapped.
7,179
VERIFIED ARTISTS
899
APPROVED PLACES
98.4%
VERIFICATION ACCURACY
#1
ATLANTA, BY PLACES
Avery Wright, Founder & CEOGroundScore Labs LLCAugust 25, 2026
THE PROBLEM
Streaming made discovery infinite — and place irrelevant.
Concert crowd
For fans
Algorithms return more of what you already know. What actually gets you closer to the artist — where the song was written, the coffee shop they first played, the restaurant they still swear by — isn't on any streaming service.
Artist in the studio
For artists
A 500-follower artist has no mechanism to be discovered by someone standing three blocks from where they recorded.
Atlanta skyline at night
For places
The places that shape the music — the 90-seat clubs, the barbershops, the corners, the neighborhoods artists come up through — have no plaques. When they disappear, the history goes with them.
The places that made the music have no plaques. GROUNDSCORE solves the need for plaques.
Eddie's Attic — John Mayer, India.Arie  ·  Music Hall of Williamsburg — Frank Ocean, The Weeknd  ·  Bluebird Cafe — Taylor Swift  ·  Cafe Wha? — Hendrix, 1966
THE SOLUTION
Three data layers nobody else combines.
LAYER 01
What you
listen to
Streaming library import. Spotify and Apple Music live; Tidal and SoundCloud code-complete.
LAYER 02
Where artists
are from
Verified hometown and career locations at neighborhood precision, from 8 independent sources.
LAYER 03
Where their
journey happened
The places that molded them and the spots they love in their city — from published interviews and direct artist submissions. These places get washed out of history — we turn streams and follows into foot traffic that keeps them alive.
Spotify does genre. Google Maps does geography. Yelp does opinions.
GROUNDSCORE is the intersection — and it only exists because someone built the dataset by hand.
HOW I BUILT IT
An idea since 2017. Rebuilt from scratch in under a year.
Revived September 3, 2025 with a business plan, an old rough draft, and a fresh start — vibe-coded end to end, nights and weekends.
One person, one machine
Tons of research. ChatGPT for the roadmap, then Claude as the build partner — the app, the pipeline, the admin tooling, written in conversation with AI inside VS Code.
React Native
One codebase, iOS and Android.
Supabase
Database, auth, and storage — no server team.
AI verification agent
Consults up to 8 independent sources per artist and records its reasoning.
Human moderation loop
Every recommendation reviewed by a person before users see it; corrections retrain the agent.
Research APIs
Started with Tavily — now a stack of multiple research engines working together.
STRAIGHT FROM THE ARTIST
Six places. In his words.
“This is where I fell in love with being a musician”
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE · VENUE · GROUNDSCORE INTERVIEW
AND THE REST OF HIS SIX
Lake Oliver — park · “deep conversations and music” with friends
The Goetchius House — restaurant · played piano every Saturday
Mabella's Italian Steakhouse — restaurant · raved about the cheesecake
Blue Canary Records — record store · performed, Dec 2023
Columbus Botanical Garden — park · performed at the Shine light show
SiBL
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HOMETOWN ARTIST · COLUMBUS, GA · 6 PLACES, ALL VERIFIED
4 of 6 came from a GROUNDSCORE interview. 2 were found by the research agent in a local Columbus magazine — then verified. The interview gives the soul; the agent gives the volume.
SiBL artist profile in the app Springer Opera House card
PRODUCT & ROADMAP
Built and working. Shipping soon.
SHIPPING SOON
React Native app — iOS and Android
Spotify and Apple Music library import
DICE.fm and Ticketmaster event ingestion
AI verification pipeline at 98.4% accuracy
Admin dashboard and moderation tooling
Soundcharts analytics across 7,324 artists
Voice search in beta
WHAT SHIPS NEXT
Onboarding rebuild
Journey / timeline location model
Artist self-service onboarding
Discovery Tokens and itineraries
Local business subscriptions
Quantum Persona wired into discovery
Wake-word voice, AR Mode, Time Machine
Every feature ships with a job to do: grow the community or grow the revenue.
Skills vs Agents
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