Why we’re building Stanzary.
Stanzary is built by Phillip Dennis, a technology entrepreneur and the founder of Watkyn, a software company trusted with government, higher education, healthcare, and enterprise projects that demand high standards of security, reliability, and professionalism. He is also a student of songwriting and voice performance with Berklee Online.
The idea for Stanzary began with another writer’s schedule. Phillip is a beginning songwriter himself, living in Portugal and writing for the country market, which makes finding country co-writers nearby a challenge of its own. While studying the craft he came across the story of a working songwriter whose co-writing had to happen between 1:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon, the one dependable window between his other responsibilities and picking his kids up from school. When a session failed to land in that window, a writing day was lost. The story stuck. It suggested that for working songwriters, collaboration runs on coordination and record-keeping that nobody has built proper tools for. That is the kind of problem Phillip has spent his career solving for institutions with far less tolerance for unreliable software.
Co-writing is one of the central creative and professional activities in modern songwriting, and the infrastructure around it hasn’t kept up: it’s fragmented, manual, and mostly local. We think songwriters deserve a professional workspace for their collaborative careers, and we intend to build it carefully, with working writers in the room.
The larger ambition
Other kinds of professional work have platforms where the relationships, records, and workflow of the craft naturally live. Songwriting collaboration doesn’t have that yet. It lives in text threads, personal networks, and paperwork that rarely gets finished.
We’re starting narrow: profiles, introductions, sessions, records, splits. But if Stanzary earns trust, the same system can grow into working infrastructure for the whole ecosystem: a writer’s documented collaborative life over a career; a publisher managing a roster and hundreds of sessions; a PRO helping members form productive writing relationships; a school connecting students, alumni, and working professionals; a camp running participants, groups, and follow-up in one place.
That is the direction, and it is labeled as direction. The product has to earn each step.
Partners, press, and investors: hello@stanzary.com
Our principles
- Writers own their work. Stanzary takes no publishing and no ownership interest in anything written here.
- Private work is treated as private. We are building the policies and technical safeguards to treat unpublished work responsibly. Detailed content and privacy terms will be published before any creative materials can be uploaded.
- Human collaboration is the product. We use technology to strengthen creative relationships rather than to replace the people in them.
- We under-claim. If a feature isn’t ready, we say so.
How do you say it?
STAN-zə-ree. Like “stanza,” plus the place where they’re made.
Contact: hello@stanzary.com