For songwriters who want their work to stay theirs

Songwriting tools have been getting steadily worse for songwriters over the past few years. The big platforms now train on your lyrics, the cloud notepads sell your data, and the AI 'co-writers' are often more interested in feeding generative models than helping you finish a song. The basic act of capturing an idea and developing it through versions has become an exercise in privacy paranoia.

Clavet is the songwriting workspace that takes the opposite stance. Your work is your work. The AI assists where you want it to, under contractual terms that prohibit training. Versions are timestamped and retained as your evidence trail. Co-writing splits are tracked transparently. When a song is ready to leave the writing room it lands in your Crescender repertoire, where it becomes available for setlists, rehearsal plans, and gigs.

The capture-to-finished-song workflow

Open Clavet and start a new piece, title, optional working notes, blank lyric editor. Hum the melody fragment into the voice-note capture; we transcribe it for you. Type lyrics or paste from your phone notes. Save a version when you want a checkpoint; the version is timestamped against your Crescender account and retained.

When you come back to the piece, the version history shows what changed and when. Restore an old version to fork from; pick a verse from version 3 to drop into version 7. The workflow is built around iteration rather than the assumption that you'll get the lyrics right first time.

Co-writing with split tracking

Invite a co-writer to your piece by email. They get their own Clavet workspace where the piece appears; their edits land alongside yours with author attribution per line. Ownership splits are configurable per piece (50/50 is the default; adjust as the work distributes).

When the piece is published, or registered with APRA AMCOS, or sold to a publisher, the split metadata travels with it. Nobody has to recall in three years what the agreed split was; it's in the record.

Authorship evidence trail

Australian copyright in your original creative work exists automatically the moment you create it. Clavet doesn't grant or replace that copyright. What it does provide is a reliable evidence trail of when each version of your work was captured in our system. That can be useful if you ever need to substantiate authorship, for a dispute, for a publishing deal, for an APRA registration.

We don't make legal guarantees about how any specific dispute would resolve. We just keep your evidence organised so you can produce it if it matters. See /clavet/copyright for the longer treatment.

AI on your terms

Clavet's AI assistance, rhyme suggestions, structural prompts, melody-direction nudges, runs through a sub-processor whose contract prohibits training on user content. We retain AI processing logs only as long as needed to deliver the assistance you requested, then they age out. You can turn AI assistance off entirely from settings if you'd rather work without it.

We do not feed your lyrics, voice notes, or version history into any AI training pipeline of our own. The product is funded by paying songwriters, not by harvesting their work.