METALABEL BUILDS GROUPCORE.
GROUPCORE (NOUN): SOFTWARE, SHARED ECONOMICS, TOOLS, AND IDEAS THAT HELP PEOPLE COLLABORATE INSTEAD OF COMPETE.
AS INDIVIDUALS OUR POWERS ARE LIMITED. IN GROUPS WE BECOME STRONGER.
Our work
Metalabel is a studio that releases groupcore projects for a more collaborative creative ecosystem.
Software releases
Metalabel.com: platform for collaborative publishing and economics
Dark Forest Operating System (upcoming): platform for shared private internets
Chorus: app that lets people collectively tweet
Financial tools
Splits: financial rails that allow funds to be instantly shared among collaborators
Treasuries: shared pools of funds that groups can use and spend together
Advance pool: a recoupable pool of funds to enable new creative work
Publications
After the Creator Economy
On the Creative Life
Anonymous Creative Futures Report
A New Creative Era
Legislation
Artist Corporations: A new proposed structure for creative work
A new private internet for creative groups to hang out, plan, and make meaning and money together.
12.2025
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A new private internet for creative groups to hang out, plan, and make meaning and money together.
12.2025
Explore
Since 2024 we’ve collaborated with and supported a wide variety of artists, groups, and creative people.
1,000+
artists
30,000+
collectors
$1,800,000
in sales
August Lamm
Brian Eno
Cory Arcangel
Do Not Research
Empawa
Eva & Franco Mattes
Forever Magazine
Hard art
Janelle Monáe
Jazsalyn
Joshua Citarella
Justin Gignac
Living Web Institute
Maya Man
Mindy Seu
Molly Soda
Nadia Asparouhova
Play Zine
Rhizome
Shantell Martin
The Creative Independent
The Dark Forest Collective
Traceloops
Train Songz
VÉRITÉ
Whitney Mallett
WTTDOTM
YACHT
