Profil

Personal profile

Harley Jackson is the founder and CEO of Bandruption — the agentic operating layer for the music industry. A repeat founder (5th venture) and full-stack engineer with 16+ years across software, public health informatics, university teaching, and business consulting, Harley brings deep technical capability paired with systems-level policy literacy to an industry he believes is structurally failing the artists who make it possible. His mission with Bandruption is personal: he is passionate about helping up-and-coming artists build sustainable careers in a U.S. market that has become hostile to all but the largest acts. He believes AI-empowered fan ecosystems, transparent affiliate-based monetization, and participation-weighted reputation tooling can re-route attention and economics back to artists and to the professionals who serve them — managers, labels, PR agencies, promoters, venues, and beyond. Harley is actively building relationships with music industry professionals worldwide. If you represent or work with emerging and developing artists — and you're curious whether AI-driven promotion, affiliate commerce, and superfan engagement tools could move the needle for your roster or clients — he'd love to hear from you. Holds a Master of Public Health, Master of Public Administration, and a B.S. in Computer Science. Based in the United States.

Company profile

Bandruption — The Agentic Layer of the Music Industry. AI for Artists & Fans. Bandruption is the agentic operating layer for the music industry — an AI-native platform serving artists, fans, and music professionals on one unified surface. Where streaming, merch, ticketing, and fan-engagement tools each own one slice of the music economy, Bandruption sits across them: a place where AI agents can act, fans can earn standing, and artists can run a modern long-tail business without an army of staff. For artists and the professionals who support them, Bandruption operates personalized AI-driven promotion agencies — always-on AI agents that handle campaign planning, content publishing, fan outreach, and analytics on each artist's behalf, bringing major-label-grade promotion to long-tail and developing artists at a cost structure the traditional model can't match. A built-in affiliate sales engine turns every recommendation across the catalog — a playlist add, a tastemaker post, a manager's pitch — into a tracked commercial event with transparent attribution and revenue share, aligning the incentives of artists, fans, and industry partners in a single flow. For superfans, Bandruption is a participation-driven toolkit. Fans curate playlists and songlists, complete bounties tied to events, songs, merch, and Top 10 placements, and accumulate Proof of Fandom — a participation-weighted reputation score that determines voice, access, reward eligibility, and recommendation influence across the platform. The more meaningfully a fan shows up, the more their signal counts. Because Bandruption is built agent-first, music professionals can also operate the platform directly through ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP-compatible AI assistant via our public Model Context Protocol server — or use Bandruption's native AI agents. Live across web, mobile, and via your favorite AI assistant, with multi-currency commerce and Japanese payment rails for global engagement. Now serving 18 active artists and 4 music industry partners, and actively expanding the network of music industry professionals — managers, labels, PR/promotion agencies, A&R, booking agents, venues, and brand partners — who want to bring AI-driven tooling and superfan engagement to the artists they represent.