COSIGN
How it works

A share you can read,
a dividend you can count.

COSIGN turns one project’s royalty stream into shares fans can buy, hold, and trade. Here is exactly what that means, where the money comes from, and how it stays honest.

01What a share is

One project. One royalty stream. A pro-rata slice you actually own.

When an artist raises on COSIGN, they incorporate a single-project LLC, for example "Artist X EP LLC." That entity owns a defined royalty stream. Nothing more, nothing fuzzy.

A share is a pro-rata slice of that stream. Not the artist's career. Not their masters. Not their publishing. Specifically the one project you chose to back.

This is the same legal shape Beatbread, Indify, and SongVest already use. The new piece is doing it through Reg CF, so fans buy in instead of funds, and pricing it with a live chart.

What the entity owns

20% of all streaming, sync, and master revenue from the EP titled “[Name]” for 5 years from release date.

Share
20%
Sources
3
Term
5 yrs
02How shares are made

From a $50,000 raise to a $12 quarterly check, with the math shown.

No black box. Here is exactly how a raise turns into shares, and how those shares turn into a dividend, worked end to end on a real number.

  1. 1

    The artist picks the raise

    The artist decides how much capital the project needs. Aubrey’s first artist, OsamaSon, chose to raise $50,000.

    $50,000
    Target raise
  2. 2

    The platform sets the share price

    Every share is priced at $1.00. A low share price is the point: small fans can co-sign with $5 to $25 and still own real shares.

    $1.00
    Per share
  3. 3

    Shares are minted into the LLC

    Total shares = $50,000 / $1.00 = 50,000 shares, minted into the single-project LLC that holds the royalty stream.

    50,000
    Shares minted
  4. 4

    The artist assigns the royalties

    The artist offers 20% of the project’s royalties for 5 years to the LLC. Masters, publishing, touring, and everything else stay with the artist.

    20% / 5 yrs
    Royalty assigned
  5. 5

    Each share gets its slice

    One share = 20% / 50,000 = 0.0004% of project royalties, which is $0.0000004 per dollar of project revenue.

    0.0004%
    Per share
  6. 6

    Dividends pay out quarterly

    When the EP earns $30,000 in Q1 royalties: 20% to the LLC = $6,000, pro-rata to shares = $0.12 per share. A 100-share investor who put in $100 receives $12 that quarter.

    $0.12 / sh
    Q1 dividend
  7. 7

    Secondary trading opens

    At month 12 the mandatory hold ends and shares become tradable. Price moves with bidder sentiment and the dividend history the project has already proven.

    Month 12
    Hold ends

Why $1 shares specifically

The low price keeps the table fan-dominated. Reg CF caps a non-accredited investor who earns under $124,000 at $2,500 a year across an offering.

At $1 a share, that cap buys 2,500 shares of one project. That fan is an actual stakeholder with a real position, not a token holder with a souvenir.

The non-accredited cap, at $1 a share
Annual cap
$2,500
Shares it buys
2,500
A stake that size makes the fan a genuine co-signer, with skin in the game and a reason to push the music.
03Where value comes from

Three sources, one share. You can see each of them.

Source 01

Quarterly dividend

Real cash from the project's streaming, sync, and master revenue, paid pro-rata to shareholders every quarter. This is measurable yield from day one, not a promise about the future.

Source 02

Secondary trading

At month 12 the mandatory hold ends and shares become tradable on the COSIGN secondary market. The price is set by bidders watching streaming velocity, TikTok virality, and label interest.

Source 03

Buyout or liquidation

An artist or major label can buy out the entity, which is common when an artist signs a major deal and wants clean rights. A typical buyout runs around three times the dividends paid so far.

The math

Share value = dividends paid so far + the market’s bet on future dividends and a buyout, minus a discount for illiquidity during the twelve-month hold.

04The twelve-month hold

Locked for a year by law. Paid the whole way through.

Federal securities law requires a mandatory holding period on Reg CF shares. You cannot sell for twelve months. That is the cost of getting in early, and it is priced in. While you hold, the dividends still land every quarter.

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05Why this is not predatory

We watched the last cycle take fan money and disappear.

Vezt did the version of this that fails: it raised against royalties, then went quiet, and fans were left holding something they could neither see nor sell. The lesson is not that fans should not own royalties. It is that the structure has to make hiding impossible.

So COSIGN is built so there is no “trust us” moment anywhere a fan puts in money.

The math is on the page

Every raise shows the exact royalty percentage, the exact project, the exact term, and the live revenue behind the dividend. There is no figure you have to take on faith.

Quarterly reports, every quarter

Revenue and dividends are reported on a fixed quarterly cadence. If a quarter pays zero, you see that too. Silence is the failure mode we designed against.

Narrow, defined scope

A share is one project's royalty stream for a fixed term. It never quietly becomes a claim on the artist's catalog, masters, or future. The boundary cannot move after you buy.

A regulated portal holds the money

Wefunder, a registered Reg CF funding portal, handles every dollar, all KYC, and compliance. COSIGN never custodies your funds. There is no wallet for us to drain.

06Questions

The things worth asking before you put in a dollar.

A pro-rata interest in a single-project LLC that holds a defined royalty stream, for example 20% of streaming, sync, and master revenue from one EP for five years. You do not own the artist, their catalog, their masters, or their future work.
Three places: a quarterly cash dividend from the project's revenue, the price your shares trade at on the secondary market after the hold, and a possible buyout if the artist signs a major deal and wants clean rights.
Federal securities law requires a mandatory holding period on Reg CF investments. Everyone is held to the same window. When it ends, shares become tradable on the COSIGN secondary market.
Dividends can be small or zero, and the share price can fall below what you paid. Royalty shares are speculative. Most emerging artists do not produce a large royalty stream. You can lose your entire investment.
Wefunder, a registered funding portal, handles all money movement, KYC, and Reg CF compliance. COSIGN is the discovery and curation layer and never custodies investor funds.
The project's reported streaming, sync, and master revenue for the quarter is multiplied by the entity's royalty share, then divided across all outstanding shares. The inputs are shown in the quarterly report.

Risk disclosure

  • 01Royalty shares are speculative. You can lose your entire investment. Most emerging artists do not generate a meaningful royalty stream.
  • 02Shares cannot be sold during the mandatory 12-month hold required by federal securities law. There is no guarantee a secondary market will have buyers when the hold ends.
  • 03Dividends depend on actual streaming, sync, and master revenue from one specific project. They are not fixed, not guaranteed, and may be zero in any quarter.
  • 04A share is a pro-rata interest in a single-project LLC's defined royalty stream. It is not ownership of the artist's catalog, masters, publishing, or future work.
  • 05Investments are made through Wefunder under Regulation Crowdfunding. Wefunder, a registered funding portal, handles all money movement, KYC, and compliance. COSIGN does not hold funds or give investment advice.