Press & Media
Everything you need to cover Sonveil. Key facts, approved quotes, brand assets, and media contact below.
Company Overview
Sonveil is a seed-stage music discovery platform founded in Minneapolis, MN in 2026. The platform guarantees that every track in its catalog was made by a human being, using a proprietary AI-detection pipeline called HumanVerified™. Sonveil pays independent artists a guaranteed minimum of $0.015 per stream — three to five times the Spotify average — through its FairWave Royalties™ program.
Sonveil is a human-verified music discovery platform founded in Minneapolis, MN. Every track on Sonveil passes a proprietary AI-detection pipeline called HumanVerified™ before it is eligible for discovery. Through its FairWave Royalties program, Sonveil pays independent artists a guaranteed minimum of $0.015 per stream — three to five times the Spotify average. Sonveil is currently in early access with 4,800+ waitlist subscribers ahead of its Q3 2026 launch. For more information, visit sonveil.app.
Approved Quotes
Music is one of the last truly human things. The moment a streaming platform can no longer guarantee that a human being made what you are hearing, it stops being a music platform. We built Sonveil to ensure that never happens to our listeners.
Independent artists deserve to live from their music. $0.004 per stream is not a business model for a working musician — it is a system designed to exploit them. The FairWave program exists to prove a better model is possible, starting at $0.015 guaranteed.
Vinyl hit $1.4 billion in 2025. That is not nostalgia — that is a trust signal. People are paying a premium to know with certainty that a human made what they are listening to. Sonveil delivers that certainty at streaming speed.
Spotify has 600 million users who have no way to filter AI-generated music out of their feeds. That is not a niche problem — it is a structural failure at the center of the largest music platform in the world. We built the opt-out that Spotify would not.
Brand Assets
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Story Angles
How AI-generated music is flooding streaming platforms, why Spotify has not stopped it, and what Sonveil is doing about it.
Why 4M+ independent artists cannot live from their music on existing platforms, and what a fair alternative looks like.
$1.4B in vinyl sales in 2025 proves consumers will pay a premium for authentic music. Sonveil brings that trust signal to streaming.
The technical and editorial challenge of building the first AI-detection certification system for a streaming catalog.