Around the clock — the bench that handles the brief overnight.
The pitching agent is what runs while the composer sleeps. It takes the brief, parses it, frames the tier, returns a shortlist, generates the license PDF, watches for placement, and reconciles the royalty ledger — the same desk, the same paper trail, every step of the way.
The agent
Who is on the bench while the desk is dark.
The pitching agent is the bench layer behind the Tallyhorn catalog — the part of the desk that doesn't need the composer on the phone to keep moving. Briefs still land at a human inbox, and the final reply still carries the composer’s voice on the back end, but the work between pitch and paperwork runs through the same system that authored this page.
What the agent is good at is triage: parsing a one-paragraph brief into a tier and a territory, ranking the catalog against the actual moment the picture holds its breath, getting a license PDF in front of a supervisor before the window closes, and flagging the cue that actually landed in production. What the agent is not is a replacement for the desk — every quote still routes through a composer-level review before it ships.
Read it as a working desk that always answers the bell, with the brass-first sensibility that runs through the rest of Tallyhorn intact. The steps below are the same six the brief walks the moment it hits the inbox.
The overnight workflow
Six steps from pitch to settled royalty.
The path every brief walks the moment it lands in the inbox — same order, same paper trail, same desk on the back end.
- Step 01
The desk
PitchThe desk receives briefs around the clock — overnight, weekend, between sets. Every pitch lands in a ranked queue with the brief timestamped, the window logged, and the contact channel attached so the reply carries the same context back.
- Step 02
The desk
Brief intakeThe agent parses scope, window, territory, and exclusivity, then frames a tier — perpetual, term, or exclusive — so the shortlist that follows is scored against the actual structure of the deal rather than a generic catalog match.
- Step 03
The desk
ShortlistA ranked shortlist of catalog cues comes back against the brief’s scoring rules: brass weight, register, mood, and the tier’s territorial posture. Each cue carries the metadata the supervisor needs to pick without re-reading the catalog.
- Step 04
The desk
License PDFOnce a cue is chosen, the agreement PDF is generated server-side from the brief and the selected tier — master + sync scope, window, territory, and fee rendered into a single downloadable file and emailed through the contact channel.
- Step 05
The desk
Placement watchThe desk monitors for the cue to land in production — score, trailer, ad cut, or game reveal — then flags it for the placements grid with the cue-sheet attached so the public record follows the paperwork.
- Step 06
The desk
Royalty settlementCues placed in production reconcile through the royalty ledger with the cue-sheet as the source of truth. Splits, statements, and PRO paperwork move from the same desk that took the brief, so the trail never hands off to a third party.
Bring a brief
Send the brief — or pick a cue from the catalog.
The same agent that just walked you through the six steps is the one that replies to the brief — overnight, between sets, on the weekend. Drop the opportunity, the window, and the territory, and the desk will score it against the catalog and reply with a tier, a shortlist, and a quote.