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What is out there
Money, space, time, health coverage, and work help already sit in other people’s programs. The work is finding the right door — for the month you are actually in.
Scene 01Hero
Starting in Austin. Built to go anywhere.
Open Call
Artists shouldn't have to be grant researchers to make a living from their work.
Muse is the assistant.
Grants stay the main draw. The same map covers health, work, and the other help that keeps a gig month together. First city: Austin. Then anywhere.
Scene 02The gap
The programs exist. The map does not.
Foundations, cities, states, and private programs already fund the work. Health programs, workforce offices, and small-business help already sit in the same city. The work is finding the ones that fit you, before the deadline.
Deadlines hide in PDFs. Eligibility is a maze. Most people hear about a program after it closed. That is not a talent problem. That is a navigation problem.
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What gets in the way
Deadlines hide in PDFs. Forms assume you already know the system. People give up before they apply. A lot of this exists and almost nobody tells you.
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What we are not
We do not write checks. We navigate, match, teach, and refer. If a program already exists and it fits you, we help you get to it.
Scene 03The map
Match the person. Not just the grant.
The workbench is still grants. Muse also maps the rest of a working life — health, work, business help, and the programs most people never hear about. You should not have to already know the name of the thing you need.
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Grants and the workbench
The main draw
Fellowships, residencies, project grants, and the forms that come with them. This is the core. Muse finds the ones that fit the work, then walks the application in plain language.
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Health programs
HAAM and the rest
HAAM — Health Alliance for Austin Musicians — is the one most people mean when they say musician health in this city. Muse also looks for other coverage and care programs that fit how you actually work.
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Work and TWC
Texas Workforce Commission
TWC and other individual services for people with uneven months. A few gigs, a shift job, a gap between both. Training, benefits, and the offices that already exist for that.
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Business help
Small-business grants and tools
If the work is also a business — a studio, a band, a one-person shop — there are grants and services for that too. Muse treats them as part of the same map.
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Whatever you need this month
The stuff nobody told you about
Programs that exist and most people never hear about. The logic is simple: match the individual. Not “artist grants only.”
Scene 04The platform
Three surfaces. One product.
Open Call is the platform. Muse is how people meet it. Muse, the app, and the ops desk. One job: get the right program in front of the right person, in time.
Side A
Muse
The assistant
You talk about the work, the city, the month you are in. Muse finds fits — grants first, then health, work, and the rest — explains eligibility in plain language, and walks the next step.
Side B
The app
Profiles + matches
Your profile, your matches, your deadlines, and the applications you already started. A place to see what is open and what is actually for you.
Side C
Ops desk
The program list
The human side. Real people keep the list honest, review matches, and step in when a person should answer.
Muse · sample
Artist
I play a few gigs a month and I work at an Apple Store. I need health coverage. Is there anything for that, or just fall grants?
Muse
Both. HAAM is the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians — start there. I can walk you through who they cover, and what TWC looks like if the gigs aren’t covering the month. Then we can look at grants if you still want those.
The work is finding the door.
We navigate, match, teach, and refer. We do not write checks.