I run a record label. I also wrote the software it runs on.

Yes, against the scope we agree. If you change the scope, that part is re-priced in writing before it gets built. It does not quietly turn into hourly billing.

You get every credential at handover and the assumptions in writing. If you replace Tricion, the next person reads the documentation instead of guessing at the code.

Fair question, and the honest answer is that the handover is the insurance. You own the code, the accounts and the documentation, so the system keeps running and someone else can pick it up.

Tricion helps with manual workflows, disconnected tools, API integrations, browser automation, internal dashboards, and custom web systems. The best fit is a business process that is already happening repeatedly and needs to become more reliable.

No. Websites are one part of the work. The broader focus is business IT consulting, automation, integrations, and practical systems that make operations easier to run.

Yes. A focused audit can map the current process, identify what should be automated, define the smallest useful system, and clarify whether Tricion should build it or support your internal team.

Most builds use TypeScript, Next.js, React, Node.js, Python, APIs, databases, Playwright browser automation, and AI APIs where they make the workflow materially better.

Usually, yes. If a platform has an API, export, webhook, database, or browser-accessible workflow, it can often be connected or automated. The first step is checking reliability, permissions, and failure modes.

Yes, when an agent is the right tool for the workflow. Tricion can build AI-assisted routing, summarization, classification, drafting, research, and MCP-style tool workflows with human review where needed.

Founders, operators, and small teams that have real business work happening across spreadsheets, SaaS tools, emails, portals, or manual checks, and want a more dependable system around it.

Send the current workflow, tools involved, what breaks, and what you want to happen instead. You will get a direct response on fit, likely approach, and the next sensible step.

Most automation and web system projects land between €2,000 and €10,000, depending on scope, integrations, and risk. Audits and consulting are scoped smaller. Once the outcome is clear, the work is quoted at a fixed project price, so there are no open-ended hourly surprises.

No. Most engagements start with a plain-language walkthrough of how the work currently happens. Tricion translates that into the technical plan, explains trade-offs without jargon, and hands over documentation your team can actually use. If you do have internal developers, the work fits alongside them.

Yes, as review and implementation rather than certification. That means access control, secret and credential handling, data retention, dependency risk, and what the GDPR actually asks of a system that holds personal data. To be clear about the limit: Tricion is not a licensed auditor and cannot issue a certificate or sign a formal attestation. If you need ISO 27001 or a SOC 2 report you need an accredited body, and I will tell you that rather than take the work. What I can do is find the holes before an auditor does, and fix them.

Tricion operates from the Netherlands under the GDPR (AVG). Client systems are built with data minimization, role-based access, and EU-compliant processing in mind, and engagements involving personal data include clear agreements on processing and retention. The Tricion website itself uses cookieless analytics and processes contact form data only with your consent.

Yes. Some engagements are direct implementation, while others support an internal team with technical direction, workflow mapping, architecture, or quality review.

Yes, and it is the clearest example of the work. Tricion has built label operations platforms, distribution automation, A&R research tooling and metadata management. Ivan van der Schuit runs 99Eyes Entertainment as founder and CEO, a sublabel of Black 17 Media doing over a million streams a day, and its operations run on software he wrote. The tools were built to solve his own problems first.

It is a CRM and operations platform for independent record labels: catalogue and release readiness, rights splits, a demo and A&R pipeline, creator campaign spend, and monthly statements generated from the same records rather than a parallel spreadsheet. The version running 99Eyes Entertainment is called TricionForce.

Yes. Tricion specializes in building custom middleware and operational systems for record labels and music distributors. This includes distribution automation, metadata management, royalty tracking infrastructure, and integrations with existing platforms.

Ivan van der Schuit is the founder of Tricion Consultancy and the founder and CEO of 99Eyes Entertainment LLC, an independent music label and sublabel of Black 17 Media. He builds automation, internal tooling and web systems, including ongoing systems work for Black 17 Media, a US record label and publisher in Sony’s The Orchard partner network. He studies Business IT and Management at Hogeschool Rotterdam. The operations experience is first hand: he runs the label whose software he wrote.

99Eyes Entertainment LLC is an independent music label founded by Ivan van der Schuit for viral, internet-native music: phonk, drift phonk, Brazilian funk and hardtekk. It operates as a sublabel of Black 17 Media, is past 100 million streams, and does over a million streams a day. Its label operations run on TricionForce, the platform built by Tricion, which makes it the clearest example of Tricion running production software for a live label at scale.