Slingshot modernizes business for artists and music companies so they can spend less time on admin and more on what matters. Taxes, healthcare, payments & more are handled with an all-in-one platform and expert support at every step.
The music industry runs on infrastructure built for a different era. Artists and the businesses behind them find themselves carrying the weight of taxes, healthcare, payroll, invoicing, and paperwork, all creating a wall between them and the work they actually set out to do.
That's the quiet barrier: antiquated payment and business infrastructure that hasn't kept pace with how the industry actually operates, while also undercutting the people who deserve creative and financial control. Slingshot was built to change that.
What is Slingshot
Slingshot brings modern business infrastructure to artists and creative businesses. It handles admin, taxes, healthcare, expenses & more through a premium platform and expert human support, so artists can focus on what matters with peace of mind.
Slingshot also works with labels, management companies, distributors, and agencies to upgrade their payment infrastructure —whether that’s on-platform wallets, international payments, tax forms, or more — fully handling setup and compliance at a competitive cost.
Financial independence for artists and businesses
Slingshot exists to remove the financial and administrative barriers that pull time away from the creative process. Those barriers can include tedious admin and confusing paperwork, as well as difficulty accessing benefits like health insurance and retirement plans.
When artists, managers, and teams have real support handling all of that, they can finally direct that energy into the work that actually moves them forward.
This is about more than convenience. It's about fostering real independence, where artists keep creative and financial control and still have the stability to make it last.
What Slingshot handles
Slingshot gives artists and businesses the kind of infrastructure needed for financial independence: a centralized platform, modern tools, and a team of real people behind you at every step.
Here’s some of what that covers:
Taxes
- Tax forms like 1099s and W-9s are handled automatically as members invoice, pay, and work. Because Slingshot is the entity of record, members receives a single 1099 at year-end instead of chasing down forms from every party. With everything already synced, filing personal taxes on the platform takes a fraction of the usual time.
Bookkeeping
- Stay organized without ever opening a spreadsheet or storing boxes of receipts
Business Spending & Cards
- Keep every project coordinated and every expense in order.
Invoicing & Payments
- Send invoices, get paid, and track everything in one place.
Payroll & Benefits
- Members pay themselves and their teams directly on the platform, and access benefits like PPO health insurance, free telehealth, and retirement plans.
Real human support
Most “modern” solutions for business infrastructure just hand off the work to AI. That’s not what works for creatives.
Slingshot’s team of real people manages the administration and billing behind a member's work, so they're not the ones tracking down tax forms or reconciling payments. Members also get a concierge line, where help from an actual person is always a message away.
Community is part of the model too. Through shared tools, collaborations, conversations, and member events, Slingshot connects creatives to each other, because the people around an artist matter as much to the work as the infrastructure behind it.
How to join
If you're an artist or run a creative business, and you're tired of the admin getting in the way of the work, Slingshot was built for you.
Apply at slingshot.fm
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