Lost Hills

What Lost Hills does

Lost Hills is a music-industry software and services company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, operating as a private LLC founded in 2025. The company serves independent artists, music labels, artist managers, and music operators by providing a vertical product portfolio that combines a CRM platform (Control), a playlist discovery tool (Playlist Finder), a managed campaign execution service (Campaigns), and a music synchronization service (Sync). The value proposition is built around replacing fragmented spreadsheet, document, and email workflows with a single system of record for releases, campaigns, contacts, and approvals, with domain-specific templates and objects designed for music operations rather than adapted from generic project management tools.

Control CRM is a TypeScript/Next.js web application that the company describes as having 16 out-of-the-box modules, 159 API routes, and 50+ migrations shipped. It integrates natively with Spotify, Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, TikTok, Instagram, Chartmetric, FUGA, AWS S3, Box, and Dropbox, and includes an AI-assisted chat that summarizes blockers, drafts owner follow-ups, and references attached files and related records contextually. The technical scope spans release planning, campaign coordination, team governance, and asset management.

Lost Hills generates revenue through three primary streams: (1) a Control CRM subscription with monthly/annual billing (pricing not publicly disclosed), (2) Playlist Finder access sold as a one-time $9.99 perpetual license, and (3) managed campaign services with fixed-price packages ($300 for playlist campaigns, $500 for TikTok UGC, $900 for full release pushes, all on 5-day SLAs). The company claims 120+ completed campaigns and cites outcomes such as a 31% reduction in coordination time for a multi-artist management team and 42 curator replies with an 18% save lift in an indie pop release campaign. Operating with 1-10 employees and no disclosed funding rounds, Lost Hills is positioned as an early-stage, bootstrapped vertical SaaS play in the music operations category.

Name

Lost Hills

Legal name

Lost Hills LLC

Website

https://losthills.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lost Hills is a Los Angeles-based music-industry software and services company offering Control CRM, Playlist Finder, and managed campaign services for independent artists, labels, artist managers, and music operators managing releases and marketing campaigns.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Operations CRM Software

akta.pro primary industry

Music Discovery & Curation Platforms (Recommendations, Playlists) (MPAIACAH)

Keywords

• Music operations CRM
• Playlist discovery
• Release management
• Campaign execution
• Music industry software

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Control CRM Subscription: Monthly or annual subscription for the Control CRM platform providing music operations workspace with release tracking, campaign management, AI assistance, and team governance features. Includes permissions, SSO, and shared team access.
2. Playlist Finder Access: One-time purchase of $9.99 for permanent access to playlist search, curator contacts, research filters, and CSV export functionality. No monthly billing required.
3. Campaign Services: Done-for-you marketing campaign execution services priced at fixed packages: Playlist Campaign ($300, 5-day SLA), TikTok UGC ($500, 5-day SLA), Full Release Push ($900, 5-day SLA). Operators handle targeting, outreach, follow-ups, and reporting.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Lost Hills sells a music operations CRM platform called Control that lets labels, managers, and operators track releases, campaigns, artists, contacts, tasks, and approvals in one shared workspace with AI-assisted workflows. They also sell Playlist Finder, a one-time-purchase playlist intelligence tool for curator discovery, and Campaigns, a fixed-price done-for-you marketing agency service for playlist, TikTok UGC, and full release pushes.

Product overview

Lost Hills offers a three-product portfolio for independent and label music operations: Control (the flagship CRM platform), Playlist Finder (a free discovery tool with paid permanent access), and Campaigns (a managed agency execution service). A fourth service, Sync, is referenced in navigation for synchronization licensing. The architecture positions Control as the central system-of-record for releases, campaigns, and team coordination, while Playlist Finder provides standalone playlist intelligence and Campaigns delivers full-service campaign execution when operators need external support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Control: Flagship music operations CRM platform for labels, managers, and operators to manage releases, campaigns, contacts, and approvals in one workspace.
• Playlist Finder
• Campaigns

Products and services

• Control
• Playlist Finder
• Campaigns
• Sync

Quantifiable outcome

• 31% reduction in coordination time across multi-artist management teams
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• SpotifycoreTechnology or IntegrationNative platform integration with Spotify for playlist discovery, curator data access, and release promotion capabilities within the Lost Hills music operations ecosystem.
• TikTokcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration for TikTok UGC campaign execution, creator shortlisting, and social content promotion within the campaign services workflow.
• InstagramsupportingTechnology or IntegrationSocial integration for curator contact information and creator outreach within campaign execution services.
• SlacksupportingTechnology or IntegrationTeam notification integration allowing Control CRM users to receive workspace updates and approval requests directly in Slack channels.
• GmailsupportingTechnology or IntegrationEmail integration with mail ingest capability, allowing Control CRM to attach email threads to records and draft replies with Gmail context.
• Google CalendarsupportingTechnology or IntegrationCalendar sync integration providing launch calendar view and connecting release deadlines to team schedules automatically.
• ChartmetriccoreTechnology or IntegrationAnalytics integration providing playlist intelligence, performance metrics, and curator data for playlist discovery and campaign targeting within Lost Hills tools.
• FUGAsupportingTechnology or IntegrationMusic distribution platform integration for release management and DSP distribution operations within Control CRM.
• AWS S3supportingTechnology or IntegrationCloud storage integration for file management, asset storage, and document attachments within the Control CRM workspace.
• BoxsupportingTechnology or IntegrationEnterprise cloud storage integration alternative for file management and workspace attachments within Control CRM.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• PlaylistPush: Paid playlist promotion service connecting independent artists and labels with curators for placements. Directly comparable to Lost Hills' $300 Playlist Campaign offering and the broader outreach workflow inside Control CRM.
• SubmitHub: Music submission platform that connects artists to bloggers, playlist curators, and labels. Overlaps with Lost Hills' campaign execution and playlist discovery workflows, and serves the same indie artist and label customer base.
• Chartmetric: Music and artist analytics platform providing playlist data, curator insights, and audience metrics. Directly comparable to Lost Hills' Playlist Finder and is itself an integrated data source inside Control CRM.
• Soundcharts: Music industry analytics covering playlists, airplay, streaming, and social. Competes with the playlist intelligence layer of Lost Hills and serves a similar labels/managers/operators customer segment.
• ReverbNation: Long-standing artist marketing, distribution, and promotion platform serving independent musicians with tools for releases, campaigns, and audience growth — closely aligned with Lost Hills' Control + Campaigns positioning.
• Stem: Music distribution and operations platform offering release management, royalty splits, and label tooling. Comparable to the release-tracking and DSP-distribution-adjacent workflows inside Control CRM.

Emerging players

• Viberate: Music analytics and A&R discovery platform with playlist, chart, and audience data. Overlaps with Lost Hills' Playlist Finder and broader playlist intelligence use cases for indie labels and managers.

Broad incumbents

• DistroKid: Largest DIY music distributor with adjacent stores, promotional tools, and royalty splits. A scaled incumbent serving indie artists that Lost Hills' customers also use, and which competes for parts of the release-operations workflow.
• Songtrust: Music publishing administration platform handling registration, royalty collection, and rights data. A broader incumbent in music operations whose customer base overlaps with Lost Hills' label and manager targets.
• AWAL: Sony-owned artist distribution and label services platform offering releases, marketing, and rights tooling to independent artists. A broader incumbent operating in the same release-and-campaign workflow Lost Hills targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/losthillshq

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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