XicoCity · The rack · Engineer floor

Under your own name

The rack.

Turn a rough into a pro mix or master, survive the revision cycles, and get paid on approval — under your own name. Not a marketplace stall: a client-services room. You bring your own client; XicoCity runs the spine and notarizes what leaves.

your own client’s rough a delivered master + a signed delivery certificate
  1. intake open Your client brings their own rough. You scope the work and agree one milestone.
  2. scope-lock accepted Brief accepted, milestone fixed. No moving targets, no scope creep.
  3. deliver in_revision You upload the mix or master. The version stack starts counting.
  4. review The client hears it against the loudness and true-peak target meter.
  5. revise in_revision Named revisions, enforced and counted — a bounded stack, never endless.
  6. approve delivered The client signs off on the final. The delivery gate is armed.
  7. paid completed Approval releases the milestone — 10% service fee, buyer-side — straight to your payout.

The moment · the signed delivery certificate

Approval arms the gate; the gate unlocks the master and engraves its certificate. It reads like a printed sheet — the spec you worked to, notarized and provenance-stamped, free ammo for the Supervisor’s vault downstream.

What the rack gives you

  • brief → milestone spine
  • approve-to-unlock delivery gate
  • timestamped waveform annotation
  • loudness / true-peak target meter
  • version stack + revision-count enforcement

What we don’t fake

A loudness-normalized reference preview, offered as an estimate — never an “AI master” — and no real-time collab mixing.

The terms, plainly

One milestone
The client pays a single agreed milestone — set at scope-lock, held until approval. No moving targets.
Service fee
10%, buyer-side — the client covers it. You quote your rate; you keep your rate.
Paid on approval
Approval releases the milestone straight to your payout account. Deliver, then get paid — not before, not after.
Open XicoCity → The Engineer room The eleven rooms

A private room, a public promise: the engagement is yours and your client’s alone — only the signed certificate is made to travel.