Who’s behind SongForgeAI.
One person, a rubric, and a writing room of expert voices.
“Lyrics that feel lived. Not lyrics that merely sound like songs. Lyrics that sound like someone was in the room.”

I didn't plan to build an AI songwriting platform.
A couple of years ago, my son showed me Suno, and I started making songs. I've been making them ever since — hundreds of them, across country, worship, jazz, and whatever the evening seemed to ask for.
But the same thing kept happening with the lyrics. The words were fluent and forgettable. They rhymed. They scanned. They said the right emotional things in the right emotional places. But too often, nobody had actually lived them.
So I spent the next two years building what I wished existed: not one model doing one pass, but a writing room of expert voices arguing over each song, and a scoring system that refuses to flatter a weak draft.
That work became SongForgeAI.
The point is simple: lyrics that feel lived. Not lyrics that merely sound like songs. Lyrics that sound like someone was in the room.
My life has taught me that words are for carrying something real. SongForgeAI is my attempt to bring that belief into AI-assisted songwriting — to help people move past fluent drafts and toward songs with truth, specificity, and weight.
SongForgeAI is the room I wish I'd had when I started.
How we got here
- 2025-Q1First forge shipped — 12-voice war room, single-pass lyrics.
- 2025-Q2Scoring rubric published. Anti-cliché scanner live.
- 2025-Q3Gauntlet refinement + SuperBoost. 50-voice panel. Crucible free tier.
- 2025-Q4forge_metrics telemetry + Berklee batch (Pattison + Stolpe rules).
- 2026-Q1Public /scoring/standard + whitepaper + /metrics/quarterly. B2B API live.
- 2026-Q2 (now)Lyric Scoring Standard v1.0 published. State-machine migration. Four-document ethical frame aligned.
What shipped recently
All posts2026-05-31· 6 min
Not a Song — a Whole Album: Introducing the Showcase Albums
Two full concept albums forged with SongForgeAI — one seed, one palette, a dozen tracks that sequence into a single emotional world. Lyrics and Suno-ready style strings for every track.
2026-05-30· 8 min
How a Concept Album Holds Together: Inside 'The Grief Is Smaller Than the Room'
A track-by-track look at how a 12-song concept album becomes one record instead of a playlist: a palette that withholds then opens, a recurring wordless hum, and an afterlife set in a laundromat.
2026-05-28· 9 min
The Corner Booth Test: Re-Forging an AI Breakup Song
We re-forged a two-year-old AI-written breakup lyric. The same heartbreak came back — relocated from fireflies and echoes into one cafe booth and a cold americano. A line-by-line case study in why the specific beats the poetic.
Live build log at /changelog · engineering report at /engineering.
The category we’re claiming
Lyric Scoring. The 12-metric rubric, published openly at /scoring/standard. Anyone can score their own lyrics against it. Every song we forge is scored against it. Every result is telemetered and publicly aggregated.
No competitor publishes their rubric. Most don’t have one. The bet: over time, “does this score well on the SongForgeAI rubric?” becomes a useful signal even for songs written without SongForgeAI.
Get in touch
Email support@songforgeai.com — questions, feedback, press, partnership, or a lyric the gauntlet couldn’t save. I read every message.
Last updated 2026-04-23. This page is hand-written — if the voice sounds like copy-paste AI, tell me and I’ll fix it.