Awen empowers creators to push boundaries. Through experiential events and innovative digital projects, we ignite the spark that propels your next creative breakthrough.
In August we put Valt on Cardano's testnet and asked you to poke at it. Since then the first collectors…
Streamers get muted and copyright-struck for playing music. The Sync.Land dock is now live inside Open Broadcaster Software, playing only…
Valt, our Web3 artist portal on Cardano, is live on testnet. Artists own and sell their music as digital collectibles,…
The federated AI operating system Awen built to run a multi-brand studio: CRM, tasks, newsletter, social, and an AI assistant in one installable app.
Peer-to-peer music licensing marketplace with on-chain proof-of-license.
Self-hostable Cardano Constitutional Committee infrastructure. Ingest governance actions, review constitutionality, deliberate, and coordinate on-chain votes from a single Go binary that never holds signing keys.
Token-gated music platform turning fans into owners via Cardano NFTs.
Low-fee event ticketing and check-in built for indie venues and community organizers.
Wisconsin Digital Business Council (WDBC): Wisconsin's council for the digital economy, a statewide nonprofit for policy advocacy, legislative tracking, and convening.
All-ages women's soccer nonprofit platform: league management, comms, treasury, and member analytics.
The organizations we are proud to build and partner with, from grassroots movements to global initiatives.
Ian “Cullah” McCullough is a multi-disciplinary artist, engineer, and entrepreneur whose visionary approach bridges creativity, technology, and community. Best known for his work as Cullah—a recording artist with an unparalleled 20-year streak of annual open-source album releases—Ian’s creative journey naturally led him to found Awen. Drawing from deep roots in music, philosophy, and open-source innovation, he launched Awen to inspire collective experiences that blend artistic expression with emerging technology, governance, and community-led systems.
With a Master’s in Philosophy in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin, Ian pairs academic rigor with decades of software development and blockchain advocacy. His career includes building artist-first licensing frameworks and driving policy conversations that champion distributed, equitable digital ecosystems. At Awen, Ian brings technical expertise, mythic storytelling, and a generational pulse of musical tradition into a future-forward platform for co-creation.
Visit cullah.com to learn more.
Maggie “Mie” Schmidt is a multidisciplinary artist, art director and policy writer who has helped build Awen since its start. She shapes how Awen looks, sounds and makes its case, leading creative across brand, web, film, print and live experience.
Her policy work sits where law, technology and ownership meet. She researches and writes briefings on digital assets, intellectual property and the rules that decide who owns creative and financial work online, then turns them into plain-language communications for artists, builders and lawmakers: briefs, explainers, campaigns and press. As President and a founding member of the Wisconsin Digital Business Council (WDBC), she brings that work to Wisconsin’s policy conversations.
A trained vocalist and recording artist, Mie brings a performer’s sense of audience to every brief and every brand. Visit therealmie.com to learn more.
From national media to local spotlights, Awen has been featured across a range of platforms recognizing our work at the intersection of creativity, community, and innovation. Explore some of the publications and partners that have shared our story.
