# Tapped Ai

> Tapped Ai is a New York music-technology company that helps independent performers discover venues, apply for gigs and plan tours using live-booking data. Founded by Johannes Naylor and Ilias Anwar, it moved from an ambitious AI artist-services concept and a difficult two-sided marketplace toward a narrower data-and-workflow product for performers, with a longer-term plan to sell analytics to music professionals.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Johannes Naylor (CEO and Technical Co-Founder), Ilias Anwar (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** LinkedIn lists 11-50 employees; the supplied company record lists 6. The company has also described a large intern cohort, so headcount definitions vary.
- **Products:** Tapped artist-services subscription, Tapped live-booking app, Live-music analytics, Tapped toolkit
- **Notable:** Released a live-booking product in April 2024 after earlier artist-service and marketplace experiments., Built web and mobile products for venue discovery, gig applications and tour planning., The iOS app held a 4.0 rating from 12 ratings when checked and showed updates through December 2024.

## Products & services

- **Tapped artist-services subscription** — An early $50-per-month concept offering independent artists AI-assisted marketing, design and management tools without taking a share of their music.
- **Tapped live-booking app** — A web and mobile product for discovering venues, filtering by capacity, genre and location, applying for gigs, managing bookings and planning tour routes.
- **Live-music analytics** — Performance, venue and booking data intended to support audience insight, ticket and attendance estimates, artist matching and industry decision-making.
- **Tapped toolkit** — A collection of artist utilities including booking, cover-art, marketing-plan, EPK and social-content tools linked from the company's toolkit hub.

## Achievements

- Released a live-booking product in April 2024 after earlier artist-service and marketplace experiments.
- Built web and mobile products for venue discovery, gig applications and tour planning.
- The iOS app held a 4.0 rating from 12 ratings when checked and showed updates through December 2024.
- Hosted a first major Brooklyn Tapped Mixer reported at more than 120 attendees.
- A New York Tech Week collaboration was reported to have attracted more than 700 pre-registrations.
- Published its product stack, operating process and roadmap in unusually candid public posts.

## Latest updates

- **2024-04** — Released its first live-booking data product for performers.
- **2024-06** — Published a roadmap targeting better data, web and API support, higher venue response rates and AI-assisted tour and bill recommendations.
- **2024-07** — Premium-gated the mobile app and made the web app the main surface for feature experiments.
- **2024-09** — A third-party report announced a shutdown, though the app later received another iOS update and the web product is currently accessible.
- **2024-12** — Released iOS version 1.2.112 with bug fixes and performance improvements.
- **2026-08** — The website, venue map, about page and App Store listing remain publicly accessible.

## Links

- Website: https://tapped.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tappedai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPiogp-D4ig
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tappedai/

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Last updated: 2026-08-20