Nuno Guerreiro, CTO at Kobalt Music, reveals how key partnerships and emerging technologies like AI are building a more transparent music industry
KOBALT MUSIC
Nuno Guerreiro, CTO at Kobalt Music, reveals how key partnerships and emerging technologies like AI are building a more transparent music industry
The music industry, once an opaque world of complex contracts and arcane accounting, is undergoing a profound technological transformation. At the heart of the shift is Kobalt Music, a company that has built its reputation by championing transparency and creator ownership.
But the disruption is not just business model innovation; it’ s a data and engineering challenge of immense scale. Processing trillions of streams, tracking rights across hundreds of territories and ensuring songwriters get paid accurately and quickly is a monumental task.
Nuno Guerreiro, Kobalt Music’ s Chief Technology Officer, shares insight into the evolving industry. With a background spanning data-heavy industries like banking and online advertising, Nuno oversees engineering, product and IT, steering Kobalt through its next phase of technological evolution.
The foundational architecture of transparency Kobalt’ s“ noble mission,” as Nuno describes it, is to“ bring transparency and fairness to an opaque industry”. From a technical perspective, this means a complete rethink of the legacy systems that defined music publishing, which was fragmented by design with regional contracts.
230 December 2025