Everything you should
know before you join.

Collective Loft is a professional network built for the creative class: artists, musicians, writers, poets, designers, filmmakers, photographers, performers, and creative technologists. It’s where creatives who don’t already know each other find collaborators, agree on real terms before any work begins, and open a shared workspace built around the project. It’s not a job board and not a portfolio site. It’s the place creative collaboration actually happens, end to end.

Independent creative professionals across eight disciplines: visual art, music, writing, design and web, film, photography, performance, and creative tech. If you make work and you need the right collaborator to make it real, a composer for your film, a designer for your record, a photographer for your collection, this is built for you.

Those platforms treat creatives as something they’re not. LinkedIn treats a musician’s profile like a résumé and optimizes for job applications. Upwork creates a client-worker hierarchy and a race to the bottom on price. Behance is a beautiful gallery where work sits waiting to be found, with no path from profile to actual project. Collective Loft is built around the one thing that drives creative output: the relationship between complementary disciplines that produces work neither party could make alone. You find each other, you agree on terms, and you get a shared workspace to do the work.

You post a Collab Brief, a description of what you’re making and who you need, written in creative language, not a job listing. Other members find it filtered by discipline, compensation type, and location. You can also discover and respond to briefs other creatives have posted. When someone’s interested, they send a message explaining why they’re drawn to the project, and you review their profile and portfolio before deciding to move forward.

Collab Terms are the agreement two creatives set before any work begins. They cover the compensation type, creative exchange, paid, or revenue share, along with rights, deliverables, milestones, and timeline. Both parties review, modify, and accept the terms, and they’re timestamped. It’s the structured agreement layer the creative class has never had: clarity in writing, before the work starts, instead of a misunderstanding three DMs deep after it falls apart.

Once both parties accept the Collab Terms, a Loft Studio opens, a shared workspace dedicated to that collaboration. The original brief is pinned at the top, with milestones, files, and persistent messaging all in one place. The collaboration has a home now, instead of being scattered across email, texts, and a shared Notion page held together with hope.

Eight: visual art, music, writing, design and web, film, photography, performance, and creative tech. The whole point is cross-discipline collaboration, a filmmaker finding a composer, a painter finding a musician for an installation, so the network is built to connect across all of them, not silo them.

Membership is $15 per month. There are no tiers, no feature gates, and no pay-to-unlock. The subscription gets you full access to everything: Discover, Collab Briefs, discipline matching, Collab Terms, and the Loft Studio.

Because free platforms attract people who aren’t serious. The $15 a month keeps this a professional environment, a room where everyone has skin in the game, agreements are in writing before work starts, and your creative work is protected from day one. The cost is the filter that keeps the quality high.

Everything. Full access to Discover, Collab Briefs, discipline matching, Collab Terms, and the Loft Studio, with no tiers or locked features. Use it to run ten collaborations a month, or use it to build your profile and get discovered. The platform works on your timeline and your priorities.

Founding members get three months free, no charge, no catch. After that it’s $15 a month, the same as everyone else. The founding member badge on your profile stays forever.

Founding members are the first cohort on the platform, selected by hand across disciplines and cities. They get three months free, full access, a permanent founding member badge on their profile, and a direct hand in shaping the platform as it grows. There are 500 founding spots.

Request early access and tell us your primary discipline. We’re not running an open beta, we’re building the founding cohort by hand, choosing people who are actively making work right now. We read every application. If you’re selected, we’ll be in touch with next steps before anyone else hears about it.

It becomes $15 a month, the same as every other member. Nothing else changes, you keep full access and your founding member badge stays on your profile permanently.

Protection is built into the structure. Before any work begins, both parties agree to Collab Terms covering rights, deliverables, and compensation, and those terms are timestamped. Nothing starts on a handshake and a hope. The agreement layer exists specifically so creatives aren’t left exposed the way they are on platforms that were never built for them.

Three: creative exchange, paid, or revenue share. You set which one applies in the Collab Terms before work begins, along with the specifics on rights, deliverables, and milestones. Both parties have to accept before anything starts.

No. The platform is a digital network open to creatives anywhere, there are 165 million independent creative professionals worldwide, and the network is built for all of them. Chicago is home base and the site of the first physical Loft Studios and founding-member community, but membership and collaboration are not limited by location.

Morgan Collective Group is the parent company, and Collective Loft is its flagship. The group is building four divisions that reinforce each other: the platform finds the talent, the studios give them a home, the label releases their work, and publishing protects everything they create. Each division makes every other one stronger.

Three more divisions, in sequence. Collective Loft Studios, professional recording infrastructure for independent artists, with priority booking and discounted rates for members. Collective Loft Records, an artist-first independent label starting royalty splits at 50/50, with shorter contracts and more ownership kept by the artist. And Collective Loft Publishing, a full creative publishing house spanning music, literary, and art publishing, including collaborative works unique to the ecosystem.