Every asset, every release, with done-criteria you can see.
The reason releases stall is usually not a missing file. It is a missing version of a file, or a file delivered to the wrong place. Labelflow tracks every deliverable for every release with explicit done-criteria, so the gap between almost ready and ready stops being a guess.
Yes, no, maybe is not a tracking system.
Most release checklists have one state per line: ticked, or not ticked. That works until somebody ticks the artwork line because a JPEG arrived, and nobody notices for three weeks that it was 2400 pixels rather than 3000.
A deliverable is not one boolean. It has a shape, a spec, and a moment where it becomes genuinely finished. Tracking it as a tick is how a release gets to Thursday looking ready and is not.
Five deliverable types, per release.
Each one typed, each one with its own definition of done, each one feeding the readiness number.
Final master delivered, accepted, and QC sign-off received, each step its own state rather than a single yes or no. Automatic format and headroom checks are on the roadmap.
Cover, social tiles, press kit imagery. Each one tracked separately, with the export specs your distributor actually requires.
Track titles, ISRCs, credits, genre tags, language codes. The release does not ship until each field is filled the way distributors require it.
Bio, social links, streaming profiles, press kit. Tied to the artist record, so it propagates across every release they are on rather than being re-collected each time.
The final ready-to-ship state, tracked through hand-off to your distributor and store delivery. Pre-flight validation against each distributor's rules comes with the Distributor Playbook.
One number, and you can open it.
The readiness percentage on a release is not a mood. It is the aggregate of these five, weighted by what is actually blocking, and every point of it opens into the deliverable that produced it.
So the answer to whether Friday holds is a number you can click, and the follow-up question, what exactly is missing, has an address rather than an opinion.
For labels who have been surprised on a Thursday.
Once is bad luck. Twice is a tracking problem. Deliverables tracking is what turns the release workflow from a list into a system, and it is the moment a readiness number starts meaning something.
Included on both plans. Deliverables tracking attaches to every release, on Label and Studio alike, at no add-on cost.