Case No. CECI-0001 / 02The Opener

Ceci,

I've been wanting to walk you through this for a few weeks. This is the scrollable version of that conversation.

What follows is the brand I've built — locked, with sample songs, sample album art, sample dossiers — and a specific proposal for how we build the physical layer of it together.

The aesthetic alignment with Ceci New York is not subtle. You'll see it in the next section and in every section after that.

Read it once. Reactions, even hostile ones, are the most useful thing you could give me.

— Abe

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 03The Thesis

Bring the receipts.

Most people give AI a one-line prompt.
We give it a dossier.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 04How It Works

The process, end to end.

Open the archive

Customer fills the 50-question investigative dossier, then opens the Evidence Locker. Texts, emails, photos, voice memos, letters they didn't send. Bring everything.

We collect

A writer reads the entire file. We transcribe what carries weight into a composer-quality lyric brief. Bigger file → sharper brief.

We feed the AI

The brief drives the composition pipeline. We generate, listen, refine, choose. One song per case. No templates. No recycling.

Case Closed — Delivered

A kraft case file arrives in the mail. Typewriter pages, album art, QR card, signed composer's note, wax seal. Spotify release on the customer's chosen date.

Day 0

Case opened.
Payment received.

Day 1–7

Customer builds
the file.

Day 7–10

We compose.
We curate.

Day 10–14

Physical kit.
Stamping.

Day 14+

Filed. Shipped.
Spotify live.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 05The Library

The sample gallery — 40 cases, six tonal universes.

Forty bespoke commissions across the major chart registers. The six on the next sections are the ones I'd play for you first.

Hover any cover for case number and title. The six below are the ones the dossier deck flagged for you first.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 06Sample 01 of 06

3000 × 3000 · Kraft BurgundyFiled 10.2024

Case No. 0142 · Brooklyn NY · 10.2024

The Album · $249

The Shoelace at Grand Army

Indie Folk · Wedding (groom to bride, morning of)

Reference

Lord Huron · Iron & Wine · Andrew Bird

Voice

Intimate · warm female + male harmony

BPM / Key

92 BPM · G major

Subjects

Maya & Theo · Brooklyn NY

The lyric that pierces

"Maya, Maya, the morning is a folder
Of receipts I never threw away —
And the lace is still untied."

From the dossier

Maya and Theo bought tomatoes for Sunday lasagna at the Grand Army Plaza farmer's market the morning of the wedding. Maya's shoelace was untied; she didn't notice. Theo bent down to tie it on the corner of Plaza Street. She told the story at every dinner for the next ten years.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 07Sample 02 of 06

Case 0301 — The Way She Pauses on a Word

3000 × 3000 · Navy BrassFiled 02.2025

Case No. 0301 · Chicago IL · 02.2025

The Heirloom · $349

The Way She Pauses on a Word

Jazz Lounge · Engagement / Proposal

Reference

Madeleine Peyroux · Stacey Kent · Diana Krall

Voice

Narrative · smoky female · mid-century torch

BPM / Key

84 BPM · F major (1958 club arrangement)

Subjects

Sofía & Pablo · Chicago IL

The lyric that pierces

"Sofía in the kitchen with the dictionary out
Sofía in the doorway sounding out a doubt —
I'd marry her for the way she pauses on a word."

From the dossier

Sofía grew up speaking Spanish at home; English in school. Pablo fell in love with the way she still, sometimes, lingers between syllables — the half-second pause before she finds the right word. He proposed at a jazz club in the Loop, on the night their favorite singer was playing.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 08Sample 03 of 06

3000 × 3000 · Terracotta CreamFiled 03.2025

Case No. 0598 · Brooklyn → Cali, Colombia · 03.2025

Heirloom + Private Release

Mi Abuela Nunca Se Equivoca

Bolero · Bilingual Wedding

Reference

Buena Vista Social Club · Silvana Estrada · Natalia Lafourcade

Voice

Intimate · Spanish female + English male harmony

BPM / Key

78 BPM · A minor

Subjects

Camila & Ben · 8 years together

The lyric that pierces

"Pero entendiste la cara de mi abuela —
Y mi abuela nunca se equivoca.
Mi abuela ya no está en la sala,
But every kitchen we have shared…"

From the dossier

The first time Camila brought Ben home, her grandmother said nothing for an hour, watched him eat, then nodded once. The phrase "Mi abuela nunca se equivoca" — my grandmother is never wrong — became their inside joke and their highest compliment. Abuela passed three years before the wedding. The song is for her empty chair.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 09Sample 04 of 06

Case 0207 — Kitchens, with Something Thawing

3000 × 3000 · Kraft BurgundyFiled 07.2026

Case No. 0207 · Atlanta GA · 07.2026

The Album · $249

Kitchens, with Something Thawing

Neo-Soul Ballad · 25th Anniversary

Reference

H.E.R. · Daniel Caesar · Lianne La Havas

Voice

Intimate · smoky male tenor

BPM / Key

72 BPM · E-flat major

Subjects

Marcus & Renee · Atlanta GA · 25 years

The lyric that pierces

"We have danced in seven kitchens —
And every kitchen since then.
Renee, you taught me everything I needed.
We always forget the peas."

From the dossier

July 4, 2001. Renee taught Marcus to slow-dance in her grandmother's Decatur kitchen. A bag of frozen peas was defrosting on the counter; they forgot about it. Twenty-five years and seven addresses later, they still slow-dance in every kitchen. They still always forget the peas.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 10Sample 05 of 06

Case 0914 — The Cold Hands We Held Anyway

3000 × 3000 · Navy Brass1-yr Remembrance

Case No. 0914 · Portland ME · In memory of Hannah Mei Reyes

The Heirloom · $349

The Cold Hands We Held Anyway

90s/00s Power Ballad · Memorial (older sister to younger)

Reference

Whitney "I Will Always Love You" · Mariah "Hero" · Celine "Heart Will Go On"

Voice

Belt-power · female · key-change climax

BPM / Key

64 BPM · A♭ → B♭ major

Subjects

In memory of Hannah Mei Reyes · Portland ME

The lyric that pierces

"Hannah, you would have taken them back —
Hannah, I would have given them again.
The cold hands we held anyway.
Sebago Lake. The cold hands we held anyway."

From the dossier

Every Christmas of their childhood, the Reyes sisters held hands skating on Sebago Lake — Hannah's hands always freezing, the older sister's gloves always offered, both refused. A year after Hannah died, the older sister commissioned a song that holds the hand back, just once, with the key change every Whitney song has earned.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 11Sample 06 of 06

3000 × 3000 · Navy Brass1-yr Remembrance

Case No. 0089 · Austin TX · In memory of Eleanor Holst (1944–2024)

The Heirloom · $349

The Dishes Will Wait

Sparse Piano Ballad · Memorial (1-yr remembrance of mother)

Reference

Phoebe Bridgers · Joni Mitchell · Bon Iver

Voice

Intimate · restrained female · near-spoken

BPM / Key

64 BPM · A minor

Subjects

In memory of Eleanor Holst (1944–2024) · Austin TX

The lyric that pierces

"The dishes will wait —
The moon won't."

From the dossier

Eleanor's signature phrase. She'd drag the kids out to the back porch at 10:30 p.m. to watch a moonrise. The dishes never actually waited; she'd come back and do them at 1 a.m. The daughter commissioned the song one year after Eleanor's death. The dishes are still in the sink in the song.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 12Why You Specifically

Why I'm bringing this to you.

Three reasons, in order:

Aesthetic alignment is uncanny

Kraft + typewriter + wax seal is Ceci's register, adapted to a different category. What I've built lives in the same world Ceci New York has owned for two decades. I'd rather build the physical layer with you than try to build it without you.

You said you loved the music

That meant a lot. The musicals work and the Lyric Dossier work come from the same place. Your instinct on it has always been right. The six songs in the previous sections are the ones I most want you to hear first.

The customer overlap is total

The buyer for a $400 wedding invitation is the buyer for a $349 Lyric Dossier. We aren't competing for the same dollars. We are different chapters in the same buying decision. Weddings, anniversaries, milestones, memorials — every occasion you serve, we serve, and vice versa.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 13What Each of Us Brings

The partnership structure.

What I cover

The brand, IP, name, domains (lyricdossier.com)
Landing page, intake forms, customer portal, iOS app
Per-case private streaming subdomains
The composition pipeline (AI orchestration, lyric brief, song generation, curation)
Album-art generation (40 covers done, full pipeline live)
Spotify release on The Lyric Dossier label · artist page · streaming page
Customer acquisition (Etsy, Instagram, paid Meta, press)
Customer support · intake · written everything
All software + operational costs on the digital side

What I need from you

Premium physical-component design — kraft folder, outer mailer, QR card, composer-note stationery, wax-seal die. I have specs; you have the eye.
Sourcing — vinyl-shaped USB-C drive, wax sticks, kraft stock, premium paper for Heirloom letters, optional 7" vinyl. You know the vendors.
Heirloom-tier upgrade — if we co-design a Ceci × Lyric Dossier Edition, it sells at $499–$799 and is the halo product.
Production / fulfillment — whatever scale you can run, or whatever vendor you trust. Per-order or batched.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 14The Numbers

The financial structure.

I am financially insolvent right now. I cannot fund the physical side. What I am asking is that you front the material cost (and design time) on the physical components, and in return you take a share of every sale as the kits go out.

Tier	Price	Your cut	Mine	Note
The Single	$149	30%	70%	Lighter kit · lower material risk
The Album	$249	35%	65%	Default tier · full kraft mailer + signed note
The Heirloom	$349	40%	60%	Where your work is most visible
Ceci × Lyric Dossier Heirloom Edition	$499–$799	50%	50%	Co-branded · co-designed · co-marketed
Add-ons (Pressed Record · vinyl · private release)	varies	same %	same	Same split as the tier

The mechanics

You front the material cost on each kit. You recover materials out of the first kits as they sell. After break-even on each batch, the split is pure margin. Margins are strong — 77–80% gross margin on the digital layer alone, even before we touch the physical. Your share comes out of the gross, not the residual after operational costs.

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 15Separate From the Deal

Two things I want to offer outside the financial split.

These are gifts, not negotiation. The financial deal stands on its own.

01 — Complimentary cases for your inner circle

One full Album-tier Lyric Dossier for you. Plus up to five complimentary kits for people in your circle — family, staff, close friends.

The only thing I'd ask in return: that they share their "song story" with me for marketing. A short interview. A photo of them holding the folder. Permission to use the song as a sample. That's it. No NDA. No exclusivity. No quota.

5 + 1 kits

02 — Ceci × Lyric Dossier Heirloom Edition

The halo product. We co-design a premium Heirloom case with embossed Ceci paper, letterpress lyric pages, calligraphed envelopes, navy + brass palette throughout. Sells at $499–$799.

50/50 on every unit. The Monte Carlo modeling already accounts for the price headroom. This is the SKU that gets the press attention.

50 / 50

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 16Sneak Peek · Unboxing

When you say yes, this is what we ship.

Two coordinated photography sets. The Album-tier paper collateral is the everyday product; the Heirloom is the halo. These slots are placeholders for the photography that comes out of the Ceci shoot. Each tile is a real shot in the sequence.

Album Tier · Paper Collateral (12 shots)

Heirloom + Pressed Record (15 shots)

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The Companion AppIn active development

The case file, in your pocket.

Native iOS application currently in active development. The same investigative voice — same kraft and typewriter register — adapted for one-handed intake at a kitchen table, on a train, at three in the morning when the customer remembers a detail they hadn't written down yet.

Splash screen — LD monogram on kraft — Splash

Onboarding hero — Bring the receipts. — Onboarding · Hero

Onboarding — how it works — How it works

Home — tier ladder + sample carousel — Home · Tier ladder

Checkout success — case opened — Case opened

Case detail — status timeline — Case detail · Reading

SwiftUI · iOS 17+ · TestFlight launch coordinated with public site launch · Stripe + Apple Pay one-time purchase

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Case No. CECI-0001 / 17The Ask

Thirty minutes.

I'd love a call at your convenience. I'll walk you through the questionnaire, the sample dossiers, the song demos, and the kit prototypes I have so far.

A 30-minute call

In person at your studio, or remote. Whatever's easiest.

Honest reactions

If the proposal needs reshaping, reshape it. The splits are a starting position. I'd rather hear it than be polite.

A simple MOU

If we're aligned, a one-page memo of understanding to write down the structure, and a start.

Abraham Rosenwald

aberosenwald@icloud.com · 203.391.1041 · lyricdossier.com

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