Finding original voices for Vishal Dadlani's show.
The Playlist features singers of original songs — not covers. I built both sides: the registration artists use to submit an entry, and the console the team uses to audition, screen, and shortlist.
For a show whose value is selection, the leverage isn't the submission form — it's the curator's console. How fast can a human go from a pile of entries to a confident shortlist?
An entry flow built around original work.
The registration captures the artist, their original song, and everything the team needs to judge it — framing "original, not cover" from the first field so ineligible submissions drop before they ever reach a curator's queue.
Designing a high-signal pipeline.
Filter at submission
Framing the form around original work discourages covers before they reach a curator — protecting the show's identity and the team's time.
Curator console is first-class
The bottleneck is human review, so the screening/shortlisting tool is a real product, not a spreadsheet of links.
One submission model
What the artist submits is exactly what the curator judges — keeping the data honest and decisions traceable.
Open call to shortlist, on one model.
+ curator screening
the entry flow
one submission model