About
Small on purpose. Direct by design.
Verilux Music is a music publisher, label and non-exclusive sync agent based in Bozeman, Montana. We represent independent artists for sync licensing only, and we pitch their music directly to music supervisors, ad agencies and creative directors.
The name
Veritas and lux. True light.
The name is a promise about paperwork as much as about music. In sync, the thing that kills a placement is rarely the song — it is the ambiguity behind it. Two titles for one recording. A co-writer nobody can reach. A master quietly committed somewhere else. A cue sheet that does not match the registration.
Verilux exists to remove that ambiguity before a buyer ever hears the track. One-stop or easy-clear, never retitled, an instrumental on every cue, and a complete split sheet — plus any work-for-hire agreements — on file. That is unglamorous work, and it is most of the job.
Who you are dealing with
Daniel Hartzheim
Founder, Verilux Music — Bozeman, Montana.
Daniel founded Verilux Music to represent independent artists in sync on terms he would sign himself. He is also a working writer and producer, which is the reason the deal looks the way it does: 40% of the upfront sync fee and nothing else — no publishing, no writer’s share, no PRO administration, no retitling. Every clause in the agreement was read from the artist’s side of the table first.
He is a Berklee College of Music alum, where he studied on a film scoring scholarship and was a consistent top winner in the songwriting department’s competitions. Scoring taught him how music serves a picture; the songwriting side taught him what makes a song worth reaching for in the first place. Both are the whole of this job.
He is also a Sync Summit member, which is where a lot of the education and the relationship-building in this business began, and he spends most of his week doing the two things that matter: listening to catalogs and talking to the people who choose music for a living.
When you email Verilux, you are emailing Daniel. He searches the catalog, writes the shortlist, quotes the fee, signs the license and sends the statement. For a buyer that means no relay and no "let me check with publishing." For an artist it means one person who is accountable for what happens to your track.
Based in Montana
Bozeman, with direct flights to both Los Angeles and Nashville when a room is worth being in. The rest of the time there are mountains out the window and very little noise — which turns out to be a good condition for listening carefully.
Sync only
Verilux holds sync licensing rights and nothing else. No distribution, no ownership, no administration. A narrow grant is a fast grant.
Early-stage, and honest about it
Verilux is new. We stand behind our response times — clearance answers and quotes come back fast, and that is a commitment. What we will never promise is a placement or a dollar figure, because nobody honest can.
How we work
Four commitments we are willing to be held to.
- Clean chain of title
- Every represented track is one-stop or easy-clear, is not retitled, and has never been registered with any PRO under an alternate title. If either the master or the composition is exclusively committed elsewhere, we pass on it.
- Direct pitching
- We pitch directly to music supervisors, ad agencies and creative directors. No middle-tier resale, no anonymous marketplace listing, no third party quoting your music without your knowledge.
- Transparent accounting
- The artist’s share goes out within 30 days of cleared funds, with a statement naming licensee, project, territory, media and gross fee — so the split can always be checked against the number it came from.
- Delivered the way you already work
- The catalog lives on Disco and Bridge.audio, so a shortlist arrives as a link your team can play, download and pass around without a new login. Prefer plain files in a folder? That is fine too — we will send whatever drops into your process with the least friction.
Get in touch
Two doors, one desk.
Buyers: send the brief and we will come back fast. Artists: read the terms, then apply.
I got rhythm, I got music —“I Got Rhythm” · George & Ira Gershwin, 1930 · public domain
who could ask for anything more?