MusAIc by ~MAK

A career in four minutes

The stories, the inside jokes, the things everyone will miss. A retirement song built from a real career, played at the party, and remembered long after the last day.

The retirement is when you give it

You are here because of a retirement. That is the date the song has to be ready — it was never what the song is about.

Yours will not be a song about retirements. It will be about the career and the person who had it — what breaks when they leave, and what they are retiring to, and it will be finished in time for the day. That is the whole difference between something played once and something played every year after.

Which is why we ask so much about them, and so little about the retirement.

Hear one

Built Mine

Off the shelf, not a commission — nobody ordered this one. It asks the question a retirement song has to answer: whether the thing you built holds up after you are gone. It is here so you can hear the register before you buy one.

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Written from one man's real details, names and all, which is the whole method: the specific true things go in, and they are what make it land instead of a plaque with a tune. Yours would start from the career you actually had.

What you get

  • A fully produced original retirement tribute
  • Built from career highlights, team memories, and personality
  • Six finished versions every time we build it — whole songs, and every one yours to keep
  • Delivered as both a WAV master and an MP3 — the WAV is the studio file we never sell off the shelf, the MP3 is the copy that travels
  • Personal-use license
  • Perfect for retirement parties and farewell events

Retirement Songs

From $100

Six finished versions every time we build it, all yours to keep. $100, $150 or $200 — what changes is how many times you get to say “not quite that”.

2–3 days · +$50 next working day · +$100 by 5pm tomorrow

Have a date? We beat it or the song is free — and you keep it.

Start your retirement song

What to send us

A career is too big for four minutes, so the job is choosing. The briefs that turn out best are specific and slightly unflattering — the running joke, the thing they always said, the disaster everyone survived together. Job titles and years of service are the least useful thing you can send us; they are the part a card already covers.

  • How long, where, and what they actually did — in plain words, not the job description
  • The phrase they say so often the whole team can finish it
  • One story the room will recognise in the first line
  • What breaks when they leave — the thing only they knew how to do
  • What they are retiring TO: the boat, the grandkids, the workshop, nothing at all
  • Anyone who should be named, and anyone who definitely should not be

Common questions

Is it for them, or for the room?

Tell us which one leads and we will build to it. A song written for the party gets laughs for four minutes. A song written for the person gets played again on a Tuesday in March, alone, years later. Most briefs want some of both — but they are different songs, and the difference is decided before the first line is written, not after.

What if they would hate being roasted?

Then they will not be. Warmth and roast are a dial we set from your brief, not a house style. Plenty of people spend a career deflecting attention and would find a tribute excruciating; if that is your person, say so plainly in the order form and the song will do its work sideways instead.

Can the whole team send stories?

Yes, and the good ones usually do. One person orders and stays our single point of contact — we do not chase a group chat — but the material can come from twenty people. Collect it however you like and paste it in. More detail is better than tidier detail; we do the choosing.

How long do we have?

Standard is 2–3 days. Have a date? We beat it or the song is free — and you keep it. Rush buys speed, not a better guarantee — +$50 for the next working day, +$100 to have it by 5pm tomorrow. Ordering a week out? You do not need either. Rush is what makes a last-minute order possible at all.

Can we play it at the party and then post it?

The party is personal use and it is covered — play it, hand out copies, put it on a screen with photos. Posting it on company channels, or using it in recruiting or advertising, is commercial use and needs the commercial license, which lives on the Teams & Business page. Ask before the event rather than after; it is cheaper and simpler that way.

Retiring from a company rather than a job? Teams & Business covers commissions that carry a commercial license.

Start Your Retirement Song — from $100