How Cue compares with Claude alone
We asked both the same questions. Claude alone answers from what it remembers. Cue answers from Qloo's taste data, scores matches in code and only shows names that exist in Qloo. Both use the same Claude model, so Qloo is the difference.
1 · Smaller US artists: who should they pitch to?
12 lesser-known US artists that Qloo knows, such as Major Murphy, Annie DiRusso and Babehoven. These are the artists Cue is built for. There is no single right answer for them, so we measure how specific and how reachable each system's suggestions are.
Suggestions repeated for other artists
Same title suggested to 3 or more different artists. Lower means answers fit the artist, not a generic list.
How big the suggestions are
Median popularity in Qloo of what was suggested. Lower means smaller, more realistic placements for an indie artist.
Names not found in Qloo
Suggestions Qloo has no exact match for. Not always invented, but not checkable.
Side by side
Three of the twelve artists, first six suggestions each. Both systems have weak spots: Cue also suggested Cyberpunk 2077 to Annie DiRusso, and repeats a few favourites such as Sandra.
Shrinking · High Fidelity · Licorice Pizza · Life Is Strange · Somebody Somewhere · Dave
Aftersun · Past Lives · Sandra · Joe Pera Talks with You · PEN15 · Saint Frances
Normal People · Station Eleven · Life Is Strange · Never Have I Ever · Aftersun · The Bear
Return to Seoul · Tár · Undertale · A Love Song · Ali & Ava · TOEM
Friday Night Lights · The Bear · Life Is Strange · Firewatch · Patagonia · Normal People
Sandra · Untitled Goose Game · Homecoming · Rough Trade · DTR - The Official Tinder Podcast · TOEM
2 · Supervisors asking for lesser-known artists
Both were told to suggest lesser-known, still-active artists for a show, film or game. We checked every suggestion's popularity in Qloo.
Suggestions that really are under the radar
At or under popularity 80 in Qloo.
Names not found in Qloo
Across all known-placement rows.
3 · Famous placements, as a sanity check
27 well-documented placements, such as Kate Bush in Stranger Things. Claude alone finds 96% of them and Cue 4%. That is expected: these placements are famous, so Claude can recall them from training, while Cue matches on audience taste and doesn't know placement history. Famous artists aren't who Cue is for.
Scores come from python -m cue.eval in the repo. Only scores are published; raw Qloo responses never are.