Today we’d like to introduce you to PLN A Boutique Publishing & Creative House.
PLN A, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
PLN A was officially formed in 2025, though the pieces of it foundation have been building for the past 15 years. The 3 founders of PLN A are creatives in their own right. Christopher Hearn a songwriter, MC, and performer, Deven White-Revere a music producer and film producer, and Malcolm Marshall an instrumentalist and producer. In 2023, a Columbus-based cultural production group, Aisle 6 Collective set out to create a collaborative album including a variety of Columbus’ producers, writers, and artists. As contributors to the album, we noticed that there was a major gap in access to resources and industry knowledge among the larger group, but the level of talent was very high. From there, the seed was planted that later grew into PLN A, a publishing company and creative house. While it takes many forms, the overall goal is to empower our creative community of songwriters and producers through education, access to resources, and excellent strategy.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
The road has been jam packed with detours and tolls and rest stops and everything in between. Since formalizing PLN A in summer of 2025, we’ve hosted several community workshops both in person and online, facilitated album listening events, rollout strategies, co-writing sessions, and music releases, all while organizing company structure and offerings. The level of support and outreach we’ve received has proven to us that our initial assumption was right. An extremely active music community deserves an equally active infrastructure in order to help develop ideas, music, and most importantly the people who create them. We’ve had the challenge of shifting and adapting while actively collaborating with the people who have sought our support. We’ve been challenged with analyzing the pieces of the business as it is while building a structure based on a completely different set of rules – rules made to empower the creative instead of exploit them. The journey is a tough one, we’re just getting started, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
As you know, we’re big fans of PLN A. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
PLN A is a music publishing company and creative house meant to place as much ownership in the hands of writers, composers, and producers as possible. Our services include creative production, administration and accounting, strategy, and artist development. The most unique thing about us is less about what we do, and more about who we are. Our founders, collaborators, supporters, and overall community is deeply rooted in the fabric of the city. We’ve been around for the development of the creative community for the last 15 years and played every role within it throughout that time. Those relationships and that experience guide every business decision we make and every project we take on. Our baseline is to deepen connections and develop potential. Everything else answers to that. We focus on Quality, not scale. We focus on impact, not optics. And that’s all a reflection of the city and community we’re thankful to be a part of.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plna.pub/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pln-a/
