Mandate

Osage Management represents artists, athletes, writers, and public figures whose work serves the diaspora and the wider communities adjacent to it. Indigenous representation is the founding mandate; the roster widens to allied practitioners whose work the house can stand behind. We are not a volume agency; we work concentrated, on standing terms, and we are willing to turn away business that doesn’t fit.

Practice areas

• Film & television
  Actors, directors, showrunners, and writers; production-side and talent-side advisory.
• Music
  Recording artists and composers; touring, label, publishing, sync, and sponsorship.
• Sports
  Athletes and coaches; contract negotiation, endorsement, post-career planning.
• Literary
  Authors, journalists, and public intellectuals; books, columns, broadcast, lectures.
• Indigenous arts
  Painters, beadworkers, sculptors, and dancers; gallery representation and commission work — never ceremonial regalia.
• Public figures
  Speakers, broadcasters, and statespeople; appearance bookings, brand work, and editorial.

How we work with clients

• Standing relationships, not deal-flow. We sign clients we expect to represent across a career arc; the agreement defaults to ten years and renews on standing terms.
• One agent of record. Each client is owned by a named agent who is reachable on standing terms; we do not run pooled-account workflows.
• Whole-career posture. Contract negotiation, deal selection, brand work, press, public speaking, post-career planning, and personal-services counsel coordinated under one roof.
• Aligned compensation. Standard agency commission for booked work; flat-fee retainers for advisory engagements. No hidden split with the buyer side.
• Adjacent services. Wealth coordination through Osage Family, structured personal vehicles through Osage Fund, counsel through Osage Legal, on-chain rights via Osage Network where appropriate.

Ceremonial protocol

Sacred materials — songs, dances, regalia, and ceremonial objects — are not commodities. Osage Management never licenses, depicts, or commercialises ceremonial regalia, songs, or dances on behalf of any client. Where a client’s practice intersects sacred material, the engagement proceeds only under the consent of the relevant tribal authority, with confidentiality preserved in perpetuity.

What we will not do

Engagements that depict or commercialise ceremonial material without proper consent. Endorsements of products or services our general counsel will not put a name to. Tabloid placements on behalf of clients. Engagements that require us to mis-represent the client’s standing or background. Speculative submissions to projects we have not been engaged to handle.

Sister divisions

• osage.bet — wagering and prediction markets.
• osage.poker — the poker hall.
• osage.live — live events and streams.
• osage.media — the diaspora’s editorial and broadcast arm.

Engagement

Representation inquiries: [email protected] — one paragraph on who you are, a link to recent work, and what you want next is enough. Buyer-side bookings: [email protected]. Press: [email protected].