Nomad Rights treats a music catalogue as a continuously-evolving graph of splits, derivatives, sub-publishers, neighbouring rights and territory carve-outs. Every PRO statement is reconciled against that graph the day it lands. Every discrepancy becomes a tracked claim. Every claim ends in either a payment or an evidence trail explaining why it didn't.
Music royalty data flows through dozens of intermediaries across 32+ territories with inconsistent metadata, missing ISRCs, missing ISWCs and rampant misattribution. A catalogue with 6,000 works typically has 11% silently mis-routed at any given time. The structural breakage isn't a bug; it's just what happens when a 1920s royalty system was extended onto a global streaming economy without anyone ever rebuilding the foundation.
The money goes missing in four specific places: unmatched neighbouring rights in continental Europe, black-box mechanicals in Latin America, royalties paid on derivatives that didn't back-propagate to the original work, and sync placements not registered with the right PRO. We've reconciled eight catalogues in pilot. Recovery ranged from 3.4% to 9.7% of stated annual revenue. Median: 5.1%.
From your catalogue ingestion, plus PRO registrations, plus contract metadata, we construct a graph of every work, every recording, every split, and every territory's specific carve-outs. The graph is the source of truth — not the spreadsheet your publishing admin maintains in parallel.
Where contract metadata is missing or contradicts itself (and it almost always does), our resolver proposes the most likely split based on the contract corpus, PRO filings, and the publisher's own historical patterns. Every AI-resolved split is flagged and visible — never silent.
The moment a PRO, MLC or distributor statement lands, we run it against the works graph. Every line either matches a known expectation, generates a claim for under-payment, or surfaces an over-payment we expect to be reversed. Continuous, not quarterly.
Each claim carries the evidence — the audio match (if it came from Nomad Listen), the contract clause, the territory rule, the PRO line — and a state machine that moves through dispute, resolution and payment. Nothing falls through; everything has an owner.
Quarterly recovery reports are defensible to a CFO, an investor, or a court. Every recovered pound or dollar traces back to the specific claim that produced it. We will never publish a number we cannot defend.
Every resolved claim feeds back into the graph. Misattributions get fixed at their source. Over time, your catalogue's silent error rate drops from 11% toward zero. Reconciliation gets cheaper because the graph gets better.
| Catalogue type | Works | Annual revenue (£) | Recovered | % gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major-distributed indie | 12,400 | 4.8M | 187K | 3.9% |
| Independent label A | 3,100 | 820K | 52K | 6.3% |
| Independent label B | 5,800 | 1.4M | 134K | 9.7% |
| Independent label C | 2,400 | 610K | 21K | 3.4% |
| NR specialist (DE) | 8,900 | 2.1M | 148K | 7.0% |
| NR specialist (FR) | 11,200 | 3.2M | 166K | 5.2% |
| Publishing-first A | 6,000 | 1.1M | 49K | 4.5% |
| Publishing-first B | 9,800 | 2.6M | 130K | 5.0% |
Pilot data, 2025. Annual revenue figures are stated catalogue revenue at the time of audit; recovery figures are first-year recovered royalty net of reconciliation cost. Catalogue identifiers are anonymised at the request of the rights-holders. Eight engagements, median gain 5.1%, range 3.4–9.7%.
60-day catalogue audit. Fixed price. Hard deliverable: a written reconciliation report and the underlying claims pipeline. About 80% of audits become longer Nomad Rights engagements. The other 20% don't — and that's a fair outcome.