Five real scenarios from the first twelve partner engagements. Each one started with a 30-minute listen and a specific question. The numbers below are from production — pilot data, 2025.
A major-distributed indie with 12,400 works across four imprints. Derivative detection was manual — one person scanning YouTube and TikTok twice a month. Royalty reconciliation happened quarterly using spreadsheets; the rights team suspected money was leaking but couldn't quantify where.
Deployed Nomad Listen for continuous derivative scanning across all four imprints, plus Nomad Rights for automated statement reconciliation across PRS, GEMA, and ASCAP. The works graph was constructed in 5 days from catalogue masters and contract metadata.
3.9% of stated annual revenue. Derivative discovery rate increased 4× compared to manual scanning. 72% of recovered revenue came from neighbouring-rights claims the team didn't know existed.
A neighbouring-rights agency managing 8,900 works across Germany and France. The core issue: large volumes of broadcast and public-performance royalties were going unclaimed because the works couldn't be matched across GVL (DE) and SCPP (FR) registrations using metadata alone.
Nomad Rights ingested the full catalogue and constructed a cross-territory works graph linking GVL and SCPP registrations via audio fingerprint rather than metadata. AI-resolved splits where contract data was ambiguous or missing. Continuous reconciliation replaced quarterly manual matching.
7.0% of catalogue revenue. The majority came from works that were registered with one PRO but not the other — a problem invisible to metadata-only matching. Ongoing reconciliation now catches new discrepancies within 48 hours of statement arrival.
A publishing-first company running 6,000 works across UK and US territories. Three specific pain points: sync placements not being registered with the correct PRO, MLC mechanical disputes taking 6+ months to resolve, and derivative sync — covers used in campaigns without clearance — going undetected.
Nomad Rights for continuous mechanical reconciliation and dispute-evidence packaging. Nomad Listen for derivative-aware sync monitoring — scanning broadcast, streaming, and ad-placement feeds to detect when a derivative of a catalogue work appears in a commercial context.
£49K recovered in the first year from mis-routed mechanicals and unreported sync. MLC dispute resolution time dropped from 6 months to 6 weeks with evidence packages generated automatically from the works graph.
A management firm running 24 artists, primarily in indie electronic and ambient. No visibility into derivative revenue — covers and remixes were being posted without attribution, generating streams the original artists never saw. A&R pipeline for new signings relied entirely on personal networks and Spotify editorial playlists.
Nomad Listen fingerprinted the full catalogue and set up derivative streams for all 24 artists. Nomad A&R gave the management team a Friday listening queue — 15 embedding-ranked candidates per week, calibrated to the team's roster aesthetic over 3 months of feedback.
Derivative revenue went from effectively zero (untracked) to a continuous pipeline surfacing 40+ derivatives per month across the roster. The Friday listening queue surfaced 3 artists the team eventually signed — none of whom appeared on any trending list at the time.
A sync agency managing an 18,000-cue production music library for TV, advertising and games. Two recurring pain points: finding the right cue for a brief took hours of manual listening, and clearing a cue required checking whether a derivative was already running on a competing campaign — a process done manually and often missed.
Nomad Listen indexed the entire library and enabled sync-aware audio search: the agency submits a brief reference track, and Listen returns sonically similar cues from their own library — ranked by embedding distance, not metadata tags. Each result includes a derivative conflict check against active campaigns.
Brief-to-cue time dropped from 4 hours to 90 minutes on average. Derivative conflict checks that previously took a full day are now instant. Two potential conflicts were caught in the first quarter that would have resulted in competing-campaign issues.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute listen. Send us a catalogue sample and the specific question you're trying to answer — we'll come back with three signals before you commit to anything.