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Custom AI/ML solutions for music industry

Custom AI and ML for music labels, publishers, catalog acquirers, and music PE. From valuation models and sync prediction to royalty recovery — built per-deal, not as SaaS.
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13.7–17x

2025 catalog multiples by vintage: 13.7x for younger masters, 17x+ for older masters and publishing (Citrin Cooperman).

$426.9M

Historical black-box mechanicals the MLC received from 21 DSPs for 2007–2020 usage — the scale metadata matching goes after.

19%

Creators, marketers, and music supervisors already using generative AI to find or create music for video (Berklee, June 2026).

Achieve immediate, organization-wide results

Six measurable outcomes across A&R, catalog valuation, royalty recovery, and sync — deployed in months, not years.

Per-Track Decay Modeling

Forecast catalog cash flow at song level for 25-year horizons. Beats blanket multiples on every PE deal we've modeled.

Sync Prediction & Search

Mood, tempo, and lyrical-content models so supervisors find your tracks before competitors do.

Royalty Leakage Recovery

Graph-theoretic metadata matching that recovers unclaimed publishing and sound-recording royalties at scale.

A&R & Hit Discovery

Streaming + social + TikTok early signals fused into one ranking that flags rising artists before the trending charts.

AI-Clone Risk Pricing

Voice-cloning exposure modeling priced against live licensing terms. Universal settled with Udio in October 2025 and Warner with Suno in November 2025; Universal and Sony are still litigating against Suno.

Streaming Fraud Detection

Play-velocity anomalies and stream-laundering classifiers that protect royalty pools before payouts go out.

Capabilities across the music industry value chain

A&R & Hit Discovery

  • Streaming + social + TikTok early-signal ranking
  • Mood, tempo, key, and harmonic feature extraction
  • Demographic and regional resonance modeling
  • Hit-likelihood scoring with explainable drivers

Catalog M&A & Valuation

  • Per-track decay curves for 25-year cash-flow forecasts
  • AI-clone risk haircut pricing for voice-vulnerable catalogs
  • Sync-earning probability per track with confidence intervals
  • AI-training-license revenue option valuation

Royalty & Rights Intelligence

  • Graph-based metadata matching for black-box recovery
  • Streaming-revenue anomaly detection per market
  • Cover, sample, and AI-derivative fingerprinting
  • PRO and publishing claim reconciliation at scale

Sync, Distribution & Marketing

  • Sync-brief-to-track matching with mood vectors
  • Micro-sync (TikTok/Reels) clip prediction
  • Release-timing and territory-targeting models
  • Streaming fraud classifiers for payout protection
From the playbook

How a music PE buyer used per-track ML to avoid a $5M overpayment

A music-rights PE fund evaluating an $80M catalog asked us to validate the seller’s blanket 14x NPS multiple. We built per-track decay models for the top 200 songs (which drove 78% of revenue), layered in AI-clone risk exposure on the 12 voice-recognizable artists, and modeled sync-earning probability on the 40 tracks tagged for film/TV potential. Real fair value came in at $75M, not $80M. The buyer walked into the renegotiation with a $5M discount they could defend line by line — and closed at $76.5M.

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A 45-minute scoping call. We’ll come prepared with your catalog profile, current market multiples, and a directional read on which models move the needle on your deals.

Ask us about

  • Per-track catalog valuation for PE due diligence
  • Black-box royalty recovery with metadata matching
  • Sync prediction and AI music search for supervisors
  • TikTok virality and micro-sync placement models
  • AI-clone risk haircut pricing for catalog buyers
  • Streaming fraud detection for royalty-pool protection

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    Frequently asked questions

    Yes — they're separate model heads stacked on the same feature engineering. Decay-curve modeling answers "what cash flow can we underwrite over 25 years," sync-likelihood modeling answers "which tracks should we pitch to film/TV supervisors next quarter." Most buyers train both because the audio and metadata features overlap heavily.
    We score voice recognizability per artist using audio similarity to base voice models plus prevalence of clone content already in the wild. Catalogs with high-clone-risk artists carry a 5–15% haircut in our default scoring, but we tune the magnitude to your portfolio's actual AI-training-license posture and any opt-out filings on file. Universal settled with Udio in October 2025 and Warner with Suno in November 2025, both tied to licensed services rolling out through 2026. Universal and Sony are still litigating against Suno, so clone exposure prices deal by deal rather than off a settled market rate.
    Yes. The MLC, Music Reports (which acquired metadata-matching platform Blokur in 2024), and major publishers have all reported six- to seven-figure recoveries from graph-based metadata matching. Lift depends on your starting metadata quality and which territories you collect in — independent publishers and PE-owned catalogs tend to have the most leakage to recover.
    No. We start with a representative slice — typically the top 200–500 earners — to prove ROI before scaling. All data sits in your environment or a single-tenant cloud account you own; we never co-mingle catalogs across clients.

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