AI for music industry

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.
3–6x

Multiple compression on catalogs without per-track AI defense — buyers now demand song-level cash-flow proof.

$250M+

Annual black-box royalties globally recoverable with graph-theoretic metadata matching.

65% / 2026

Music supervisors expected to use AI tools for sync search by 2026.

Achieve immediate, organization-wide results

Six measurable outcomes across underwriting, claims, and actuarial functions — 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 so PE buyers price catalogs against today's haircut, not 2021 comps.

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

Catalog M&A & Valuation

Royalty & Rights Intelligence

Sync, Distribution & Marketing

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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    Frequently asked questions

    Can the model rank tracks for both M&A diligence and sync potential?
    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.
    Yes. The MLC, Music Reports/Blokur, 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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