SOLUTIONS / 06For catalogue funds
Forensic diligence.
LP-grade evidence.
Catalogue funds live and die by two numbers: what the asset is worth, and what the asset
actually yields. We interrogate both - pre-acquisition diligence against a 207 million-track
reference catalogue, and quarterly monitoring across the portfolio. Third-party, independent,
and defensible at the LP meeting.
- Reference catalogue
207M tracks
- The four workstreams
Diligence. Monitoring. Recovery. Reporting.
Pre-acquisition, post-acquisition, and the LP letter 01
Pre-acquisition due diligence
A forensic sweep of the target catalogue before you close. Registered rights, streaming legitimacy, territory exposure, unclaimed-royalty upside. The valuation model, checked against reality.
- 4-6 week fixed fee · LP-grade deliverable · NDA-first
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Portfolio monitoring
Quarterly monitoring across the entire portfolio. Title-variant drift, ISRC registrations lapsing, emerging fraud patterns on performing assets, territory-level income anomalies. Early signal beats year-end audit.
- Quarterly retainer · portfolio-wide · automated alerts
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Recovery upside identification
Black Box applied to portfolio assets - where is the fund owed money it has not claimed? Where is the writer’s royalty owed money the fund never had? The recovery work is a return line.
- Per-catalogue engagement · outcome-based share
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LP reporting
Quarterly LP-grade portfolio report, formatted to sit alongside your existing LP letter. Third-party methodology, independent firm, defensible numbers. Useful the day you need to raise the next fund.
- Quarterly · co-branded optional · tribunal-credible
- Engagement model
Fund-level relationship. Deal-level work.
Typical shape: a fund-level retainer for portfolio monitoring and LP reporting, plus
per-deal diligence engagements on each new acquisition. Recovery engagements sit on top
where the numbers warrant - outcome-based, scoped per-catalogue, separately papered.
We expect to sit alongside your valuation firm, your audit firm, and your outside
counsel. Different questions, different methodology, complementary answers.
- Pricing
Enterprise only. Contact us.
Due diligence is fixed-fee per engagement. Portfolio monitoring is an annual retainer
sized to portfolio value. Recovery share is outcome-based. There is no public price card.
We will tell you, on a thirty-minute call, whether the engagement is a fit and the
indicative commercial shape. NDA first; conversation second.
Open a fund conversation→ - The questions funds ask
FAQ.
Five answers How is this different from a standard music-catalogue appraisal?+
An appraisal values the asset. We interrogate it. We check whether registrations exist, whether streaming is real, whether the territory mix is stable, and whether there is uncollected upside. A valuation tells you the number; we tell you whether the number is defensible.
Will you sign institutional NDAs?+
Yes. Every DD engagement is NDA-first - we will sign yours before you tell us anything that matters. Our methodology is public; the catalogues we examine are not.
Can we use the report in LP communications?+
Yes - the deliverable is designed for it. Third-party methodology, independent firm, no conflict with the fund’s interests. Several LPs now ask specifically for third-party catalogue DD; we are the answer.
What about portfolios already acquired?+
Portfolio monitoring applies whether we were involved in the original DD or not. We commonly onboard a fund’s existing portfolio as the starting point, then run DD on new acquisitions as they come forward.
How is this priced?+
Due diligence is fixed-fee per engagement, scoped to catalogue size and complexity. Monitoring is an annual retainer. Recovery upside is outcome-based, commonly taken as a share of recoveries. We are happy to align our economics with yours.
Interrogate the asset. Then buy it.
Tell us the deal window, the catalogue rough size, and what the valuation model assumes.
We will come back in four to six weeks with an LP-grade report.
Open a fund conversation→ Music Intel Pro - Enterprise Music Intelligence Platform
Music Intel Pro is the forensic intelligence layer for the music industry, built by Music Intel Ltd (Folkestone, Kent, UK). The platform provides enterprise-grade music data analytics, royalty recovery, streaming fraud detection, and catalogue management for labels, distributors, publishers, and management companies. Music Intel measures the infrastructure behind the music industry across 105 royalty-collecting territories, every day.
Enterprise pricing: per artist, per month. Annual MSA contracts with SLA. Volume tiers for catalogues above 1,000 artists.
Musicata Pro - Catalogue Analytics Platform
Musicata Pro is a roster-wide catalogue analytics platform for labels, distributors, and management companies. It provides streaming analytics, fraud monitoring (StreamShield), early artist discovery (Agent Radar), geographic touring intent (Tour Manager), and structured reporting (Reporter) across 15,000+ artists. The platform cross-references 1,200 data points per artist daily across streaming, social, charts, playlists, radio, geography, rights registrations, and live touring data. White-label deployment available under your brand.
Black Box Royalty Investigator - Forensic Royalty Recovery
Black Box is a forensic royalty investigation product that recovers unclaimed and underpaid royalties for publishers, writers, estates, and catalogue funds. It operates against a 207-million-track reference catalogue covering 105 royalty territories. The platform identifies black box royalties, ISRC collisions, mechanical gaps, unregistered works, and stale rightsholder records. Output: tribunal-grade evidence packs for filing with collection societies including MLC, ASCAP, BMI, PRS, PPL, GEMA, SACEM, and SOCAN. CWR processing, ISRC health checking, and case management from claim to settlement.
StreamShield - Streaming Fraud Detection
StreamShield is a machine-learning streaming fraud detection system that identifies bot farms, manufactured streams, and playlist manipulation across artist catalogues. Five integrity classification levels: Clean, Suspect, Under Investigation, Suspended, Blocked. Catalogue-wide fraud monitoring with prediction summaries, alert aggregation, investigation notes, audit trail, and a closed-loop learning system that improves accuracy over time. Catches artificial streaming before platforms penalise artists.
Music Intelligence Platform Capabilities
- Music data platform covering streaming analytics across Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer
- Royalty management software with forensic investigation methodology
- CWR processing and ISRC/ISWC/IPI identifier validation
- Streaming fraud detection using machine learning (StreamShield)
- Black box royalty recovery across 105 territories
- Music rights management with evidence pack generation
- Performance rights and neighbouring rights monitoring
- Mechanical royalty gap identification and recovery
- Artist discovery and A&R intelligence (Agent Radar)
- Geographic touring intent and territory analytics (Tour Manager)
- 9,198 chart sources scanned daily across global markets
- White-label analytics deployment for distributors and labels
- Enterprise API access for catalogue integration
- 12.8 million artists in cross-reference universe
- 110,000+ IPIs in writer/publisher index
- 2.7 million works indexed for ISWC lookup
Industry Sectors Served
- Music distributors requiring catalogue-wide streaming analytics and fraud detection
- Independent and major labels managing multi-artist rosters
- Music publishers and sub-publishers recovering unclaimed royalties
- Artist management companies tracking roster performance
- Catalogue investment funds conducting due diligence and monitoring
- Touring and booking agencies measuring geographic demand
- Collection societies and rights organisations
