Claimright

$630.5M

in US mechanical royalties is sitting unmatched or unclaimed, from 2021–2025 usage. As of March 2026.

Unmatched. Unclaimed. Recovered.

We build tools that find royalties hidden in music data: unmatched recordings, unclaimed works, duplicates and mismatches, across catalogs of any size.

The problem

Every year, more than a hundred million dollars in royalties owed to songwriters and music publishers goes uncollected. Not because the money wasn't earned, but because the data behind it is incomplete, mismatched, duplicated or missing. The volume of this data has outgrown the tools publishing teams have to handle it.

Royalties that remain uncollected are eventually distributed by market share. That means each publisher receives a share based on its size, rather than on what its works actually earned. In the United States, the first of these distributions is planned for 2027. Market share distributions are a reasonable fallback, but we believe the money should reach the songwriters and publishers it belongs to.

What we build

Less searching. More recovering.

Our tools find the royalties publishers are missing. They surface unclaimed works in a publisher's catalog and suggest the right work for recordings that were never matched.

They also find the data problems behind them. Our tools connect a catalog to its recordings, with audio to listen before you decide, and flag duplicate registrations and mismatched recordings. Every issue becomes a clear decision, with the data side by side.

Why we exist

We believe music data should be transparent.

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) makes its database available through its Bulk Data Access program, in a machine/computer-readable format, something few collectives anywhere have done. It's allowed independent companies to find and fix problems that used to stay hidden. Claimright exists because of that transparency. We want to see others around the world follow, so the same work can happen in every territory where songwriters are owed money.

Our goal

Our goal is for every publisher to have a simple and reliable way to claim what they administer. When publishers collect, the songwriters they represent get paid. We want the black box to shrink to a fraction of what it is today.