Refining a mid-size indie’s stack and looking for tool combos that catch missing money and speed close. We’re on Curve Royalty Systems + Songtrust + SoundExchange direct, contracts in Contractbook, payouts via Trolley; after reconciling about 2.1M lines in Q3 we still saw about 3.8% variance on UGC — what would you swap in or add?
I’d add a fingerprint audit layer like Pex (https://www.pex.com) to chase the “3.8% variance on UGC” — run weekly unmatched-audio pulls, push claims to YT CID/TikTok via your distributor, and loop ISRC/ISWC fixes back into Curve. For faster close, stage UGC reports in BigQuery with dbt to pre-agg before ingest — like putting a sieve on a firehose; are you handling Content ID in-house or via your distributor?
Going YouTube CMS-direct and feeding a nightly ISRC-ISWC crosswalk out of Curve cut our UGC variance from about 3.8% to about 1.5% because we could set Shorts-specific policies and clear ownership conflicts faster… @lee89’s audit angle is solid; if you stay indirect, Exactuals RAI (https://www.exactuals.com/rai) is a good backstop. Are you pulling video-level reports yet?