Read your statement like a forensic accountant.
Upload any royalty statement (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR, or the MLC) and Data Doom scans it for three specific problems: an unaffiliated publisher entity that's silently leaking your publisher share into a redistribution pool, anomalies in the math (impossibly low rates, missing recordings, zero-dollar payment rows), and any third-party administrator that does appear in the document with a dollar amount attached. The forensic read takes about a minute. Receipts, not hunches.
- If your writer statement shows no publisher entity at all, the publisher's 50% is leaking into the PRO's market-share redistribution pool.
- BMI writers are exempt — BMI pays both shares through the writer account by default, no separate publisher needed.
- Fixable by affiliating a publisher entity with your PRO. We name the next step.
- Impossibly low per-stream rates — usually a sign of a bundled subscription tier paying out of whack.
- $0.00 payment rows for recordings that should have paid.
- Missing tracks the rest of your catalog suggests should be there.
- Share-percentage math that doesn't add up across writers.
- MLC publisher statements that landed in your hands directly — the publisher column names whoever's administering each work.
- ASCAP publisher statements (separate from your writer statement) if you happen to have one.
- Any third-party name visible in the document gets flagged with the dollar amount routed.
Run this once per statement you have. The most useful single document for the third-party admin question, today, is an MLC publisher statement — but those typically go to your admin, not to you. The repertoire-lookup integration in active development will close that gap by looking up your works in Songview directly.
We accept any recent statement from BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR, or the MLC. PDF or image format, up to 30 MB. Your file is read once, the findings are returned to you, and the statement itself is not stored.
We read the statement once, return the report, and never upsell the upload itself. If the report shows leakage, we make it easy to do something about it — but the report is yours either way.
Repertoire lookup — the missing piece
A statement scan can only show you what's on the statement. A writer's PRO statement does not show third-party administrators — that information lives in the PRO public repertoire (Songview, joint ASCAP/BMI). We're integrating a repertoire-lookup step that takes your writer name, queries the public repertoire, and flags any third-party admin attached to your works, cross-referenced against any statement you upload here.
When it ships, the original "are you actually self-administering?" question gets a real answer — not a hopeful one. Until then, this page is the anomaly scan, and the dollar figures it returns are exact.