Music royalty management starts with hundreds of complex data points. Different contract terms for every artist. Thousands, if not millions, of sales lines from each of your distributors. Unique identifiers for every track and release. And your team has to sift through these data points every time you need to update a contract term, confirm a royalty statement balance, or answer an artist’s question. Every period, your team spends valuable time verifying figures, editing contract setups, and building confidence in your calculations before statements go out.
That’s why we built music royalty AI into the platform. Our AI assistant, Toni, lives inside Tone and can help you input and surface answers across your Sales, Costs, Catalog, Contracts, and Insights. Ask a question from wherever you are in the platform, and Toni will explain, search, analyze and suggest edits to your royalty data for you.
What Can a Music Royalty AI Assistant Actually Do?
Today, Toni can do tasks like read your contracts, surface information about your royalty data, simulate changes to your deal terms, flag errors and suggest edits (with your approval). But that’s the just beginning of what we plan to create with our AI assistant.
Learn more about Toni’s current capabilities and AI prompts you can start using today.
Can AI Read My Royalty Data?
Our AI, Toni, searches the section of the platform you’re currently in – sales, costs, catalog or contracts, so you can get answers without digging manually. Have a question about data from another section? Toni will tell you which tool to open and find the answers for you.
AI Prompts to Ask Toni:
- How many sales files have been uploaded for Q1 of this year?
- Are there any unmapped sales lines I need to map to catalog?
- List the files that have not been processed yet.
Can AI Explain Royalty Contract Terms?
From the contracts tool, Toni can review PDF contracts, identify and highlight specific deal terms and analyze your contract data within Tone. Have questions about deal terms? No need to dig through the PDF anymore, Toni can surface any detail and flag errors across your original contract and your Tone contract in easy-to-understand language.
AI Prompts to Ask Toni:
- Tell me when the contract for X artist expires and if there are any remaining deliverables expected?
- What is the recoupment status of X payee?
- Find all the contracts in my catalog that are missing sales rates.
Can AI make edits to my royalty data?
This is the newest and most exciting thing Toni can do for you. Upload a PDF contract, Toni will review it and suggest edits to match what’s actually in the document. No more worrying about a missed escalation clause, an incorrect advance amount, or a recoupment rate that doesn’t line up.
Toni will never make edits without your approval. Every suggested edit is a recommendation, not a change. Nothing updates in your account until you review it and approve.
AI Prompts to Ask Toni:
- Tell me which contracts are missing catalog? After you identify the contracts, suggest tracks to add and have me approve.
- Add a 20% sales rate for US sales on all of X payee’s contracts.
- Tell me all the contracts we have with X artist and determine if the 5% escalation for digital sales is added to all of their contracts.
Can AI project my royalty obligations for me?
Toni can model a royalty contract change and show you the financial outcome before you finalize a new deal term or payout. Ask about a new split, a different royalty rate, or an updated recoupment structure, and Toni runs the scenario against your contract data.
Toni’s ability to simulate means you have a clearer view of your business and its future. A change to one clause, an escalation threshold, or a cost rate, can have ripple effects to recoupment schedules or payout timing. Simulating the change first means you can see that effect, and catch surprises before they show up in payouts—instead of after.
AI Prompts to Ask Toni:
- Simulate the effects of adding an escalation rate of 15% to X payee if they hit X US sales.
- What would change if we raised the escalation threshold to $7M on X payee’s deal terms?
- Model X’s payout if we added a 50% cost participation clause?
Toni Is Free While We're in Beta
Toni is in beta, which means its constantly improving and learning. What it can do today may look different the next time you log in. For now, every capability above, edit suggestions, search, explain, simulate, and flag, is free to use. We’re actively gathering feedback and the way you use Toni is part of how we decide what to build next. So ask it everything. There’s no better time to find out how it can speed up your workflow.
Try Toni Today
Toni is live now inside your Tone account. Look for the sparkle icon in your navigation bar, click it from any page, and ask a real questions about your contracts that you’ve struggled to answer in the past.
We’re building Toni based on what royalty teams actually need. If you try something Toni can’t do yet, or wish it could, tell us. Send feedback here [insert support email?]
Toni and other AI capabilities are in active development and subject to change per Tone’s Terms of Use.