Unified Distribution, Licensing, and Royalty Management Platform
One system across distribution, licensing, and royalty accounting, replacing a patchwork of tools with a single platform the operations team runs the business on.
A distributor managing complex licensing agreements was operating with critical data fragmented across systems, spreadsheets, and websites, making royalties manual, contracts uncentralized, and client visibility nearly impossible. In this engagement, we engineered a single operational platform that connected signing, catalog hierarchy management, contract execution, royalty statements, invoicing, and real-time analytics.
The platform transformed fragmented workflows into a centralized operation with role-based access for stakeholders from label managers to business affairs teams.
The decision
The decision was to build around a single catalog and rights hierarchy rather than automate isolated tasks across a fragmented stack. Signing, contract execution, royalty statements, invoicing, balances, and analytics would share one operational source with role-based access for internal teams and clients.
Operational infrastructure
- Unified catalog hierarchy for licensors, labels, releases, and contract structures.
- Role-based access designed for cross-functional teams and client stakeholders.
- Digital contract execution integrated with e-signature workflows.
- Automated statements + invoicing to reduce manual quarterly processing.
- Real-time analytics for balances, payments, and operational visibility.
Insights Earned Across Industries
Every industry has its own language. But many of the hardest software problems repeat: messy workflows, disconnected systems, complex permissions, reporting gaps, and users who need better tools to do their jobs. Stratos works across healthcare, financial services, benefits, logistics, real estate, education, music technology, and other operationally complex sectors. That breadth gives us more than category familiarity. It gives us a working library of proven patterns. Clients benefit not only from what we understand about their industry, but from what we have already solved in others.
Reusable lessons. Faster decisions. Stronger software.