Your music already earned the money. Collecting it is the annoying part.
Doubly is a publishing administrator for writers, publishers and rightsholders. We keep your metadata clean and collect what the societies owe you, on a system we built ourselves. Fully independent, bootstrapped with no investors.
Free, no signup, no sales call.
What we do
Publishing money goes missing in the metadata
Catalog and repertoire management is the whole job. A work registered badly, or matched to the wrong recording, does not pay. Chasing the statement will not fix that. Correcting the registration at the source will, and that is the part we do.
Onboard and clean
We resolve the identifiers everything depends on. Recordings to works, writers to shares, duplicates consolidated. Think of it as a souped-up power washer for metadata.
Audit and fix registrations
With clean, canonical metadata to work from, our system finds the gaps. Then we go to the societies to correct what is wrong and register what was never filed at all.
Monitor continuously
We watch your catalog around the world, so when something breaks we hear about it immediately rather than a quarter (or two, or five) later. Every report back from the PROs and CMOs sharpens our canonical picture of your catalog.
The tool
Blackbox tells you what you are missing from The MLC
Paste a Spotify artist link. Blackbox checks every recording against the public registration data and shows you what is unregistered or unclaimed, and roughly what you will lose when The MLC starts paying out by market share in 2027.
Under a minute. No email wall.
We built it for the catalogs we administer, then gave it away. Every fix it suggests you can make yourself, for free.
Why us
We're a rightsholder who got tired of working in spreadsheets
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We know where it hides
Over a decade of this teaches you the patterns. The duplicate registration nobody consolidated, the work that never got an ISWC, the share that quietly lost its owner. You are not paying us to learn on your catalog.
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We meet you where you are
We are a music company that builds its own tools, not a tech company looking for customers. This is not a new tool your team has to learn. Send us your spreadsheets exactly as they are, no templates to fill in.
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Small team, real capacity
Automation does the repetitive part, which is why a team this small can look after a lot of repertoire. Taking you on does not mean putting you in a queue behind somebody bigger.
Who you'll actually talk to
Nate “Knaught” Beck
Co-founder, CEO and CTO
Twenty years an engineer, and the reason any of this is automated. Spends most days heads down in the code. We let him out of the basement for conferences and the occasional sandwich.
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Ryan “Taffy” Capps
Co-founder, Chief Anxiety Officer
Co-founded Ninety9Lives and Pretzel, then spent a decade as a full-time content creator before getting roped back into the music industry. Your day-to-day contact.
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Tell us what you have
We work with independent songwriters, publishers and rightsholders who have a catalog to look after. Tell us roughly what you have and we will go and look. If there is nothing worth chasing, we will say so. Costs nothing, no obligation.
Be honest about the mess. We have seen worse, we promise.
Self-administered writer with a handful of works?
Run a free Blackbox check instead. Everything it finds you can fix yourself for nothing, and covers are not worth chasing either way, because if somebody else wrote it the publishing is not yours.