The royalty recovery platform
Your music has earned
money you've never seen.
Every year, billions in royalties never reach the artists who earned them — lost inside a global system too tangled to pay you. Clef finds what you're owed and gets it back.
Free to scan · You only pay when we recover.
The money isn't missing. It's just not reaching you.
$2.5B
Estimated unclaimed royalties sitting in the global “black box.”
$424M
Held at the U.S. Mechanical Licensing Collective alone, still unmatched to its owners.
3 yrs
How long unclaimed money waits before it's flushed out, often to the major labels, gone for good.
200+
Countries where your music can earn, each with its own society, rules, and ways to lose you.
Sources: MLC · CISAC · industry estimates.
It isn't your fault. The system is built to lose you.
01
Broken metadata
A song's recording and its composition are tracked by two different codes. When they aren't linked, the money has no way to find you.
02
Unregistered territories
Your song streams in Tokyo, Paris, and São Paulo, but you were never registered there to collect.
03
No global reach
Foreign societies collect your royalties but have no way to pay you without a publishing administrator chasing them.
04
Frozen splits
When co-writers' shares add up to more than 100%, the society freezes every dollar until someone resolves it.
05
Uncollected performance rights
Your distributor doesn't collect what you're owed from radio and satellite play. That's a separate claim almost no one makes.
06
The clock runs out
Societies hold unclaimed money for a few years, then hand it to the biggest players by market share.
Three steps. One name to start.
Step 01
Enter your name
That's all we need to begin. No statements to upload, no logins to hunt down.
Step 02
Clef scans the system
Our engine searches the global royalty network, every major society and territory, for money tied to your work that isn't reaching you.
Step 03
You recover what's yours
You get a Lost Money Report showing exactly what you're owed and where. Approve it, and we recover it on your behalf.
The key to the money you're missing.
- Forensic recovery powered by AI
- Free to scan, owe nothing if we find nothing
- You only pay a flat 15% of money we actually recover, never a cut of your future income
- You keep 100% of your rights and every royalty you already collect
“The money artists are owed shouldn't depend on knowing where to look. Clef does the looking — for everyone, not just the ones who can afford a team.”
Find out what your music is owed.
The scan is free, and it takes one name to start. The only thing you have to lose is money that was already yours.