Every year, billions in royalties quietly slip through the cracks on their way from the source to the artist.

As a professional musician of 15 years, Tritone CEO and founder Jonathon Mooney knew the royalty system was complicated. What he didn't know was how much it was costing him. Going through his own contracts and statements, he uncovered nearly six figures owed to him across multiple sources, revenue he never would have seen had he not taken it upon himself to look. The discovery begged a question: if this is happening to him, how many other artists is it happening to?

The answer is, almost everyone.

It's no secret that music royalty accounting has long been prone to errors, almost always at the artist's expense. In the streaming era, the ways money can go missing only keep multiplying, with best estimates putting the average lost annual revenue to the artist at 10–30%.

The core problem is a lack of oversight and poor data systems. It's often assumed someone on an artist's team is verifying the accuracy of royalty statements, but in reality that task is too time-consuming and complex to do effectively. Historically, the only way to catch discrepancies is to hire an auditing firm charging upwards of $50,000 up front, regardless of the audit’s outcome.

Tritone changes that. We've automated what once required expensive accountants and lawyers, making accountability accessible to every artist, not just the few who can afford it. Best of all, we charge only a percentage of the royalties we recover, income that would have otherwise gone unpaid.

In a landscape where the conversation around AI often raises fears of replacing human creativity, we are leveraging this powerful new tool to put more money directly in artists’ pockets by discovering and recovering revenue that quietly goes missing before it ever reaches them.