Royalty payouts, automated from contract to PDF.
Cuevault is the contract-driven royalty engine for independent OTT operators, niche FAST channels, and small digital distributors who need automated licensing and payout workflows — without the enterprise price tag or the implementation agency.
- Per-title
- PDF statements
- Live
- compliance view
- Self-serve
- licensor portal
How it works
Four steps from a signed license to a paid statement.
No implementation agency, no six-month onboarding. You author the contract once; Cuevault does the arithmetic on every monthly cycle.
- Step 01
Author the contract
Spitballed rights splits, territory windows, recoupable-expense tiers, and audit clauses into a single source of truth the rest of the system reads.
- Step 02
Ingest platform revenue
Drop in monthly AVOD/PVOD/SVOD/FAST exports — YouTube Content ID, Tubi, Roku, Plex, your own CDN. We reconcile to per-title per-rights-holder.
- Step 03
Calculate & reconcile
Recoupable advances amortize against forecast revenue, residuals recompute, exceptions surface for review before any dollar moves.
- Step 04
Issue statements
Per-title PDF royalty statements, downloadable on schedule, mirrored to a self-service licensor portal so rights-holders stop emailing you.
What's inside
The whole royalty operation, on one runway.
Contract builder
Per-title revenue splits, recoupable advances, territory windows, audit rights.
Territory windows
Date-bounded exclusivity maps. Releases unlock new geos automatically on schedule.
Recoupable expenses
Advances, MFN fees, marketing — amortize against revenue before residuals split.
Live dashboard
Active licenses, expiring deals, pending payouts, compliance risk. One screen.
Licensor portal
External filmmakers see view counts, statement history, and renewal status themselves.
PDF statements
Branded, audit-ready, deterministic. Filmmakers download; you stop mailing them.
Why Cuevault
Built indie-first. Priced indie-first.
Cuevault
Pricing scaled to catalog volume, not your parent company's audit budget. Weekly release, monthly statement cycle.
- Per-title revenue splits + recoupable advances
- Manual-friendly: drop in CSV exports, no SDK
- Self-service licensor portal day-one
- Quote sized to titles-in-rotation, not headcount
Enterprise royalty suites
Built for tier-1 studios with implementation partners and a dedicated royalty ops team. Powerful, but priced and sized for a different company than yours.
- 6–12 month implementation cycles with a partner
- Annual contracts sized to enterprise audit budgets
- Overkill for catalogs under a few hundred titles
- Statements on a release calendar, not a stress cycle
Mentioned as full names above — not affiliated; named for context.
What your licensors actually see
A statement your filmmakers will understand on the first read.
Cuevault generates per-title PDF royalty statements with audit-ready line items: gross platform revenue, applicable deductions, recoupable advance amortization, and net payable — traceable back to the source row in the platform export.
Royalty statement
Title #CU-0214 · "Night Broadcast"
Period
Mar 2026
| Item | USD |
|---|---|
| AVOD revenue — FAST channels | $8,420.00 |
| PVOD revenue — transactional | $2,140.00 |
| SVOD revenue — licensed platforms | $1,305.50 |
| Gross platform revenue | $11,865.50 |
| Platform fees & refunds (–) | ($1,068.00) |
| Recoupable advance amortization (–) | ($600.00) |
| Net payable — 60/40 split | $6,118.50 |
FAQ
Questions we'd rather answer before the demo.
Still unsure? Email us directly.
Next step
Ready to stop running payouts in spreadsheets?
Tell us your catalog size and the platforms you distribute on. We'll come back with a quote sized to your titles-in-rotation, not a generic RFP form.