Clauserecovered in misclassified residuals
one audit · one client · one quarter
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Vendor contracts, royalty flows, union compliance — the fine print that production companies and touring promoters don't have time to read. We do.
of vendor contracts
contain recoverable overcharges
Most production companies sign vendor deals under deadline pressure and never look back. The overcharges aren't hidden — they're just unread. Rate escalators that triggered without notice. Exclusivity premiums charged on non-exclusive work. Delivery penalties applied to milestones your team hit on time.
A mid-size scripted series recently recovered $340K across four vendor agreements — post-wrap, before final accounting closed. The contracts hadn't changed. Someone finally read them.
See What Your Contracts HideStreaming distribution has compressed the window between production and payout — but guild residual calculations haven't simplified. IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA each use different formulas, and platforms report differently than networks did. The gaps compound quietly.
A streaming-adjacent studio discovered 18 months of misclassified exhibition windows across 12 titles. The platform wasn't defrauding them — the intake process just hadn't been updated since the deal structure changed.
Audit Your Residual Flowrecovered in misclassified residuals
one audit · one client · one quarter
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avg. vendor recovery per series
Vendor agreements, talent options, guild residuals, production overpay across concurrent shows.
Start Herecompliance checkpoints per tour
Load-in crew classification, multi-local union agreements, venue contracts, promoter splits.
Start Hereavg. residual misclassification window
Exhibition window tracking, platform reporting reconciliation, back-catalog royalty audits.
Start Hereaverage gap before
a compliance breach triggers penalty
Union grievances don't arrive as emergencies — they arrive as paperwork, weeks after the exposure was created. A touring promoter running 40 dates across three locals has 40 opportunities to misclassify a load-in crew or miscalculate a meal penalty. Most don't know until the grievance window opens.
Proactive compliance review before a tour or production cycle costs a fraction of a single arbitration. The work is in the setup, not the crisis response.
Review Your Compliance PostureEvery deal has leverage built in — options, step deals, first-look provisions, favored-nations clauses. When back offices are understaffed and shows are in production, those provisions expire unnoticed. The other party rarely reminds you.
A production company with three concurrent series had $890K in unexercised talent options lapsing over 90 days. Exercising two of them restructured their development slate without new capital. The contracts were already signed — they just needed to be read on a deadline.
Map Your Contract Leverageaverage in unexercised options
sitting dormant in active deal slates
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The 5 Contracts Every Entertainment Company Overpays
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