FAQ · the fine print, in plain language
Questions, answered like clauses.
Short, honest answers. If yours isn't here, it will be. This page grows with the product.
§1What is FlowRights?
FlowRights is contract-to-royalty automation for the music industry. It’s the
place where a music deal is drafted, negotiated, and signed, and then keeps
going: the split terms you signed sync to Royalti.io for
royalty distribution. Generic e-signature tools stop at the signature; royalty
platforms start after the deal. FlowRights is the whole middle.
§2What does it cost? Is there a waitlist?
Sign-up is open today: no invite, no waitlist, and no credit card required to
create an account. Register at
app.flowrights.io/register and start your
first contract. We don’t publish a pricing page yet; when that changes, it will
be announced here first.
§3Is FlowRights legal advice?
No. FlowRights is software, not a law firm, and nothing in the product or on
this site is legal advice. Templates carry a counsel review gate (draft → in
review → changes requested → approved) precisely so your lawyer stays in the
loop, and the AI features are analysis tools (summaries, risk flags,
consistency checks) that sit alongside the document, never instead of your
counsel. For anything consequential, talk to a lawyer.
§4Can counterparties sign without a FlowRights account?
Yes. Anyone you’re dealing with can review and sign from a secure link, with no
account required. Signatures can be typed, drawn, or uploaded, and every
signature is sealed with a SHA-256 tamper-evident fingerprint of the exact
terms signed. The public signing link is the only anonymous surface in the
product, and it’s rate-limited accordingly.
§5How do splits reach Royalti.io?
Automatically. A workspace admin connects Royalti.io once, by pasting a
workspace API key in Settings → Integrations (the key is encrypted at rest
with AES-256-GCM). From then on, when a contract goes active its split terms
push to Royalti.io on their own, with no re-keying and no CSV exports. The sync is
best-effort by design: if it ever hiccups, the failure is recorded and
retryable, and the contract itself is never blocked.
§6What does the AI actually do?
FlowRights uses Anthropic’s Claude for analysis, named honestly: plain-language
contract summaries (what this deal is, money terms, what you’re giving up, key
dates, watch-outs), risk scoring, anomaly detection, consistency checks, and
split-fairness checks. Summaries are written for people without legal training.
When you import an existing document, AI also detects its structure (parties,
splits, deal terms, contract type) for you to confirm on a review screen; it
never rewrites the contract text itself.
The AI reads the fine print with you. It is not an “AI lawyer,” and its
output is not legal advice. AI features are optional: the platform works
without them.
§7What is the AI Rights Registry?
A per-work record of your catalog’s AI-training consent. For each work (sound
recording, composition, lyrics, performance, music video, or album) you can
record opted in, opted out, or conditional consent, attach ISRC/ISWC
codes, and note who it’s licensed to. Your music, your terms, in writing.
§8Is my data secure?
Security is layered through the product: TOTP two-factor authentication,
role-based access control across seven roles (admin, artist, manager, lawyer,
producer, publisher, label) with granular permissions, audit logs, and
SHA-256 tamper-evident fingerprints that make any change to signed contract
terms detectable. Integration credentials, like your Royalti.io workspace
key, are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.
§9What kinds of music contracts does FlowRights handle?
Eleven contract types: producer, publishing, master recording, sync license,
distribution, work-for-hire, co-writing, 360, management, licensing, and
“other” for everything else. Templates support jurisdiction-scoped content
(Nigeria, US, UK, plus a generic base) with a counsel review gate before a
template is approved for use.
§10Can I start from a contract I already have?
Yes. Upload a DOCX or a text-layer PDF from the new-contract flow and
FlowRights parses it while AI detects the structure: parties, revenue splits
with their percentages, deal terms, contract type, and jurisdiction, each
with a confidence score. Nothing is created until you review: every detection
traces to its source clause and can be confirmed or corrected, detected
people are matched to workspace members or invited by email, and warnings
(like splits that do not total 100%) surface first. The contract wording is
never rewritten by AI; the imported text is preserved verbatim and kept with
the original file as version 1. Scanned or image-only PDFs are not supported
yet.