About Royalty Reader

The Problem

Literary agencies are caught between two bad options for managing information: tedious manual entry across various general apps, or costly, complex, purpose-built systems.

We know this frustration because we've lived it.

That's why we created Royalty Reader—a rights management platform that ends the compromise.

We don’t just sell software. We deliver low-maintenance, high-impact organization and insight.

Our Solution

Royalty Reader automatically extracts and organizes data from your documents, turning administrative burden into strategic assets.

We turn contracts into anticipated monies reports and automated expiry alerts.
We turn royalty statements into actionable insights, flagging high reserves or potential out-of-print reversions.
We turn your documents from liabilities into levers for growth.

The result? You spend less time managing information and more time using it.

Meet the Team

Co-Founder

Max Hinchcliffe

Max is a co-founder of Royalty Reader, responsible for product and business operations. He had the idea for Royalty Reader as VP of Corporate Development at International Literary Properties, where he first observed the problem literary agencies had with managing their data. He recruited Matt with a vision towards minimizing the pain of entering data and maximizing its value.

Co-Founder

Matt Belford

Matt has worked in publishing for over a decade, with experience at two big five publishers and several agencies, including the David Black Agency and New Leaf Literary. In his various roles, he used several agency databases. In addition to being a co-founder of Royalty Reader, he is also a literary agent at The Rights Factory.

Tech Designer and Developer

Juno Ralston

Juno is a front-end developer focused on Vue.js, HTML/CSS, and modern JavaScript. He leads the UX quality bar at Royalty Reader—building reusable components, optimizing performance, and smoothing the interactions that make the product intuitive across the platform. Juno is pursuing a cybersecurity degree at Penn State, bringing a security-first mindset to his work.