Option agreement · 2025Thirty years of deals in one head.
The senior agent knows which titles have reverted and what was promised to an author in a 2009 letter. At the agency, only they know.
Industries Literary agencies
Your list remembers everything. Now your agency does too.
Contracts, options, royalty statements, submissions: all in one place, with the clause and the date. Agents get back to the part only they can do: authors and relationships.
Free. Sign in with Google, Microsoft or an email link. The welcome page is in Italian, the Eko answers in English.
The problem
Sound familiar?
Every publisher, a different format.
Statements arrive in twelve formats and three currencies. Someone opens them one by one and copies the amounts into a spreadsheet.
“Are the German rights free?”
At the fair the agent answers from memory: yes. But the translation was optioned eighteen months ago. The conflict surfaces in due diligence.
Every day
The questions that all go through one person today.
With ekory they get an answer in seconds, with the source. Evenings and weekends too.
Try asking
- Are the German rights to this title available?
- When does the TV option expire?
- How much does the author get from this statement?
- What did we promise this author?
- Which titles are we pitching at Frankfurt?
- What has this editor bought in the last two years?
Letter to Dario Monti · 3 March 2009 
How it works
One Eko each for rights, accounts and fairs. One list.
Eko Rights For agents What's available, in which territory and format, with a reference to the contract.
Eko Statements For accounts Reads royalty statements in any format and flags what doesn't add up.
Eko Fairs For book fairs Builds the rights guide from the backlist, in the agency's voice.
Control
Shared where it helps, private where it matters.
- Each agent sees their own authors.
- Financial terms stay confidential.
- Conversations are private.
Questions
What agencies ask before they start.
Can it read statements from different publishers, in different formats?
Yes. It reads PDFs (scanned ones too), Excel sheets and Word documents, whatever the layout or currency, and shows which statement each amount comes from. Anything that doesn't add up, it flags for you instead of guessing.
Can each agent see only their own authors?
Yes, if you decide so. Create a group per agent or per territory and share with each only their authors' folders: advances and financial terms stay with the people who should see them. Everyone's conversations stay private.
Do we have to move our contracts and statements?
No. ekory reads files where they already are, in Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive or Notion, and stays up to date when a new statement arrives. Your files are never modified.
How much does it cost for a small agency?
For a five-person agency the total is €249 a month, excluding VAT: €199 for the platform plus €50 for the people. Pay annually and you pay for 10 months out of 12. The pricing page works it out for your team.
Every company is different. Tell ekory about yours.
Just say what you do, how big your team is and where your documents live: an Eko shows you what changes for you, with examples from your industry and the source of every answer.
Free. Sign in with a Google or Microsoft account, or with a link sent by email. The welcome page is in Italian; ask in English and the Eko answers in English.
Other industries
The same method, in other trades.
- Publishers Catalog, contracts and house style in one place.
- Trade associations Circulars and member services, with answers ready at any hour.
- Nonprofits Procedures, grants and volunteer training, without losing the people who know.
- Manufacturing Every showroom gets finishes, sizes and prices right, and your network learns every new collection.
- Machinery and plants When a machine stops, the fix arrives right away, on every shift.
- Construction Specifications, safety plans and change orders for every site, on a tablet.
Tell us about your list. We'll show you rights and deadlines in one place.
For the first call, a contract and a royalty statement are all we need.