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title: "AI for literary agencies: rights and royalties | ekory"
description: "AI agents for literary agencies: rights by territory, expiring options, contracts and royalty statements in one place, with the clause and the date."
url: https://ekory.ai/literary-agencies
language: en
italian: https://ekory.ai/it/literary-agencies.md
updated: 2026-10-10
---

# 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.

_Example: At a book fair an agent asks whether the German rights are free: the Eko answers with the current option and when it expires._

## Sound familiar?

### Thirty 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.

### 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.

## The questions that all go through one person today.

With ekory they get an answer in seconds, with the source. Evenings and weekends too.

- 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?

_Example: Eko Rights checks a title's contracts and says what is optioned and what is still available._

## 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.

Already using ekory: Zetamed, Molteni&C, Tohatsu, Würth, Petzl, Dada

[Read the customer stories](https://ekory.ai/case-studies)

## Shared where it helps, private where it matters.

- Each agent sees their own authors.
- Financial terms stay confidential.
- Conversations are private.

[Security and data](https://ekory.ai/security)

## 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](https://ekory.ai/pricing) works it out for your team.

## The same method, in other trades.

- [**Publishers** Catalog, contracts and house style in one place.](https://ekory.ai/publishers)
- [**Trade associations** Circulars and member services, with answers ready at any hour.](https://ekory.ai/trade-associations)
- [**Nonprofits** Procedures, grants and volunteer training, without losing the people who know.](https://ekory.ai/nonprofits)
- [**Manufacturing** Every showroom gets finishes, sizes and prices right, and your network learns every new collection.](https://ekory.ai/manufacturing)
- [**Machinery and plants** When a machine stops, the fix arrives right away, on every shift.](https://ekory.ai/manufacturing-operations)
- [**Construction** Specifications, safety plans and change orders for every site, on a tablet.](https://ekory.ai/construction-companies)

[All industries](https://ekory.ai/industries)

## 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.