How Origins Inconclusive Accounts for 46 Artists with Roster

Monthly royalty reconciliation used to take Origins Inconclusive a full working day. The label now reports an accounting run of no more than 30 seconds for 46 artists, with the complete process taking around five minutes including checks.

Origins Inconclusive is run by Roster founder Cadyn Jay Lewis Page. This story describes his reported experience of the label's workflow.

Before: a day of connected tasks, handled by hand

The old monthly process involved reconciliation, splits, contracts, the flow of royalty allocations and currency conversions. The label describes going through everything by hand. It was the combined work across these tasks that took a full working day.

That distinction matters: a calculation is only one part of royalty accounting. The agreements, invoices and recoupable costs need to be in place, and the results still need to be checked.

Now: the records support the run

MCP connections depend on the label's configured tools, permissions and supported workflows. Origins Inconclusive's setup is an example of how it connects its own sources. Read more about Roster Agent and connected operations.

Thirty seconds to process. Around five minutes with checks.

For its 46 artists, Origins Inconclusive reports that the accounting run itself takes 30 seconds maximum. Allowing for checks, it estimates the complete process at around five minutes.

The label keeps that review step in its workflow. The result is useful because it describes both the processing time and the time needed to complete the work, rather than treating a fast calculation as the whole accounting process.

Source: a firsthand account supplied by Origins Inconclusive on 7 October 2026. These are customer-reported timings, not an independently timed benchmark. File volume, data quality, deal complexity and exceptions can change the time another label needs.

Assess the workflow against your own label

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