recoup-catalog-estimate-value

name	recoup-catalog-estimate-value
description	Estimate a catalog, album, or song's value from public streaming data alone — no seller files or data room required. Use for "what's this catalog worth from public data", "ballpark this catalog", or "estimate the value of [album/song]". Wider error bars than a seller-file valuation; states its assumptions. For full diligence on a real data room use recoup-catalog-review-deal.

Recoup Catalog — Estimate Value

Value a catalog/album/recording from public/streaming data alone — the clean-room cousin of a full valuation. Deterministic scripts ship in scripts/ (invoke relatively); methodology + API contract in references/.

Procedure

• python3 scripts/fetch_album_tracks.py — pull the catalog from public sources.
• python3 scripts/estimate.py — estimate streams→revenue→value per references/methodology.md (uses references/recoup-api.md).
• python3 scripts/build_report.py — assemble the estimate report (needs pip3 install matplotlib reportlab).

Be explicit that this is a public-data estimate (wider error bars than a seller-file valuation), and state the assumptions. For a real data room with seller files, use recoup-catalog-review-deal instead.

Guardrails

• estimate ≠ valuation — public-data estimates carry wider error bars; say so.
• State assumptions — never present an estimate as an audited valuation.

References & scripts

• references/methodology.md · references/recoup-api.md
• scripts/estimate.py · scripts/fetch_album_tracks.py · scripts/build_report.py — ship alongside this skill; invoke relatively.