licence matrix

Compare Sync Licence Offers on One Year of Value — Free

Paste licence offers with fee, term, territory and media, and read what each one is worth per year and per territory.

The proof surface

Headline fees flatter long lock-ups. Normalising to a year of value is the arithmetic that makes a three-year exclusive offer comparable to a one-year one.

Inputlicence terms as they appear in the offer emails

Rare devicenormalises licence offers to fee per year and per territory from the reader's own offer emails

Output artifacta matrix of fee per year and per territory with exclusivity priced beside it

Cost$0 · local-first · one free run · samples labelled

Sample, not your facts: Sample: Offer A $4,000 for 3 years worldwide exclusive, Offer B $2,200 for 1 year UK online, floor $2,500, exclusivity valued at $3,000 a year — four concrete points across four types.

Why the flat version breaks

Headline-fee comparison

A $4,000 three-year offer pays $1,333 a year, which is less than a $2,200 one-year deal, and the exclusivity makes the gap worse.

Treating exclusivity as free

Exclusive worldwide terms remove sync options elsewhere for the whole term, a cost the headline fee never shows.

Comparing different media

Online-only and all-media offers are not the same licence; without the media split on the row, the ranking is meaningless.

How to work the licence matrix

Paste the offers

Fee, term, territory and media per offer, as the emails phrase them.

Set floor and exclusivity value

Your floor marks eroding offers; the exclusivity figure prices the lock-up.

Read the normalised columns

Fee per year, term and territory sit in their own columns with the strongest row weighted.

Counter with a number

Reply with the per-year figure and a term you can live with, rather than a request to improve the fee.

What the matrix replaces

Question	Before	On the matrix
Which offer pays most	compare headline fees	fee per year beside the raw figure
What the lock-up costs	treat the term as neutral	exclusivity priced at your own yearly value
What to counter	ask for more money	the per-year figure and the term it applies to

The matrix ranks your own inputs; it is not a valuation and it does not tell you which deal to sign.

Run it on the samples, right here

FIRST-LOAD

Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the licence matrix: your offer emails and licence terms stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.

Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a scored comparison matrix

The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 9 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.

The matrix and the normalised columns are free. The paid layer keeps five offers and prints the counter-offer sheet.

Open the licence offer matrix companion

Boundary

This licence matrix works only on the licence offers and terms you paste you paste. It does not value your work commercially, does not advise on contract law, and does not negotiate the licence. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with your manager, publisher or an entertainment lawyer for an exclusive deal before you rely on it.

What this is built on

Every figure comes from the licence offers and terms you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
Method: fee per year = headline fee ÷ term in years; territory and media are matched from the words on the line
Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.

Before: the reader compared headline fees. After: they can see a $4,000 three-year worldwide offer pays less per year than a $2,200 one-year domestic one.