Winner · Manchester · January 2026
Build Like a Pro: Scale Stream
A clean sweep: first place across every judged result in the Scale Stream. £1 million of investment interest followed.
For music distributors and DSPs
You approve or reject thousands of uploads a week. Can you defend a single decision?
Every intake decision, defensible on demand. ORIGIN screens every artist and release before it hits your catalogue, returns a decision, and produces a signed record you can hand to any counterparty: a DSP, a regulator, a rights body, a partner, an artist.
Live product, no slides. 15 minutes.
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The exposure
What one decision you can't defend actually costs.
When a counterparty asks (a DSP, a regulator, an artist), the answer sits in somebody's inbox, or in nobody's. This leaves you exposed in multiple ways.
DSA · Article 74
6% of global turnover
Maximum administrative fine under the Digital Services Act. Every content decision needs a machine-readable statement of reasons. Volumes are already public.
AI Act · Article 99 · in force now
€15M / 3% of turnover
Maximum fine under the EU AI Act for Article 50 breaches. Provenance disclosure for AI-generated content is now legally required — in force since August 2026. Fines run up to 7% of global turnover across the act. DSPs are already asking who's answering it upstream.
DSP clawback window
7 to 14 days
The clawback window on a DSP dispute. No signed evidence, no defence, full loss. Every major DSP has tightened trust and safety in the last twelve months.
Volume vs headcount
100k+ releases a year
Typical intake volume per distributor. Typical T&S team behind it: under 5 people. Manual defence at that ratio isn't a strategy. It's a bet on nothing going wrong.
Not sure where you stand? The free regulatory assessment maps your intake against the DSA, the AI Act and the UK Online Safety Act in ten minutes. No sales call attached.
Run the assessment →Book a 15-minute demo. Live product, no slides.
We'll run your catalogue through a policy and show you the decision, the Evidence Pack, and the audit trail. Your data. On your call.