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Creator revenue reconciliation

Match payouts, affiliate reports, sponsorship invoices, and platform fees to the ledger.

What this workflow does

Match payouts, affiliate reports, sponsorship invoices, and platform fees to the ledger. It uses deterministic matching where possible, isolates unresolved differences, and leaves every material classification to an accountable reviewer.

What you gain

Missing payouts and unexplained fee differences become visible.

What the AI agent changes

How this worked before

Exact matching worked for identical records; ambiguous names, missing fields, and inconsistent documents still created a manual queue.

What the AI agent changes

The agent combines deterministic checks with document understanding, explains uncertain matches, and sends only real exceptions for review.

Agent trigger

A platform payout or monthly revenue report arrives.

Inputs

  • Process context: platform reports, bank payouts, affiliate statements, invoices, fees, and tax currency
  • Approved policies, ownership, and exception rules

Agent flow

  1. 1

    Normalize records and validate period, currency, and ownership.

  2. 2

    Apply deterministic matching rules before model-assisted classification.

  3. 3

    Prepare a result covering matched revenue, fee differences, and missing payouts and isolate every unresolved difference.

  4. 4

    Post only approved matches and retain the reconciliation evidence.

Human decisions

After step 3

The accountable process owner approves matched revenue, fee differences, and missing payouts.

Outcome

  • Reviewer-approved creator revenue ledger
  • Evidence, exceptions, and audit trail

Guardrails

  • Never auto-clear unresolved or material differences.
  • Preserve source rows and match rationale in the audit trail.

Risks and mitigations

A plausible but incorrect match can hide a material difference.

Keep deterministic rules outside the model and require review above materiality thresholds.

Sources and evidence