Success story
Ten thousand titles, contracts, royalties, and sales — on aging FileMaker. Citinet upgraded the platform and put the numbers where they belong.
Challenge
The French Publishers’ Agency’s FileMaker stack had aged while the catalog grew to roughly 10,000 titles. Contracts, royalties, and sales reporting lagged the work of getting books into the market.
Solution
Citinet upgraded FileMaker, added dashboards, and automated the paths that used to stall — so contracts, royalties, and sales stay visible without heroic spreadsheets.
Results
Cash-flow visibility improved. Sales reports landed when needed. Contract monitoring stopped being a scavenger hunt — tools to become better at the business, not better at chasing statements.
“Tools to become better — not chasing statements.”
Alice Tassel
A literary agency’s product is judgment and relationships. Its systems still have to track thousands of titles, rights, and money without becoming a second full-time job.
Citinet upgraded the French Publishers’ Agency’s FileMaker world: same operational DNA, modern enough for dashboards and automation, tight enough for contracts and royalties.
Alice Tassel’s measure was practical — tools that make the agency better at its craft, so people spend time on books and deals, not on hunting down statements.
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