My company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are u

My company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are usually 1-2 employees (engineer and analyst) responsible for a given product so calculating their respective contribution and profit-sharing on a per-product basis is quite straightforward.