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A friend who runs a skincare brand paid a creator $1,200 upfront for three posts. A month later at an event, another founder mentioned the same creator ghosted them after taking payment. Then someone else at the table said the same thing happened to them.

We started talking about why the only way any of them found out was because someone happened to mention it to them. Why is there no place where you can see which creators actually deliver before you send the payment?

So I built one. Brands drop anonymous notes on creators they've worked with. Creators can flag brands too. Both sides finally have a paper trail.

A friend of mine who runs a D2C brand paid a creator $1,200 upfront for a campaign and thought he had gotten a fair deal. Of course he was wrong. A month later at an industry mixer, another founder casually mentioned working with the same creator, same upfront structure, same disappearing act after the first post. Then a third person at the table chimed in with their own version.

We started discussing why the only reason he found out was because someone happened to mention it to him. Why does there not exist something where brands can find out which creators actually deliver before they sign? Or who ghosts after the advance, who inflates rates 4x for brand deals, who fakes their analytics in pitch decks.

Been thinking about building something like this — basically a confession map where brands and creators can drop anonymous notes on each other, a pricing checker so you know if a quote is actually fair market rate, and maybe some kind of rating system. Kind of like Glassdoor but for the creator economy.

Honest question: would you actually use this if it existed? Or is this one of those "sounds good in theory" ideas that nobody ends up touching?

A friend of mine who runs a D2C brand paid a creator $1,200 upfront for a campaign and thought he had gotten a fair deal. Of course, he was wrong. A month later at an industry mixer, another founder casually mentioned working with the same creator, same upfront structure, same disappearing act after the first post. Then a third person at the table chimed in with their own version.

We started discussing why the only reason he found out was because someone happened to mention it to him. Why does there not exist something where brands can find out which creators actually deliver before they sign? Or who ghosts after the advance, who inflates rates 4x for brand deals, who fakes their analytics in pitch decks.

Been thinking about building something like this, basically a confession map where brands and creators can drop anonymous notes on each other, a pricing checker so you know if a quote is actually fair market rate, and maybe some kind of rating system. Kind of like Glassdoor but for the creator economy.

Honest question: would you actually use this if it existed? Or is this one of those "sounds good in theory" ideas that nobody ends up touching?