I've been building ShareContent.ai, a marketplace connecting brands and creators for paid content work — podcasts, UGC, short-form clipping, newsletters, etc.
The core idea: most creator gigs fall apart because of trust on one side or the other. Creators do work and chase invoices for weeks. Brands fund work and get ghosted or get something off-brief. So we built it around escrow:
• Brand posts a brief, picks a comp model (fixed, performance, hybrid, or commission)
• Brand funds the agreed amount into escrow up front
• Creator delivers, brand approves, escrow releases
Creators keep 100% of what they earn — brands pay a flat 10% fee on the matched work, nothing upfront. There's also a lifetime affiliate program (10% of platform fee from any brand you refer, no cap).
We're in early access onboarding founding brands and creators now. Genuinely interested in feedback from people who've felt the pain on either side of this — what would make you trust a new platform with real money, what's broken on the platforms you currently use, etc.
