From application to onboarded in about a week

What each step actually involves

The four boxes above are the shape of it. Here is what happens inside them, including the parts that are usually left vague until after someone has signed something.

1. The application

The form asks for a name, a number we can reach you on, your handle and roughly how much time you have for content each week. That is deliberately short: it is a request for a conversation, not an audition. Before the call we look at what is publicly visible — your profile, your pricing, how your free platforms feed the paid one — so the call is not spent on things we could have found ourselves.

Every application gets a reply within two business days, including the ones we decline. Nobody is left waiting to find out they were a no.

2. The discovery call

Twenty minutes, video optional. We ask what you are earning now, where the traffic comes from, how much content you can realistically produce, and what you will not do — the boundaries conversation happens here, before anything is agreed, not after. You should be asking us at least as much: what the rate would be, what is included, what the notice period is, who exactly would be in your inbox.

By the end of that call you get an actual number: the rate we would propose for your scope, and the growth we think is realistic on your account with the reasoning behind it. If we cannot justify a figure, we say that instead of inventing one.

3. Onboarding week

If both sides say yes, the agreement is signed and the first week is setup. Concretely:

• Access, scoped. You grant the access we need and keep the payout account. Nothing about your login or your money changes hands.
• Voice document. How you write, what you sell, what is off limits, recurring jokes, names you use. This is what the chat team is trained on and it is written with you, not guessed at.
• Inbox audit and segmentation. Existing fans are sorted by what they have actually bought, so the first week of messaging is not a blast to everyone.
• Pricing pass. Subscription, pay-per-view tiers and the shape of the first week after someone subscribes. Usually the fastest change to show up in revenue.
• Content calendar. What gets shot, when, and what it feeds. Built around what you can sustain rather than an ideal week.
• Reporting set up. The weekly report starts in week one, including the baseline, so there is no argument later about where things started.

Coverage usually goes live somewhere between day three and day seven. Revenue does not move that week and we do not pretend otherwise — the first weeks are setup and testing, and the honest picture is four to eight weeks before the numbers say something.

4. Running it

After onboarding the rhythm is weekly: one report, one short call if you want it, and a running list of what we are testing next. Once a month we look at the bigger picture — whether pricing still fits, whether a second platform is worth adding, whether a traffic source has stopped working.

What we need from you

The arrangement fails in predictable ways, and almost all of them are about input rather than strategy. Three things make the difference.

If it is not a fit

We decline more applications than we accept, and it is almost never about how much someone earns. The usual reasons are no content pipeline, an expectation that management replaces posting, or a request for a guaranteed number before anyone has seen the account. When we say no we say why, and where we can we point somewhere more useful.

The reverse holds too. If after the call you decide against it, nothing has happened: there is no fee for the call, nothing signed, and your data is deleted on request. You can also check the arithmetic yourself first with the commission calculator — it will tell you honestly when the answer is not yet.

Common questions