Everything a creator under 1,000 followers needs to get better
Rate guidance, better pitches, a weekly plan, and more local businesses to approach. The marketplace itself stays free — this is the toolkit on top of it.
Pro is a toolkit, not a promise — it never guarantees campaign selection, income or growth.
What's inside
Ten tools, each one built for someone still building an audience.
Rate calculator
Enter your followers, engagement and content type. We suggest a range built from what creators at your level land in your market, not from accounts with 50,000 followers.
Proposal templates
Start from proposals that have landed for coffee shops, gyms, boutiques and online brands. Free includes two; Pro unlocks the library and lets you save and duplicate your own.
Proposal analytics and benchmarks
Whether a business opened your proposal, how far they read, and where you sit against creators who asked for similar work. Every figure is an estimate and labeled as one.
Growth score and weekly plan
A score from 1 to 100 across follower growth, engagement, posting consistency and local reach, plus three specific actions each week that move it.
Batch proposals
Pick up to ten local businesses and send each a personalized proposal in one pass. Free members send one at a time; Pro scales the outreach.
Local business discovery
A searchable directory of shops, cafés, gyms and restaurants near you that aren't on Influence X yet, with contact details and a likelihood-to-collaborate signal whose reasoning you can read.
Skills and style portfolio
A media grid, a skills section and style tags on top of your storefront. Show what you can do, not just how many followers you have.
Deal history and Creator Levels
Every deal, payment and milestone in one place, with Bronze through Platinum levels earned from completed work and shown on your profile.
Challenges and competitions
Monthly briefs with prizes and a feature on the Influence X homepage. Free members can view them; Pro members can enter.
Early access to campaigns
New campaigns appear for Pro members 24 hours before everyone else. Free members still get every campaign, just a day later.
Creator Levels, earned not bought
Every completed deal moves you up. The badge shows on your storefront so a business can see you finish what you start.
1–5 completed deals
6–15 completed deals
16–30 completed deals
31+ completed deals
Free and Creator Pro
Free gets you in. Pro helps you grow.
The marketplace is free for creators, always. Creator Pro adds the tools — for less than two coffees a month.
Free
$0
Forever. No card needed.
- Browse and apply to every campaign
- Basic storefront and public creator profile
- AI match scores on campaigns
- Values-aligned matching
- Stripe escrow payments
- One business at a time when you pitch by hand
- Invite engine writes 3 proposals a month for you
- 2 proposal templates
- View challenges, competitions and workshops
Creator Pro
$7.99/month
Cancel any time, keep everything you built.
- Everything in Free
- 5% platform fee on your first $1,000 of paid deals each month
- Invite engine writes up to 25 proposals a month for you
- Auto-pilot finds and sends those proposals for you
- Batch proposals to up to 10 businesses at once
- Full proposal template library, plus save and duplicate your own
- Rate calculator for nano and micro creators
- Proposal analytics and peer benchmarks
- Growth score with a weekly action plan
- Early access to campaigns (24 hours before Free)
- Challenge and competition entry with prizes
- Upgraded portfolio builder with skills and style tags
- Local business discovery map
- Deal history, earnings tracker and Creator Levels
The marketplace stays free
Browsing, applying and getting paid are free forever. We will not wall off the part that finds you work.
Values-aligned matching stays free
Matching is the reason people come here. Everyone gets it.
Your money stays yours
There is no monthly fee to receive a payout. Our fee comes from the completed deal, on the business side.
Pro is a toolkit, not a promise. It does not guarantee campaign selection, income, reach or growth.
Questions people ask before joining
Straight answers, including the ones about money.
Do I get paid, or do I just get free stuff?
Both happen on Influence X, and every campaign tells you which before you apply. A paid campaign pays cash for each deliverable. A gifted campaign trades a product or an experience for your content. A judged challenge awards a prize to the best entries.
Is it free, and what does the platform take?
Free to join, free to browse every campaign, and free to apply — there's no subscription for creators or businesses. A completed paid deal carries one 15% platform fee, taken from the rate the brand approved: on a $100 collab the creator receives $85 and the platform fee is $15. Creator Pro members pay 5% on the first $1,000 of paid deals they complete each month, then the standard rate applies again. Gifted campaigns have no cash deal, so there's no fee to take.
Do I need a minimum following?
No. There's no minimum follower count anywhere on Influence X. Each campaign shows what it asks for — plenty ask for nothing at all, and the card says “No min” when they don't.
How do I know creators will actually deliver?
The work is broken into deliverables with due dates before anything starts, and payment is released one deliverable at a time as the brand approves it — the money sits with Stripe until then. If a review stalls, it escalates to a human on our side after seven days instead of quietly disappearing.
What happens if my content is rejected?
A brand can approve it or ask for a specific change, and you get the reason so you can resubmit. If you and the brand can't agree, the deal goes to platform review rather than being dropped — and the deliverables that were already approved are paid either way.
What do you do with my data?
Your email is used to run your account and to tell you when a campaign you applied to moves. Social handles are stored so they can appear on your storefront, and you can change or remove them at any time. We never ask for your social passwords, and nothing is posted to your accounts on your behalf.
How does values-first matching work?
You choose labels like Faith-based Content, Family-friendly or Purpose-driven, and a business can ask for the same on a campaign. Overlapping labels raise a match score; they never filter anyone out. Skip the labels and you're matched on category, city and budget instead.
Who is Influence X not for?
If you need one creator with millions of followers, or a single viral moment, this isn't the right fit. Influence X is built for many small posts from real local creators — the shop's regulars, not a celebrity.
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