Deal Flow & the Anti-Cheat Rule
This is the center of the platform. A business must never be able to reach an influencer without paying the platform fee, because that access is precisely what the fee buys.
The lifecycle
- A business sends a deal to a specific influencer from its match list.
- The influencer sees the offer on their dashboard and accepts it, which charges the deal fee to the business automatically.
- Only once payment has actually succeeded does the influencer's information unlock for that business: name, social links, follower count, engagement rate, location, content niches, and direct contact details.
- The two parties message each other inside the platform to coordinate the collaboration.
- Either party marks the deal complete when the work is finished.
How the unlock is protected
- The unlock is written only after payment is confirmed successful, never optimistically when the accept button is clicked. If payment is declined, the deal stays open and unpaid, and nothing unlocks.
- The match list stays redacted permanently. Unlocked details appear only on the deal that was paid for, so a match list can never become a bulk export of contact information.
- A repeated acceptance cannot produce a second charge, or double apply the unlock.
- If a deal fee is later refunded or disputed, the unlock is reversed and the contact details lock again.
Messaging
Messaging is unavailable until the deal fee has actually been paid. If two parties could message before payment, the fee would be trivially avoidable simply by asking for contact details in a message, so messaging follows the exact same gate as the contact unlock.
Enforced on the server
An influencer's contact information is never visible to a business until the deal fee is paid. This is enforced by the server and the database, not just hidden in the interface, which is what prevents a business from using the platform to locate a creator and then contacting them directly to avoid the fee entirely.