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Creator Pricing Intelligence Platform

For: Marketing managers at SMB SaaS companies wanting to do creator partnerships

Buildability

Brands waste money on overpriced creators because they can't see market rates across thousands of creators simultaneously

Database showing real pricing from creators across niches, with AI-powered recommendations for underpriced opportunities

Creator economy maturing but pricing still inefficient, AI can automate discovery and analysis at scale

Day 1

Scrape 1000 creator emails from YouTube in specific niche

Day 2

Send pricing survey to all creators

Day 3

Build simple database showing creator rates per subscriber

Day 4

Add basic search and filter functionality

Day 5

Launch with manual outreach to 10 potential customers

Survey 50 marketing managers about creator pricing pain points

Test willingness to pay with pricing intelligence mockups

Get 10 creators to share their actual rate cards

Run pilot with 3 brands using manual process

SaaS subscriptions ($99-499/month) plus transaction fees on successful partnerships

Network effects from creator pricing data, relationship lock-in with both sides

Creators may not want pricing transparencyMarket could become efficient quicklyLarge platforms might build this feature natively