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Collab

Creator Economy / Marketplace

Building a better way for brands and creators to collaborate.

A creator-brand collaboration platform designed to make influencer marketing more accessible, structured, and transparent, bringing opportunities, applications, campaign workflows, and reputation into one place.

Creator Economy · Influencer Marketing · SaaS · Marketplace

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02 / The Challenge

Two sides ready to collaborate. A fragmented way to connect.

For brands

Creator discovery, individual outreach, negotiation, campaign briefs, content revisions, publishing, and performance tracking often happen across different tools.

For emerging brands without a dedicated influencer marketing team or a large campaign budget, that workload makes creator partnerships harder to manage.

For creators

Aspiring creators can produce engaging content and still struggle to find their first meaningful brand opportunity. Follower counts alone leave much of their potential invisible.

Collab gives emerging and Gen Z creators a place to discover relevant opportunities and build a professional collaboration portfolio.

03 / The Idea

Make brand collaboration a professional opportunity marketplace.

Brands create structured promotional opportunities. Creators discover campaigns relevant to their niche and apply directly. Collab becomes the infrastructure connecting both sides throughout the collaboration.

The brand journey

  1. 01

    Create campaign

  2. 02

    Receive applications

  3. 03

    Evaluate creators

  4. 04

    Select

  5. 05

    Collaborate

  6. 06

    Track

  7. 07

    Review

The creator journey

  1. 01

    Build profile

  2. 02

    Discover opportunities

  3. 03

    Apply

  4. 04

    Get selected

  5. 05

    Create

  6. 06

    Deliver

  7. 07

    Build reputation

04 / How Collab Works

Clear campaign briefs meet professional creator profiles.

A structured brand workspace

Brands create their profile and post promotional opportunities with a campaign brief. Applications arrive in one place, where teams can review profiles and portfolios, compare relevant metrics, shortlist, and select creators.

  • Creator category or niche
  • Minimum followers or account reach
  • Preferred audience
  • Location requirements
  • Social media platform
  • Required content format
  • Campaign deliverables
  • Collaboration deadline
  • Barter or paid collaboration
  • Additional creator requirements

A creator's collaboration portfolio

Creators build a professional profile, discover opportunities by niche, and apply directly. Their content quality, engagement, consistency, performance, and reputation can strengthen their professional identity over time.

  • Social presence
  • Content categories
  • Portfolio
  • Previous collaborations
  • Performance information

Completed campaigns give brands a historical record of their partnerships and help creators build evidence of their work.

05 / Collaboration & Credits

Accessible collaboration. Intentional applications.

Product barter

A brand provides a product or service in exchange for agreed promotional content. This opens a route for emerging brands to begin creator marketing and for new creators to build their portfolio.

Paid collaboration

Paid promotional opportunities support campaigns requiring experienced creators, specific deliverables, or greater production effort. Both models serve businesses and creators at different growth stages.

Opportunity credits

New creators receive complimentary credits. Applying to an opportunity consumes a defined number; additional credit packs can be purchased once those credits are exhausted. The system encourages creators to evaluate alignment before applying and is designed to reduce irrelevant applications for brands.

06 / Performance & Reputation

Trust built through real work and relevant performance.

Social account connectivity

Creators can connect supported professional social accounts. For supported integrations, campaign dashboards can surface performance signals that help brands evaluate collaborations alongside follower counts.

  • Reach
  • Views
  • Engagement
  • Likes
  • Comments
  • Shares
  • Saves
  • Published content
  • Campaign performance

Brands review creators

After completed collaborations, brands review the experience and the work delivered.

  • Content quality
  • Communication
  • Professionalism
  • Timely delivery
  • Campaign guideline adherence
  • Overall collaboration experience

Creators review brands

Creators also review their partners, making reputation a shared responsibility.

  • Campaign clarity
  • Communication
  • Professionalism
  • Product or service experience
  • Approval process
  • Overall collaboration experience

Reviews become part of each participant's reputation. For nano and micro creators, collaboration history, portfolio quality, ratings, and performance provide a professional record that extends beyond follower count.

07 / Business Model & Network

A marketplace designed to grow with collaboration.

The business model combines creator credits with potential monetization channels that can grow alongside marketplace activity.

Creator credits

Creators purchase application credits after using their complimentary onboarding credits.

Brand plans

Premium plans can offer additional campaigns, advanced features, analytics, and higher usage limits.

Campaign promotion

Paid promotion can increase the visibility of selected brand opportunities.

Creator visibility

Premium features or credits can increase creator visibility to relevant brands.

Advanced analytics

As campaign data grows, deeper creator and campaign insights can extend the business model.

The reinforcing network

More brands create more opportunities, attracting more creators. Completed collaborations add reputation and performance data that can strengthen trust and discovery, making the network more useful to both sides.

  1. 01

    Brands

  2. 02

    Opportunities

  3. 03

    Creators

  4. 04

    Collaborations

  5. 05

    Reputation

  6. 06

    Better matching

  7. 07

    More brands

08 / Probity's Role

From the business problem to a connected product experience.

Probity approached Collab as a complete digital product: defining the underlying workflows, shaping experiences for both user groups, and designing the foundations for scale. The focus was to make the process intuitive for first-time creators and growing businesses.

  • Product strategy
  • Business workflow design
  • User-role architecture
  • Brand campaign experience
  • Creator opportunity experience
  • Application and selection workflow
  • Credit system design
  • Reputation and review system
  • Social account integration strategy
  • Campaign analytics architecture
  • UI/UX design
  • Scalable product architecture

09 / The Outcome

Brands discover creators. Creators discover opportunities.

Collab brings searching, applications, selection, collaboration, tracking, and reviews into a purpose-built digital workflow. Its vision is to create professional infrastructure for the next generation of brand-creator relationships.

For brands

A structured way to discover and manage creator partnerships, with campaign history that supports a reusable creator network.

For creators

Access to relevant opportunities and a path to professional credibility through completed work.

For the ecosystem

Shared reputation, structured collaboration, and performance signals support greater transparency.

10 / From Idea to Scalable Product

Great collaborations begin with a thoughtful product.

Collab represents the work we do at Probity: taking a complex business idea, defining the workflows, designing the experience, and engineering it into a scalable digital product.