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Sponsorship,
settled in public.

A host opens a board. Sponsors bid for ranked placement. The ranking is live, the amounts are the only thing that moves it, and every listing is labelled an ad. No media kit, no rate card, no back-and-forth.

If you host a board

Hosts keep 100% of every bid.

Stripe's standard processing fee applies — paid to Stripe, not to us.

Paid to your Stripe account in ~2 days — not 90. Your Stripe account's own payout schedule governs.

If you sponsor a listing

Buy the top spot in a minute.

No sales call, no contract, no minimum spend, no waiting to be approved.

You see the rank and the all-in price before you pay.

Get early access

One email when we open. Nothing else.

Not sure a board fits your audience? Take the 15-question Fit Scorecard →

What each side walks away with

Two sides, one board.

Hosts run the board

Anyone with an audience or a page worth being seen on — a newsletter, a community, a directory, a venue, an event.

  • 100% of every bid. We take our fee from the sponsor, on top of their bid — never out of yours.
  • Money in about two days. Straight to your own Stripe account. You are the merchant of record; we never hold your funds.
  • You stop negotiating. Sponsors compete against each other for rank. You set the board up once and never quote a rate again.
  • Exact click counts. Per sponsor, per round, in your dashboard — the real number, not a rounded-up one.
  • Every round archives. Each round settles into a permanent, public record of who ranked where, so sponsors can see the history.
  • Nothing to install. A board is a link. Put it anywhere.

Sponsors bid for rank

Anyone who wants placement in front of a specific audience without a three-week email thread about it.

  • Self-serve, start to finish. Submit a link, see the price, pay. Your listing takes its rank the moment payment clears.
  • Rank is arithmetic. Highest cumulative bid is rank one. Fees never move rank, and no one can be placed above you off-ledger.
  • The price is on the screen. The all-in total and the rank it buys, before you enter a card.
  • Clicks, not impressions. You are buying a position people actually click through from.
  • You are told when you slip. An email the moment you are outranked, with a link to raise. Unsubscribe in one click.
  • A receipt that proves it. Where you ranked, and how long you held it.

How it works

Three steps each. Then it runs itself.

Hosts

  1. Open a board

    Name it, choose how often it resets — daily, weekly, monthly, or never for one continuous all-time board — and you have a public page.

  2. Connect Stripe

    A couple of minutes on Stripe's own onboarding. It is your account, your payouts, your name on the charge.

  3. Publish the link

    Sponsors find the board and bid against each other. Each round settles on schedule and the next one opens.

Sponsors

  1. Pick a board

    Browse public boards, see who currently holds each rank and what it took to get there.

  2. Bid your link

    Paste the URL you want listed and name your amount. You see the rank it buys and the all-in total first.

  3. Hold your spot

    Your listing goes live on rank immediately. Raise any time from the link in your receipt to climb back.

The rules, up front

Nothing about this is hidden.

A board only works if both sides trust the number. So the rules are the product, and they are the same on every board.

  • Every listing is labelled an ad

    At every position, including screenshots. Rank is amount paid — not the host's endorsement and not a quality judgement.

  • Fees never touch rank

    Rank is cumulative bid amount and nothing else. Our fee is added on top of the sponsor's bid and is invisible to the ordering.

  • Bids are final

    And your rank can change as others bid. You agree to that in plain words before you pay — never in a footer.

  • The host holds the money

    Direct charges to the host's own Stripe account. The platform is never in the middle of the funds.

  • Results are permanent

    When a round settles, the standings are written once and never edited. A refund later annotates the record; it does not rewrite it.

  • 18+ and reviewable

    Sponsors confirm they are 18 or older and bidding for themselves or a business they represent. Every listing can be reported and reviewed.

Early access

Be on the first boards.

We are opening a small number of boards to start, so hosts land on a board that already has sponsors watching it. Tell us which side you are on.

I want to

Hosting starts with the fit questionnaire — fifteen statements, about four minutes, scored in your browser. You see your result whether or not you join; the list asks for your name, audience size and category at the end.

Score your audience against fifteen questions — it runs in your browser, and you see the result before anything is asked of you.