You make the content. Businesses book you to make it.
Some creators post. You produce. On SIGNL, local businesses hire photographers, videographers and content makers to shoot their openings, menus, products and events, at the rate listed on your page, booked and paid through SIGNL. You keep 97 percent.
Their booking.
SIGNL is free for creators. Always. Businesses pay the platform. You never pay to join, to list, or to get booked.
This is not lead generation for your own practice. There is no list of leads to chase. A business books you through SIGNL at your listed rate and pays through SIGNL, and you keep 97 percent of your rate.
Paid bookings only is completely fine. You never have to take a comped visit, and skipping comps never counts against you.
How SIGNL works for you
List your services and your rate
Claim your founding spot free in the app and finish your page: the services you sell, the work you show, and the rate you charge. Your rate is public on your page, so a business sees your price before it books you. Your page is live and on Google the day you finish it.
A business books you to make content
When your market opens, businesses book you through SIGNL to make content: a shoot, a reel, coverage of an opening or an event. The booking states the deliverables and timing up front, in terms you accept before the work starts. The business pays up front and SIGNL holds the money.
Deliver, and the money releases
Deliver the work and SIGNL releases the payment to you. You keep 97 percent of your rate. No invoices, no chasing, and no Net 30, 60 or 90 day terms.
The work service providers sell here
If a local business needs it made, it can be a paid booking on SIGNL.
Photography
Menus, products, rooms and people, shot by someone who already knows the local light.
- Menu and food photography
- Product photography
- Interiors and storefronts
- Staff and owner portraits
Video
Short video the business can post and run: made by a maker, delivered as a booking, not a favor.
- Reels and short video
- Opening and launch coverage
- Event coverage
- Behind the scenes content
Your terms, in the booking
Every paid booking includes one standard license: the business can repost your work and run it as an ad for 90 days. Anything beyond that is a separate licensing request at your own listed fee, approved by you per use. Nothing is perpetual, ever. You own your work.
Written for exactly who you are
SIGNL has a page for the way you actually work. If this one is not you, one of these is.
Food creators
Comped meals at the restaurants you already post, claimed on your own schedule. See the food creators page →
Musicians
Local musicians get booked by venues and brands as creators: paid at their own rate, or comped. See the musicians page →
Every creator
The full picture: tiers, rules, Momentum points and the application. See the main creator page →
Questions, answered straight
How is this different from finding my own clients?
SIGNL is not lead generation for your own practice. A business books you through SIGNL, at the rate listed on your page, and pays through SIGNL. You keep 97 percent of your rate. There is no list of leads to chase and no pitch to write.
Do I have to take comped visits?
No. Paid bookings only is completely fine. Set your page to paid work and businesses hire you to make content at your listed rate. Nobody builds standing by taking comps they do not want, and skipping comps never counts against you.
What do businesses hire me to make?
Content for the business: photos, short video, reels and coverage of openings, menus, products and events. The booking states the deliverables and timing up front, in the terms you accept before the work starts.
What rights does the business get?
A paid booking includes one standard license: the business can repost your work and run it as an ad for 90 days. Anything beyond that is a separate licensing request at your own listed fee, approved by you per use. Nothing is perpetual, ever. You own your work.
How and when do I get paid?
The business pays up front and SIGNL holds the money until the work is delivered, then releases it to you. You keep 97 percent of your rate. No invoices, no chasing, and no Net 30, 60 or 90 day terms.
Does it cost anything to join, and who can join?
No. SIGNL is free for creators, including service providers. Businesses pay the platform. You need 500 total followers across your platforms to join, with your counts stacked across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, X and LinkedIn.
Claim your founding spot
Sign up now to be a founding creator, right in the SIGNL app. Founding profiles are reviewed in sign-up order across the 38 founding markets, your founding priority never expires, and markets open as each roster completes.
Sign-ups live in the SIGNL app
Create your account and build your founding profile in a few minutes: your market and home city, your handles, the services you sell and the rate you charge. It is free, and it always will be for creators.
Create my founding creator account
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