Three cities. One Triangle roster.
Raleigh is one of SIGNL's first-wave launch markets: the founding roster is forming now, before the market opens. It is a Triangle roster, not a Raleigh-only one: Oakwood porches and Glenwood South nights, Durham and Chapel Hill a short drive away, and a barbecue tradition the whole state argues about. If you post life anywhere in the Triangle, this roster was built for you.
The post is the job.
SIGNL is free for creators. Always. Businesses pay the platform. You never pay to join, to list, or to get booked.
Comp visits are the core. Paid bookings sit on top: set your own rate, the business pays it, and the platform fee is 6 percent total, split evenly, so you keep 97 percent of your rate. Paid bookings are held by SIGNL until your post is live. Headliners (15,000+ followers) are also first in line for featured paid campaigns when businesses run them.
One metro, three hometowns
The Triangle is one table
Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill are three cities with one social life. A creator's audience crosses all three every week, and so does this market: one roster, the whole Triangle.
Eastern NC barbecue country
Whole hog, vinegar and pepper, no apologies. The Triangle sits in Eastern-style country with Western shoulders creeping in from the west, and locals hold strong views on all of it. Strong views are content.
Old oaks, new energy
Historic Oakwood and Five Points keep the old Raleigh; the Warehouse District, North Hills and downtown Durham bring the new. The founding roster covers both, block by block.
Research money, neighborhood taste
University and tech salaries fill tables from Glenwood South to Brightleaf Square, and these are diners who choose local on purpose. Founding businesses meet them through the people they already follow.
How it works for Raleigh creators
Claim your founding spot
Sign up free with Raleigh as your market and finish your profile: your handles, your corner of the Triangle, what you post about. Founding creators are reviewed in sign-up order, and your tier is set automatically by your total audience.
Go be a customer
Show up, redeem the comp in the app, and experience the business for real. Bring a guest when the offer covers two.
Post within 48 hours
The Standard Visit: 1 post or reel plus 1 story that shares the post, posted to a 48-hour standard with a week as the outside limit, honest and clearly disclosed as comped. The platform tracks the post, so the business gets proof and you get credit for the visit.
Barbecue to Brightleaf
Comps run across the Triangle: barbecue joints with real smoke, chef-driven rooms downtown, Glenwood South bars, breweries, coffee shops in the Warehouse District, salons, barbershops and fitness studios. Durham and Chapel Hill offers are part of the same market.
Students count here, and the Triangle is stacked with them. If you are at NC State, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Central, Shaw or Meredith, name your school when you sign up or finish your profile: your profile carries your campus, so businesses near your school can find you first. A Standard Visit fits between classes, and alcohol offers are 21+ only.
Where do you land?
Tiers are set automatically by your total audience across platforms, and they rise as you grow. A small, genuinely local audience beats a big, scattered one.
- Everyday people with a local following
- Comp visits, and paid bookings at your own rate
- Perfect first step into local posting
- Regular local posters, the roster's sweet spot
- Comp visits, and paid bookings at your own rate
- Priority access to new businesses
- Established local creators
- Comp visits, and paid bookings at your own rate
- First pick of grand openings and launches
Under 500 followers, or just starting out? Apply anyway. Your tier is set by your follower count, and it moves up as you grow. What matters most is not the number, it's that your audience is actually local and actually engages. Nobody picks their own band.
Triangle businesses: one roster, three cities
A Raleigh restaurant's next regular might live in Cary and work in Durham. The Triangle eats across city lines, and the founding roster does too: real local creators, comped at your cost, posting honestly to followers across the whole metro.
Ads reach everyone except the people who live nearby. SIGNL puts Raleigh creators who live here inside your business, posting to neighbors who can walk in this week.
Join the founding business list
Apply in a few minutes. Your category spot in your trade area is held in application order, and nothing is charged today.
Founding pricing, held for you
$199 a month for Self-Service (up to 5 creator visits a month, about $40 per creator visit), $349 a month for Growth (up to 10 creator visits a month, about $35 per creator visit) or $699 a month for Managed (up to 20 creator visits a month), with a 3-month minimum and then month to month. Founding businesses get $100 off the first month. Visits you don't use roll into the next month, then expire. The only other cost is the comp the business chooses to offer, provided at its cost, not retail. Founding businesses keep founding pricing while they remain subscribed, and the plan begins when the Raleigh market opens.
Activate when Raleigh opens
Pick creators from the founding roster, offer a comp at your cost, and get honest, tracked posts delivered in 48 hours* of each visit.
*Creators have up to one week to post. 48 hours is the standard they are held to, and hitting it earns their Momentum. If a week passes with no post, the visit is replaced and does not count against your plan.
If a booked creator does not show up or does not post, that visit does not count against your monthly visits. It is replaced.
How content rights work: on a comp visit, you can share the creator's post natively with the creator credited, and nothing more: no downloads, no reposting the file, no ads. On a paid visit, you can also repost the content on your own channels and run it as an ad for 90 days under the standard license included in the booking. The creator always owns the content. Rights follow the visit, never the plan.
One market, sixteen cities
The Raleigh founding market covers the full Triangle. A creator's local audience here is measured against this same list.
- Raleigh
- Cary
- Apex
- Wake Forest
- Garner
- Holly Springs
- Fuquay-Varina
- Morrisville
- Knightdale
- Wendell
- Zebulon
- Rolesville
- Clayton
- Durham
- Chapel Hill
- Carrboro
Questions, answered straight
Is SIGNL live in Raleigh yet?
Raleigh is a first-wave launch market. Founding sign-ups are open now, the founding roster is forming, and the market opens as its founding roster completes. Founding creators are reviewed in sign-up order and see every offer first when businesses go live.
Does it cost anything to join SIGNL as a creator?
No. SIGNL is free for creators. Always. Businesses pay the platform. You never pay to join, to list, or to get booked. Your compensation on standard visits is the comp itself: the meal, service or experience the business provides.
What would I actually post about in the Triangle?
A whole-hog plate with your honest verdict on the vinegar sauce, a Glenwood South night, a Durham chef counter, a Chapel Hill coffee run. The Standard Visit is 1 post or reel plus 1 story that shares the post, posted to a 48-hour standard with a week as the outside limit, honest and clearly disclosed as comped.
I am a student at NC State, Duke or UNC. Can I join?
Yes. Name your school when you sign up or finish your profile and your profile carries your campus, so businesses near your school can find you first. The Standard Visit fits between classes, and alcohol offers are 21+ only.
How does a Triangle business join, and when is it charged?
Apply for the founding business list and your category spot is held in application order. Nothing is charged today. Your plan begins when the Raleigh market opens, at founding pricing: $199 a month for Self-Service (up to 5 creator visits a month), $349 a month for Growth (up to 10 creator visits a month) or $699 a month for Managed (up to 20 creator visits a month), with a 3-month minimum and then month to month. Founding businesses get $100 off the first month. Visits you don't use roll into the next month, then expire.
Does the Raleigh market really include Durham and Chapel Hill?
Yes. The Raleigh founding market covers Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Cary, Apex and the rest of the Triangle, sixteen cities in all. Post anywhere in the Triangle and your audience counts as local here.
This page is the Raleigh founding story: why this city, and what founding means here. The Raleigh market page carries the directory view: founding terms and roster details for this market. Creator in the Triangle? See get paid to post in Raleigh for rates, tiers and how paid bookings work.
The Triangle's founding roster is forming now
Raleigh opens in the first wave. Creators join free and are reviewed in sign-up order. Businesses join the founding list at founding pricing, charged nothing until the market opens.