Aspirenet helps brands find creators who fit a brief. It helps creators get found by brands and by other creators they can work with. Rank comes from connected accounts and shipped work.
Connect an account you already post from. Aspirenet reads your public work, including reach, responses and posting history. It uses that reading to draft your profile and place you on the rank ladder.
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Connect
Connect Instagram, YouTube or X, whichever you actually post on. Sign-in happens on the platform's own screen, so the account is verified without sharing your password. Aspirenet does not ask you to type a handle into a form.
Verified Platforms3
02
Read
Aspirenet reads the posts you have already published and drafts a profile from them. It pulls out your ambition, skills and the work you want to do. Edit every line before you publish it.
Public Work ScannedOnce
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Stand
There are seven tiers, from Recruit to Vanguard. Your place depends on the people you reach and the people who respond, so bought reach does not buy a tier. Aspirenet reads your accounts again each week.
Rank Tiers7
Without a connected account, you stay Unranked. Your crest shows a question mark until Aspirenet can verify one.
Reach counts only when people respond.
Reach counts only when people respond.
Rank uses effective audience, not follower count. Aspirenet compares engagement with each platform's benchmark, adjusts for recency and discounts overlap between connected platforms. The formula is published and runs the same way for everyone.
The seven rank tiers, their XP floors and the audience each implies
Tier
XP Floor
Reach It Implies
Recruit
0
—
Emergent
2,000
~316
Skilled
8,000
~3.2K
Virtuoso
15,000
~20K
Professional
30,000
~100K
Seasoned
50,000
~630K
Vanguard
100,000
~6.3M
Rank moves when work ships.
A post reaches Live after Aspirenet verifies its real URL. That is when it pays XP. Activity XP does not fall, and the part of your standing earned through work stays yours.
The Pipeline
Idea
Pays nothing
Start with what you want to make.
Draft
Pays nothing
Move it here when you begin making it.
URL Verified
Live
80–200 XP
It moves here when the post is published and the link checks out.
See Format Payouts
What a Shipped Post Pays
Image
80 XP
Text
80 XP
Carousel
100 XP
Short video
120 XP
Long video
200 XP
Livestream
200 XP
See Other XP Grants
Everything Else That Pays
Task approved · ideation
10
Task approved · production
20
Task approved · distribution
15
Collaboration completed
40
Outcome verified
150
Outcome cleared median engagement
+100
The Climb
≈ 470 XP / Week
At two ships a week, six approved tasks and one verified outcome, you earn about 470 XP a week. That reaches Emergent in a month, Skilled in four and Virtuoso in eight.
Read the Guardrails
The Guards
Weekly Budget
The first 600 XP each week earns full credit. Anything after that earns a quarter rate.
Pair Decay
Approving the same partner repeatedly moves the credit toward a 15% floor within 30 days.
Verification Window
If a post does not settle, it returns to Draft after 14 days.
The guards exist so the ladder measures work rather than persistence. A rank you farmed is a rank nobody trusts, including the brand reading it.
A canvas you can arrange.
Place the blocks where they help your work read best. Put the work, ambition or collaborators first. Only the hero block stays fixed.
Try the editor. Press the pencil, move a block, resize it from the corner, rewrite a line or add your own photo. Refreshing restores the example.
Try the Profile Editor
A demonstration profile, authored for this page. Ira is not a real creator and the accounts are not real accounts.
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Profile PreviewNotificationsSettings
Ira Mahadevan.
@irakitchenInstagramYouTube
Skilled
Links34
Collabs6
Rank & XP
11,240XP
To next tier3,760
Skilled → Virtuoso. Promote at 15,000 XP.
46%
Cook the dishes my grandmother never wrote down, and film them before the recipes disappear with her.
Three days at the Mapusa market, edited to ninety seconds.
Skills
Food photography
Recipe development
Short-form video
Sound design
Regional Indian cuisine
Eleven attempts at this loaf. The eleventh one worked.
Collaborators
NRPSABMKSI
Worked with Nikhil Raut, Prerna Shetty and 3 others.
Next Project
“Film a series about the breakfast dishes disappearing along the Konkan coast.”
Open to both
Sound test: scraping a coconut. The best thing I recorded this year.
Interested in slow cooking, documentary film, food history, natural light, market photography and regional cuisine.
DashboardDiscoverMessages3Profile
Showcase Pieces
Up to 12
Pinned Collaborators
Up to 5
Profiles per Person
Up to 4
Two ways to find a collaborator.
Both searches use the same network. One looks for shared interests. The other looks for missing skills.
This example uses Ira's profile from the canvas above. She is the centre hexagon. The six around her are the creators returned by each search.
Tune the Match
Similar
You
Food Photography
Sound Design
Motion Graphics
Documentary
Lighting
The Edit Room
Recipe Film
Colour Grade
Original Score
Complement
You
Food Photography
Sound Design
Motion Graphics
Documentary
Lighting
The Edit Room
Recipe Film
Colour Grade
Original Score
Set the Weights
Your Wishlist
Drag the purple line. Similar lights up three creators close to your work. Complement dims them and lights up three creators who fill a gap. Neither search counts the centre hexagon because it is you. These creators are fictional, and the pictures were made for this page.
Similar
Creators working toward the same things. Aspirenet compares ambition, skills, interests and the work you want to do. Set how much each one matters. All four start at 0.25.
The comparison matters, not the total. Set all four to 1.00 and the result matches four weights at 0.25. Raise one above the rest and the order changes.
Complement
Creators who add skills you do not have. Aspirenet builds a wishlist from the work you want to make, then moves similar work down. Change the wishlist to change the results.
The six terms form three pairs, one pair in each hexagon. Turn one on and its partner turns off. Turn both off to empty that hexagon.
A connection here is a Link. The Clasp marks it as a crest split in two. The filled half is you, the hollow half is them and the seam is the request.
Then you make the work.
A collab is a named piece of work with members, a group chat and tasks that move from Idea to Live. Completing it pays every member. An approved partner task earns a share of what the post ships.
A partner that does not post for you.
The Strategy Partner reads your pipeline, past collabs and Links together. Ask who to bring in and it answers from those records. It can draft a message or Link request. You decide whether to send it.
Collaborator Share of a Ship
60%
The Partner is asked who to bring into a collab. It checks Ira's Links, shared collabs and their topics. It finds an open colour task, sees that none of her Links handles grading and names someone who does. It offers to draft the request and waits for Ira to ask.
Brands reach out when your work fits.
Brands reach out when your work fits.
Creators do not browse brands or pitch them. A brand writes a brief, Aspirenet runs it against the network and an invitation arrives when your work fits. Shipping more work gives you more chances to appear.
Before a Brief Can Find You
Connect and verify at least one platform. Without one, you cannot appear in a brand's result and remain visible only in creator-to-creator discovery.
Start with what you have made.
Start with what you have made.
Aspirenet is free. Connect a platform, see your rank and start shipping work.