Unbranded buyers
Every placement, creator fee and OOH site is negotiated by an independent gig operator from the network — a real person with a real freelance profile, not an agency inbox.
Stealth Buying
Vendors price the logo. We don't bring one.
Your funding announcement probably added 20–40% to every media quote you've received since. Our buyers look like freelancers because they are. Same inventory, freelancer rates, full invoice transparency.
The problem
Why you're getting the VC quote
Publishers, creators, podcast networks and billboard owners don't have one price. They have a range, and they place you in it based on what they can find out in thirty seconds: your funding round, your headcount, the agency emailing on your behalf, the logo in the signature. A Series A company asking for a newsletter slot gets the top of the range. A solo operator asking for the same slot gets the bottom.
That gap is not a rounding error. On a $2M media plan it is several hundred thousand dollars.
How we buy
Small, unbranded, and very good at remembering prices
Fragmented purchasing
A $500K creator sprint is not bought as one $500K order. It is bought as hundreds of individual creator agreements, each at the rate a single creator would accept from a single buyer.
Rate memory
The network has negotiated thousands of placements. We know what a primary slot in a 200K-subscriber AI newsletter actually clears at, because we've paid it.
Your name, only when required
Your identity enters the conversation only when a contract legally requires a named party, or when a vendor's policy demands disclosure before booking.
Transparency promise
You see everything
- The vendor's invoice, unedited
- Our margin, stated as a line item (cost-plus 8–12%, or a share of savings against your existing quote — you choose)
- Your saving against rate card or your prior quote
- No hidden markups, no rebates from vendors, no "media fees" buried in the budget
Confidential buying, compliant advertising
What stays private and what never does
What stays private is who is buying during negotiation. What is never hidden is that something is an ad. Every sponsored post, creator video and native placement carries the disclosure the FTC and the platform require. Stealth applies to procurement, not to your audience. Read the Advertising Disclosure Policy.
Interactive
What should it cost?
Placement type
Estimated network rate
$15,500 – $18,000
Estimated saving28–38%· $7,000 to 9,500
Estimates based on recent network transactions; actual rates depend on vendor, timing and availability. Send the real quote for a firm re-quote in 48 hours.
From recent engagements
- AI directory homepage sponsorship, two one-week slots: quoted $65,000 direct, bought for $41,000.
- 50-creator roster for a four-week sprint: 38% under the average agency rate card for equivalent tiers.
- Podcast package (5 featured, 4 spotlight, 3 tutorial ads): quoted $100,000, bought for $72,000 with two additional supporting spots.
- Digital OOH, Austin tech corridor, four sites: 22% under the aggregator's first quote plus free production.
All figures anonymized. Client identities are confidential by contract — which is rather the point.
FAQ
Is this legal?+
Yes. Buying on behalf of a client without disclosing the client is how media-buying houses and procurement firms have operated for decades. Contracts that require a named party get one.
Will vendors refuse to work with us later?+
Vendors are paid in full and on time. Most prefer a reliable network buyer to a one-off startup; many of them offer us standing rates.
Do you take vendor rebates or kickbacks?+
No. Our only revenue is the margin or savings-share you agree to.
What if I already have a quote?+
Send it. That's the fastest way to see the difference.
48 hours
Send us three quotes. We'll re-quote them in 48 hours.
Paste what you were quoted. We'll come back with the network rate, our margin, and the delta.