Order #41273 placements · Q3 authority
Escrow funded€800 released€1,200 held
- techflow.ioGuest post€400Live · paid
- devnotes.coNiche edit€400Live · paid
- @maya.createsTikTok video€400In review
Public launch 31 August 2026
Buy links and creator posts without paying first.
Influensia is an escrowed marketplace for sponsored placements. Fund an order once, and sellers are paid placement by placement as each one goes live and you approve it. Publisher metrics come from Ahrefs, Moz, Majestic; creator audiences come from the platforms themselves. Nothing here is self-reported.
Free to browse, free to list. 14% when a placement is delivered — and not before.
An illustration of an order inside the app: three placements worth €1,200 funded into escrow, two of them live and paid out, one still in review.
- Escrow
- Per link, on Stripe Connect
- Metrics
- Ahrefs · Moz · Majestic
- Channels
- YouTube · Instagram · TikTok · X
- Agents
- REST + MCP · 111 typed tools
The problem
A $59B market that still runs on trust and wire transfers
Tens of thousands of businesses buy links and sponsored posts from strangers every month. The workflow has not changed since 2010.
Pay first, hope later
Buyers wire money upfront for placements that arrive late, wrong, or never. There is no escrow anywhere in the standard workflow.
Invisible pricing
The same placement sells for one price direct and three times that through a resale chain. Nobody on either side can see the real number.
Self-reported metrics
Sellers pitch with screenshots. Domain ratings, traffic and follower counts are unverifiable at the moment you decide to buy.
The workflow is email
Briefs, drafts, approvals and invoices scattered across inboxes and spreadsheets. Nothing has a state, so everything gets lost.
How it works
The money moves when the work does
One order, one escrow, and a release schedule tied to delivery rather than to a due date.
- 01
Find the placement
Search publisher domains and creator channels by niche, price, audience and verified metrics. Every seller offering the same domain lands on one canonical page, so you compare offers instead of inboxes.
- 02
Agree the brief
Anchor, target page, word count and content terms are part of the order, not an attachment. Negotiate in-thread and a typed offer becomes an escrowed order in one click.
- 03
Fund once, into escrow
You fund the whole order once. The money sits at Stripe, not with the seller, and Influensia takes 14% of it — snapshotted at creation, so a rate that moves later never restates a price you already agreed.
- 04
Approve, and pay per link
Drafts are written and approved in-app, so "delivered" is a fact rather than a claim. Each placement releases its own share of the escrow as it goes live and passes its check. The rest stays held.
What you can buy
A guest post and a TikTok video are the same object
Both are a priced, escrowed deliverable with a brief, an approval and a payout. Adding a channel adds supply, not a second product.
Publishers
Sponsored articles and links sold by the sites themselves, with domain metrics verified through Ahrefs, Moz, Majestic.
Creators
Posts, reels, threads and video from creators on four platforms, with audience numbers read from the platforms rather than a media kit.
- YouTubeDedicated video · Video integration · YouTube Short
- InstagramFeed post · Reel · Story
- TikTokTikTok video
- XSponsored post · Sponsored thread
Verified data
Every number carries its source and its timestamp
The reason this market runs on trust is that nobody could check anything at the moment of purchase. So nothing on a listing is taken on a seller's word.
Publisher metrics, from the vendors
Domain rating, traffic, referring domains, trust flow and spam score arrive from Ahrefs, Moz, Majestic as timestamped snapshots, each labelled with the API it came from. A metric with no vendor behind it is shown as unverified rather than dressed up as fact.
Metrics belong to the domain
A domain is verified once and every seller listing it inherits the same numbers. Two sellers cannot quote two different domain ratings for the same publication, because there is only one measurement.
Creator audiences, from the platforms
Follower counts, views and engagement come from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X rather than a screenshot, and a creator proves the channel is theirs before they can sell it.
Who you are buying from
Identity verification for sellers, company registration checked against the official registers, and domain ownership proved by DNS record. Every badge says what was checked and by whom.
AhrefsMozMajestic
Sellers connect their own vendor keys. Credentials are encrypted at rest.
Two sides, one desk
Whichever side you are on, the other one is here
A workspace is a buyer or a seller, chosen once. Run both, and they stay properly separate.
For buyers
Brands, SaaS growth teams, agencies and e-commerce operators who own an organic number.
- Never prepay a stranger. Money is released per placement, as each one is delivered and you approve it.
- Price discovery, finally. Every offer for a domain on one page — the cheapest verified one is visible, not buried in a resale chain.
- Campaigns with guardrails. Budgets, niche and metric floors, ranked buy recommendations, and open briefs sellers answer.
- A project per client. Agencies keep clients separate and share read-only reporting, without giving anyone the workspace.
For sellers
Publishers, portfolio site operators, niche outreach shops and creators with a real audience.
- Free to list. No listing fee, no subscription required to sell. You set the price per placement and per niche.
- Paid on delivery, guaranteed. The buyer funds escrow before you write a word, and each live placement releases its own money.
- Your inventory, imported. Bring a spreadsheet, a Google Sheet or a PDF media kit and it becomes a live market with mapped columns.
- Nothing publishes without you. You approve every brief and every draft. Content terms and link policy are yours to set.
For agents
An AI agent can run the whole purchase
A full REST API and a hosted MCP server with 111 typed tools. Research domains, compare offers, negotiate and place an escrowed order — end to end, with the tools that move money marked as such.
# Point any MCP client at the marketplace
claude mcp add --transport http influensia \
https://app.influensia.com/api/mcp/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $FLU_API_KEY"
# …then just ask
› find SaaS publishers over DR 60 that take fintech,
under €500, and draft an order for the best threePricing
14% when it is delivered. Nothing before that.
Browsing, listing, messaging and negotiating are free on both sides. We earn when a placement does.
14%platform fee
Charged on each escrowed order and snapshotted when the order is created, so a rate that changes later can never restate a price you already agreed. Payment processing runs on Stripe Connect; Influensia never holds your money in its own account.
Free
$0forever
Everything you need to buy or sell. The fee is the business model, not the plan.
- Unlimited listings, browsing and search
- Escrowed orders, messaging and offers
- Content editor with briefs and approvals
- 1 website per workspace
- 5 seats per workspace
- Full REST API and MCP access
Pro
$29per workspace / month
Campaign tooling and AI insights for teams running this as a channel. $26/mo billed yearly — 10% off.
- Everything in Free
- Advanced campaigns: guardrails and ranked recommendations
- AI-generated insights on campaigns and analytics
- PDF media-kit imports
- 10 websites per workspace
- 25 seats per workspace
Questions
The things people ask before they trust a marketplace
When does the seller actually get paid?
Per placement, not per order. The buyer funds the whole order into escrow at Stripe up front, and each item releases its own share the moment it goes live and the buyer approves it. A five-link order can be half paid out while two drafts are still in review. Influensia never holds the money in its own account.
What happens if a link disappears after it is published?
Live placements are rechecked on a schedule, and a link that vanishes or turns nofollow raises the issue on the order rather than in your rank tracker three months later. Markets where every placement runs 12 months or longer carry a 12-month link guarantee chip — it is earned from the listings' own terms, so a seller cannot type it onto a storefront that has not earned it.
What if the seller never delivers?
Nothing was released, because release is tied to delivery. An order that stalls can be disputed and refunded from the escrow that still holds the money. That is the whole reason the funds sit at Stripe rather than in the seller’s bank account.
Where do the metrics come from?
Ahrefs, Moz, Majestic for publisher domains, and the platforms themselves for creator audiences. Every number is stamped with its source and the time it was taken. Numbers we have not verified are labelled unverified — we would rather show you a gap than a guess.
Can I use my own vendor API keys?
Yes, and sellers usually do. Your Ahrefs, Moz or Majestic key is encrypted at rest and used to verify the domains you list. Buyers see the resulting snapshots and which vendor produced them, never your credentials.
Do creator deals work differently from links?
No, and that is the point. A TikTok video and a guest post are the same object: a priced, escrowed deliverable with a brief, an approval and a payout. Same fee, same workflow, same basket.
Is there an API?
A full REST API and a hosted MCP server with 111 typed tools, so an agent can research domains, compare offers and place an escrowed order end to end. Writes that move money are marked as such and are never a side effect of a read.
What does it cost?
14% of each escrowed order, taken when the placement is delivered. Browsing, listing, messaging and negotiating are free on both sides. The Pro plan at $29/month adds campaign tooling and AI insights, and nothing about buying or selling is behind it.
The escrowed marketplace for buying influence.
Both sides are built and working today. Create a workspace, list your inventory or place your first escrowed order.
No card required. Public launch 31 August 2026.