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For founders who need influencer marketing to move as fast as you do.

Influencer marketing like you've never seen it before: fresh creators, clear outcomes, zero overhead.

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a16z is an investor in Beacons
01 · Your problem

Influencer marketing for startups is repetitive and outdated.

“The campaign worked, but I can't prove it. All I have is a PDF someone emailed me two weeks after it ended.”

Every dollar you spend has your name on it. Beacons gives you the shortlist rationale before the campaign launches, live data while it runs, and a report after that tells you not just what happened — but why.

“My CPMs are going up, conversions are flat. I'm not going to hit my numbers doing the same thing.”

Beacons has 10M+ creators who are real users, not rows in a spreadsheet. We have all the data behind each one and help you find creators outside your usual pool who are already organically talking about products like yours, with real audience data.

“I asked my last agency for first-party audience data and they sent me screenshots.”

Beacons connects to your Amplitude, PostHog, or Mixpanel and pulls your creator-driven data alongside your downstream analytics — so you can trace from a content view to conversion without rebuilding your dashboard. No screenshots, no CSVs. Results come back as data that fits your existing workflow.

02 · What we offer

A fully managed service, powered by the world's most comprehensive creator data set.

Send us a brief. In 24 hours you have a curated shortlist with rates and audience data. From there, everything runs through us: outreach, contracts, content approvals, payouts, and a live campaign dashboard.

We're built on something no agency has: 10M creators who use Beacons to run their own businesses — plus 200 talent agencies running their rosters through us. We know who's deal-ready right now, what rates actually close, and who responds versus who ghosts.

Data nobody else has

Five years of behavioral data from the creator side of every deal: who closes, what rates hold, what content converts in which niches. Not scraped follower counts.

Beam match score breakdown for creator Hannah Zhang — 88/100 with content relevance, audience location, category alignment, and engagement quality
Beam's match score — shown for every creator on your shortlist, before you commit to anything.

Built for AI & tech. Ready for whatever's next.

We've gone deep in the AI and tech space — 20,000+ mapped creators and counting, with audience intent data, content performance by format, and the brief structures that drive activation. That same depth of mapping is how we work across every vertical.

Sample creator shortlist from the AI & tech vertical — Alberta Tech, Angelica Georges, Aria Kim with follower counts and total reach
A sample from a real AI & tech shortlist — each creator mapped by vertical, platform, and total reach.

Pre-sold distribution

A creator with 80K followers in the productivity space outperforms a celebrity with 5M when it comes to your product. Their audience opted in because they built real trust with their community — and that trust transfers. Content relevance and resonance convert. Follower count doesn't.

5M Lifestyle Creator
  • Fashion & beauty34%
  • Entertainment28%
  • Food & travel19%
  • Technology8%
  • Productivity tools4%
  • AI & software3%

7% of this audience cares about what you're selling.

80K Productivity Creator
  • Productivity & workflows41%
  • AI & software tools31%
  • Career development14%
  • Tech & SaaS9%
  • Finance & business5%

91% of this audience is already looking for tools like yours.

Audience interest data pulled from Beam. Follower count tells you how loud someone is. Interest overlap tells you whether anyone is listening for what you're selling.

03 · Is Beacons for you?

You’re in the right place if creator marketing needs to become a real growth channel.

AI products & foundation models

Your product is adopted through demonstration, not description. If its value becomes obvious the moment someone watches it being used, creators can turn that “wait, I need this” moment into demand.

Dev tools & AI coding products

Your buyer does not trust generic influencer marketing. They trust builders, operators, and technical creators who can show real workflows, sharp opinions, and tools that actually save time.

Teams under performance pressure

You do not just need content. You need a campaign you can defend: why these creators, why this audience, what happened, what worked, and what you are doing next.

04 · A timeline that works

Move at startup speed, not agency speed. Launch in days, with creators already on Beacons, standardized contracts, live data, and a team that handles the work end to end.

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Find fresh creator faces that will convert for your company.

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