Creating virtually safe spaces.
createspace is one company with two divisions — a creator community, and creator representation for brand partnerships. Both exist for the same reason: no one should have to build alone.
I've been a creator inside this industry for years. Long enough to know what the lonely stretch feels like.
As a creator who has worked for several years within the creative industry, I understand the importance of being intentional with our partnerships, and with our creative relationships with other aspiring creatives.
Inspiration, authenticity and connection are what fuel a community to show up and be its best. That isn't a slogan — it's the thing I kept looking for and rarely found. Most of the rooms I walked into were transactional. The ones that weren't changed the shape of my career.
So createspace is the room I wanted. A place where a creator can bring work that isn't finished yet, be met by people who actually make things, and grow in public without performing. And, for those ready for it, a house that will go out and get the partnership — and handle the paperwork, the negotiation and the chasing — so the making stays the point.
Nothing here is automated where a person should be. Every application is read. Every decision is written. Even the hard answers get sent kindly, because I remember being on the receiving end of the ones that weren't.
Austin Jay
Founder, createspace · community + talent
Why there are two divisions.
One house needed two doors, because creators arrive at very different points and deserve an honest answer about which one is theirs.
A community can't have a size requirement
The people who most need a room full of other creators are usually the ones nobody is recruiting yet. So Community has no follower requirement, and never will. We read for fit, commitment and how you treat other creators.
Representation has real logistics
Brand deals come with thresholds we didn't invent. Talent asks for 20,000 followers on a single platform to apply — a logistics floor, not a verdict on anyone's worth. We say it on step one rather than three steps into a form.
Two doors, one house
They aren't a hierarchy. Community isn't a waiting room for Talent, and Talent isn't graduation. They're two different kinds of support, run by the same people, with the same posture behind both.
Cast, not crowded
Onboarding to the roster is invitation-based rather than open signup. That keeps the roster small enough that a brand meets people we can genuinely vouch for, and a creator gets attention rather than a queue position.
Four things we'd rather be held to.
Written down here so you can hold us to them, in detail rather than in spirit.
Agency fees are billed to the brand
Our fee is never deducted from a creator's gross. It appears on the brand's invoice as its own line item, next to the creator's rate — two numbers, never blended into one.
This is deliberate. When the fee is buried in a single figure, the creator can never quite verify what they earned. Here, both sides see the same arithmetic before money moves.
Creators are paid net within 24 hours
Once a brand settles, the creator is paid within 24 hours — 72 at the absolute outside, and only if a bank is being slow. Itemized receipts go out every time.
Chasing the brand is our job, not the creator's. Waiting sixty days for money you already earned is one of the quiet cruelties of this industry, and we're not passing it along.
Every application is read by a person
An open rubric scores everyone the same way, so the criteria aren't a secret. But the rubric is advisory only — a human reads the full breakdown, makes the decision, and writes what they send you.
There are no automated rejections. If the answer is not yet, it comes back as an honest not-yet, often with specific feedback, from someone who actually looked at your work.
No protected attributes are ever collected
We don't ask about race, gender, age, disability or national origin — not in the application, not in the rubric, not anywhere in the system. Nothing of the kind is stored or scored.
The application asks about you and your work. That's the whole of it.