Not looking for the "charge more" take, genuinely curious about the actual moment.
Did you pick a number and see if it stuck? Copy what a competitor was charging? Wait until someone paid without flinching?
For most founders I've talked to, the first price was either a guess or an anchor they got stuck with for way too long. Real pricing data only shows up after you've closed enough deals to see a pattern and by then you've probably left money on the table.
What was your process, and would you do it differently?
Genuinely curious what people are using before Paperclip or instead of Paperclip.
When I was talking to creators while building this, the answers were all over the place - a Google Sheet with 40 columns, a Notion database they stopped updating after the third deal, a folder of starred emails, or just their memory. A few people had genuinely impressive systems that I ended up learning from.
Paperclip is a brand deal management tool for content creators and UGC creators. Pipeline tracking, deliverable checklists, invoice generation, and payment chase templates — all in one place.
What sets it apart: upload a contract or email thread and the AI extracts the deal automatically. No manual entry. Every closed deal also builds a rate history so creators stop guessing what to charge and start pricing from their own data.
Built for the creator. Not the brand.
