Trim - A marketplace where creators and brands can actually connect

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Hire Nigerian content creators and land paid brand deals on Trim. Run campaigns with contracts, collaborate in one workspace, and pay securely with escrow to a Nigerian bank account.

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I used to think the Nigerian creator economy had a matching problem. Brands could not find the right people. Creators could not get in the room.

I was wrong.

The room was already there. It just lived in DMs, WhatsApp threads, and “pay me after it goes live.” A brand would send a brief. A creator would post. Then someone would vanish, or the money would sit, or nobody could prove what was actually agreed. Talent was never the missing piece. Trust was.

So we stopped trying to build a prettier way to swipe through profiles. Trim is the rest of the campaign: the contract, the deliverables, the escrow, the proof it went live, the payout. The boring rails that let both sides do the work without holding their breath.

If you are a brand trying to run creator campaigns in Nigeria, or a creator tired of chasing payment through a chat, I would love for you to try Trim.

Which Vercel product did you use? What new capability did it give your team, and how did that shape the product you launched?
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Trim was built and deployed with Vercel, from our early screens starting with v0, vercel has been core to how fast we've been able to ship as a small team. Vercel's zero-config deployments and preview environments let us push new features like our AI-powered campaign tools, or full flows like and get them in front of real users within minutes, not days. That speed mattered a lot given how iterative our process has been; we originally thought Trim was a discovery problem, but Vercel's fast feedback loop let us test, learn, and pivot toward where we are now without the deploy cycle slowing us down.