Do the work. Own the proof.
Brands on Acumin turn strategy into budgeted briefs, then come to the network to find who shoots them. Build a portfolio you own at your own public link, pitch on the briefs that fit your craft, and earn a rating that can't be bought.
Free · 0% commission · your portfolio stays yours
Your profile goes live as soon as you publish it. We hold the directory to a working-professional standard: complete profiles get booked, and thin or inactive ones can be removed.
How it works
Three steps to booked.
Build your page
A self-owned portfolio at acumin.ai/c/your-handle: your reel, your work, your specialities. It's a public link you can put in any bio, whether or not a brief is live.
Pitch on real briefs
Brands post budgeted briefs from their own strategy engine. Your board is matched to your specialities; you pitch with portfolio picks, approach and a quote.
Deliver. Get rated. Climb.
Accepted pitches become tracked bookings, each with a private Delivery Room for versioned cuts and frame-accurate notes. When you deliver, the brand rates the work. Only a real delivered booking can rate. Ratings build your Acumin Score and rank you on the board.
Reputation, built honest
A rating that can't be bought.
Marketplaces run on reviews nobody can verify. Here, the only path to a rating runs through a real booking: brand posts the brief, books you, receives the work, then rates it. That's the whole system. And it's why a high Acumin Score means something.
Booking-gated ratings
No drive-by reviews, no bought stars: a brand can only rate work it booked and received. Every rating traces to a delivered project.
The Acumin Score
Ratings roll into a 0–100 score built to reward consistency at volume, plus per-specialty proof ("proven in food", "proven in brand films") once you've earned it.
Referral cards
Each rated booking mints a verified, brand-named credential at its own public link. Your best client feedback becomes portable proof.
Delivery Rooms · the review theatre
Deliver the work like an agency would.
Every booking gets a private Delivery Room. Upload versioned cuts; the brand reviews them in a frame-accurate theatre: SMPTE scrubbing, timecode and in→out range comments, spatial pins, freehand annotation, threads that resolve as the cut improves. Feedback lives on the frame it's about, not in a WhatsApp thread.
Your business tools · all free
Do the work. Run the business.
Pitch builder builds designed, block-based treatments from your real profile and shows you how far a brand actually read. Invoices (for bookings or off-platform clients) go out at 0% commission from your own share link; Acumin never touches the money. And your calendar fills itself: the shoot, delivery and go-live dates a brand sets on a booking land on it automatically.
Creator Connect
$15/moEverything above stays free, forever. Connect is for creators sending serious pitches and invoices: your name on the work, an AI drafting partner behind it.
- White-label your shared pitches & invoices (the Acumin footer comes off)
- AI pitch assistant: draft & tighten your approach from the brief
- 25GB media storage for deliverables
- Higher caps on pitch docs, media & clients
Creator questions, answered
Nothing. A creator account is free: profile, portfolio page, pitching, ratings, referral cards. Acumin connects you with the brand and tracks the booking; you agree terms and are paid directly by the brand. Acumin doesn't take a cut of your fee.
Deliver rated work. Ratings are booking-gated (a brand can only rate you after booking you and receiving the delivered work), and they roll into a 0–100 Acumin Score that favours consistency at volume over one lucky five-star. There's no paid placement: a score can only be earned.
You do. You upload your own reel and work to your page. It isn't scraped from a platform, and it doesn't depend on any social account staying connected. Your public link works as a standalone portfolio anywhere you share it.
Every rated booking mints a shareable card (the brand's name, the star rating, the note they left, and your score) at its own public link. It's a verified credential you can send to any prospective client, on or off Acumin.
Every booking gets a private Delivery Room. You upload versioned cuts; the brand reviews them in a frame-accurate theatre: SMPTE timecode scrubbing, comments pinned to a frame or an in→out range, pins and annotations, threads that resolve as the cut improves. No more feedback scattered across email, WhatsApp, and a spreadsheet.
Yes. Invoice your bookings, and send standalone invoices to clients you found off-platform, both at 0% commission. Each invoice lives at its own share link; the client pays you directly and Acumin never touches the money. With Creator Connect ($15/mo), your pitches and invoices carry only your name.
The one paid creator plan, $15/mo: white-label your shared pitches and invoices (the Acumin footer comes off), an AI pitch assistant that drafts and tightens your approach from the brief, 25GB media storage, and higher caps. Everything else (pitching, bookings, ratings, referral cards) stays free.
No. Your profile goes live as soon as you publish it. We hold the directory to a working-professional standard after the fact instead: complete, active profiles are what brands book, and thin or inactive ones can be removed. Make your page one worth booking.
Your next client is already writing the brief.
Live the moment you publish it: no waiting on an approval queue. We hold the directory to a working-professional standard; complete profiles get booked, thin or inactive ones can be removed.