CleerCut Agency: We run the campaign, you keep full oversight and control.

Influencer Marketing Strategy

CleerCut Agency: We run the campaign, you keep full oversight and control.

CleerCut's agency service handles creator sourcing, vetting, and campaign management for you, with full visibility into every stage.

Published September 4, 2026

CleerCut's platform is built to make running influencer campaigns yourself faster and less manual. Sourcing, contracts, payments, and reporting all live in one place instead of being scattered across five different tools. But not every team wants to run that process themselves, even with the right platform underneath it.

If what you actually want is to hand the work off completely, sourcing, vetting, contracts, and day-to-day management, that's what CleerCut's agency service is for. You don't lose sight of what's happening in the process, since the same visibility that makes the platform work for a DIY team carries over when our team is the one running it.

Full Visibility Into Every Campaign We Run

Most agencies update you by email, on their schedule, and you find out how things are going when they decide to tell you. That's the usual trade-off: you get the time back, but you lose sight of what's actually happening. If something goes wrong, there's often no way to catch it until a report arrives weeks later, by which point it's usually too late to fix without losing money on it.

CleerCut works differently because the campaign runs on the same platform you'd otherwise be using yourself. You can log into your dashboard any time and see exactly where things stand, from the applicant list down to the contracts and content moving through the campaign board. Nothing about that changes just because our team is doing the sourcing and vetting instead of you.

That visibility extends to the decisions that actually matter, not just the updates. No creator gets contracted or paid without you seeing their application and approving it yourself, so who gets hired and how much gets spent both stay with you. There's no long-term contract involved either, since pricing is scoped to each campaign rather than sold as a retainer you're stuck renewing.

This is the real difference between CleerCut's agency service and a traditional one: the same reduction in workload, without the blind trust a traditional agency usually asks for in return.

We Work With Whatever Campaign Type You Need

Every campaign gets set up as one of four types, configured directly in the platform rather than added on as a workaround.

Sponsored Post campaigns publish to the creator's own audience for a flat fee, the right fit when reach and awareness matter more than a direct sale.

With UGC, the content is built for you to reuse in your own ads, email, or product pages, so a creator's work extends well past their own feed.

Gifted campaigns skip cash entirely, trading product for content instead, which makes them a lower-commitment way to test a relationship before paying for one.

Affiliate campaigns tie payment directly to results: commission on sales a creator actually drives, tracked automatically through your connected Shopify store.

You're not limited to one type per relationship either, since a single roster can run gifted, paid, and affiliate campaigns side by side, depending on what makes sense for each creator.

That same flexibility extends to creators you already work with, even ones you built entirely outside CleerCut, so there's no need to start over. Send over a spreadsheet of your current roster, and our team handles outreach to get each one set up on the platform, including profiles, contracts, and payments, so the relationships you've already built don't get lost in the switch.

How We Find and Vet Your Creators

You start by giving us your budget, niche, and goals, and from there we open applications and screen every creator before you ever see a profile, so what reaches you has already been filtered. You get a ranked applicant report with our top picks, and you approve who's actually hired, with contracts and payment terms handled for you once you do. Content gets tracked through to completion, and once the campaign is completed, you get a custom performance report, including sales and ROI data if your Shopify store is connected.

That screening runs on current data rather than stale numbers, since creator profiles pull directly from their connected accounts and refresh every 24 hours. Before any creator gets recommended to you, our team reviews nine key metrics per profile, including audience location, age range, and gender split, the same underlying data that powers CleerCut's creator verification across the platform. That's what actually gets filtered out before a profile ever reaches you: a follower count that doesn't match the engagement behind it, an audience clustered somewhere that has nothing to do with your market, a growth pattern that looks bought rather than earned. None of that shows up on a public profile at a glance, which is exactly why it's worth someone checking before you're the one paying for it.

Why This Costs Less Than a Traditional Agency

A traditional agency's rate has to cover the manual labor sitting behind every campaign: sourcing creators by hand, chasing outreach across email and DMs, reconciling spreadsheets against whatever tracking exists. That labor is real, and it's part of what you're paying for whether it's itemized or not.

CleerCut's agency service runs that same work through the platform instead of by hand. Sourcing, screening, contracts, and reporting all happen inside a system built for it, so the team running your campaign isn't spending hours on tasks the platform already automates. That efficiency is part of what a custom quote reflects, alongside your specific budget and goals, since there's less manual overhead built into the rate to begin with.

The result isn't a claim about beating every price on the market. It's a straightforward one: you're not paying for hours spent on work that no longer needs to be done by hand.

Who This Is Built For

If you're a DTC or Shopify brand, the appeal is usually reach without adding headcount, since running campaigns well takes time your team may not have to spare on top of everything else already on the calendar. Agencies managing multiple clients tend to use this for a different reason entirely, not because they lack expertise, but because juggling discount codes, contracts, and reporting across several accounts by hand becomes its own full-time job the moment client count passes two or three. Brands new to influencer marketing often start here because there's no learning curve to climb before results start coming in, our team already knows what a strong creator brief looks like and what a fair rate is. And even experienced marketing teams use this when the constraint isn't knowledge, it's simply hours in the week.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's included in a managed campaign?

Creator sourcing and screening, ranked recommendations, contract and payment handling once you approve a hire, content tracking through to completion, and a custom performance report at the end.

How do you choose which creators to recommend?

Every creator is screened against nine key metrics, including audience location, age range, and gender split, using data that refreshes every 24 hours rather than a static snapshot.

Can I run gifted, paid, and revenue-based campaigns together?

Yes. Sponsored post, UGC, gifted, and affiliate campaigns can all run within the same roster, depending on what fits each creator relationship.

How involved do I need to be?

You set the brief and approve who gets hired. Everything between those two points, sourcing, screening, contracts, and tracking, is handled for you.

How much does this cost?

There's no fixed package. Pricing is scoped to your specific budget and goals once you talk to our team.

How long does a campaign take to launch?

Campaigns can go live the same day as your first call with our team.

Talk to our team to get started, or visit cleercut.com to see how the agency service fits alongside CleerCut's Shopify integration, escrow payments, and campaign reporting.

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