Thought Leader Relations Manager

The place to reward creators

We rank content and creators based on donations, which act as signals, spotlighting the very best. Back your favorite authors so they can rise to the top, find new audiences, and build ad-free income.

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Built for creators. Designed

for people who value their time

• Power an Honest Ranking: Your pre-donations drive a transparent, quality-first leaderboard that motivates people to donate.
• Bridge the Discovery Gap: DonateOpen helps creators break through the noise and get discovered by new audiences.
• A Win-Win Ecosystem: Authors expand their reach and revenue, while you experience the joy of making a difference.

How it works

WHY DONATIONS?

As a costly signal they can’t be faked, so in contrast to likes they are real indicators of quality

Donate View Rankings

How do we bring you a new audience and income? The Trifecta:

DONATION SERVICE + DONATION-RANKINGS + RECOMMENDATIONS

Turn today’s private thanks into a visible result. Supporters see their donations boost your ranking and donate enthusiastically, frequently, and generously. The more donations you get the higher you are.

Attention: the weight of each vote depends on the donator’s reputation, thus we get rankings of quality, not popularity.

Find your creators and donate

Find content worth your time.

FOR WHOM AND FOR WHAT?

• Creators Get discoverability, a new audience, a new Income and reputation capital.
• Donators Level up the creator’s ranking and raise their own status. Every donation you make levels up the creator’s ranking — and yours, so that here you see the ripple effect of your efforts — this is key to donating with pleasure.
• Influencers You will become the official curator of your category, gathering the best creators, and their fans will follow. We will provide the technology for matching and community growth.
• Partners We provide access to real-world data: a new microscope for the social sciences.
• The first 1% Join as a founder of the Open Donations movement and unlock your privileges.
• Academics, researchers, and intellectuals We provide access to real-world data: a new microscope for the social sciences. We invite you to the frontier of the social sciences and data science.

FOR CREATORS

DO is your guide to a new audience and money: donations drive ratings, ratings attract donations. Creating content that people love? Start accepting donations from your fans and compete in our donor rankings.

We are building an economy of reciprocity, making donations fashionable. Join the DonateOpen movement so that bad content doesn’t suppress good content, and mastery is rewarded on merit.

Simple Steps to Get Started

• Sign up and create your Stripe account
• Get your donation link from your profile and place it in your content
• Start receiving donations!
• You can create your own nomination here, gather your community, and become its official curator Coming soon

Start Your Growth

FOR DONATORS

Every donation you make levels up the creator’s ranking — and yours. This turns support into a meaningful, engaging action. The results’ visibility makes the act of donating more satisfying to you.

• Champion the creators you’ve been inspired by and send them up the ranks
• Highlight exceptional works with your donations
• Use negative donations to downvote content. Unleash your discontent by calling out the noise Coming soon
• Choose content by quality, not popularity so you spend your time on what deserves it
• Get personal recommendations that actually get you
• Explore your interests and tastes on your personal dashboard, craft a collection of donations and create your donation biography Coming soon
• Raise your status. Let your donations act as proof of your taste and expertise
• Get rewarded for your vision, receive a share of the income from authors you helped discover early on
• Verify & Flex your credentials by sharing your donation profile on social media

Ready to Play?

• Pick a creator you love, make a donation and see the result
• Dive into the rankings of quality and compare them to the usual popularity charts

Start Donating

FOR INFLUENCERS Coming soon

You are a thought leader or an influencer.

We offer you the chance to create and lead your own niche (or nomination) on DonateOpen. You will become the official curator of your category, gathering the best creators, and their fans will follow. We will provide the technology for matching and community growth.

What this gives you and your project:

• Audience Growth: Users will discover you through rankings and recommendations
• New Income: Fans will promote you in the rankings by means of donations
• Reputation Capital: Your donation ranking is a certificate for your personal brand.

How to Start: Coming soon

• Register as a Community Leader
• Create your niche and invite creators to it
• Grow your community and earn revenue

FOR PARTNERS Coming soon

We offer content platforms, catalogs, and aggregators a new, non-advertising business model built on donations and deep user engagement.

• Unlock New Revenue: We embed our donation tools onto your platform, and you receive a revenue share from all donation transactions.
• Drive Deep Engagement: Our public donation rankings are a powerful incentive to donate. They launch a new “status game” for creators and donators, breathing new life into your platform. (Users see the results of their actions — personally changing an author’s ranking and their own. This makes them return.)
• Build User Trust: Our high-precision recommendations are designed to find what users truly value, not just to push sales. This builds lasting trust and loyalty to your platform.
• Gain a Tech Advantage: You get protection from fraud, hate, and content spam, along with access to our engines for calculating: innovative quality ratings (not popularity ratings based on likes), statuses and reputations for authors, users, and entire communities.

How to Start: Coming soon

• Register as a Community Leader
• Create your niche and invite creators to it
• Grow your community and earn revenue

FOR THE FIRST 1%

Welcome, Homo Donaticus! You are pioneers of the reciprocity economy. You’ve already unlocked the joy of donating.

• At DonateOpen, you get double the pleasure, multiplied by purpose: your donations aren’t just a gift, but your status, your personal growth, and a way to instantly find “your people”.
• We see your empathy and nobility. That’s why we’re inviting you to be a founder of the “Open Donations” movement.
• Discover your privileges: the right to founder status, opportunities to monetize your expertise, and access to breakthrough features like negative donations and consumption tracking.

Discover your 1% privileges

FOR ACADEMICS, RESEARCHERS, AND INTELLECTUALS

We invite you to the frontier of the social sciences and data science.

We are building donation-based ratings for content and creators. Donations are high-quality, costly signals of quality — impractical to falsify — and we use them to create a “PageRank for people”. These ratings consider not only the volume of donations but also the status, “taste”, and qualifications of the donators themselves.

This is a complex R&D challenge. We welcome those who relish such challenges and will provide access to real-world data (donation statistics, consumption profiles, mutual references). This is a new microscope for the social sciences, making it possible to quantify the elusive subjective — an element essential for humanity to bridge the gap between our vast knowledge of nature and our limited understanding of ourselves and others.

Join us in solving breakthrough challenges: from the mechanics of “negative donations” and calculating community reputation to constructing hierarchies of content complexity.

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