Creator Network

Client: Creator Network
Industry: Two-sided creator marketplace
Year: 2026

A two-sided marketplace connecting brands, agencies, NGOs and event organisers with content creators across Ethiopia and the wider Pan-African market, covering discovery, negotiation, agreed terms, delivery, review and settlement.

146

Published creators across 16 markets

148.9M

Combined audience reach

Factors scored on every match

What it covers

Creator discovery & scoring
Campaign briefs
Agreement & frozen terms
Bookings & delivery tracking
Payouts & settlement
Disputes & claims
Verification queue
Audit log
Built-in CMS & blog
Bilingual delivery

The problem with handshake deals

Creator work in the region runs on direct messages. Scope, price and deadline are agreed in a chat and then remembered differently by each side. Creator Network exists to make the agreement the record.

Terms are frozen on agreement

When both sides accept, scope, price, deadline and revision allowance are copied into an unchangeable record. Later edits to a profile or a brief never rewrite a live deal. Every state change after that lands in an audit log.

Matching that shows its work

Discovery scores five factors: niche, audience geography, past performance, platform fit and budget headroom. The arithmetic is shown on each profile rather than hidden behind a relevance number.

Operations

An operator dashboard carries the queues that need a human: verification, introductions, claims, disputes and payouts, over the marketplace's own reference data for countries, categories, platforms and languages.

How it was built

Framework: SvelteKit

Server load functions, form actions and endpoints; SSR by default.
Svelte 5

Runes for reactivity ($state, $derived, $effect).
Language: TypeScript

Strict mode across app and server code.
Data: MySQL

Primary datastore.
Drizzle Kit

Committed SQL migrations rather than push-to-prod diffing.
Drizzle ORM

Typed schema and queries, with migrations generated from the schema.
Auth: Better Auth

Session-based auth with server-side verification.
Forms: Superforms

Progressive-enhancement forms with server-side validation.
Zod

One schema validating both client and server.
UI: Tipex

Rich-text editor for CMS content.
TanStack Table

Sorting, filtering and pagination for admin tables.
Bits UI

Headless primitives behind the component library.
Embla

Carousels.
LayerChart

Reporting charts.
Dark mode

System-aware theme switching.
Lucide

Icon set.
Tailwind CSS

Utility-first styling with a project design token layer.
i18n: Paraglide i18n

Compiled translations, English and Amharic.
Testing: Playwright

End-to-end tests against a running build.
Vitest

Unit tests over business logic.
Infrastructure: Client image compression

Uploads compressed in the browser before hitting the server.
Nodemailer

Transactional email over SMTP.

Inside the system

Creator discovery with market and category filters — Discovery filters by market, category, region and platform, and can rank the whole directory against a specific brief.

Campaign briefs listing — Live campaign briefs are public, so creators can approach organisations rather than only the other way around.

Operator dashboard showing marketplace health — The operator dashboard is built around queues that need a human decision, not vanity metrics.

Creator verification queue — Verification is a queue with a decision trail, so an approval can always be traced back to a person.

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