For UGC talent
Apply to UGC jobs, answer a counter-offer, deliver the work, and keep your rate card and samples current.
Before you start
- Pick the UGC Talent role at sign-up. The onboarding form collects your skills, your languages and a default rate for one reel.
- Fill in your rate card and add samples before you apply. Brands shortlist on your samples.
- You make content for brands to use. You do not post it on your own account, and brands pay you per asset.
- Your sidebar holds Dashboard, Jobs, Briefs, Payouts, Profile, Rate card, Samples and Billing.
You do not need a connected Instagram or TikTok account to apply to a UGC job. Cyrqle creates a placeholder profile on your first application.
Your dashboard
The dashboard shows your numbers, the 5 newest open jobs, your work in flight, your deliveries, and any counter-offer a brand sent you.
Two things to know about this page:
- The counter-offer card is the only place you can answer a brand's counter-offer. There is no list of your applications and no message thread for them. Check the dashboard regularly.
- Your turnaround number measures the time from your application to the brand's sign-off. It includes the brand's review time, not only your production time.
Find and apply to a job
Read these two rules before you apply:
- You get one application per job, ever. You cannot withdraw it, edit it, or apply again.
- A brand must be reviewing applicants for you to apply. Cyrqle otherwise answers "The brand has closed applications on this brief."
Open the board
Select Jobs in the sidebar. Each row shows the brand, the deliverable count and the rate per unit.
Open a job
Click a row. Read the deliverable spec, the brand description, the do's and don'ts, and the window.
Start your application
Click Apply.
Write your pitch
Write up to 500 characters. Cyrqle counts the characters as you type.
Set your rate
Enter your rate. Cyrqle pre-fills it from your rate card. The range is 1 euro to 100,000 euros.
Set your turnaround
Enter your turnaround in days, from 1 to 60.
Attach one sample
Select one portfolio sample, or paste one public link. You cannot supply both.
Submit
Submit the application. Cyrqle returns you to the jobs board.
Answer a counter-offer
A brand can reply with a different rate. The offer appears on your dashboard with Accept and Decline.
Neither button does what its name suggests:
- Decline closes the job for you permanently. You cannot reopen it or apply again.
- Accept does not close the deal. It moves the job into negotiation, and the brand must still confirm. Wait for the brand before you start work.
Deliver the work
Once the brand accepts you, the job moves to Briefs. From there you use the same tools as a creator: the agreement, the drafts editor and the payout list.
Open the work
Click the in-flight card on your dashboard, or select Briefs in the sidebar.
Sign the agreement
Review and sign. See Your agreement and content rights.
Upload your drafts
Use the drafts editor in the brief. See Produce and post.
Get paid
Track the money on Payouts. See Getting paid.
Cyrqle has no separate application pages for UGC talent. Accepted work runs through Briefs, the same as for creators.
Keep your profile current
Your profile editor holds a bio of up to 500 characters, your skills, your equipment and your languages. It also holds a maximum turnaround between 1 and 365 days. Each list takes up to 20 entries, each up to 60 characters.
Brands read your maximum turnaround when they shortlist talent. It does not change your jobs board, which lists the newest job first.
Rate card
Open your rates
Click manage rates on your profile.
Add a tier
Select a deliverable type: reel, image, carousel or video.
Set the count and price
Enter a count between 1 and 9,999, and a price.
Set the currency
Select euro, US dollar or British pound. One currency per card.
Save
Save the card. You can hold up to 20 tiers.
Brands see your lowest tier price first when they shortlist.
Samples
Deleting a sample cannot be undone. Cyrqle asks you to confirm first.
Open your samples
Click manage samples on your profile.
Add a sample
Upload a file of up to 100 MB.
Describe it
Add a caption and pick the kind of work.
Order them
Click Move up and Move down. Your first 3 to 4 samples are what brands see.
Pitfalls
- Your rate card and your maximum turnaround only pre-fill an application. Cyrqle does not enforce them. You can quote any rate per job, and a brand can offer less.
- Your rate card currency is not your payout currency. Cyrqle pays in euros.
- The rate limits are 1 euro and 100,000 euros, whatever currency your rate card uses.
- Some screens still tell you to check an "applications inbox". That page no longer exists. Look at your dashboard and at Briefs instead.
- The jobs board has no filters. It lists every open UGC job, newest first.
Reference
Your profile
Edit your bio, niches and location, answer the audience survey, and read your points and clusters. A complete profile raises how often you appear in a brand search.
Your plan and limits
The four creator plans, the quarterly cap that blocks Accept, your commission rate, and your payout speed.