Private design-partner pilot

A defensible trail from brief to payment.

TalentDocket is validating an India-first contract-to-cash workflow with a small number of agencies. Core records, signed-in access and GST validation are in bounded pilot; contracts, invoicing, collections, reconciliation and accountant handoff are not yet released.

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India-first · INR · bounded GST pilot · registry-gated release

Illustrative target · DOCKET TD-2026-0418 Lumen Beauty × @ananya.works

Brief captured 12 Aug /Reels ×2, Stories ×3

Scope agreed ₹4,50,000 /2 revisions, 90-day usage

Contract executed 13 Aug /v3, signed 2 of 2

Deliverable approved 21 Aug /Reel 1 of 2, proof captured

Invoice issued TD/26-27/0118 /₹5,31,000 /incl. GST 18%

Payment reconciled Awaiting /due 21 Sep /next action 04 Sep

Evidence complete 5 of 6 Outstanding ₹5,31,000

2–2.5M monetised creators in India BCG

$350–400B consumer spending they influence BCG

>$1T influenced spend projected by 2030 BCG

60–90 days to payment, commonly Sector reporting

The problem

The work gets done. The trail doesn't.

Most agencies don't lose money on bad campaigns. They lose it in the gaps between the tools — where a commitment was made but never recorded, and nobody notices until the cash doesn't arrive.

Scope

The brief lives in a thread

Rates, revisions and usage rights are agreed over WhatsApp and email, then argued about four months later with no shared record of what was actually said.

Leakage

Scope drifts, silently

A third revision, an extra story, a usage extension. Each one is real work that was never priced, never approved, and never made it onto an invoice.

Latency

Invoices trail the work

A deliverable is approved on the 8th and invoiced on the 24th — because nothing connects approval to billing except somebody remembering.

Collections

Follow-up runs on memory

Chasing depends on who happens to recall that a brand is 40 days late, and stops entirely when that person is on leave.

Reconciliation

Money arrives unallocated

One lump credit lands against four invoices with TDS deducted somewhere in the middle, and the ageing report quietly stops being true.

Compliance

Your CA asks for evidence

The contract is in Drive, the approval in Slack, the invoice in one tool and the receipt in a bank statement. Assembling it is a week of somebody’s life.

Target workflow

One docket. Twelve intended entries.

This is the workflow being validated, not a statement that every step is released. Each entry below carries its current registry-derived status.

01 Brief captured Bounded pilot A brand enquiry becomes an owned record instead of a message you hope to find again.
02 Scope agreed Bounded pilot Deliverables, revisions, exclusivity, usage rights, fees and payment terms, all stated before work starts.
03 Contract approved Currently gated The target workflow uses versioned agreements, clause-level decisions and a complete revision history.
04 Contract signed Currently gated The target supports e-signature or a counter-signed scan, with the signed version fixed to the record.
05 Deliverables assigned Bounded pilot Every item has an owner, due date and readable state inside the bounded records pilot.
06 Content submitted Currently gated The target keeps each draft against its deliverable instead of as an attachment in a thread.
07 Revision or approval recorded Currently gated The target records who approved what, when and against which exact version.
08 Publication proved Currently gated The target stores the live link, timestamp and captured proof against the collaboration.
09 Billing milestone unlocked Currently gated The target links approved delivery to controlled invoice preparation.
10 Invoice issued Currently gated The gated issuance design uses sequential financial-year numbering and freezes the tax treatment.
11 Collection executed Currently gated The gated receivables design uses owned queues, dated actions and evidenced reminder delivery.
12 Payment reconciled Currently gated The gated target matches receipts across invoices, records TDS evidence and prepares an accountant handoff.

Product direction

Six connected surfaces, released only when their gates pass.

The target is one collaboration-and-evidence spine. Status labels distinguish bounded pilot capability from repository implementation that is still unavailable.

Scope & collaborations

Bounded pilot

Bounded pilot records for the commercial detail a creator deal actually has.

Creators, counterparties, campaigns, platforms
Deliverables, deadlines, revisions, exclusivity
Usage rights and disclosure obligations
Enforced states from Draft through to Closed

Contracts

Currently gated

A gated contract design where the signed document and the deal cannot drift apart.

Immutable contract and deliverable versions
Clause-level decisions and revision history
E-signing, with external counter-sign fallback
Publication-gated delivery and billing

Delivery evidence

Currently gated

A gated evidence trail attached to the milestone it is intended to unlock.

Submission, revision and approval trail
Publication URL, timestamp and file hash
Approvals recorded against an exact version
Malware-scanned evidence storage

Compliant invoicing

Currently gated

A gated issuance workflow with GST validation in a bounded pilot; no compliance outcome is guaranteed.

Sequential financial-year numbering
GST computation with GSTIN validation
Immutable tax and rule passports per line
Controlled corrections and credit notes

Receivables

Currently gated

The planned collections desk; runtime access and provider delivery remain gated.

Work queue by ageing, owner and next action
Promises to pay, disputes and escalation paths
Counterparty payment history and risk
Reminder sequences with delivery evidence

Reconciliation & handoff

Currently gated

The planned last mile: matching receipts to work and preparing an accountant handoff.

Receipt capture and multi-invoice allocation
Append-only corrections, never silent edits
TDS tracking and Form 26AS comparison
Financial-year packages for your accountant

Questions

The things agencies ask first.

Do you hold or move our money?

No. TalentDocket does not take custody of funds, lend, factor, advance against invoices or connect to bank accounts. The planned reconciliation workflow records evidence of money that moved elsewhere; that capability is currently gated.

Does this replace our accountant or our accounting software?

No. There is no general ledger. The product direction is an operational trail from scope through accountant handoff, but invoicing, collections, reconciliation and export capabilities are currently gated.

Is this a creator discovery marketplace?

No. We do not run a creator database, campaign marketplace or social-listening product. The target workflow starts after you already have a collaboration; the complete path to reconciled payment is not yet released.

I’m a creator, not an agency. Can I use this?

Not as a self-service product today. The current release is an invite-only, agency-first design-partner pilot. The Free and Creator bands shown on the pricing page are commercial hypotheses for later validation, not purchasable plans.

Can our creators and brand contacts use it?

Role-based access and core records are in bounded pilot. Brand-side exact-version approval and external-accountant access remain gated, so access is agreed per design-partner pilot rather than promised as generally available.

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