$79 a month, month-to-month. The opposite of The Knot.
A flat seat on a hand-picked Piedmont Triad bench — capped at four vendors per category, per metro. No 12-month contract, no pay-to-rank, no inbox avalanche. Free to join upfront.
01 · The industry problem
The Knot, WeddingWire, and Wedy sell placement. You pay to rank, you pay per lead, and you sign a 12-month contract to keep your spot above the next 800 photographers in your metro. The leads you do get are scraped from your website before you ever see the inquiry, billed to you regardless of fit, and most go cold because couples are shopping 30 names at once and can’t tell you apart.
You end up spending the marketing budget chasing the ranking instead of doing the work. Couples, in turn, get 30 near-identical replies in their inbox, stop reading them by the fifth, and pick whoever happened to reply first. The marketplace incentivizes speed, not fit — and the inbox avalanche burns you out faster than the no-bookings ever did.
We thought the fix was structural: hand-pick the bench instead of ranking it, cap the bench so leads stay real, and bill a flat monthly amount you can actually plan around. One seat, one category, one metro. That’s the whole model.
02 · The model
One flat seat. Real leads. Cancel anytime.
$79 / month flat. Month-to-month through Stripe. Cancel anytime, no 12-month contract. No per-lead fees, no placement tiers, no upsells.
One seat, one category, one metro. The bench stays small on purpose, and your monthly bill is the same whether the month was quiet or full.
Verified inquiries only — date inside our published window, working email and phone, plausible budget. No scraped leads, no recycled inquiries from last season, no strangers CC’d on your reply.
Up to four vendors per (category, metro) reply per inquiry. No bidding against the bench. When a bucket closes, we open a wait list — we never expand the cap, never run a bidding war, and never sell placement.
03 · What joining looks like
Three steps, no card up front.
- 01Submit the intake.Seven fields, no card. We hold your seat.
- 02We verify and route.When your category opens, your seat activates at $79 / month through Stripe, month-to-month.
- 03Real inquiries start arriving.Verified, routed to the up to four vendors in your category and metro. You reply like a human.
Ready when you are
The intake is free, no card up front. We hold your seat until your category opens, then your recurring seat activates at $79 / month through Stripe, month-to-month. Cancel anytime, no 12-month contract. The bench stays capped at four vendors per category per metro, so the leads stay real and the work stays yours.