How it works
Five steps from a good product to a shared one.
This is the path Gibly is being designed around. Nothing here is automatic and none of it is compulsory: every step is a choice two or more creators make together.
Intended journey · opens in stagesThe journey
- 01 / 05Discover
Find the products that complete yours.
Collaboration starts with knowing who’s out there. You’ll be able to browse creators and products by the audience they serve and the job they do, and see who is open to what: referrals, bundles or integrations.
- What you do
- Describe your product, your audience and what you’re open to.
- What Gibly is planned to provide
- Profiles, search by audience and category, and suggested matches.
In the exampleCreator A makes a membership tool for clubs and keeps hearing the same request: “Can it handle bookings too?” She looks through the community ecosystem and finds Creator B’s booking app.
- 02 / 05Connect
Start a conversation with a purpose.
A message with a concrete proposal is easier to answer than a vague hello. Requests are structured around what you’re suggesting, so both sides know what’s being asked before anyone replies.
- What you do
- Propose something specific: a referral swap, a joint offer, an integration.
- What Gibly is planned to provide
- Collaboration requests, and a private space to work out the idea.
In the exampleA proposes a joint offer for community organizers. B is interested, and suggests C, whose messaging tool many of B’s customers already use.
- 03 / 05Collaborate
Agree who brings what.
This is where most informal partnerships fall apart, so it’s where the platform is meant to do the most work. Contributors settle the offer, the price, how revenue is divided and who handles support, then record it in an agreement everyone can see.
- What you do
- Decide the offer, the price, the split and the support path.
- What Gibly is planned to provide
- Bundle configuration, contributor agreements and transparent allocation rules.
In the exampleThe three agree a single monthly price and a split, and that A answers first-line support. Each keeps selling their own product separately.
- 04 / 05Launch
Go to market as one.
The joint offer gets its own page, one checkout and one clear promise. Each contributor announces it to their own audience, and it’s listed in the relevant ecosystem for others to find.
- What you do
- Announce it to your audience. Keep running your product as usual.
- What Gibly is planned to provide
- A shared listing, checkout, subscriptions and customer onboarding.
In the exampleThe Organizer’s Kit is announced to three audiences at once and listed in the community and membership ecosystem.
- 05 / 05Grow
Share customers, share returns.
Revenue from the offer is allocated by the agreed rules, and every contributor sees the same reporting. Partnerships that work can be extended with a new contributor, a new audience or a second offer. Ones that don’t can be ended cleanly.
- What you do
- Watch what’s working. Extend it, adjust it or end it.
- What Gibly is planned to provide
- Revenue allocation, payouts, and usage and performance reporting.
In the exampleLater, the three invite a fourth creator, whose ticketing tool fills the next gap their customers keep mentioning.
The Organizer’s Kit
Three products, one offer.
The Organizer’s Kit is invented to make the model concrete. The products, the creators and the split are hypothetical.
- What each creator contributes
- A finished product they already sell, and their existing audience. Nobody builds anything new for the bundle unless they choose to.
- What the customer receives
- One subscription and one sign-up for three tools that already know about each other, plus one place to ask for help.
- Where the value comes from
- The organizer saves the work of stitching tools together. Each creator reaches customers the other two already have.
- How revenue-sharing could work
- The subscription is divided by a split agreed before launch, with a platform fee retained by Gibly. Every contributor sees the same figures.
- Creator AMembership toolSign-ups, renewals and member records.
- Creator BBooking appSessions, rooms and event schedules.
- Creator CMessaging toolAnnouncements and reminders.
- One sign-up
- One subscription
- One place for help
One subscription, shared
Proportions are for illustration only. No rates have been set, and each bundle’s split would be agreed by its contributors.
Who owns what.
Collaborating doesn’t blur the lines. These are the intended defaults.
| What | Who decides | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Your product, code and brand | You | Joining does not transfer ownership. |
| Your standalone price | You | Bundles don’t change what you charge on your own. |
| Where else you sell | You | Participation is non-exclusive by default. |
| A bundle’s contents and price | Its contributors, together | Agreed before launch. |
| How bundle revenue is divided | Its contributors, together | Written down and visible to all of them. |
| Support for a joint offer | Named in each agreement | A customer always has one clear place to go. |
| Checkout, attribution and payouts | Gibly | The infrastructure the platform fee pays for. |
Intended principles. They may evolve before commercial launch.
Follow the money.
A customer pays once.
One price and one checkout for a joint offer, or an ordinary purchase that began with a referral.
The platform records who contributed.
Attribution ties each sale to the products in a bundle and to whoever introduced the customer.
Revenue is divided by the written rules.
Each contributor receives their agreed share. Gibly retains its fee for running the transaction.
This is the intended mechanism. Rates, fees and payout schedules have not been set.
See every revenue sourceWhat exists today, and what doesn’t yet.
- This website, and everything it explains.
- Applications to the Founding Circle.
- Conversations with founding members about how the platform should work.
Everything else described on this page. It will open in stages, shaped by founding members.
- Creator Growth Network
- Creator and product profiles · Partner matching · Referral attribution · Shared campaigns
- Collaborative Product Bundles
- Bundle configuration · Contributor agreements · Joint pricing · Revenue allocation
- Verified Agent & Capability Exchange
- Capability discovery · Usage-based pricing · Permission transparency · Independent verification
- Specialized Creator Ecosystems
- Category communities · Shared audiences · Ecosystem solutions
The first step is the only one open.
Founding members help decide how the other four should work.