Comparison
Autone vs a spreadsheet
Most brands under $10M run creator partnerships out of a Google Sheet. It is free, it works, and it stops working at a very specific point.
What a spreadsheet costs
Free. The cost is hours, and it is not small.
Source: n/a · checked 2026-09-16
What Autone costs
Starter $199/month · Growth $499/month · Scale $999/month.
30-day free trial, no card required. Month-to-month on every plan. No annual contract is sold.
Source: our own checkout. These are the prices Stripe charges.
What a spreadsheet does better
- Free, instant, and shaped exactly like your process because you shaped it.
- No integration, no onboarding, no vendor.
- For under about ten active creators, genuinely hard to beat.
Where Autone is different
- A sheet records what happened. It does not send the third follow-up on the right day, and that is where most creator programmes quietly die.
- Autone keeps the state and acts on it: outreach, follow-up, shipping, brief, content review, payment queue.
- Your time is the expensive input here, not the software.
When to choose a spreadsheet instead
You are running fewer than about ten creators and enjoy the control. Adding software before you have a volume problem just adds a subscription.
Questions
When does a spreadsheet actually stop working?
Usually somewhere around twenty active creators, when following up stops being something you remember and starts being something you schedule. The failure is missed follow-ups, not lost data.
Trying Autone
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