SponsorMatch

Overview

SponsorMatch is an AI-powered creator sponsorship automation agent that transforms how content creators secure brand partnerships. By combining intelligent brand discovery, enriched company research, and personalized pitch generation, this agent identifies actively sponsoring brands in your niche and delivers reviewer-approved pitch emails ready to send. It eliminates manual outreach legwork while ensuring every pitch is tailored to each brand's current campaigns and partnership goals.

How It Works

1. Search for sponsoring brands (Exa) — Use AI-native semantic search to discover brands currently sponsoring newsletters, podcasts, and YouTube channels in your target niche, filtering by content category and relevance.

2. Enrich brand company data (Apollo) — Retrieve detailed firmographics including industry, headcount, revenue, funding, tech stack, and social profiles for each identified brand.

3. Identify partnerships contact (Apollo) — Search Apollo's 275M+ contact database to locate the brand partnerships manager or creator marketing lead at each company using title, seniority, and company filters.

4. Verify contact email (Apollo) — Enrich the identified contact to reveal their verified email address, full profile, title, and social media links.

5. Draft personalized pitch (Claude Sonnet 4.6) — Generate a custom pitch email for each brand featuring a specific hook tied to their current campaigns, your audience fit data, proposed collaboration format, and pricing/terms.

6. Save as Gmail draft (Gmail) — Create a draft email in Gmail for your review, allowing you to approve, edit, or reject before sending.

7. Log in sponsorship tracker (Notion) — Automatically record each outreach opportunity in a Notion sponsorship pipeline with brand name, contact info, status, and follow-up dates.

Key Features

• Intelligent brand discovery — Find actively sponsoring brands using semantic search, not generic lists, ensuring high-quality partnership matches in your niche
• Complete contact intelligence — Access verified email addresses, decision-maker titles, company details, and social profiles through integrated Apollo data enrichment
• AI-generated personalized pitches — Receive custom-drafted emails with campaign-specific hooks and audience fit analysis, eliminating generic templated outreach
• Creator-controlled approval workflow — Review and edit all pitches in Gmail drafts before sending, maintaining your voice and brand standards
• Built-in pipeline tracking — Automatically log outreach activity in Notion with contact details and follow-up reminders for systematic campaign management

Use Cases

• Podcast creators seeking sponsorship deals — Discover relevant brands sponsoring similar podcasts, identify partnerships managers, and send personalized pitches backed by listener demographics and engagement metrics.
• Newsletter publishers expanding revenue streams — Find brands advertising in competing newsletters, research their partnership budgets, and pitch tailored collaboration formats with subscriber data.
• YouTube channel owners scaling monetization — Identify brands currently running creator partnerships in your niche, connect with the right decision-makers, and present data-driven sponsorship proposals.
• Influencers managing multiple outreach campaigns — Automate the research-to-pitch process for dozens of brands simultaneously while maintaining editorial control and building a trackable outreach database.