Preparing for closed beta · USA and Thailand
Find your people. Make the work.
SetMates is a creative collaboration and services platform. Photographers, models, content creators, organizers and brands build a professional profile, show their portfolio, find the right people for a project, offer services with real availability, and keep the plan in one place.
For adults 18 and over. SetMates does not process payments: members agree terms and arrange payment directly with each other.
What SetMates is
A working network for people who make images.
Creative work usually starts with finding someone: a model for a portrait series, a photographer for a lookbook, a stylist for a campaign day. That search tends to happen across scattered messages, screenshots and spreadsheets.
SetMates puts it in one place. Your profile and portfolio show what you do. Discovery helps the right people find you. Collaborations, services and bookings keep the details — dates, terms, call times — attached to the work they belong to.
Who it is for
Built for five kinds of collaborator.
Photographers
Publish a portfolio, cast your shoots, and offer sessions people can book.
Models
Show your book, find photographers and projects, and keep requests in one place.
Content creators
Find collaborators for video and social work, and offer what you make as a service.
Organizers
Staff shoots, workshops and productions with people whose work you have seen.
Brands
Find photographers and talent for a campaign, and brief them clearly.
How it works
From first message to finished work.
- 01
Build your profile
Your role, your area and your work. A portfolio that leads with images, and a public page you can put in your bio.
- 02
Find, or be found
Browse creatives and services, post a collaboration opportunity, or list a service with the hours you are available.
- 03
Collaborate, book, create
Agree the details in a conversation attached to that project or booking, confirm the time, and do the work.
Portfolio and services
Everything a shoot needs, before the shoot.
Professional profiles
Roles, experience and the details that matter for the work, with your location shown only as an approximate area.
Portfolios
Image-first galleries you control, on a public page that is yours.
Creative discovery
Search by role, place and kind of work to find people worth working with.
Collaboration opportunities
Post a project, invite people to it, review who applies, and agree terms.
Services
List what you offer, such as a portrait session or a styling day, on your own terms.
Booking and scheduling
Set your hours and the time you need between jobs. Clients choose a time that is actually free.
Project communication
Messages live inside a collaboration or a booking, so the context is always there. There is no open inbox for strangers.
Trust and safety
Adults only, reporting and blocking on every profile, and people who review what is reported.
SetMates does not handle money.
There is no checkout, no escrow and no payment protection. When a job is paid, the people involved agree the price and arrange payment directly with each other.
A booking can record that payment was arranged, so both sides see the same status. SetMates is not a party to that arrangement, and is not an agency or an employer.
Status
Closed beta.
SetMates is preparing for a closed beta with a small group of creatives in the United States and Thailand.
During the beta, accounts are created by invitation. Each invitation carries a code you enter when you sign up. Features will change as we learn from the people using them.
Getting an invitation
Invitations are sent directly by the SetMates team to the first members of each community.
Email from SetMates
Only the messages your account needs.
Account email comes from no-reply@auth.setmates.com. Today that means two messages, each sent only because you asked for it: confirming your email address when you sign up, and resetting your password. As the beta grows, the same address will carry notices about your own bookings and collaborations.
Every address comes from the person who owns it, when they sign up. SetMates does not buy or collect lists, does not write to anyone who has not created an account, and does not send marketing from this address. Addresses that bounce or report a message as spam are not written to again.