Founding Creator
Founding Creator is Trepic's highest creator tier — invitational, capped to a launch cohort, and reserved for early creators selected from the waitlist. It carries the platform's highest commission rate, a permanent founding badge, exclusive launch slots, direct access to the founding team, and travel perks from Trepic's hotel and brand partners.
Founding Creator is, by design, the smallest tier on Trepic. Slots are capped to the launch cohort and offered by invitation after a creator joins the waitlist. There is no path to it through follower count alone; the founding team selects creators whose work matches Trepic's editorial standard and whose presence helps shape the platform in its first season.
The benefits sit at the top of every band Trepic publishes. The commission rate reaches the upper end of the 3–20% range. The badge is permanent — it does not expire when later cohorts join. Founding Creators get exclusive launch slots, meaning their dispatches anchor the editorial calendar, and they get a direct line to the founding team for product feedback and brand match-making.
It sits above Pro Storyteller and the entry-level Storyteller tiers, and applies the same read-time attribution model — only with a higher payout per booking.