The agentic creator payments
and compliance platform.
Your team and AI agents, working together.
What changes when creator payments run on StrideHQ.
Automation, assistant or agent?
Most tools follow rules or answer questions. The StrideHQ Agent gets the work done, then waits for your approval.
Automations
Follow rules.
They stop when something unexpected happens.
Assistants
Answer questions.
Your team still does the work.
The StrideHQ Agent
Gets the work done.
It works towards a goal, checks details, handles uncertainty and prepares work for your approval.
Creator admin, without the admin.
Most teams run creator payments on email, spreadsheets and bank uploads. StrideHQ brings it into one workflow.
The old way
Onboarding
Chase bank details, tax forms and ID by email
Contracts
Word templates, signatures in another tool
Compliance
IR35 and DAC7 checks live in someone's head
Invoices
Matched to deals in a spreadsheet
Payment run
Paying creators by hand across multiple bank accounts and tools
With StrideHQ
Onboarding
One link. KYC, tax forms and bank details collected for you
Contracts
Generated and signed against every deal
Compliance
Checks recorded against every creator, ready if HMRC asks
Invoices
Matched to the PO automatically
Payment run
The agent builds it. You approve in one click
It reports where your team already is.
The StrideHQ Agent posts to Slack. Your team approves in the app.
It posts what's ready, what the run totals and what it held back, with the reason. Ask it anything in the channel and it answers. Nothing is paid until you approve it.
Built for the teams who actually pay creators.
Finance teams
Every invoice matched. One approval. Paid.
Multi-currency payouts reconciled to your books.
GBP, EUR, USD and more in one run
Synced to your accounting software
A full record of every payment, ready if HMRC asks
Talent agencies
Your whole roster, paid in one run.
Run finance for your whole roster across every client.
Invoices checked against the PO before payment
One ledger across every client and campaign
Creators onboarded without chase emails
Brands
Pay every creator through one approved vendor.
One approved vendor instead of setting up every creator.
Every creator payment tied to a PO
Creators checked before they are paid
Audit trail attached to every payout
Compliance
Every creator payment, documented.
StrideHQ runs the required checks before money moves, and keeps the evidence.
IR35: your determination, reasons and SDS recorded per engagement
DAC7: earnings, jurisdictions and tax IDs collected at onboarding
Records kept: one trail from onboarding to payout
StrideHQ has reduced the time
our team spends managing creator
payments by 70%.
Paying creators across multiple countries used to be a nightmare. StrideHQ handles it all from one dashboard.
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Ask GeminiSetup takes about two weeks. We set up your entity, contract templates and integrations, and import your creator roster.
No. Each creator gets one onboarding link to complete KYC, tax forms, bank details and their contract. Most finish in minutes.
No. The agent prepares the run, flags anything blocked and chases missing documents. Money only moves when someone on your team approves it.
You make the status determination for each engagement against HMRC criteria. StrideHQ supports the assessment and records your determination, its reasons and the Status Determination Statement (SDS) against the contract.
Yes. Creators are paid in their local currency, across 130+ currencies on local rails, and every payout is reconciled back to its invoice and PO.
StrideHQ tells you which payout bounced and why. Once the creator corrects their details, you retry in one click.
StrideHQ syncs with Xero today. Other accounting software is available on request. Your accounting software stays your books; StrideHQ handles creator onboarding, checks, approvals and payouts before the payment lands there.
Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), hosted in the UK, and multi-factor authentication is required at every sign-in. More on our security page.
A monthly subscription plus 1-2% of payments processed. No minimum volume. Subscription quoted on request. Your price depends on how many creators you pay and where. Book 15 minutes and we'll give you a quote based on your real volume. See pricing.
We'll build your next
payment run. Free.
Send us this month's creator invoices. We'll set them up in StrideHQ and
show you the run, ready to approve.
Data from your free payment run is deleted after 30 days, or sooner on request.
*SCREENSHOT Media's results after moving creator payments to StrideHQ. Read the case study.