Every kind of creator bounty you can build in one sentence

Most campaign builders are a form: twenty fields, most of them irrelevant to what you are trying to do, and no indication of which combinations actually work together. CollabPal builds a bounty as one sentence instead. You read it left to right, click the parts you want to change, and the options that cannot apply to what you have already chosen never appear.

This is the whole grammar of that sentence, clause by clause, and the campaigns it can produce.

The trigger: what earns a reward

Everything else follows from this one choice, so it comes first.

• Submission: creators send in work and you review it. You approve, request changes with a note, or reject. Nothing is owed until you approve.
• Social metrics: a creator links one post on X or YouTube, and it pays once that post reaches a view or like count you set. Nobody reviews anything; the numbers decide.

The distinction is about who makes the judgement. Use a submission bounty when the work has to be a particular way, and a social-metrics bounty when what you are buying is reach and you are content to let the post's performance settle the question.

The reward: what it pays

The reward options change with the trigger, because not all of them are coherent. A submission bounty can pay:

• A flat amount per approved submission. The default, and the right answer more often than people expect.
• A range, where you agree the exact figure at approval. Useful when quality varies and you want the room to pay more for the good ones.
• An amount you set at approval, pre-filled from that creator's rate. This is the one to use when you have already negotiated per-creator pricing and want the bounty to remember it.
• A product rather than cash. Describe what they get.

A social-metrics bounty drops the range and the product, which cannot be settled by a view count, and adds the one that can:

• A flat amount, once the post qualifies.
• An amount set at approval, again pre-filled from the creator's rate.
• A CPM rate: a dollar figure per 1,000 views or likes, with an optional cap per post. This is how you buy reach without writing an open cheque.

Where the reward is flat, a social-metrics bounty can also carry a bonus: a further amount per extra thousand views past the threshold, itself capped. That gives you a floor for making the post at all and an upside for the ones that travel. A CPM reward cannot take a bonus, because it already is one.

What counts as a submission

Submission bounties accept a link or a file, and by default either will do. Where the deliverable is specific you can require a link, cap how many, and restrict them to particular domains, so a bounty for a YouTube video cannot be answered with a tweet. The same goes for images, with a maximum count. Rules stated up front are worth more than notes in the brief, because they are enforced before the submission reaches you.

How often, and how many

Left alone, a bounty pays each creator once. Raise the per-creator limit and two more controls become useful: a frequency, so a creator can claim once a day, week or month rather than all at once, and a total cap across everyone, which is what stops a popular bounty from outrunning the budget on its first afternoon.

There is also a window, for bounties that pay once per creator: only accept submissions in the last few days before the deadline. It suits launch campaigns, where the posts are worth much more in a particular week than they are a month early.

When it runs

A bounty can open now, on a date, or when each creator joins. That last one is what makes a campaign evergreen: rather than one window everybody shares, each creator gets their own clock, starting the day they arrive. A welcome bounty that runs for a creator's first 30 days works this way, and keeps working for every creator you invite next quarter without you touching it again.

Endings match: a deadline on a date, a number of days after joining, or no end at all. An evergreen bounty with no end is a standing offer, which is a reasonable thing to have and an unreasonable thing to forget about, so give it a total cap.

Who sees it

Bounties are targeted at groups, and every creator in a targeted group is emailed when the bounty is published. Groups are how a programme stays legible once it has more than a handful of people in it: tiers, platforms, regions, whatever distinction actually changes what you would offer. You can also require that a creator has connected a particular social account before they can take part, which is what makes a social-metrics bounty possible to pay in the first place.

Four campaigns, written out

The grammar is easier to see in finished sentences. Each of these is a few clicks apart from the others:

• Launch week: when a creator submits work, requiring a link on youtube.com, pay $250 flat, once per creator, only in the last 7 days, open now until the 14th, to your YouTube tier.
• Always-on clips: when a post reaches a number on X with at least 1,000 views, pay $5 per 1,000 views up to $500 per post, for up to 30 posts per creator, open now with no deadline, to everyone who connected X.
• Welcome bounty: when a creator submits work, pay $100 flat, once per creator, opening when each creator joins and running for 30 days, to all creators.
• Negotiated rates: when a creator submits work, pay an amount set at approval, up to 4 per creator, once a month, open now with no deadline, to your top tier.

The point of the sentence is that you can read the last one back and see immediately that it has no total cap, and decide whether that is what you meant. A form of twenty fields does not tell you that.

Your agent writes the same sentence

Every clause above is an argument to the same MCP tool. An agent connected to CollabPal creates bounties by writing the sentence you would have clicked, which means a campaign you describe in chat and a campaign you build by hand are the same object, editable from either side.