For platforms onboarding creators

Nobody will ask whether you verify creators. They will ask about the day one went live.

Intake is the onboarding file for every creator on your platform, asked as of a date. An account is not activated, and is not paid for the first time, until the file is complete on that date — and it records that each check happened without keeping a single document.

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Opens in this browser with an invented platform already in it: one creator refused at the door, one let through. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

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The problem

The card networks moved this problem onto you in 2021

Verifying the uploader stopped being enough. Everyone depicted needs an age and identity check and consent on record before publication, and the acquirer certifies every year that the controls exist. The failure is almost never a platform that decided not to check. It is an account that went live on a Friday with one line of the file still open, and a terms change nobody re-collected.

Everyone

Since 15 October 2021 Mastercard has required documented age and identity verification for all people depicted and those uploading, review before publication, and a complaint process that resolves illegal or nonconsensual content within seven business days.

Age Verification Providers Association →

Tier 1

Adult content, MCC 5967, sits in the top tier of Visa's Integrity Risk Program. The acquirer registers the merchant and certifies every year that it has effective controls in place.

Visa Integrity Risk Program →

$15 million

The 2025 FTC and Utah order against the largest operator in the sector requires a system to verify that people who appear are adults who consented — and removal of anything uploaded before it, until they are.

Utah Division of Consumer Protection →

The door refuses. It does not warn, and there is no override.

Activate and Release first payout both ask the same question: was every item complete on that date? Identity and age passed, performer record indexed, tax form on file, payout account verified and not changed since, the terms in force that day accepted, and everyone else in the first uploads checked and consenting. If not, the button refuses, writes the reason on the door log, and changes nothing. An override is a button somebody presses at five o'clock on a Friday, so there is not one.

How it works

Every check is an event with a date

Record that it happened

Which vendor, what method, what date, what result, and the vendor's own reference — the pointer back to the evidence, which stays where the vendor holds it. A re-check is a new line, not an overwrite, because which one governs depends on the day you are asking about.

Ask as of a date

A pass recorded on the 12th says nothing about an account that went live on the 10th. A payout account changed after it was verified is an unverified account. A referral is not a pass. Intake reads the history and answers for the date, not for this morning.

Publish the terms here

A new version reopens every creator who has not accepted it, on the day it takes effect, without anybody running a report. The live accounts it catches are listed in red on the front page until each one has re-accepted.

What it will never do

It records the check. It never holds what was checked.

An onboarding desk collects the most dangerous set of records in this business: a document, a face and a bank account for every creator on the platform. The obvious product keeps all three. A breach of it would out every creator you host under their legal name.

No documents, no faces. Not one byte.No identification image, no selfie, no liveness video. There is no field for one and no way to attach one, which is a stronger promise than a policy saying we would not look.

No tax numbers, no account numbers.It records that a W-9 is on file and that an account was verified — never the number. A reference field handed something shaped like a TIN or an account number refuses it.

It is not your verification vendor.Intake never verifies anybody. That is a liability with an entire industry competing to hold it. Knowing whether the file was complete on the day it mattered is the part nobody sells.

Flat fee. Never per creator, never per payout.Pricing that rises with every account you onboard is pricing that rewards onboarding them carelessly. Ours does not move, and it never touches a payout.

Pricing

Priced per platform, not per creator

Because the thing you must never be discouraged from doing is putting another account through the file.

Desk

$250/month

A platform onboarding up to 1,000 creators.

The six-item onboarding file
Every check as a dated history
Activation and first-payout door
Door log with the reason on every refusal
Sources and where their evidence is held

Most platforms

Platform

$600/month

Up to 25,000 creators on the register.

Everything in Desk
Terms versions that reopen files automatically
Co-performer consent on first uploads
Your own re-verification policy, applied as of every date
Live accounts on an open file flagged in red

Platform, large

$1,400/month

Unlimited creators, and several desks on one register.

Everything in Platform
Unlimited creators
Door log exports for the acquirer's annual review
Priority support

Flat fee, billed monthly, cancel whenever. Never a percentage of anything, never per creator. Your bank statement says Intake Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

We already have an identity verification vendor.

Keep them. Intake is not one and never will be — it has nowhere to put what they look at.

Your vendor answers whether this person is who they say and is over eighteen, today. It does not know that the account went live two days before the check came back, that the payout account was changed after it was verified, or that a new terms version took effect last month and forty live creators never accepted it. Those are questions about dates, and they are the ones an acquirer's reviewer asks.

Does it actually stop an account going live?

In the program, yes. Activate and Release first payout refuse on an incomplete file, write the attempt and its reason on the door log, and change nothing. There is no override.

It does not reach into your platform and flip the switch — it holds no credentials to it, by design. It is the record your onboarding desk works from, and the log that shows the door was shut.

Is a hosting platform a producer under 2257?

Take advice; this is not it. What can be said plainly is what the regulation's words are. 28 CFR 75.1 counts as a secondary producer anyone who inserts a depiction on a computer site or service or “otherwise manages the sexually explicit content” of one, and excludes hosting done “without selection or alteration of the content”.

A platform that reviews every upload before publication — as the card rules now require — should know which side of that line it believes it is on, and why. Intake records that a performer record is indexed for each creator and where; it is not the index itself, which is what Custodian is for.

How is this different from Docket?

Intake asks once, before the first payout, whether a W-9 or W-8 is on file. That is the end of its interest in tax.

Whether the name and number match, where the year-to-date total stands against the threshold, and whether the fortieth payout may go — that is Docket, and it gates every payout rather than the first one.

Does it run our takedown and complaint process?

No. Mastercard's seven business days and the TAKE IT DOWN Act's 48 hours are clocks on content that is already up. Intake is the other end: the file that has to be complete before anything goes up at all.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.