How to build and share a creator shortlist
By Starcovery. Updated .
Save the creators you pick from a search as a List, share it with your team or a client, and add it to a campaign, with the cost of each step.
To build a creator shortlist in Starcovery, describe the creators you need at /app, select the ones you want, and press Save as List. To share it, invite your teammates to your organization, where every member opens the organization's Lists, or add the List to a campaign and send the campaign link to anyone signed in to Starcovery.
This page covers each step, what a List keeps, what each person you share with sees, and what each step costs.
Build the shortlist
Describe the creators
Open /app and write the brief, such as "skincare creators in Korea who film morning routines". The results show ranked Instagram and TikTok creators with their videos.
Narrow the results
Write what to change in the chat, such as "only Instagram" or "under 50,000 followers". Narrowing on followers, average views, engagement, platform, country, or verified status runs no new search. Leaving out a kind of creator, such as "no brand accounts", runs an exclusion.
Select the creators
Check the box on each creator you want. The selection bar shows how many creators you selected.
Save as a List
Press Save as List. The List takes its name from the brief, and a second List from the same brief gets a number. Open List opens it. Signed out, Save as List asks you to sign in first and keeps your search and your selection.
On /app, in Agent mode, you can also ask the assistant to save the creators on screen as a List. Its reply links Open List.
What a List keeps
A List belongs to your organization. It keeps:
- The brief and the filters of the search that produced it.
- Each creator you saved, with their name, handle, platform, follower count, and fit score.
- The search it was saved from. Open Search on the List page reopens it.
Every List of the organization is at /lists. On the List page, Add to Campaign adds the creators to a campaign and keeps them on the List, and the actions menu holds Rename List and Delete List.
Share the shortlist
With your team
Every member of your organization opens its Lists at /lists, whatever their role, and can rename or delete a List. Owners and admins add people with Invite Member in Organization settings. The invitation mail is valid for 48 hours, and the invited person joins as an admin or a member.
A List has no public link. A signed-in person outside your organization who opens the address of a List sees a page that does not exist.
As a spreadsheet
On /app, select creators and choose Export CSV in the selection bar menu. The file holds each creator's name, handles, contact, country, followers, engagement on views, average views, niche, evidence, and signal. The niche, evidence, and signal columns hold what the Table shows once Starcovery has read the creator's posts. The contact column holds the addresses once your organization reveals them, and "Email on file" or "No email on file" before that.
A campaign exports its creators too: Export CSV in the campaign actions menu downloads each creator's rank, handle, name, platform, followers, and fit score.
With a client outside your organization
- On the List page, press Add to Campaign. Pick a campaign that still takes creators, or press New Campaign.
- On the campaign page, open the campaign actions menu and choose Share, then Copy Link.
- Send the link.
A new campaign is public. Anyone signed in to Starcovery can open a public campaign, from its declassifying date when one is set. They see the campaign name, goal, status, and each creator with their follower count, and they can change nothing. A person who is signed out signs in first. A private campaign opens only for people in your organization.
See a shortlist from a real search
Creators matching "skincare creators" is a published search page: up to 12 creators from a saved search for that brief, ranked for it. Each card opens the creator's page. Run This Search opens the same brief at /app, where you can select creators and save them as a List. More published searches: coffee creators and fitness creators.
What each step costs
Signed in, you get 200 uses per rolling 24 hours. Past them, each use spends 1 credit, and a credit costs $0.05.
| Step | Cost |
|---|---|
| Send a brief at /app | 1 use for the message, plus 1 for each search or exclusion it runs |
| Send a chat message that narrows the results | 1 use, plus 1 for each search or exclusion it runs |
| Save as List, rename, or delete a List | Free |
| Invite a member | Free, with no seats |
| Export CSV | Free |
| Add to Campaign, including a new public campaign | Free |
| Make a campaign private | 1 credit |
| Reveal a creator's contact | 1 credit the first time your organization reveals that profile |
A brief at /app usually runs 1 search and costs 2 uses. A brief that names a platform, a country, or a follower tier, such as the brief in the first step, runs 2 searches while at least 2 of your daily uses remain, and costs 3 uses: the results load once without those filters and once with them.
Credits and payments covers the full cost table, and pricing lists the credit packs.
Build a List from an agent
Over Model Context Protocol (MCP), save_list saves creators from a search as a List with the search's brief and filters, list_lists and get_list read the organization's Lists, and delete_list deletes one. The REST API and the CLI have no List endpoint or command.
Questions about creator shortlists
How do I share a creator list with my team?
Invite your teammates to your organization with Invite Member in Organization settings. Every member opens the organization's Lists at /lists.
Can I send a shortlist to a client who has no Starcovery account?
Send the CSV from Export CSV. A campaign link opens only for a person signed in to Starcovery.
Can I export a creator shortlist to Google Sheets or Excel?
Yes. Export CSV on /app or on a campaign downloads a CSV file, which Google Sheets and Excel open.
Does saving a shortlist cost anything?
No. Saving, renaming, and deleting a List is free. The searches that find the creators spend uses, and past the 200 uses, credits.
How do I get the email addresses of the creators on my list?
Open the creator's page and press Reveal Contact. The first reveal of a profile costs your organization 1 credit, and later reveals of that profile are free. The address then appears in the contact column of Export CSV on /app.
What is the difference between a List and a campaign?
A List is a saved set of creators with the search that produced it. A campaign holds a goal and a shortlist that Starcovery sends proposals to, hires from, and pays out. Add to Campaign adds the creators of a List to a campaign.