a version of Jaka Bavdek's own words · EIN Presswire
source · creator-economy market aggregation, RESEARCH.md #26
illustrative — not precise data
Brands get organic-feeling content from a pool 8x describes as 237k+ creators. Self-serve or full-service.
“Get paid to post on LinkedIn.” Vetted creators matched on niche, audience, region and 90-day engagement, with per-post attribution.
source · 8x.social, 8x.business
A best-evidence reconstruction from the flows you can actually watch on 8x.business/creator and platform.8x.social.
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Two stages are most plausibly still expensive and human-bottlenecked today: finding the right creator (not just a filtered list), and judging whether content will actually perform. Those are exactly the two a capability graph would compress.
source · platform.8x.social, 8x.business/creator
the 8x manifesto — verbatim
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Their words, not ours. We built our thesis around the same idea — independently, before we had their materials.
source · 8x.life/manifesto
8x.social
8x.life
jakabavdek.com
theobui.com
| property | people | countries | revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8x.socialconsumer UGC network | 237k+ | 61+ / 140+ | — |
| 8x.lifeholding-company / thesis layer | 250k+ | 50+ | — |
| jakabavdek.comCEO's personal site | 120k+ | 30+ | $3M run rate / 5 mo |
| theobui.comCTO's personal site | 50k+ | 30+ | $1.4M ARR / 5 mo |
| 8x-internal.comcareers portal | — | — | $3M+ run rate |
This is what a company scaling faster than its marketing surfaces can be kept in sync looks like — a positive signal about growth velocity, a question about which number to trust in a pitch.
source · 8x.social, 8x.life, jakabavdek.com, theobui.com, 8x-internal.com
Every campaign leaves a performance trail — views, engagement, per-creator. The 90-day engagement stat used in matching is the only piece we can confirm 8x retains and re-surfaces.
Whether that compounds into a capability score, or is simply redisplayed as a filter, is unknown.
source · Intelligence Brief §F, 8x.business/creator
not yet scored, as far as we can tell
The platform 8x built its wedge on top of now offers a version of the same connection natively. Pressure to differentiate on matching quality, cross-platform data and orchestration — not discovery.
source · trade press — LinkedIn Creator Marketplace + BrandWorks (2026), RESEARCH.md #22
by job-to-be-done, not by label — tap a node
Managed creator network + orchestration overlay
8x
solves — Brief → match → produce → review → publish → measure → pay, across its own human roster
vs 8x — The reference point — an agency-plus-marketplace hybrid with its own cross-border payment rails
source · Intelligence Brief §D, TechCrunch · Sacra · prolific.com
Content → sales → QA → user research → ? — the rungs 8x has named, each dimming as it gets less real, and one that isn’t lit yet.
source · Intelligence Brief §C, §F, §H, EIN Presswire
the rung that isn't lit yet
That’s the idea, stated plainly and labelled as ours. No product, no architecture — the rest is a conversation, not a slide.
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A ladder: demand-pull beyond content · how far the unshipped verticals got · whether the data asset the whole thesis needs exists at all today.
8x Mobile Hackathon · research artifact · omumrania.com
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