JULY 2026 · DOMERA SPACE
Pitch the right brand to the right creator. All on your machine.
DS Pulse scans real sponsorship history across your whole roster, learns which brands sponsor which kinds of creators, and returns a ranked shortlist for any channel, with every score showing exactly why. One desktop app for the entire deal workflow.
Windows. macOS coming soon. Runs on your machine. Your API key, your data, no seat minimums.
Mark Rober
ONE INSTRUMENT, EVERY STEP OF THE DEAL
6 signals
per brand-fit score
Every score explained
named reasons, not a black box
Whole roster
scan many channels at once
The whole sponsorship workflow,
in one desktop app.
Analyze a channel, scan its sponsors, match brands to creators, find new creators for a brand, track a portfolio, and hand a client a rate card without leaving the app or stitching together five other tools.
01
Analyze
Full channel breakdown: subs, average views, engagement, upload cadence, niche and sub-niche clusters, and a consistency grade.
02
Scan sponsors
Read real sponsorship history from video descriptions across one channel or hundreds, building a live sponsor database.
03
Match brands PRO
Ranked, explainable brand-fit for any creator, drawn from what each brand actually sponsors rather than a paid directory.
04
Find creators
Paste a rendered YouTube page for a zero-quota pull, or run a keyword search — either way, new channels land straight in your database.
05
Track portfolio
Watch a roster of tracked channels with momentum and forecasts, plus shared-sponsor opportunities on Pro.
06
Rate cards
Generate a clean PDF rate card with view-based pricing bands you can send straight to a brand.
Every recommendation carries its evidence. PRO
Point Pulse at a channel and it ranks the brands most likely to sponsor it. Each row opens to the exact factors behind the score: niche overlap, shared sub-niches, video topics, format, reach, and region. No mystery percentages.
- Every reason on the list comes straight from the math that scored it.
- A brand needs a pattern to show up here — several distinct channels, not one lucky match.
- Already-obvious sponsors get filtered out, so what's left is net-new pitch targets.
| # | Brand | Match | Seen on | Top reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Anker | 89% | 52 | Topic overlap |
| 2 |  Brilliant | 84% | 117 | Niche 81% Tech |
| 3 |  Squarespace | 72% | 140 | Adjacent niche |
| 4 |  Surfshark | 68% | 61 | Similar reach |
| 5 |  NordVPN | 54% | 210 | Region match |
Scan a hundred channels. Build your own sponsor graph. PRO
Queue a roster and Pulse reads sponsorship mentions from real video descriptions, de-duplicating and normalizing brand names into one searchable database. That database is the evidence base every recommendation is built on, and it lives on your disk, where you control it.
- Rename a brand or drop it on the ignore list, and the graph stays clean as it grows.
- You see the API-call estimate before you scan, so quota use is never a surprise.
- Back up or restore the whole database to JSON whenever you want.
Aggregate brands · click to inspect
Search brands…
| Brand | Creators ▾ | Placements | Top niche |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brilliant | 117 | 1,037 | Tech 36% |
 Incogni | 70 | 191 | Tech 29% |
 Onshape | 55 | 159 | Tech 35% |
| Surfshark | 44 | 139 | Tech 39% |
 Ground News | 43 | 186 | Tech 35% |
 BetterHelp | 40 | 110 | STEM 32% |
| Squarespace | 36 | 248 | STEM 36% |
Scanned creators for Brilliant
| Creator | Niche | Subs |
|---|---|---|
 Veritasium | STEM | 21.0M |
| Mark Rober | Tech | 80.2M |
 SmarterEveryDay | STEM | 11.9M |
 Steve Mould | Tech | 3.59M |
 The Action Lab | Tech | 5.15M |
Watch the roster move. Spot the opening first.
Track the channels you manage or court on one dashboard: growth momentum and view forecasts on every tier. Add a Pro license and the same dashboard surfaces shared-sponsor opportunities — which brand already trusts a neighbouring creator and sits a warm intro away.
- Momentum and forecast per channel, free on every tier.
- Shared-sponsor cluster opportunities across the roster (Pro).
- A live feed catches new sponsorships as tracked channels publish.
Combined subs
115.9M
Avg views
5.83M
Sponsored share
65%
Portfolio engagement
3.0%
Est. monthly value
$932K–1.40M
Shared sponsors · cluster opportunities
BrilliantSHARED
KiwiCoSHARED
RayconCLUSTER
Eight SleepCLUSTERIncogniCLUSTERStart from the brand, or start from nothing.
Lead Finder runs discovery two ways. Cold Find takes a brand or keyword and searches for channels whose audience, niche, and format look like a fit — the exact list to bring to a pitch meeting. HTML Find costs no API quota at all: paste a rendered YouTube search or channel-list page and Pulse lifts every channel handle straight out of the markup, ready to qualify.
- Two discovery modes, one shared results view.
- Subs and average views qualify each candidate before it's added to a full sponsor scan.
- Export the shortlist straight into a pitch.
Brand: Anker
Anker| Channel | Fit | Avg views | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
 Dave2D | 91% | 640K | Tech · similar reach |
 UrAvgConsumer | 86% | 410K | Charging, USB-C |
 Mrwhosetheboss | 74% | 2.3M | Sub-niche match |
 DankPods | 58% | 95K | Adjacent niche |
See which brands are spending, and which are cooling off. PRO
Beyond matching, Pulse tracks the brands themselves. Deal volume over 18 months, momentum by brand, and plain-language predictions tell you who is mid-campaign, who is ramping spend, and who just went quiet, so you time a pitch when a budget is actually open.
- Brands rank by recent deal velocity, rising or cooling.
- Plain-language flags call out mid-campaign brands and budget cuts before you pitch.
- Sort the whole database by momentum, reach, or recency.
Deal volume · last 18 months▼ 10% vs prior 6 mo
Feb 25May 25Aug 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26
▲ GAINING
Scrimba
Genspark
FlexiSpot▼ COOLING
NordVPN
Insta360Fix what the model gets wrong.
Two panels keep the whole system honest, and both stay free — a mis-tagged brand or niche costs a free user just as much as a Pro one. Model Training is where you correct the tag; Creator Database is the full record of every channel you've scanned, searchable and editable in one table.
- Correct a mis-tagged brand or niche once, and every future score reflects it.
- Creator Database holds every channel you've scanned, searchable and editable in one table.
Recent corrections
| Brand | Was | Corrected to |
|---|---|---|
| Onshape | Design | Tech · CAD |
| Ground News | Politics | Tech · News |
Creator Database · 214 channels
| Creator | Niche | Subs |
|---|---|---|
 Astrum | Space | 5.9M |
| Dave2D | Tech | 3.2M |
Tune the niche map itself. PRO
A dedicated view of niche composition and adjacency across your whole scanned roster: which niches cluster together, which brands lean into which niche, and where the model's adjacency assumptions (Tech ↔ Software/AI, Education ↔ STEM) actually hold up against your own data.
- See niche composition across the whole roster, not just per channel.
- Check the built-in niche adjacencies against your own scanned data.
Niche composition · scanned roster
Adjacency check
Tech ↔ Software/AIHOLDS
Education ↔ STEMHOLDS
The algorithm behind every match,
open and yours to tune. PRO
Pulse isn't a neural net you have to take on faith. It's a transparent weighted scorer: the broad content niche is the foundation, sharper signals refine a good niche match, and confidence scales with evidence. Every weight, cluster, and curve is yours to adjust, and every number traces back to a named reason.
FOUNDATIONweight ~0.40
Niche affinity, with adjacency
What share of the brand's sponsored channels sit in this creator's niche, plus partial credit for adjacent niches (Tech ↔ Software/AI, Education ↔ STEM), so a natural split isn't a hard miss.
GATE
The niche gates the refinements
A strong niche opens the gate so finer signals count fully; a weak niche damps them toward half strength. Refinements sharpen a good match. They can't rescue a bad one.
REFINEtags · clusters · format
Topic & sub-niche cosine, plus format
Cosine similarity over tag vectors and detected sub-niche clusters (“Tech Reviews”, “FPS”) matches style, not just literal words; video-length ratio matches content format.
TERTIARYlight signals
Reach, size, region, engagement
Average views (log-distance) is a better reach proxy than raw subs, so it carries more weight; channel size, country share, and engagement add light context.
AGGREGATE
Weighted mean × evidence confidence
Weights renormalize over only the signals present on both sides (sparse old records still score sensibly), then the result is damped by how many distinct channels prove the pattern.
# each present signal contributes weight × similarity
score = Σ( wᵢ · simᵢ ) / Σ( wᵢ )
# refinements are gated by the niche result
gate = 0.5 + 0.5 · niche_sim
# weak evidence can't fake a strong score
conf = min(1, 0.55 + 0.15 · (n_channels − 1))
match = round( score · conf · 100 )
Evidence damping
A brand seen on one channel is weak proof of a targeting pattern. Confidence ramps from 55% up to full as a brand recurs across more distinct channels; below three, it's not recommended at all.
Yours to tune
Every signal weight, sub-niche cluster definition, and the niche curve (linear or focus-rewarding) is adjustable in the Model Tuner, with a live preview of how your rankings shift as you drag a slider.
Honest about its limits
Cosine over sparse tag vocabularies is rescaled so real matches read fairly; the model favours precision over reach and tells you when a signal is missing rather than guessing.
Bend the algorithm to how you actually pitch. PRO
The default weights are a sensible starting point, not a verdict. Every input to the score is exposed and editable, so a beauty-focused desk and a hardware-review desk can each tune Pulse to the way their brands really behave, then watch the rankings re-sort live as they drag.
- Drag any signal weight and watch the top matches re-rank instantly.
- Define your own sub-niche clusters and niche adjacencies, so “Tech Reviews” or “FPS” mean what you actually mean.
- Switch the niche curve between conservative Linear and focus-rewarding Rescaled.
- Rename, merge, or ignore brands and tags, then pick a theme and accent that match your desk.
Mrwhosetheboss
Recommendations re-rank as you drag
Top matches, re-scored live
The whole workflow runs local.
Nothing leaves your desk.
DS Pulse is a desktop app, not a cloud seat. It scans, scores, tracks, and exports entirely on your own computer with your own YouTube Data API key. There's no account to create, no data uploaded to a vendor, and no per-seat bill that grows with your roster.
Scan›
Score›
Match›
Track›
Rate card
Your machine
Native Windows app, macOS coming soon. Compute happens on your CPU, not a shared server.
Your data
Config and databases persist as local JSON. Back up or move them any time.
Your API key
Bring your own YouTube Data API key. Quota is yours, with a call estimate before every scan.
No seat fees
One app, one license. Add channels to your roster without a bigger monthly bill.
1Brilliant84%
2Squarespace72%
Every video description on the roster, read and scored against real sponsorship history.
Niche overlap
81%
Reach fit
Similar
Every score arrives with the named reasons that produced it.
Combined subs
115.9M
Sponsored share
65%
A watched roster and a PDF rate card, ready the same afternoon.
Hand a brand a stats card
that looks the part.
Every analyzed creator turns into a clean, one-page stats card, exported straight to PDF. Real metrics, a recent-views chart with the median marked, and view-based pricing bands you can send the same afternoon. Pick a template, match it to your theme, and choose which metrics to show. Free exports sign as DS Pulse; Pro swaps the footer for your own agency name and logo.
Directories tell you who exists.
Pulse tells you who fits, and why.
Most tools sell a database of creators with follower counts and a monthly seat. Pulse works from the sponsorships that already happened, runs on your machine, and shows its reasoning on every match.
| DS Pulse | Modash | Upfluence | Manual / spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core ideaWhat the tool is built around | Evidence-backed brand↔creator matching | Creator discovery database | Influencer CRM + outreach | Ad-hoc research |
| Explainable match scores | Named reasons per score (Pro) | Opaque relevance | Limited | Your own guesswork |
| Learns from real sponsorships | Scanned history | Some brand mentions | Partial | No |
| Brand → creator (reverse) | Lead Finder, two modes, free | Yes | Yes | No |
| Portfolio tracker & forecasts | Free shell, Pro clusters | No | Campaign only | No |
| PDF rate cards | One click | No | No | By hand |
| Runs on your machineYour API key, your data, offline-first | Desktop app | Cloud SaaS | Cloud SaaS | Local |
| Pricing shape | Free tier · $89 one-time Pro | From ~$99+/mo | Custom / seat-based | Your time |
Competitor capabilities and pricing are summarized from public positioning and change over time; verify current specifics with each vendor.
Questions we get asked.
How is a match score different from a follower count?+
A follower count says nothing about fit. The score is built from what a brand has actually sponsored — niche overlap, topic and format similarity, reach, region, engagement — and it opens to the named reasons behind it. It answers "would this brand realistically say yes," not "how big is this channel."
Do I need my own YouTube API key?+
Yes. Pulse reads channel and video data through the YouTube Data API, so you bring your own key and quota. You get a call estimate before every scan, so you know the cost before you commit it.
Can I change how the algorithm weighs signals?+
On Pro, yes. Every signal weight, sub-niche cluster, and the niche curve itself is adjustable in the Model Tuner, with a live preview as you drag.
What happens at roster scale?+
Free is scoped to one channel at a time — no sponsor database, no mass scan, no brand recommendations. Pro removes that ceiling: unlimited roster mass-scan, the full Sponsors Database, Sponsor Tracker, brand recommendations, Niche Intelligence, and shared-sponsor clusters in the Portfolio Tracker.
Is there a free version?+
Yes. Free covers full channel analytics, Lead Finder in both modes, Model Training, Creator Database, a Portfolio Tracker with momentum and forecasts, and one PDF rate card template signed as DS Pulse. Pro unlocks brand matching, the sponsor database and tracker, Niche Intelligence, the Model Tuner, custom rate-card branding, and unlimited scanning.
Where is my data stored?+
In local JSON files under your OS's app-data folder — nothing is uploaded to a vendor's cloud. Back up or move the whole database anytime from Settings → Backup & Restore.
Built for the desk where the deals get made.
Agency rosters
Vet a whole client list at once, shortlist net-new sponsors for each creator, and walk into the pitch with evidence. This is the job Pulse was built for.
Scan roster → Best Matches → pitch deck
Solo creators
Find the brands that already sponsor channels like yours, size the opportunity, and generate a rate card you can send the same afternoon. No agency required.
Analyze channel → matches → rate card PDF
Brand-side scouting
Feed Lead Finder a brand and get a ranked shortlist of creators whose audience and format actually fit what that brand sponsors. Reverse discovery, from real data.
Pick brand → Lead Finder → shortlist
Ongoing portfolio watch
Keep tracked channels under continuous watch: momentum and forecasts on every tier, plus (on Pro) shared-sponsor alerts that turn into warm intros before a competitor spots the same opening.
Track → alerts → warm intro
Start free. Pay once for Pro.
Pulse runs on your own machine with your own YouTube API key, so there are no per-seat cloud fees. Try the full workflow free, then unlock scale with a one-time license.
FREE
$0
Channel analytics on a single channel, plus the discovery and upkeep tools every user needs.
Download free
- Channel analytics & consistency grade
- Sponsor scanning (single channel)
- Lead Finder — HTML Find & Cold Find
- Model Training & Creator Database
- Portfolio Tracker (momentum & forecasts)
- One PDF rate card, DS Pulse branded
- Brand matching & roster-scale scanning
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PRO
$89 one-time
Roster scale, the full matching engine, and brand-side intelligence. Lifetime updates for v1.
Buy Pro
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited roster mass-scan
- Sponsors Database, full brand graph
- Explainable brand recommendations
- Sponsor Tracker & Niche Intelligence
- Model Tuner, live re-ranked preview
- Shared-sponsor clusters in Portfolio Tracker
- Custom rate-card branding, unlimited exports
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- Everything in Pro
- Multi-seat licensing
- Onboarding & workflow setup
- Priority support
Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription — pay once, keep every v1 update.
Stop guessing which brand to pitch.
Download the free version, point it at a channel, and see your first explainable shortlist in minutes. Bring your own YouTube Data API key. Everything runs and stays on your machine.
Download for Windows
macOS coming soon