Your path to painless sponsorships
Stop wasting time on outreach and negotiation. Yard connects you with top technical companies that value your expertise and are ready to sponsor high-quality, authentic content.
We handle the contracts, payments, and administrative overhead, so you can focus on creating great content that educates and inspires the developer community.
De-risking the influencer campaign process
All the content, none of the admin
Finding sponsors
Pricing and negotiation
Communicating and pricing
Contracts and payments
Project management
Reporting
Recurring work
DIY
Finding potential influencers
Countless email chains of inquiries, often from small and unknown startups
Shortlisting favourites
Constant haggling, especially with low-budget brands
Communicating and pricing
Hope that you get a clear and useful brief
Briefs and drafts
Endless invoicing, payment chasing and contract negotiations
Contracts and payments
Keep on track of the various due dates and expectations yourself
Project management
Manually gather stats and data to show each sponsor
Learning and iterating
Hope that they’re happy and come to you again
Finding potential influencers
We shortlist you for our clients, bigger brands who match your style and preferred technologies
Shortlisting favourites
We’ll negotiate the best rates for you without any lowballing
Communicating and pricing
Yard writes the brief, balancing detail and creative freedom
Briefs and drafts
We’ll pay in advance for each sponsor, and get you on a one-time contract
Contracts and payments
We’ll keep everything on track, communicating through a Slack channel
Project management
We’ll tailor our reporting API and dashboard to collect the data you’re comfortable sharing
Learning and iterating
Get ongoing work from us, often with the same brands
Produce meaningful content, not ads
Nobody likes obvious ads. We believe the best sponsored content shouldn't feel forced, and instead matches the technical topics you're genuinely excited to explore.
Whether it's an in-depth tutorial, a short highlighting a specific feature, or a hybrid format, we want you to create content that’s genuinely useful and interesting. We work with you to find the right format for the brand's message, ensuring it always feels like authentic content, not a commercial.
Pricing
We believe in brands earning your partnership, not forcing it with restrictive contracts. Our agreements are project-based, giving you the freedom and flexibility to work with whoever you choose.
While partnerships are flexible, your payment isn't. Every project includes a guaranteed fixed fee, paid upon milestone completion. We prove our value by consistently bringing you high-quality, paid opportunities.