Know a creator?Review the terms.

Most of the work happens before any introduction: knowing the people in your network, judging fit honestly and making first contact in a way the creator welcomes.

• Know your network. The creators you meet through shoots, events, management or your own content, and what each of them actually wants from their work.
• Judge fit honestly. Some creators want help with messaging or promotion, some want none, and “no thanks” is a complete answer.
• Make first contact properly. A short message that says who you are, why you are writing and that you may be paid if they sign, sent only where marketing rules allow it.
• Introduce with permission. Pass on a creator's details only after they agree, and only the details they agreed to share.
• Keep a clean record. Note who you contacted, when and with what consent. Privacy law expects it, and it settles any question about who made an introduction.

Looking for a staff role sourcing chatters and team members instead? Apply through the Recruiter / HR form on the careers page, and see OnlyFans agency jobs for how the other roles in an agency fit together, or browse the creator-team careers hub.

A recruiting message promotes a commercial service, so marketing law can apply to it even when it is a single direct message to one person.

In practice: contact people one at a time and only where you have consent to do so, stop the moment someone asks, and never buy contact lists or use scraping tools. ACMA treats using a list built with address-harvesting software as a breach in its own right, and helping someone else break the spam rules is a breach as well.

A recruiter's words can end up in a dispute about what the creator was promised, so keep every statement to what the creator can check in writing.

The partners page covers disclosure wording for paid referrers in more depth, and FTC disclosure rules and Australian disclosure rules explain the advertising law behind it.

A recruiter is often the first outsider to talk business with a creator, which puts them in a good position to notice when someone is not acting freely. Among the indicators of trafficking and slavery the Australian Federal Police lists are people who (AFP):

• have no access to or control over their own earnings;
• do not hold their own passport or identity documents;
• let someone else speak for them, or answer as if they have been coached;
• are watched by another person almost all the time;
• believe they owe a debt they must work off before they can stop;
• were deceived about the nature of the work or who they would be working for.

Australia's Criminal Code covers deceptive recruiting for labour or services in any industry (Attorney-General's Department). If you suspect exploitation, do not confront anyone. In Australia, contact the AFP on 131 237, or Triple Zero (000) if someone is in danger (modernslavery.gov.au). In the US, the National Human Trafficking Hotline lists warning signs that include a would-be employer charging fees for the “opportunity” to work (Hotline).

Never contact or refer anyone you are not sure is an adult: OnlyFans' Acceptable Use Policy bans any use of the platform that features or facilitates anyone under 18. OnlyFans also asks creators to contact its support team if someone is pressuring them to hand over control of their account or earnings (OnlyFans Help).

• Ask before you pass anything on. Share a creator's name, handle or contact details only after they agree, and only what they agreed to.
• Watch the privacy exception for small businesses. Australian businesses with an annual turnover of $3 million or less are mostly outside the Privacy Act, but a small business that discloses personal information for a benefit without the person's consent has to comply with it (OAIC). Consent first keeps a referral on the right side of that line.
• Hold as little as you can. The UK ICO lists data minimisation and storage limitation among its core data protection principles (ICO). Keep notes short and factual, store them securely and delete them when you no longer need them.
• Never collect logins, ID or bank details. An introduction needs none of them, and holding them makes you responsible for protecting them.

Creators weighing an agency will often read agency scam red flags and what to look for in an agency contract; knowing what they will check makes for a better first conversation. The creator legal and safety hub collects the rest.

Book a time with the calendar on this page, or message on Telegram first. The call covers your network and how you would make introductions. Any referral or compensation terms are agreed in writing before you refer anyone, and nothing on this page is an offer. Bring answers to these:

1. Your network. Describe it in general terms, without naming creators who have not agreed to be named.
2. Your method. How you would make contact, and how you would tell creators about any payment to you.
3. The written terms you need. What counts as a successful referral, how introductions are recorded, when anything becomes payable, how it is paid, and how either side can end the arrangement.
4. Conflicts. Whether you already manage, photograph or work for any creator you might introduce.

OnlyFans runs its own referral program, separate from any agency arrangement. Its terms pay a referring user 5% of a referred creator's fan payments for the first 12 months, up to US$50,000 per creator, and pay nothing on accounts owned or operated by a referred creator you have a commercial relationship with (OnlyFans Referral Program Terms).

Affiliates, brands and other businesses should start from the partners page. Creators who want management for themselves can read how creator management works and apply directly.