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What happens if a seller no-shows? Who gets paid? How do we set rates? Real questions, real answers. No marketing fluff.
How Quid actually works
What is Quid, in one sentence?
Quid is a marketplace where companies list their decision-makers, sellers pay to pitch them, and the company, not the individual, gets paid for accepted meetings.
Why pay for meetings? Isn't that what cold email is for?
Cold email is not free, it is just billed as SDR headcount and executive time instead of as a line item. Quid lets a seller pay directly for a meeting with the right person, and the company captures that value instead of an SDR's time evaporating into voicemail. It is the same money flowing differently.
Doesn't AI make cold outreach work better?
It makes it cheaper, which is the problem. When every seller can generate a thousand “personalized” emails before breakfast, personalization stops signaling effort and starts signaling software. Quid doesn't compete with your AI stack; it makes it honest. Draft the pitch with whatever you like. The money behind it is the part no tool can fake.
Who sets the meeting price?
The company listing the executive. You set a rate per executive and per meeting length, and rates flex up or down with demand. Quid doesn't dictate prices, and never suggests one. We provide the market.
Does the executive have to take every meeting?
No, and there's no acceptance quota to hit. Decision-makers review pitches on their own schedule and accept only what's worth their time; declining releases the hold on the seller's card so they're never charged, which means passing costs nothing. The incentive is built in: accepting good pitches is real revenue for the company, and a decision-maker's public accept rate and reviews tell sellers whether they're worth pitching in the first place.
How long does it take to get set up?
Five minutes for a basic listing. Add executives, set rates, verify work email. The first pitch can route a payment within the week.
If you're listing executives
Who gets paid: the company or the individual?
The company. Always. Quid routes payments to a corporate Stripe Connect account, not personal accounts. This avoids HR friction, tax mess, and the compliance gray area of executives accepting personal payments for work meetings. It's standard B2B revenue, just from a new line item.
Will my exec be flooded with spam?
No. The economics do the filtering. Every pitch puts a hold on the seller's card upfront and is written-only (no live elevator speeches), so a seller has to believe in the fit before they commit. And volume isn't rewarded: there is no bulk rate, so every pitch a seller has outstanding ties up their card and costs full price if it lands. We'd rather your exec see five pitches worth reading than 500 noise emails.
Won't we miss great vendors who refuse to pay?
A vendor who won't put money behind a meeting with you is quoting you their own expected value of that meeting. The strong ones do the math: one warm conversation with the real decision-maker beats a quarter of unanswered sequences, at a fraction of what those sequences cost to run. And the principled vendors who refuse to spam? Today they never reach you at all. Quid is how the polite ones get through.
What if our exec doesn't want to be listed?
Then don't list them. Listings are opt-in and revocable at any time. Quid doesn't surface anyone who hasn't agreed. Most companies start with VPs and Directors, then expand once they see the model working.
Doesn't listing our executives expose them more?
Less, in practice. Their names, titles, and work emails are already in the sales-intelligence databases being scraped, enriched, and sequenced without anyone's consent. A Quid listing replaces that gray market with a front door: one public channel, your price, your rules, your right to decline. Visibility you control beats visibility you don't.
How does this affect our SDR / BDR strategy?
Most companies that list on Quid run a parallel inbound + outbound motion. Quid replaces some of the cold outbound spend, not all of it. Many companies see Quid become 20-30% of their pipeline within a year, and shrink their SDR team by half because the meetings actually convert.
What's the fee structure?
Quid takes 30% of every transaction. Companies keep 70%. There are no listing fees, no monthly minimums, no setup costs. If no one pitches your executives, you pay nothing.
If you're paying to pitch
How is paying for a meeting better than sending free cold emails?
Math. One accepted meeting with the right decision-maker beats a thousand cold emails nobody opens. The price is the filter: it forces sellers to pitch only when they actually believe in the fit, so both sides arrive having chosen to be there.
What if my pitch gets declined?
You're never charged. The hold on your card is released automatically, so the money never leaves your account. No penalty either. Sharpen the pitch and try again, or pitch a different company. A decline does land in your accept rate, the same as every decision, but it puts nothing at risk. Only no-shows and gaming the system do that.
Can I pitch the same decision-maker twice?
Yes. There's no hard limit. But every pitch is authorized upfront, so nobody is firing the same pitch at one decision-maker over and over for free. If one gets declined, the smart move is to sharpen it before you spend again, or pitch a different executive at the company. Volume for its own sake buys you nothing: there is no bulk rate, and every pitch you have outstanding is a hold against your card.
Are there discounts for high-volume sellers?
No. Volume is the wrong incentive, and a bulk rate would just be a discount for sending more of them. Every pitch costs what the company listed that executive's time at, however many you send. You are only charged when the meeting actually happens. The way to spend less on Quid is to pitch better, not more.
What does the pitch actually look like?
A structured written proposal: who you are, what you're offering, why it's relevant to this specific decision-maker, what you want from the meeting. Capped at 800 characters. Plus a payment authorized on your card (not charged until the meeting actually happens). No deck. No video. Just the substance.
Why this won't get gamed
What stops sellers from no-showing after the meeting is accepted?
Money. Capture is gated on the decision-maker confirming they showed up, not on the seller doing so. If the seller doesn't turn up, that confirmation still happens, the capture goes through, and the company keeps the funds. The seller paid for a meeting they skipped. Repeated no-shows put their account at risk.
What stops companies from accepting meetings just to bank the cash?
Conduct is visible before anyone pays. Sellers rate professionalism after every meeting and the ratings sit on the listing, where the next seller reads them before deciding to spend. A decision-maker who takes meetings and shows up badly prices themselves out of the ones worth having.
What stops a company from listing executives and just declining everything?
Nothing, and that is deliberate. A decline releases the seller's hold and nothing is captured, so a company that says no to everything earns exactly zero. They have built a paywall that doesn't pay. Quid needs no rule against sandbagging, because sandbagging is a hobby that costs you revenue.
How do you verify decision-makers are real?
Work email verification against the company domain, a LinkedIn cross-check, and a one-time human review of every new listing. We don't catch everything immediately. If a listing turns out not to be who it claimed, tell us at hello@quid.network and it comes down.
What if the meeting goes badly?
Nothing happens to the money. It paid for the access, and the access happened. What gets rated is professionalism, never whether the pitch landed, because rating the outcome would turn a review into a scorecard on somebody's product. A seller is not marked down for hearing no.
Can I see the rules in detail?
Yes. The rules section on the home page has the trust mechanics and quality controls in full, and the Terms of Service is the binding version.
9% of every meeting goes to nonprofits
How does the charity split actually work?
Every meeting splits 70 / 21 / 9. The company keeps 70%, Quid nets 21%, and 9% goes to a single 501(c)(3) out of Quid's own take. Take a $1,000 meeting purely as round arithmetic, not as a suggested price: company keeps $700, charity gets $90, Quid nets $210. The recipient is the charity the decision-maker nominated; if they have not nominated one, their company's pick applies; if neither has, Quid picks. Grants go out through a third-party donation provider, via a donor-advised fund. The donation comes from Quid's treasury (not the seller's payment), so Quid retains the tax deduction. The seller deducts their whole payment as a normal business expense (100% deductible, no charitable-contribution caps). No marketing campaign, no annual giving day. Just baked into the rails. One exception: when a seller reaches a decision-maker through that decision-maker's own promotion link (the QR code, signature, bio and other links on the Promote page), 12% goes to charity and Quid nets 18%. The company still keeps 70%.
Can our company choose where our share goes?
Yes, and you get the whole 9%, not a share of it. It goes to the one 501(c)(3) you nominate, once we have approved it for the roster. One exception: if the decision-maker you listed has nominated a charity of their own, theirs takes it instead. That is deliberate. The 9% is Quid's money rather than yours, and letting the person who gives up the half hour name the recipient is a large part of why they take the meeting. Your own 70% is untouched either way. You can change your nomination anytime.
Is this CSR-eligible for our company's reporting?
Talk to your tax/finance team. We're not lawyers. That said: the donation comes out of Quid's revenue, not your company's. Quid retains the deduction. Most companies treat their participation in Quid for Good as a values-alignment statement rather than a CSR line item. Your finance team will know what fits.
Who checks the nonprofits?
Two different checks, and only one of them is ours. Quid approves what goes on the roster, so a nomination is a proposal rather than an instruction. What we don't do is score charities: we run no audit and publish no ranking, because a marketplace that also graded causes would be one more thing for people to argue with. Whether an approved organisation can actually receive the money is confirmed by our donation provider, and the grant goes out through a donor-advised fund.
Where can I see the live numbers?
The Quid for Good page has a live dashboard showing total contributed, breakdowns by cause area, and the number of partner nonprofits. No login required, public by default, and it moves as grants go out.
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