Unfunded ask
Hi! Would you be open to a quick chat about your offboarding process? Happy to send a gift card after.
Seen. Not replied to. Ever.
Pilot · 20 invites · IT offboarding
Your cold ask, with the money already in it.
Finding the right people is easy. They are all on LinkedIn. Getting one of them to believe your $100 is real is the part that fails. ReserveCall funds the incentive before the link exists, so the proof travels with the ask.
Signing up costs nothing and charges nothing. You fund an invite only when you are ready to send one, and an invite nobody books refunds in full. We are hand-building the first twenty, so a person reads every new account.
AnyoneYou pick the target, not a panel
$100Funded before the link exists
1099sFiled by us, not by you
Why prepaid
A promise of $100 and a funded $100 are not the same offer.
You can name the exact role you need and find fifty of them before lunch. What you cannot do is give any of them a reason to hand a stranger half an hour. Money fixes that, except “I’ll send you $100 after” from an account they have never heard of reads like a scam. Offer nothing and you get silence. Offer money and you sound like phishing.
Funded ask
30 minutes on how you offboard employees. $100, already funded. Not a sales call.
$100 reserved · 30 min · Pick a time
Huh, this looks legit. Tuesday works.
+19.1ptsprepaid
+3.8ptspromised
Response-rate lift from prepaid versus promised incentives, in Church’s 1993 meta-analysis. Money in hand beat money promised by five to one. Those were mail surveys with a few dollars enclosed, not $100 video calls, so the medium is different. The mechanism is not: people discount a promise from a stranger to roughly nothing, and stop discounting the moment it is already paid.
How it works
Four steps. None of them are “schedule a demo”.
Write the ask
Topic, length, incentive, who you need, and a written no-pitch statement.
Fund it, refundable
The link does not exist until the incentive is funded. From there the money is held at Stripe, not by you and not by us. Nobody books, you get it back in full.
Paste it anywhere
One URL. They see the amount and the terms before they pick a slot.
The room counts, not you
We host the call. Each side joins on its own single-use link, so the room records who was there and for how long. Clear the published threshold and the payout goes out. Fall short and you can dispute it against those records.
Money & paperwork
The boring part that decides whether you can actually use this.
Paying strangers is easy right up until finance asks who they are, legal asks what they signed, and your accountant asks for a receipt. This is the part most incentive tools leave to you.
What if I fund an invite and nobody books?
You get the full $100 back, and the $15 fee with it. An unbooked invite expires after 14 days and refunds itself. You are never out money for a call that did not happen.
Who actually pays the participant?
Stripe does, on our account. ReserveCall is the payer of record, so the money reaches them from a company rather than from a personal account belonging to whoever ran the interview.
Do I ever touch their bank details?
No, and neither do we. Participants set up payout with Stripe directly, after the call. Their account number and tax details live at Stripe, not in our database and nowhere near your team.
Who handles the tax paperwork?
We do, through Stripe, and only for the rare participant who earns enough in a year to be reportable at all. Nobody on your team tracks anyone's running total.
How does this get expensed?
One itemized invoice from ReserveCall covering incentives and fees. It books as a research expense, not as a stack of payments to individuals.
What if they book and never show?
You are refunded. File a claim after the call and it is decided against the room's join and leave records, not against anyone's account of what happened. A participant who never joined is not a judgment call, and neither of you gets to argue about it.
What counts as showing up?
60% of the booked length, measured by the room rather than reported by either of you. The threshold is printed on the invite before the participant books, so nobody is agreeing to a condition they cannot see.
So what stops someone from just sitting there?
Nothing, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Disputes are settled on attendance, not on quality. A four-minute join fails the threshold. Thirty unhelpful minutes pays out, the same as it would with any expert network.
Their employer bans paid consultations.
They redirect the incentive to a charity at booking. Same call, same payout, nothing lands in their account.
Pricing
The entire menu.
Participants keep every dollar of the incentive. We charge a flat fee on top. No seats, no minimums, no annual contract you have to email someone to escape.
Gift card you promise to send$100plus a trust problem
Panel platform, you take who is in their pool$100plus $30 to $50 per participant
Expert network, they source and vet$500 to $2,000per hour
ReserveCall, you already have the name$115all in
The first three include finding the person. We do not, and that is the entire reason this costs $115 instead of $500. It is also the reason to use it: a panel can only sell you someone who already signed up to be sold, and the person you actually need, the one running offboarding at the company you are studying, is not in anyone’s pool. You already know their name. What you cannot do alone is make a stranger believe the money.
One 30-minute call$100
Goes to the participant. All of it.
Our fee$15
Card processingAt cost
Nobody books the inviteRefunded in full
Approved no-show claimRefunded
The first twenty
Name the person. We will get them on the call.
We are hand-building the first twenty invites, starting with IT operations: sysadmins, help desk managers, and security engineers at mid-market companies. Bring a list of people you have already tried to reach and could not. Those are the ones worth testing this on.
Claim one of the twentyFree to sign up, nothing charged until you fund an invite, and that refunds if nobody books. A person reads every new account, so you get a reply from one, not a product tour. Chasing a different niche? Tell us anyway. The vertical is where we started, not the limit.