Casting Studio

A marketplace where people license their own likeness to creators: you upload photos, verify your identity, and get paid every time someone licenses your face. Every profile is checked before it goes live and every licence is a binding contract, so a face used in production has a documented owner and a paper trail behind it. By its own account it has more than 2,400 verified profiles in 94 countries and has paid out over four million dollars to talent. Its site, castingstudio.ai, calls it an AI talent marketplace and explains the flow in three steps: the talent builds a profile with three reference photos and a government-document ID check, which takes about five minutes, then sets the rules by choosing categories and pricing so that they control exactly what the likeness is used for, and then gets paid when a licence is confirmed. Profiles are shown with a role, age, country and the categories licensed, such as commercial, film, gaming, social or metaverse. Identity checks are done by Veriff before a profile goes live, agreements are signed through DocuSign and stored permanently, and payouts run through Stripe. Joining as talent is free and limited to people aged 18 or over, while creators can start with a short free trial. It is a company in the same field as cAIsting.ai, which stands next to it on the partner wall.