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Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands

By · Via TechCrunch · Published by Everything Blog

In short

The new tool scans over 300 million Instagram and TikTok profiles to evaluate brand safety, historical partnerships, and campaign performance. Beyond search, it automates end-to-end relationship tasks including drafting personalized outreach, overseeing contracts, and tracking creator life events for gifting opportunities. Future updates will leverage the Model Context Protocol to integrate these capabilities directly into third-party assistants like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.

Key points

  • Brands can utilize the system to automate manual operational tasks like drafting contract…: Brands can utilize the system to automate manual operational tasks like drafting contracts, coordinating gifting, and tracking performance.
  • Built-in guardrails enable the tool to tailor messaging styles specifically for different…: Built-in guardrails enable the tool to tailor messaging styles specifically for different social channels, including X and TikTok.
  • Nectar plans to expand access by connecting the tool to outside artificial intelligence a…: Nectar plans to expand access by connecting the tool to outside artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT and Claude.

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Nectar, an AI-powered operating system for marketing, is launching a new AI agent designed to take a lot of the manual work out of influencer marketing, from finding the right creators to contacting them, managing partnerships, and tracking results.

Founded by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, both former Meta employees, Nectar came out of stealth last year and uses AI agents to help brands manage social media, customer conversations, content moderation, creator partnerships, and competitor research.

Announced Thursday, its new “Creator Agent” can search for creators, check their content and brand partnerships, send personalized messages, coordinate collaborations, and monitor how campaigns perform. Instead of having marketing teams spend weeks scrolling through social media, building spreadsheets, and sending individual DMs, Nectar wants its agent to handle much of that work automatically.

Nectar joins other companies introducing agentic AI assistants designed to automate influencer outreach, including Aspire and GRIN. The launch also comes as more brands turn to creators to reach customers. U.S. spending on creator advertising is expected to reach $44 billion in 2026, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. As…

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