StoryLid for brands
Pay for customers. Not eyeballs.
Vetted professionals carry your brand into cafés, coworking spaces and airports. You pay for verified hours, real clicks and new customers, each one traced to a lid, a place and an hour.
- Every hour verified
- Every scan counted
- Every customer traced
SponsoredThis week
Sample data- 3
- hosts
- 41
- verified hours
- 58
- scans
- 6
- leads
- 1
- customer
Billboards can't tell you who looked. We can.
Seen up close
A lid sits at eye level, one table away, for hours.
Carried by people your buyers trust
Founders, freelancers and students, hand-picked.
Measured like online ads
Scans, leads and customers, not guesses.
How it works
Five steps. You approve every one.
Tell us who you want to reach.
Cities, places, and the kind of people.
We hand-pick your hosts. You approve every one.
You see anonymous profiles, like “Product designer, Brooklyn coworking”, before anyone carries your brand.
Our studio designs your lid.
You approve it. Every sponsored lid carries a small “Sponsored” mark.
Hosts check in, work, check out.
A receipt photo and GPS at the start, GPS at the end.
Scans, leads and customers land in your dashboard.
Change where the QR code sends people anytime, without reprinting.
Pricing
Pay for what works.
Presence
from
$8
per verified host hour
Up to 30 hours per lid a month. Setup $99 per lid, once: studio design, print, shipping, vetting and matching.
Clicks
$2
per unique scan
That opens your page. Each phone counts once per lid.
Results
Your rate, per lead, per call, per customer.
Floors: $50 per lead, $150 per held meeting, $300 per new B2B customer or 15% of a sale.
Results-only plan · By application
Already run a partner program? Pay only your standard rate per lead and customer.
No hourly fee, no click fee. We cover the hosts.
Pilots start at 10 hosts for 3 months in one city. Founding sponsors lock their rates for 12 months.
For comparison: a click costs about $0.70 on Meta and $5.26 on Google (WordStream 2025). B2B companies pay $200–650 per lead (First Page Sage, 2025).
Who carries your lid
Hosts are real people, not billboards.
- Identity and phone verified.
- US-based, 18+.
- Out in public at least 2 days a week.
- Matched to your customers.
- They never pitch or speak for you; if asked, they say “it's a sponsored lid”.
- They follow venue rules.
- If a host drops out, we replace them.
Our own money is in first
We put our own money in first: the founder's two companies are the first paying sponsors, with campaigns open now.
Founding sponsor
The Danish Mentalist
Jesper's mind-reading shows for events and companies. 1,000+ live shows.
Founding sponsor
VEN Method
Social-emotional learning that builds connection and community in classrooms and at home.
Both are the founder's own companies, and both are paying sponsors with hosts wanted now.
Your dashboard
What you'll see
Last 30 days · 10 lids
Sample dataScans per day, last 14 days
Verified host hours
280
Unique scans
220
Leads
18
New customers
3
Cost per lead, all-in
$249
Cost per customer, all-in
$1,493
Scans by area (approximate)
- Downtown84
- University district61
- Arts district42
- Other33
Month spend
- Hours$2,240
- Scans$440
- Leads$900
- Customers$900
- Total$4,480
- Every verified host hour, by lid and place
- Every unique scan, with time and approximate area
- Leads and customers, confirmed in your system
- Cost per lead and cost per customer, all-in
- Change your landing page anytime
We don't sell impressions we can't measure. You pay for hours, clicks and customers you can see.
Why I built this
I'm Jesper, known in Denmark as The Danish Mentalist. I work from cafés between shows, and the lid on my laptop kept starting conversations that turned into bookings. So I built a way to measure it. My own companies are the first sponsors: I'm paying hosts to carry my brands before I ask you to.
— Jesper, founder
Questions
Proposal
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