Problem

Influencer and creator marketing is operationally messy: teams must search fragmented public data, verify whether a creator truly fits a campaign, find contact details, personalize outreach, follow up, and negotiate one small deal at a time. Stormy’s YC profile describes the status quo as “spreadsheets, manual DMs, and endless negotiations,” while also noting that creator supply is expanding and attention is increasingly fragmented. The pain is therefore primarily labor and speed: lean growth teams and agencies cannot efficiently manage the volume of micro- and nano-influencer opportunities without adding headcount.

The killer use case is a marketer describing a target such as “US-based AI YouTubers talking about agents, 10–100k subscribers,” then receiving a verified, evidence-backed list of suitable creators and contactable leads. The economics are attractive when automation lets one marketer manage agency-scale outreach; Stormy’s own marketing cites an influencer-marketing benchmark of $5.78 in return for every $1 spent, making faster creator identification and execution valuable even when individual campaigns are small.

Product / Service

Stormy’s current product is a social-data service for AI agents rather than a conventional seat-based influencer-marketing dashboard. It provides a REST API and remote Model Context Protocol server covering public people, profile, post, engagement, and verified-email data across Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, and Reddit. An agent can issue a plain-language search, while Stormy selects cached or provider data, normalizes the response, respects upstream limits, and returns an exact usage receipt. The MCP interface can be connected to tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Codex, allowing the agent to conduct creator research itself.

The delivery model is usage-based: customers pay per returned result rather than per seat, with a free allowance and paid access to fresh data and email enrichment. Stormy’s documentation gives indicative prices of $0.01 for cached results, $0.05 for a fresh profile, $0.08 for a fresh discovery result, and $0.15 for a verified email when found; it also describes a $50-per-month plan with $25 of included usage. The product’s earlier positioning included automated outreach and negotiation, but the current site explicitly says the old Stormy UI has been removed, indicating a shift toward API and agent infrastructure.

Market

Stormy competes at the intersection of influencer-marketing software, creator-discovery platforms, and social-data infrastructure for AI agents. In the influencer-platform category, public company databases identify ShopMy, Modash, and Lionize as close competitors, with CreatorIQ and BitStar also appearing in broader competitor listings. Modash represents the more established campaign-management model, while Stormy’s current differentiation is its developer-oriented MCP/API interface, natural-language discovery, cross-network data access, and pay-per-result economics.

As of August 1, 2026, Stormy appears to be an early commercial startup rather than clearly pre-revenue. It is an active YC Summer 2025 B2B SaaS company; Product Hunt records a #1 Product of the Day and #5 Product of the Week ranking with 644 points, and YC says founders and agencies were already using it for micro- and nano-influencer campaigns. Public funding records are inconsistent: PitchBook reports a $1.7 million April 2026 round and $2.2 million raised in total, while Tracxn reports $500,000 in one seed round. PitchBook labels the company as generating revenue, but no reliable public revenue or customer-count figure was found, so its traction is best characterized as early usage and monetization with limited disclosed operating metrics.