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Overview

Collaboration is a peer-to-peer placement marketplace between Sight AI customers. Instead of cold-emailing strangers on the open web, you browse other Sight AI sites, request a backlink or content placement, and pay for it in AI credits — held in escrow until the host delivers. List your own site and you can earn those credits back by hosting placements for others. Open it from Collaboration in the left sidebar (app.trysight.ai/collaboration). Like Outreach, Collaboration is per site — pick the site you want to list or request from in the workspace switcher first.
Listing your site is free. You only spend credits when you request a placement, and you earn credits when you host one. A single placement is intentionally modest relative to your plan’s monthly credits, so collaborating never drains a meaningful share of your budget.
The page has two tabs:
  • Collaboration — the peer network (this page).
  • Free links — a curated directory of free, high-authority third-party submission sites. See Free Links Directory.

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How it works

There are two roles, and most teams play both:
  • Requester — you browse the marketplace, request a placement on another site, and your credits are held in escrow. When the host completes it, you get a real backlink/placement.
  • Host — you list what your site offers. When a request comes in, Sight AI’s AI drafts the placement, you approve it (or let it auto-approve), and you earn the requester’s credits.

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Placement types

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List your site

Until your site is listed, the marketplace is locked behind a “List your site” prompt. Click it to open the listing modal: Profile
  • Display name — how your site appears to other collaborators
  • Site URL — your homepage (used as the default link target)
  • About your site — a short description; this helps the AI write relevant placements
  • What you offer — choose at least one of Guest post, Listicle inclusion, Link placement
  • What you’re looking for — optional; the kinds of placements you want in return
Preferences
  • When a request comes in:
    • Review each request — the AI drafts the placement and adds it to your approval queue for review
    • Auto-approve good fits — the AI drafts and completes the placement automatically (credits settle without manual review)
  • Auto-publish via connected CMS — when on (and a supported CMS is connected), approved placements are published to your site automatically; otherwise you get copy-paste instructions
Flip “List my site on the network” on to go live, then Save. You can turn it off anytime to hide from the marketplace. Once active, your card shows a green Listed badge with a Manage listing button.
Sight AI pre-fills your listing from your existing business info, site URL, and cached Domain Rating. Review it, pick your offers, and you’re live in under a minute.

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Browse collaborators & send a request

The Browse collaborators grid shows other teams’ active listings, sorted by Domain Rating (highest first). Each card shows the site’s favicon, name, DR badge, description, and the placement types it offers. Click Request on a card to open the request modal:
  1. Pick a placement type — limited to what that host offers.
  2. Link target URL — the page you want linked. Required for listicle/link placements; optional for a guest post (defaults to your homepage).
  3. Preferred anchor text — optional.
  4. Notes for the AI — optional guidance for the draft.
  5. Review the Estimated cost — the credits held in escrow now, refunded if the placement isn’t completed within 7 days.
  6. Click Send request.
A few rules keep the network clean:
  • You can’t request a placement from your own site or another site on your team.
  • You can have only one open request per host, per placement type at a time.
  • If you don’t have enough credits, the request is blocked with the amount you’re short.

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Request lifecycle

Every request moves through these statuses (track them under Your requests → Incoming / Outgoing): As a host, open a request to review the AI draft (summary, highlights, and full body). You can edit the title, content, anchor text, and notes, copy the draft, optionally paste the published URL, then Approve & earn the credits — or Decline to refund the requester. If your listing is set to auto-approve, well-formed drafts settle automatically. As a requester, you can track status live (the queue refreshes every few seconds) and cancel any request that hasn’t completed yet to get your credits back.

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Credits & escrow

Collaboration runs on your normal AI credit balance. The cost of a placement is a base amount per type, multiplied by the host’s Domain Rating (higher-authority placements cost more and earn more): The final estimate is rounded up to the nearest 10 (minimum 10 credits). For example, a guest post costs ~150 credits on a sub-40 DR site, ~180 at DR 40–59, ~230 at DR 60–79, and ~300 at DR 80+. How escrow works:
  1. When you send a request, the credits are held (reserved) from your balance.
  2. When the host approves (or auto-approves), the hold is settled: it leaves your balance and lands in the host’s bonus credit balance — a 1:1 transfer.
  3. If the request is declined, cancelled, or expires (after 7 days), the hold is released back to you in full.
Credit transfers between collaborators happen regardless of your account’s credit-enforcement settings — it’s always a real peer-to-peer transfer. Earned credits land in your bonus balance, which never expires.

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Fulfillment

Once a placement is approved and settled, how it gets onto the host’s site depends on the host’s preferences:
  • Auto-publish (host opted in, with a supported CMS connected — WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Shopify, HubSpot, or a webhook):
    • Guest post — a new article is created from the draft and synced to the CMS
    • Link placement — Sight AI finds the best-matching existing article and inserts the contextual link
    • Listicle inclusion — Sight AI finds the relevant roundup, adds your site as an entry, and re-syncs
  • Manual — the host copies the draft and places it by hand (the default when auto-publish is off or no CMS is connected)
Framer is not supported for collaboration auto-publish — Framer hosts place collaborations manually.

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Domain Rating

Domain Rating (DR), powered by Ahrefs, appears throughout Collaboration:
  • It drives the credit cost of a placement (the multiplier above).
  • It’s shown as a DR badge on every marketplace card so you can prioritize high-authority hosts.
  • Your own DR is shown when you list your site — hosting placements earns contextual backlinks that can lift it over time.

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Notifications

Collaboration updates are delivered by email to your team’s owners and admins:

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Plan availability

The Collaboration network is available on any plan with an active subscription or trial. Sending a request also requires the site to have an active license. The Free links directory likewise requires an active subscription or trial.

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Collaboration vs. Outreach

Collaboration and Outreach both build backlinks, but they’re different products: Use Collaboration for fast, reciprocal placements inside the Sight AI network, and Outreach for pitching external sites at scale.