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An idea of a digital creative world and community in the AI era.
#connectedbycreativity
A community for everyone who belongs to it: artists & creatives, casting professionals, and creative agencies working together. One place, built to make creative work easier, connect the right people at the right time, and keep the creative process moving.
As AI reshapes the world like few technologies before it, we hold one belief firmly: AI should never replace human creativity. That’s why we build AI tools that support the creative process and everything that connects to it. Ethical AI, hosted in Europe with high data protection standards, helps you focus on what matters: the work, and the people behind it. Our AI organizes, searches, and simplifies. The creative decisions and processes stay yours.
So this is an invitation: join us, and help us shape a healthy, inspiring, and effective creative community for the 21st century.
Tim Kriegler
Cirque du Soleil Artist & Co-Founder
I’ve spent my professional life on stages, and just as much time navigating the chaos behind them. As a founder, I’m building the platform I wish had existed: one where talent gets seen, and the people looking for it aren’t buried in admin.
Niklas Kornel
Co-Founder & CTO
I think about The Pending as infrastructure, not just software: something creatives and agencies can rely on every day. That means AI that’s genuinely useful, built on the same foundation of trust, security, and reliability as everything else we do.
One brand. Two ways in.
Under The Pending, we offer two fully independent eco-systems, each built for how that side works: creatives find and apply to jobs, build their portfolio, and get AI-assisted support along the way. Agencies manage applications, run casting, and organize their roster on theirs. Smartly connected where both sides benefit from meeting
•Job Finder – automatically scans the web, social media & job boards worldwide
•Application Assistant – AI helps you apply
•Pocket CRM with Client Finder – keep track of contacts & inquiries
•Task Board – an overview of all your todos
•Spotty – your personal AI assistant in the background
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Casters / Bookers / Agencies
•Opportunity Posting – publish castings & job listings in seconds
•Application Manager – AI pre-sorts applicants, bulk actions save you time
•Roster & CRM – manage your talent pool with custom fields & pipelines
•Projects – connect jobs to your roster and track everything in one place
•Team Collaboration – work together with your whole team
•Spotty AI – your assistant, even via email, no login needed
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Where both connect
•Published Opportunities – jobs posted by agencies can optionally surface to our artist network
•Discovery Section – artists can opt in to be visible for active sourcing by casters & bookers
•Direct Messaging – connect and reach out directly, no middleman
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about The Pending Agency.
The Pending is a platform built specifically for the creative industry, bringing together everything artists and creative talent and the people who hire them need — in one place.
The Pending serves both sides of the creative process. On one side, it's for artists and creative talent who want to build their portfolio, find opportunities, and manage their career more efficiently. On the other, it's for agencies, casting directors, and bookers who need to post jobs, manage applications, and organize their talent — all without switching between five different tools.
Build a portfolio, find jobs, apply, become visible to casters and bookers, and manage their contacts — with AI support built into every step.
Publish opportunities, manage applications, organize their talent roster, and run projects — with AI support throughout.
Casters, bookers, and agencies publish opportunities that can optionally become visible to our artist network. Artists can choose to be discoverable — essentially getting the reach of a talent agency, without the commission.
Think of our own AI as your quiet assistant in the background — handling the busywork of applications and matching, so you can focus on what actually matters. It's optional, it's there when you want it, and it stays completely out of your creative work.
Yes. We take this seriously — your data is stored in the EU under strict security standards, never sold, and always handled with respect and care. You control what's visible and to whom — profiles and opportunities are only shared based on your opt-in choices.
Necessary storage keeps the site working. Optional PostHog analytics measures feature use, technical errors and interactions through masked session replay. Data is linked to a pseudonymous account ID when signed in. You can decline or change your choice at any time in cookie preferences.
Accept All also allows personalised advertising and measurement: partner offers from your chosen interests, recommendations of posts marked as advertisements from your interests and activity, and linking ad views, clicks and partner purchases to your account or session. Reject All leaves these off, and you can choose this separately under Manage Preferences.
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Analytics
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Cookie Policy
Last updated: October 2026
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We always use cookies that are strictly necessary to make the site work — for example to keep you logged in. In addition, with your consent, we use optional analytics cookies to understand how the platform is used. These are off by default and are only set after you actively opt in. Personalised advertising and measurement is a separate optional choice, also off by default: only if you opt in can partner ad views and clicks be associated with your account or session and a partner purchase be attributed to your click. It uses the existing session rather than an extra advertising cookie, and the partner you visit receives a click reference.
Essential cookies
These are required for the site to function and cannot be disabled.
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Remembers your cookie choices so we don't ask again on every visit.
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Stores your language preference.
Optional analytics cookies (PostHog)
With your consent, we use PostHog — a product-analytics service hosted in the European Union (Frankfurt, Germany) — to understand which features are used and where the platform can be improved. PostHog assigns you a pseudonymous identifier; we never share your name or e-mail address with it, and it does not track you across other websites. These cookies are only set after you opt in via the cookie banner.
With the same consent, we may also record how the interface is used (session replay): a technical reconstruction of navigation and interactions that helps us find usability problems. Everything you type is masked, media is excluded, payment forms are handled by our payment provider and are not part of recordings, and console and network-payload recording are disabled. Masking is a safeguard, not a guarantee that arbitrary content can never appear in a recording. Recordings are viewed by our team for this purpose. New recordings are configured to expire after 30 days; expiry does not mean immediate physical deletion, older recordings can keep earlier settings, and metadata or exported copies have separate lifecycles. Withdrawing your consent stops recording immediately.
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Stores a pseudonymous visitor ID and session information for usage statistics. Set only after you opt in.
Local storageUntil deleted
PostHog may store equivalent analytics information in your browser's local storage. How long it persists depends on the deployed SDK settings. When you withdraw consent we tell the SDK to stop and reset its browser state; state it leaves behind stays until you clear your browser data.
Server-side measurement — without cookies
Independently of the above, we count page views on our own servers without setting a cookie for it. We record the page, the referring website, the device and browser type and coarse location (country, and sometimes region or city), grouped by an identifier that changes daily. These statistics do not keep your IP address. They are pseudonymous, not anonymous, and rely on our legitimate interest in proportionate service measurement.
Without advertising consent, partner ads are chosen by weighted random rotation and no advertising cookie or advertising identifier is added; page views showing a partner card are counted within the same server-side page statistics. With advertising consent and any required platform permission, following a partner link can transmit campaign parameters and a click reference to the partner. Without that permission, our redirect omits those identifiers. A participating partner may report an order or lead resulting from such a click back to us. With advertising consent, ad views and clicks can also be associated with your account or session, as described above. Arrivals through our own campaign links are recorded on our servers without an extra cookie.
Own campaign links and registration
Campaign-link attribution is a separate optional choice, called “Campaign links”; “Accept All” in the cookie notice includes it. If it is on, the existing server-side session holds the campaign code and information identifying that decision. No separate campaign cookie is added. We use the existing session cookie to connect the permitted visit with a later signup only while that decision remains valid. A visit made without this permission, or one whose permission was withdrawn or has expired, is not attributed after a later opt-in. Without this permission, links still work and visits may still be counted without associating them with your new account. Turn off “Campaign links” in cookie preferences or in the website’s Settings → Data & ads. Turning off personalised partner advertising alone does not change this separate choice. This choice is also separate from the membership-time invitation programme and from PostHog analytics.
Campaign links
Allow us to associate your registration with our campaign link you followed.
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Invitations
The membership-time invitation programme does not set the former tp_ref cookie; the updated website deletes it when received. A code travels in invitation links and signup forms or app requests. In the app it is kept in process memory and is cleared on removal, sign-in or process exit; it is not saved in a persistent referral store. There is no automatic app-store recovery of an invitation. You can type a code or open a direct invitation link.
If you select provider sign-in after “Use invitation”, the existing browser session cookie leads to the sign-in’s own security state, which carries a random reference to that attempt; the selected code, notice version and provider are held in our server cache for at most 30 minutes, usable only by that attempt, and removed when it finishes or expires. The session cookie normally lasts seven days, which does not make the referral hold valid for seven days.
The account attribution and qualification checks rely on legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, separately from advertising or analytics consent. Device storage and access are assessed separately under § 25 TDDDG. Transient operations strictly necessary to carry an invitation you expressly request through signup can fall under § 25(2)(2); using an existing session cookie does not exempt unrelated tracking. Ignore or remove the invitation (×) to sign up without attribution; only “Use invitation” links the accounts. Afterwards use Settings → Privacy → “Stop counting me”, or contact support. Privacy Policy Section 8 explains the checks, objection, recipients and retention.
Third-party connections
All fonts, scripts, and stylesheets of the platform are hosted on our own servers — your browser does not contact any content-delivery networks or font providers to load our pages. Your browser only connects to a third party in these specific situations:
Stripe — loaded on checkout pages only, to process payments securely. Stripe may set its own cookies on those pages for fraud prevention.
Cloudflare Turnstile — loaded on the login, signup, and public submission forms to protect them against automated abuse, without tracking you across websites.
PostHog (EU-hosted) — only after you have opted in to analytics, as described above.
External media — public portfolio pages can show media from YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, TikTok and Instagram. They first appear as a preview served by us; your browser connects to the provider only when you tap that preview or when you have allowed the optional External media category, which loads all players as soon as a page opens. That choice is kept for 180 days and can be withdrawn at any loaded player or in the portfolio Cookie Policy. Community and chat link cards use our own previews; opening the link connects to the external site.
Your choices
Analytics cookies are off by default — we only set them after you choose "Accept All" or enable analytics under "Manage Preferences" in the cookie banner. You can change your mind at any time: withdrawing consent stops analytics immediately and tells the analytics SDK to stop and reset its browser state; records already collected are not erased by this and you can request their erasure separately. Withdrawing is as easy as consenting — just use the button below. Personalised advertising is a separate choice in the same preferences; External media on public portfolios and an invitation you choose to use at signup are decided where they appear. You can also view and delete cookies through your browser settings; note that deleting the session cookie will log you out.
