About usEst. 2016
We've been through the full arc of this category — from the earliest days of influencer marketing to what it looks like now. We know where the loose footing is.
Founded in Australia
Global platform launch
Creator profiles reached
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Our story
The Right Fit didn't start out as a creator marketing platform. The shape it has today is the result of one structural rebuild and a market that moved underneath the original product. Each turn was a response to the same underlying problem: how do brands and creators find each other without anyone chasing.
2016
Origin
Founded by Taryn Williams — a model turned agency founder — to bring real automation to a category that ran on phone calls and spreadsheets. The infrastructure first built inside WINK Models became the foundation for TRF, backed by AirTree Ventures and launched as a structured workflow for booking models, actors, and on-set production crew in Australia.
2020
The pivot
The models on TRF already had significant Instagram followings, shot in interesting locations, and had audiences brands wanted access to. Brands started adding creator work to bookings — and within a few years, creator and influencer collaborations had become the dominant activity on the platform. Not by plan, but because the market moved and we were in the right place to move with it.
2023
The rebuild
Following the acquisition of the business by Ryan Tse — who came to TRF as a client running marketing teams across health and beauty internationally — the decision was made to rebuild the creator marketing platform from the ground up. The hypothesis was specific: if brands share a structured brief and creators self-select on genuine interest, the entire acquisition problem changes shape.
2025
Global
The new platform launched globally in January 2025, with the US as the primary expansion market. The first application typically arrives within 9.5 minutes; the average brief receives 79. For Australian clients, the original talent marketplace — model and actor bookings for production — runs in parallel under the same brand.
The thesis
What comes back from a brief isn't a list to search through — it's your applicants. Every creator among them has read the actual brief and chosen to engage with its specific terms. That's a different signal to a cold contact.
Matchie
The Right Fit's brief assistant
Guides you through every field — offer, deliverables, description, creator targeting and budget — so nothing gets missed.
Trained on thousands of live briefs to attract the right creators from the start.
Drafts your brief in minutes, not hours — ready to publish straight away.
The structural problem
As creator marketing scaled, brands were chasing creators through cold outreach, DMs, and spreadsheets. Most of it went unanswered; the ones that responded were rarely the right fit. That's not a resourcing problem — it's a structural one.
The standard approach
Friction before a single collaboration begins — and no signal whether the creator actually wants the work.
On The Right Fit
You're choosing from people who've seen your requirements and said yes — not hoping someone responds.
Leadership
Robb Beeston has spent 20+ years at the intersection of digital communities and creator behaviour — a longer view of the creator economy than most people currently working in it.
His career is a single thread: how people build identity, influence, and community in digital spaces. From Habbo Hotel in 2004 — one of the earliest platforms where user-generated content and virtual identity were the entire product — through leading Disney's interactive worlds portfolio in APAC including Club Penguin at its peak, to MD of Beamly, one of the first social networks built around television.
Robb joined The Right Fit in 2017, left to found his own startup, and returned as COO in 2023 during the acquisition. He became Managing Director in August 2024 and has led the business through its global expansion and platform rebuild.
Profile · Leadership
Robb Beeston
Managing Director, The Right Fit
Career thread
The perspective of watching the creator economy form from its earliest roots — before Instagram, before influencer marketing was a category — shapes how TRF thinks about the creator-brand relationship.
Habbo Hotel · Disney / Club Penguin · Beamly · The Right Fit
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