Career intelligence for non-union actors

Never answer a casting call blind.

Paste the call. We flag the lowball, the scam, the likeness-rights grab — benchmarked against the going day rate for that role and city — and draft the reply that fixes it.

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RED FLAG CHECKERINBOUND

SAMPLE CALL · THE 11:47 PM KIND

LEAD — vertical drama, major platform. 10-day shoot, Atlanta. $150/day, 12-hour days. Talent grants all rights in perpetuity, incl. your likeness. DM tonight to lock your slot.

SCAM PATTERN“Netflix casting” Instagram DM · $50–200 “registration fee”RATE REFERENCELead · Atlanta · $450–$1,080/day · median $720CONTRACT TRAP“Buyout in perpetuity” · your likeness, no residualsSCAM PATTERNPaid “workshop” to audition · $100–500 up frontRATE REFERENCEBackground extra · NYC · $150–$275/day · median $200CONTRACT TRAPPlatform exclusivity past 6 months · locks out other workFREE TO SCANEvery tool · no signup, no cardSCAM PATTERN“Netflix casting” Instagram DM · $50–200 “registration fee”RATE REFERENCELead · Atlanta · $450–$1,080/day · median $720CONTRACT TRAP“Buyout in perpetuity” · your likeness, no residualsSCAM PATTERNPaid “workshop” to audition · $100–500 up frontRATE REFERENCEBackground extra · NYC · $150–$275/day · median $200CONTRACT TRAPPlatform exclusivity past 6 months · locks out other workFREE TO SCANEvery tool · no signup, no card

Reference data · not live

The toolkit

Catch the trap before you reply.

Rate, rights, record — three free checks, thirty seconds each.

How it works

Paste. We check. You reply ready.

01

Paste it

Any call, DM, deal memo, or contract. Free, no signup, never saved to our servers.

02

We check the record

Rate against the reference range for that role and city. Caster name against the scam board — when there's no match, we say so. Terms against the 37 flag patterns the scanner checks every time.

03

You reply ready

A drafted counter in your voice — warm, direct, or firm. You send it; the win is yours.

Hear it like we do

Scams don't read like scams. They sound like breaks.

Four tactics in one DM — a platform name-drop, a manufactured deadline, a $200 upfront fee, and a request to keep it quiet. Press play on the voice note and watch them light up as they're spoken.

9:41

@casting_kai_hbo

Instagram · not following you

Today 11:42 PM

hey! saw your reel through a mutual — you're seriously good 🔥
you'd be perfect for something we're casting rn. lead role.
oh wow, thank you! what's the project?
0:13
slots are going fast — can you send it tonight? venmo or zelle works

Seen 11:48 PM

TRANSCRIPT · STAGEBLIND SCAN

Hey! Saw your reel — you'd be perfect for a Netflix vertical we're casting. It shoots next week, so we're moving fast. To lock your slot I just need the $200 holding fee tonight — totally refundable at wrap. Don't tell anyone about this, okay?

Dramatization — invented handle, AI-performed voice, scripted from scam patterns in our database.

Tap any number to see where it comes from.

Why we exist

The industry runs on silence.

StageBlind exists so the next actor walks in knowing — the rate, the record, the reply.

The green room

Talk without your name on it.

A handle, never your real name. Your email is never shown, and the forum is kept out of Google. That’s the room: late pays named, scams flagged, wins shared.

Example posts — be the first to share a real one

GIG LOG

Paid 6 weeks late — log everything

Invoice day one, nudge at day 30, screenshot every promise. The late-pay nudge is what finally got me paid.

SCAM WARNING

That “HBO vertical” DM going around

Same guy, third handle this month. Asks a “holding fee” after one voice note. Check the database before you reply.

WIN

Countered at $250 and they said yes in 20 minutes

Used the drafted reply almost word for word. Firm tone. They didn't even push back.

Before you ask

Straight answers.

What it costs, what stays private, and where every number comes from.

What is StageBlind?

StageBlind is a free career-intelligence platform for non-union and indie actors. Paste a casting call and get a red-flag verdict in seconds, run an offer or contract past a clause-by-clause check for AI, likeness and perpetuity grabs, compare day rates across 56 role-and-city reference pages, browse casting calls pulled daily and scan any of them in one click, and track your own gigs and auditions privately.

Is StageBlind free?

Yes. The Red Flag Checker, the Contract Reviewer, Rate Check, the scam database and the casting-call feed all work with no signup and no payment. Tracking your own gigs and auditions needs a free pseudonymous account — no credit card, no real name.

Is StageBlind anonymous?

Yes. You sign up with a pseudonymous handle. Your email is never displayed publicly. Other members only see your handle and what you choose to post.

Where do the casting calls come from?

They are machine-ingested every day from public web alerts and casting newsletters, plus calls actors choose to send in. Feed items arrive as a short snippet — too little text to scan reliably — so we do not stamp a verdict on them; instead every listing has a one-click "Re-scan for red flags" on its detail page that runs the full Red Flag Checker on the text. Calls submitted by actors are scanned before they publish. Always confirm the details with the original source before you apply.

Where do the rate numbers come from?

Both rate tools are hand-built reference data, compiled from published rate cards, industry surveys and reported non-union pay. The /rate pages are a matrix of 7 roles across 8 production cities. Rate Check is a separate pre-loaded table covering 9 platforms across Lead, Supporting, Day Player and Extra in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and elsewhere. Both are reference ranges, not quotes, and neither is community-reported. The ranges themselves are fixed; the community percentile Rate Check shows under your own rate is the part that fills in as actors log gigs.

Walk in knowing.

Pick a handle. Track your gigs privately — rates, hours, who paid late. Share the ones you want.

Join free — anonymous foreverScan a call first

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