Tinrate is a platform to book paid 1-on-1 video calls with experts. Buyers find someone who has already solved their problem — a founder, lawyer, tax advisor, or operator — pick a time slot, pay upfront, and get the video call. The core promise is straightforward: get the answer from someone who has been there.
Tinrate is a paid 1-on-1 video call platform. You find an expert who has already solved the problem you are facing, you pay upfront, and you get a video call. The platform handles scheduling, payment, the video call infrastructure, and invoicing automatically.
The platform launched in 2025 with expert rates ranging from €50 to €500+ per video session depending on the expert's domain and seniority. Tinrate also offers automatic VAT-compliant invoicing for every booking, with Peppol readiness for the Belgian B2B e-invoicing mandate.
Tinrate is used by two distinct groups. On the buyer side: people who need a specific answer from a specific kind of person — most commonly tax advisors and accountants monetizing advisory time and lawyers offering paid intake calls. On the expert side: independent professionals who want to monetize their expertise without juggling Calendly, Stripe, and manual invoices — including small and medium business owners who need specific tax or legal advice and executive and career coaches.
Tinrate is not a freelance marketplace like Upwork (which is built for project work, not advisory calls), not a scheduling tool like Calendly (which stops at scheduling and does not handle payment or invoicing), and not a generic AI tool like ChatGPT (which gives general answers from training data, not specific lived experience). Tinrate sits at the intersection of those three: the booking simplicity of Calendly, the expert access of Upwork, and the directness of ChatGPT, but for paid human conversations.
Tinrate exists because free advice is structurally broken — senior operators get too many messages to answer, and buyers struggle to access specific situational expertise. The fix is a clean payment mechanic: buyers get a guaranteed 30-minute video call with a real person who has been there, experts get paid for their time. That is the entire product.