If you coach founders or operators and post about it, your inbox is a queue of "quick questions" that aren't quick: pricing decisions, cofounder disputes, "should I take this deal?", pitch decks attached "for a fast look." The people asking aren't freeloaders, they're your warmest possible leads, often mid-decision with real money on the line. But the standard funnel gives them only two doors: free content that can't address their specific situation, or a four-figure coaching engagement they're not ready to commit to. Almost everyone walks away from both doors, and the value between them goes uncaptured.
The missing product is the middle one: twenty minutes of your judgment, priced per minute, purchasable the moment the question arises. That's what Cheddify sells.
What business coaches sell on Cheddify
Per-minute hot-seat calls
Toggle yourself available, after you post, between meetings, during a weekly "office hours" window, and a follower taps your bio link, pays as a guest in the browser, and gets you live. They bring the decision; you pressure-test it in real time with the meter running. A founder agonizing over pricing pays for twenty minutes and leaves with an answer. No discovery call, no proposal, no net-30 invoice.
Booked strategy sessions
Deeper work gets scheduled: 45- or 60-minute sessions for go-to-market reviews, pitch-deck teardowns, quarterly planning. Paid at booking, so your prep time is never donated to a no-show, and the engagement starts with money settled, which also filters for clients who take the work seriously. If you're comparing this to your current scheduler stack, see Cheddify vs Calendly.
Paid DM answers
Set a DM price and the "one quick question" becomes revenue: they pay, ask, attach the deck or the numbers, and you answer with a considered reply when you're free. It's also your best qualifier, paid-DM askers convert to booked sessions at a rate no cold audience ever will.
What should business coaches charge?
Business advice carries direct financial stakes, and rates reflect that: sellers in this niche commonly charge $3 to $10 per minute, with $5 a frequent middle, $300 per hour at the meter, consistent with mid-market consulting. Operators with deep niche expertise or an exit behind them credibly charge more. Paid DM answers commonly run $25 to $100 depending on the ask. Guidance on structuring offers in how to sell your time as a coach.
A worked example
You charge $5 per minute and take a 20-minute hot-seat call on a founder's pricing decision: they pay $100, plus about 3% card processing billed to them on top. Cheddify's fee is 20% + $2 per call, so you keep 80% of $100 ($80) minus $2, $78, paid out via Stripe. Three of those a week is roughly $940 a month from questions currently sitting unanswered in your DMs. Full fee math on the pricing page, and if you're doing diligence, start with is Cheddify legit.
The honest part: Cheddify brings you zero clients
Cheddify is deliberately not a marketplace: no directory, no rankings, no discovery. Every dollar comes from the audience you already built, the founders following you on LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, or X who tap the link in your bio. If your content generates "quick questions," that's the demand signal, and Cheddify converts it while you keep about 80%. If you don't have an audience yet, a discovery-driven expert platform is the more useful tool today, see Minnect alternatives, and Cheddify becomes the right move once your content pulls its own traffic. Claiming your link is free: how it works.