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.