Bring new players through your door — with no setup fee, no monthly fee, and no long-term contract.
The Hunt sends app-guided teams to real local places as part of live, interactive experiences. During our launch, Founding Sponsors get early access to a performance-based model: after your trial, you pay only for verified player visits, during the hours you set, with a monthly cap you control.
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A new way to bring new customers through your door.
The Hunt brings players into real local businesses through clues, QR checkpoints, story moments, and sponsor rewards. As an Official Hunt Sponsor Location, you can welcome players, share your message and offer, and track QR-verified visits from your dashboard.
Players follow clues to your location
Players scan your unique Hunt QR code at your location. Each individual scan creates a measurable sponsor visit in your dashboard.
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Your message and offer
When players scan, they unlock your welcome message and instructions for redeeming your offer. That could be a special, a featured item, a barcode, a staff code word, a QR code, or a simple reward for playing.
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Set your own terms
Choose when your location participates and set the monthly spend level that fits your goals. Busy nights, slow afternoons, special events, seasonal pushes — you control the windows.
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How The Hunt plays out
Hunt players arrive engaged in the story, in a good mood, and ready for the next clue. You decide how they interact: scan at the counter, ask a staff member for the code word, find the QR near a featured item, or solve a quick in-store riddle. When they scan, your welcome message and offer instructions unlock — and the visit is tracked. From signup to your first verified visit, here's what happens.
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A player joins a Hunt
They open the app, choose a Hunt from our catalog of professionally written story adventures, and follow the first clue.
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The story moves them through real places
The app guides players from checkpoint to checkpoint using clues, map help, and puzzle moments.
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Your location becomes part of the route
As an Official Hunt Sponsor Location, your business can appear as a checkpoint during the hours you choose.
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Players scan your QR code
Each Hunt Sponsor receives a printable QR Code in the Admin Portal to be posted discretely in the location of your choice. The scan confirms the visit and unlocks your welcome message and instructions for redeeming your offer.
Turn the scan into a customer moment
When players scan your QR checkpoint, they unlock your official in-Hunt offer screen. Add a welcome message, exclusive offer text, redemption instructions, an image, barcode, or QR code. The offer is time-stamped inside the app, so players can show it to your staff to redeem — creating a natural moment to welcome them, start a conversation, and turn the visit into a real customer interaction.
Founding Sponsor Pricing Plan
Become a Founding Hunt Sponsor Location and bring new customers through your door as part of The Hunt’s app-guided scavenger hunt experience. Founding Sponsors get a limited time launch offer with $0 due today, three months free from activation, and performance-based pricing after the trial.
New customers through your door
The Hunt sends engaged players to local businesses as part of the experience. Players arrive, scan your QR checkpoint, unlock your welcome message and offer instructions, and continue the Hunt.
QR-verified visits you can track
A verified visit happens when an individual player scans your Hunt QR code at your location. Your Sponsor Dashboard gives you a clear way to see activity tied to real player participation.
Your hours, offer, and budget
You control when your location participates, what players see when they scan, and the monthly billing cap that fits your business. Start simple, update anytime, and keep your spend predictable.
Questions
Everything you need to know about becoming a Hunt Sponsor.
Most advertising asks you to pay for views, clicks, impressions, or exposure and hope that turns into a customer visit. The Hunt is built around real-world participation. Players follow clues, visit local businesses, scan QR checkpoints, and unlock sponsor offers inside the app.For Founding Sponsors, pricing is tied to QR-verified player visits after the trial — not online clicks or vague awareness.
Not necessarily — but your sponsor offer matters.The best Hunt Sponsor experiences give players something they are glad they unlocked. That could be a discount, free appetizer, bonus item, sample, featured product, staff code word, loyalty reward, exclusive menu item, limited-time perk, or another offer that feels valuable and easy to redeem. Player engagement and satisfaction are strongly tied to the perceived value of the offer. The Hunt uses player feedback, engagement data, and offer quality to help guide which sponsor locations are prioritized in active Hunts. All sponsor offers are subject to review by The Hunt team for content appropriateness, clarity, and player value. We want offers to be easy for players to understand, easy for staff to honor, and strong enough to make the visit feel like a win.
The Hunt is designed to keep the experience fresh for players and fair for sponsors. Our tracks sponsor locations a player has already visited in prior Hunts and use that history to help avoid repeatedly sending the same player to the same location. That helps players discover more places, gives sponsors access to more new customer opportunities, and keeps each Hunt feeling different. There may be exceptions based on location availability, custom Hunts, user choices, or sponsor coverage in an area.
Yes. Sponsor locations can set age restrictions appropriate to their business and offer, including 18+ or 21+ requirements where applicable. Players verify age information in the app, and The Hunt uses those settings to help ensure age-restricted locations are only included for eligible players.
Each Sponsor Location gets its own unique Hunt QR code that you'll be able to print from your dashboard and post anywhere you see fit in your business. When an individual player arrives and scans your QR code, that scan is recorded as a verified visit in your Sponsor Dashboard. That means sponsor activity is tied to real people who physically arrived and scanned at your location.
Founding Sponsors get a launch offer with $0 due today, no setup fee, and no monthly platform fee. Your three-month trial starts when your Sponsor account is activated. After the 3-month free trial, your payment method on record will be charged for each individual QR-verified player scan, subject to the monthly billing cap you choose. You'll have the data and reporting in your dashboard to easily verify these visits.
Yes. You choose a monthly billing cap before your location goes live. That cap helps keep your spend predictable as players visit and scan. The goal is simple: give you a performance-based way to participate without long contracts, hidden fees, or open-ended costs.
You need a physical location that can welcome Hunt players, a payment method to activate your Founding Sponsor account, and a few minutes to set up your Sponsor Dashboard.From there, you’ll add your location details, participation hours, welcome message, offer instructions, and QR checkpoint. You’ll print or display your QR code at your location, and The Hunt handles the app-guided player flow.
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No setup fee. No platform cost for three months. Just real foot traffic.