Fokus
Partnerships

Your participants buy their own event photos.
You earn on every sale. It costs you nothing.

Partnership Proposal

business@fokus.ph

Fokus pays you on every photo sold. You pay nothing.

Percentage you get for each sold photo

₱0

No upfront costs nor hidden fees to you

Fokus runs the rest: photo collections, face and bib search, payments, refunds and buyer support.

Case study: Bohol International Marathon 2026

BIM 2026 key art for the Bohol International Marathon, 30 August 2026.

Roughly 5,600 runners. One official gallery.

accredited photographers

₱0

cost to the event

photos in the gallery

100% of sales target met after 24 hours. 186% after one week.

No downtime, no lag while thousands of runners searched at once.

See the gallery fokus.ph/collections/bim-2026

Live gallery: https://fokus.ph/collections/bim-2026 FIGURES TO RECONCILE BEFORE SENDING. The 990,000 same-day figure came from you directly (the almost-300,000 next-day figure has come off the slide but is still yours to quote verbally). The week-one report you supplied records 1,092,359 files received on race day and 103,212 the following day, against 1,291,099 received and 1,173,704 delivered overall. Same ballpark, different cuts, and they may be measuring received versus delivered. Settle which basis the slide is stating before it goes to an organiser, because the gallery link means anyone can check. SALES FIGURES FROM THIS EVENT ARE CONFIDENTIAL. Do not quote the organiser's earnings, photographs sold, order counts, runner conversion or refund rates, on a slide or verbally. If asked, say the commercial terms are confidential to that organiser and offer to model the prospect's own event instead. No downtime and no lag is a strong claim and an easy one to be challenged on. Be sure it holds for the whole race-day window before you put it in front of anyone. The 46 are accredited photographers who signed on for the event, not studios. The argument is the year-on-year doubling, so have the previous edition's photographer count ready — an organiser who hears "double" will ask what it doubled from. The BIM 2026 key art is the organiser's own. It carries no container on the slide: its ground is pure #000, identical to the slide's, and a `lighten` blend drops it out. THAT ONLY HOLDS WHILE THE GROUND IS PURE BLACK — swap in a file with a near-black or dark-grey background and a visible rectangle appears in the corner. Same permission question as the Grit poster before this goes outside Fokus. This slide is the coverage-and-cost argument. The Grit Hybrid Series slide that follows is the "they asked, we built" argument. Use both, or pick whichever matches what the prospect is worried about.

Case study: Grit Hybrid Series 2026

R2G Events asked for two things. We built both, at no charge.

Two free photos per participant

Custom entitlements per participant, enforced through registration data

Custom watermarks for free photos

Special watermarks attributing the event applied to photos availed for free

Custom bundle pricing

Customized packages for participants who want to purchase in bulk

Your event will need something of its own. Tell us what it is.

See the studio fokus.ph/studios/r2g-events

Grit Hybrid Series 2026 event poster, presented by KOGI Athletics, August 29–31, 2026, at Grit Fitness Grounds.

Live studio: https://fokus.ph/studios/r2g-events THE ARGUMENT ON THIS SLIDE IS "THEY ASKED, WE BUILT, WE CAN DO THE SAME FOR YOU". The headline and both feature items state that the free entitlement and the bundles were built because R2G Events asked for them. Make sure the history supports that before it goes out: who asked, roughly when, and what the platform offered before. An organiser who hears "built for them" will ask what you would build for them, so walk in with the question ready and, ideally, one concrete answer drawn from their event. "At no charge" in the headline and item 03 cover the build work as well as the platform. If any of the custom work was charged, offset or traded against terms, change both before this goes to anyone. The closing line used to say "the engineers behind the platform said yes". That point now lives on the Why Fokus slide two on; make it verbally here if the prospect has not seen that slide yet. The poster is the organiser's own event artwork — Grit Hybrid Series 2026, presented by KOGI Athletics, 29-31 August at Grit Fitness Grounds. Confirm they are happy for it to appear in a deck shown to other organisers before this goes outside Fokus. It carries their partners' marks as well as their own. STILL INCOMPLETE ON FIGURES. No figures were supplied for this event. Before sending, add: participant count, contributing studios, photographs delivered, how many runners claimed the free entitlement, and how the bundles were priced. As written the slide makes only qualitative claims, which is safe but weak next to the Bohol slide. Mechanic, so you can describe it accurately: the organiser supplies a registrant list and uploads their own frames. At checkout the system matches the participant email and releases their claimable free photographs. The entitlement is drawn from the organiser uploads, never from the accredited photographers sellable work. This means the organiser must hand over a registrant email list and have frames of their own to upload. Those are the two real requirements of the feature, and the slide leaves them to the participants slide and to you. Raise both before promising it. Consent wording for their registration terms is supplied by Fokus; see the compliance slide. The checkout detail is the commercial point, and it is verbal rather than on the slide. A free claim runs through the same checkout as a paid purchase, so the entitlement pulls non-buyers into the buying flow rather than diverting them from it, and every runner who comes for the free frame lands where the rest of their race is waiting. Say it. Do not disclose this organiser earnings or sales volumes. The same confidentiality applies as to Bohol. Two different arguments: Bohol is coverage at scale, Grit is what Fokus will build for an organiser without charging for it. Use whichever matches the prospect concern, or both.

Nothing changes on race day.

Photographers shoot

As they do today. No new gear, no new instructions.

They upload in bulk

Tens of thousands of photos in one go.

Every photo is tagged

By bib number and face, the moment it arrives.

Participants purchase

Seamless checkout experience without the hassle.

You earn

Track every sale on your dashboard.

Your part: one Social Media post before the event, one after.

Live in real time. Supported by its founders. Free where others charge.

Live in real time

Photos go live as they are uploaded, not after a processing run. Some participants purchase while still on the race village.

No processing delays. Other platforms need a few hours, and on a big event even days.

Exceptional support

Fokus team handles everything end to end. Buyer support, refunds, payment processing. Organizers get a dedicated channel to talk directly with the team.

Elsewhere, a support queue.

Free where others charge

Complimentary hosting of photos you distribute for free. Same technology used throughout the platform.

Elsewhere, about ₱1 per photo delivered.

Built in-house by Ferr John Painagan and Marlon John Ynion, co-founders: software engineers, and sports photographers on weekends.

This slide is the answer to "why you and not the platform we already know". It absorbs the old intro slide (founders, built in-house) and the old Built by Engineers slide. Three points, one line each; the Bohol slide before it is the proof of scale. "Real time" here means there is no batch-processing step between upload and the gallery. The measured figure is still about five minutes from upload to a searchable gallery, which is what the How It Works and Terms slides say. If an organiser puts the two side by side, that is the reconciliation: real time as in no queue, five minutes as in the observed end-to-end. COMPETITOR CLAIMS. The timing comparison is generic, "a few hours, and on a big event even days", rather than the old two-to-twenty-four-hour range, which cited an unnamed competitor's performance. Keep it that way on the slide. If an organiser asks you to name platforms, do it verbally and only where you know the figure. The 1 peso per photograph figure repeats on the participants slide and the cost comparison; same caveat. The "most platforms license someone else's software" line has come off the slide; the founders note at the foot still says built in-house, and the licensing contrast is yours to make verbally. THE SUPPORT ITEM lists what Fokus does for the organiser: gallery setup, signage artwork, consent wording, post copy and graphics, buyer support and refunds. Every one of those is promised elsewhere in the deck (the ask, the compliance slide, the next-step slide, the who-does-what slide), so this card is a summary, not a new commitment. If any of them is ever dropped from those slides, drop it here too. The intake figures (100,000-photograph bulk intake, 1,000 Mbps per photographer) and the multi-region hosting (Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan) have come off the slide. If asked verbally, the 1,000 Mbps is a per-photographer intake ceiling, not a guarantee of the photographer's own connection. Overstating it is the kind of detail an organiser's own IT person will test. Both founders being engineers is the point of the slide, and the weekend-photographer line is what makes it land: the people on the other end of a problem at 9pm on race day have stood at a finish line with a camera themselves. An organiser handing over their event photography cares about both.

Three shares of every photo sold. Yours is secured first.

A sample at ₱125. Price and shares are set with you before the event.

Sample price ₱125 Drag to re-price · set per event

*Illustrative only. Final rates set upon contract signing.

Split is fixed at 72% photographer / 13% Fokus / 15% organizer at every price in the 125-150 range. The three shares sum to exactly the sale price. 125 is the standard offer. A higher price pays the organiser more but raises conversion risk for their participants, so do not push it unless the organiser wants it. WHERE THE ROOM ACTUALLY IS. The slide states that price and shares are set with the organiser, so expect every organiser to test them. Know the constraints before you sit down: at 125 the Fokus share is 16.25 gross and about 13.13 after processing, which is BELOW the 15 platform floor the earlier version of these notes set. With Fokus on 13% and processing at 2.5%, the floor is only cleared from 145 upward (0.105 x price >= 15). Decide whether the floor still stands before you sit down; as it is, the Fokus share has nothing to give. The photographer is on 90, already below the 102.25 they were recruited on, so that share should not be the concession either. The real lever is price. Moving from 125 to 150 takes the organiser from 18.75 to 22.50 per photograph without touching anyone else's percentage, and it is the concession to reach for first. Concede a higher organiser percentage only for a series, an anchor partnership, or an event bringing real distribution, and never past the point where the photographer drops below 90. Fokus net after payment processing of roughly 2.5% is about 13.13 at 125, rising to 15.75 at 150. Confirm the real blended rate before treating any price in the range as comfortable; the arithmetic above assumes 2.5%. DRAG THE SLIDER during the pitch to re-price live in front of the organiser. The revenue slide that follows reads the same value.

Pricing options

Set the price. The split stays the same.

Our standard terms. Open to discussion.

Sale price	You 15%	Fokus 13%	The photographer 72%
₱125 Standard	₱18.75	₱16.25	₱90.00
₱130	₱19.50	₱16.90	₱93.60
₱135	₱20.25	₱17.55	₱97.20
₱140	₱21.00	₱18.20	₱100.80
₱145	₱21.75	₱18.85	₱104.40
₱150	₱22.50	₱19.50	₱108.00

A higher price pays you more per photo. Nobody's percentage changes. The highlighted row follows the slider.

125 is the standard offer and the row is flagged as such. A higher price pays the organiser more but raises conversion risk for their participants, so do not push it unless the organiser wants it. PRICE IS THE CONCESSION TO REACH FOR, not the percentages. At 125 the Fokus share is 16.25 gross and about 13.13 after processing, below the 15 platform floor the earlier notes set; see the split slide notes. It has nothing to give. The photographer is on 90, already below the 102.25 they were recruited on, so that share should not be the concession either. Moving 125 to 150 takes the organiser from 18.75 to 22.50 without touching anyone else's percentage. Concede a higher organiser percentage only for a series, an anchor partnership, or an event bringing real distribution, and never past the point where the photographer drops below 90. Confirm the real blended processing rate; with Fokus on 13% the 15 floor is only cleared from 145 at 2.5%.

Your share, by photos sold.

At ₱125 a photo, ₱18.75 of every sale is yours.

₱18,750

₱46,875

₱93,750

₱140,625

₱187,500

1,000 sold2,500 sold5,000 sold7,500 sold10,000 sold

Illustrative. Fokus does not guarantee a volume or a buy rate. We model your actual event before you commit.

Well-paid photographers bring their followers to your event.

Photographers keep 72%: ₱90.00 of a ₱125 photo. That is what attracts the ones with an audience.

Their posts point at your event

Photographers with a following post and tag their work. Your event reaches their audience, at no cost to you.

You never pay them

Travel, lodging, meals and gear come out of what they earn per photo.

250+ verified and active photographers on the platform. BIM 2026 drew 46, double the year before.

Offer FREE photos.
It costs you nothing.

Included

Free photo distribution

Upload your own photos. Apply custom entitlements such as two photos per participant or distribute them without limits. Your choice. It's free.*

Included

Bundles

A set of photos at a package price, beside single purchases. Buyers get more photos at a discount.

Paid add-on

Whitelabel

Use your own branded domain, powered by Fokus AI, to host your events' photos.

Your free photos run through the same bib and face search as paid ones. Other platforms charge about ₱1 per photo to hand it over. On Fokus, ₱0.

*Free photos are included as long as you are a continuing partner of Fokus.

This slide replaces the standalone free-photographs slide; the 1TB and indexing detail is folded into the first card. FREE DISTRIBUTION IS CONDITIONAL. It needs two things from the organiser: photographs of their own to upload, and a registrant email list. The entitlement is drawn from their frames, never from the accredited photographers sellable work. Establish both before promising it. One per runner is a suggested setting, not a platform rule. The headline promises "a free photo for every registrant"; the card says the frames are theirs to upload. Make sure they hear the second part. Mechanic: the registrant list is loaded, and at checkout the system matches the participant email and releases their claimable free photographs. The claim runs through the same checkout as a paid purchase, so it brings non-buyers into the buying flow. COMPETITOR CLAIM. The 1 peso per photograph comparison cites an unnamed competitor's pricing, which the original deck brief said to keep to verbal pitching. Confirm the figure is defensible and be ready to say which platforms charge it. WHITELABEL IS PAID, unlike the other two on this slide, and the card and its tag say so. Add the actual figure or the basis you quote on before this goes to an organiser — as written the slide says "quoted per event" and nothing more, which invites the question immediately. Also confirm what is actually customisable, whether the domain changes, and whether there is any setup involved. 1TB means little to a race director. The next slide converts it to an approximate photograph count and sets it against per-photograph pricing elsewhere. Confirm what happens once the storage is exhausted.

Free at any volume.
Everywhere else, a bill.

Included across every event you hold when you're an active partner. At about 1MB a photo, roughly a million your participants can claim for free.

Photos handed to participants	Fokus 1TB included	Platform A & B (PH) ₱1 per photo	Platform C (US) storage plans, per year
10,000	₱0	₱10,000	20 GB₱29,016
50,000	₱0	₱50,000	100 GB₱36,456
100,000	₱0	₱100,000	100 GB₱36,456
250,000	₱0	₱250,000	5 TB₱43,896
500,000	₱0	₱500,000	5 TB₱43,896
1,000,000 ≈ 1TB	₱0	₱1,000,000	5 TB₱43,896

Counts assume about 1MB a photo. Platform A & B bill per photo delivered. Platform C: 20GB at $39, 100GB at $49 and 5,000GB at $59 a month, shown for twelve months at ₱62 to the dollar. Fokus storage is included for as long as you're an active partner.

This slide does the arithmetic the participants slide leaves implicit: 1TB of included storage, converted into photographs, set against what other platforms charge per photograph delivered. COMPETITOR CLAIMS, NOW ON A SLIDE. The original deck brief kept competitor pricing to verbal pitching. Platform A and Platform B are deliberately unnamed here; be ready to say which platforms they are and how you know each figure, because an organiser who is already using one of them will know their own rate. Platform A is 1 peso per photograph delivered. PLATFORM B IS A MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION IN US DOLLARS, TIERED BY STORAGE: 20GB at $39 a month, 100GB at $49, and 5,000GB at $59. The column shows twelve months of whichever tier holds the row's photographs at 1MB each, converted at 62 pesos to the dollar: 29,016 for the 20GB plan, 36,456 for the 100GB plan, 43,896 for the 5TB plan. 10,000 photographs fit the 20GB plan; 50,000 and 100,000 fit the 100GB plan; 250,000 and above need the 5TB plan. 100,000 sits exactly at the 100GB cap, which is the generous reading; at real file sizes that row is on the 5TB plan too. The 62 rate is the one you supplied on 8 September 2026. It moves, so re-check it and the three list prices before sending, and be ready to say when you checked. Platform B's tiers are described as being for photographers and studios, not organisers. If asked how an organiser would actually use it, the honest answer is that the organiser or their photographer would carry the subscription. Confirm whether handing photographs to participants is included in the plan or is charged on top, because if it is on top the column understates them. The A-versus-B crossover now sits at about 29,000 photographs: below it Platform A is cheaper, above it Platform B is. Do not get drawn into that comparison. Fokus is zero at every row, which is the only point the slide is making. THE 1MB ASSUMPTION IS GENEROUS. At 1MB a photograph, 1TB is about a million photographs. A full-resolution event JPEG is commonly 2 to 5MB, which puts the same terabyte at roughly 200,000 to 500,000 photographs. Have that range ready, since the organiser's own photographer will know their file sizes. Even at the low end the other-platform column is six figures. Fokus is 0 pesos at every row because every row sits inside the included terabyte. Confirm what happens once the storage is exhausted or the twelve months lapse before this goes out; the participants slide notes carry the same open question. Free distribution still needs the two things noted on the participants slide: frames of the organiser's own to upload, and a registrant email list. The comparison is only real for an organiser who has both.

What we ask of you

Two things. None of them operational.

Two social posts

One before the event, one after, on channels you already use.

Photo partner status

Formal or informal. It tells participants the Fokus gallery is the official one.

Speed is what sells. Most sales land in the first 24 hours after a finish, so an early post is worth more than a late one.

Compliant by design.
Named professionals behind it.

Registered Philippine corporation

Fokus Technologies Inc. is SEC and BIR registered.

Data Privacy Act compliant

Fokus complies with all government regulations regarding privacy.

Calvo-Romulo Certified Public Accountants

Partner accounting and auditing firm.

SecDevOps best practices implemented

Compliant handling of user data. Encrypted in transit and at rest.

Multiple redundancies

Multiple cloud providers across the Philippines and Asia Pacific.

Reframed on 8 September 2026 from a privacy-mechanics slide to a compliance slide, then cut to one line per card. The earlier promises are all still on it (encrypted originals, DPA schedule, consent wording, five-day takedown, encrypted-at-rest storage with audit trail). Two points are now yours to say rather than the slide's: selfie search is biometric data and is treated as such, and originals are released only on purchase. CONFIRM BEFORE SENDING: the spelling and full legal name of the accounting firm, given here as "Calvo Romulu" exactly as supplied, and that they are content to be named in a deck that goes to organisers. The card says "partner accounting firm" and nothing about scope; do not widen that verbally unless you know the engagement letter. The Nomos legal card and the consent-wording card came off on 8 September 2026; consent wording is still supplied (the Grit and participants notes rely on it), it is just no longer a card here. REGISTERED CORPORATION CARD: confirm the SEC registration and BIR registration are current and that official receipts are actually issued to organisers for their share before this goes out. If receipts are not issued, cut that sentence. BACKED UP ACROSS REGIONS is the claim from the old Built by Engineers slide: multiple cloud providers in the Philippines and across Asia Pacific, with capacity in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. Say the regions if asked; the card keeps to "Philippines and Asia Pacific". "Aligned with" is deliberate. The slide does not claim a certification (ISO 27001, SOC 2 or similar). Do not let an organiser's IT or legal person leave thinking there is one unless there is. If asked what "best practice" means concretely, the answer on the slide is encryption at rest, network segmentation and audit logging; add anything else only if it is true. Privacy is a commercial asset, not fine print. Organizers are increasingly asked about it by participants and sponsors. Answer specifically rather than reassuringly. If the data-processing schedule is requested in advance, send it.

Start with one event.

If your participants buy, you have a revenue line that did not exist before.
If they do not, you have spent nothing.

Pick the event

Any upcoming edition.

Agree price and share

One short call. Fixed for the event.

Fokus sets up

Nothing for your team to do other than share a post with a link to the gallery.

FOKUS.ph

Your participants buy their own event photos. You earn on every sale. It costs you nothing.

Ferr John Painagan

CEO, Fokus Technologies Inc.

fj@fokus.ph fokus.ph