Selling an AI influencer is not like selling a file. You're transferring a living asset — a persona model, its voice, live channels with real audiences, datasets, and the IP that ties it all together — and the buyer is paying real money into escrow on the promise that the handover is clean. "Clean" has a specific meaning here: everything transfers free and clear of encumbrances, exactly as it was when the offer was accepted, through the proper channels, with no loose ends that come back as a dispute.

The good news is that the platform structures the whole thing for you across five escrow milestones and a six-step handover wizard. The risk is in the details — a plaintext password, a brand deal you forgot to settle, a 2FA seed you didn't revoke. This checklist walks you through the handover week so nothing slips.

A note on timing: the dispute window stays open for 14 days after handover is marked complete. A clean week now is what makes that window close quietly and your final payment land.

Before the week starts: lock the asset

The single most important rule: the Asset Bundle as it existed the moment you accepted the offer is the deliverable. Do not add, swap, "improve," or remove components after acceptance. If you retrain the model or delete old posts mid-deal, you've altered the snapshot and handed the buyer a reason to reopen.

Pre-flight, before milestone work begins:

Confirm KYC is current. Escrow can't release without it. If it's expiring, renew now.
Settle every active brand deal. Per the agreement, all sponsorships, partnerships, and commercial obligations tied to the persona or channels must be settled, terminated, or transferred (with the counterparty's consent) before handover. A live sponsorship is an encumbrance.
Gather likeness consents. If the persona is modeled in whole or substantial part on a real person, you must deliver written consent covering creation, commercial use, transfer, and perpetual use. Have the files ready.
Pull final analytics exports for the prior 12 months on every included channel (CSV per channel, plus timestamped dashboard screenshots).
Inventory disclosed issues. Any suspension, strike, or policy warning in the last 24 months should already be in your listing. Nothing new should surface at handover.
Don't touch the channels' ownership. The platform may re-verify that you still control each channel within 24 hours of its handover step. If control looks like it moved, the buyer can suspend handover.

Milestone 3 — Channel access transfer

This is the heart of the week, and the place most deals get messy. The rule that protects you: credentials move only through the platform's encrypted vault. Plaintext exchange — email, chat, a screenshot of a password — is prohibited and voids your warranty on the transfer. Don't do the buyer a "favor" by DMing a login.

For each included channel:

Move the channel's primary email to the neutral staging email (not your personal address).
Remove your own 2FA, generate backup codes, and upload the full login bundle (credentials + 2FA seeds + recovery info) into the vault only.
Revoke all of your own active sessions on the channel before marking that channel's step complete.
Let the buyer log in, reset 2FA, and confirm access. They click Confirm channel access received per channel.
Within 48 hours of each channel's completion, confirm invalidation of your own recovery email and phone once the buyer rotates theirs.

Per-channel realities worth knowing before you start — they're in Schedule A and protect you when a platform doesn't cooperate:

YouTube — use a Brand-account transfer where available; otherwise full credentials + 2FA seed + recovery rotation. Confirm monetization status beforehand.
TikTok & Instagram — these platforms restrict or prohibit transfers for value. You perform the handover steps on a best-efforts basis; you do not warrant that TikTok or Meta will permit the transfer without their own action. This risk is shared and disclosed — it is not a breach on your part if the platform balks.
X — email + password + 2FA reset via vault; Premium and verified status are handled separately if applicable.
Twitch — credentials via vault, but Affiliate/Partner status is non-transferable per Twitch's terms. Make sure that was disclosed in the listing.
Threads — tied to Instagram; it follows the IG transfer.
Snap — credentials via vault; the buyer re-applies for Snap Star.
Owned website — push the domain to the buyer at the registrar, hand over DNS, and migrate email/forwarding.

Milestone 4 — Sign the IP transfer

Review and e-sign the IP Transfer agreement (DocuSign-style) when it lands. On final escrow release, you assign all right, title, and interest, including all IP, free and clear of everything except what you disclosed in the listing.
Understand what you're signing: you also waive moral rights to the maximum the law allows, and you agree to sign any reasonable further documents the buyer needs to perfect the transfer later.
Remember the warranties survive. Most run 24 months; ownership, non-infringement, likeness consent, sanctions, and AI-disclosure warranties survive indefinitely. Sign only what's true.

The handover wizard: your six steps

Alongside the milestones, your handover wizard has six steps. Work them in order:

1. Channels prepared — the Milestone 3 work above; may already be done.
2. Datasets uploaded — zip the training/generation datasets and include a checksum. If it's over the size limit, split it and include instructions. Keep the bundle within the 50 GB cap unless you got written approval.
3. Brand kit & voice finalized — deliver the logo, palette, typography, templates, and the voice guide (PDF / Figma / Notion link). Voice should be the clone model plus at least 10 minutes of reference samples.
4. Content backlog packaged — the archive plus a manifest CSV indexing every posted URL and the source masters where you have them.
5. Support thread opened — the system opens a thread tied to the owned asset for the agreed 30/60/90-day support window. If you don't open it, it auto-opens after 24h — but open it yourself and start on the right foot.
6. Confirm handover sent.

A format note that prevents a rejected handover: ship model weights as SafeTensors, GGUF, ONNX, or a Stable Diffusion checkpoint. Pickle files are accepted only with the buyer's explicit consent because of the deserialization risk — don't surprise anyone with a .pkl. Voice as RVC (.pth + .index) or comparable, with WAV samples at 44.1 kHz mono. Verify your checksums before you hit confirm; "datasets corrupted" is one of the few clean grounds a buyer has to reject step 2.

Milestone 5 and after

The buyer clicks Confirm full handover received. The escrow operator releases your payout (wire / SEPA / Wise), less the 15% commission, typically within 3 business days of all milestones clearing.
Honor the support window. For 30/60/90 days you respond to the buyer within 48 hours. It's a soft obligation, but it affects your standing and ranking — and a smooth support window is what turns a one-time sale into a repeat buyer.
Respect the non-compete. For 12 months, don't create, list, or sell a persona substantially similar to the one you transferred (≥70% face or voice similarity, same niche identifier, or the same handle stem). You're free to keep working in the niche and to build genuinely different personas.

The one-line version

Freeze the asset at acceptance, settle every encumbrance before you start, move every credential through the vault and nothing in plaintext, deliver datasets and content with checksums and a manifest, sign only what's true, and then actually show up for the support window. Do that, and the 14-day dispute window closes on its own — which is exactly when the asset becomes fully, cleanly the buyer's, and the money becomes fully, cleanly yours.

This guide summarizes the standard process and your obligations under the Creator Listing Agreement; the Agreement itself governs in any conflict. Questions on a specific deal? Your CSM can walk you through it.