ClickUp's whole pitch is “one app to replace them all,” and to be fair, it comes close. Docs, sprints, goals, chat, whiteboards, it's a genuinely enormous amount of tool for the price.
That breadth is also the problem for this specific job. None of those dozens of features know what a creator, a commission rate, or a brand deal is. You'd spend real time picking the right subset of ClickUp and configuring it before it acts like a deal tracker at all.
ClickUp is often the tool people reach for because it can technically do everything, and that's true. It can also be the reason a solo manager spends a Sunday afternoon deep in list settings instead of following up with a brand.
If deal tracking is the actual job, most of ClickUp's surface area is overhead, not help. You're paying for and configuring features you'll never touch just to get to the same commission math a purpose-built tool gives you for free on day one.
Antymo doesn't try to replace ClickUp. It just does the one thing, deal tracking with commissions and reminders, without asking you to build it first.