For agents
Bring founders here. Earn from every one who stays.
Introduce a founder with a link or an address, and when they subscribe you earn across their first three paid invoices.
In a country we cannot pay directly? An agency can be paid on your behalf.
How agents work
A link you can share anywhere
Put it in a post, a message, a Slack channel or a QR code on a stand. Anyone who starts signing in from the link is yours for the next thirty days, in that browser. Somebody who clicks today and comes back next week without it is not recorded, which is what taking their address is for.
Or just take their address
At an event nobody signs up at the stand. Record the email you were given and the introduction binds to it for ninety days, so it still counts when they sign up that evening on a laptop, or next month, on any device.
Paid across their first three invoices
You earn when they subscribe, in three equal parts, one for each of their first three payments. Monthly billing means three months; annual billing means one part a year. A founder who cancels early stops the parts that have not been paid, and you keep the ones that have.
You help them get started
Most agents do more than hand over a link: they sit with a founder while the first research runs. The founder can give you a seat on their project for as long as that takes, so you can do it with them rather than over their shoulder.
What an introduction pays
Per founder who subscribes, split into three parts released by their first three paid invoices.
How it works
- 1
Apply
One screen and the agent agreement, and an introduction made before you are approved earns nothing.
- 2
Share your link, or take addresses
Both work, and a link somebody actually clicked always wins over a recorded address.
- 3
They sign up and subscribe
Nothing is owed on a signup: the commission starts when the founder you introduced pays for a plan.
- 4
You are paid in three parts
One for each of their first three paid invoices, so monthly billing means three months and annual billing means one part a year.
- 5
Commit to a month, earn a bonus on founders who stay
Optional and on top of the commission: commit to a number of founders for the month, and a kept month earns a bonus on each of them at their fourth invoice.
Said plainly, before you apply
You are paid on somebody else's decision, weeks after the conversation that caused it. These are the ways that goes wrong, worth knowing now rather than after an event.
- A founder who already has an account cannot be claimed. Attribution is set once, at signup, so an introduction to somebody who signed up last year earns nothing however much you did.
- The link holds for thirty days from the moment they start signing in, in that same browser, and it records nothing before then. If they scan on a phone and sign up on a laptop next week, or click today and return without the link, only a recorded address covers you.
- If two agents record the same person, it goes to whoever met them first. It is the fairest rule available without knowing who did the convincing.
- A recorded address lapses after ninety days, and you can hold two hundred open introductions at once. Both are worth knowing before an event, not after it.
- Nothing is owed until they pay for a plan that carries a commission. A signup is not a subscription, a free account never earns one, and neither does the twenty-four dollar Social plan, which is paid but far too small to carry one. If somebody you introduced starts on Social and later moves up to a monthly plan, that upgrade is the moment your commission begins, and it pays in full from there.
- Access to a founder's project is theirs to give, and it is not automatic. They can add you as an onboarding agent for a set period, which lets you read the research, ask the notebook, comment, and build the prototype, demand page, deck or posts with them. Building costs their credits, because you are working in their project and on their plan. It does not let you publish anything, hire anyone, change their billing, or open their fundraising pack, and it ends on the date they set.
- A one-time document purchase earns nothing. The commission is for a subscription, so a founder who buys a report or a pack and never subscribes is worth nothing to you, however much you did.
- Being suspended stops future earning and touches nothing already earned. What you have earned is still owed and still paid.
- The commitment bonus follows the founder staying, not the signup. A founder who leaves before their fourth paid invoice earns no bonus, a month with no commitment earns none either, and your minimum commitment is the highest number you met in the last three months, so a strong month raises your floor for a while.
Questions from agents
Do I need to be a customer to be an agent?
No. You do not have to run a project or buy a plan. You do need somewhere to be paid. Once you are approved, your agent screen has a payout setup step: connect an account there, or join an agency that is paid on your behalf. Do it before your first part falls due.
What if I live somewhere Stripe cannot pay?
Join an agency. It is paid on your behalf and pays you on its own terms, and your commissions route the same way as any other earning. Some agencies choose to be listed where you can browse them once you sign in, and any agency can also invite you with a link.
Can I be an agent and also sell my expertise here?
Yes, and plenty do. They are separate approvals, and if you work through an agency both kinds of earning appear on the same statement so you are paid once for both.
How does the commitment bonus work?
Each month you can promise a number of founders, before the month starts or at any point during it, and a promise made mid-month counts the founders who arrive after you make it. Keep the promise and every founder from that month earns you a bonus when they pay their fourth invoice, at a multiplier that grows with how ambitious the kept promise was, up to 1.5 times. Miss and those founders pay half the base instead. Your minimum is the highest number you met in the last three months. Bonuses go out quarterly, and your dashboard shows every number before you commit.
When do I actually get the money?
Each part is paid when the invoice it depends on is paid. The first goes out on their first payment, the next two on the payments after it. That is what makes the schedule honest: a part that is not due simply does not pay, rather than being promised and then taken back.
How do I know an introduction registered?
It depends which way you introduced them. An address you recorded shows on your screen straight away, with whether it has been claimed yet. A link introduction records nothing at the moment of the click, so it stays invisible until that founder subscribes. If you need to see that it landed, take the address.
Can I introduce a company rather than a person?
Record the address of the person who will sign up. Attribution binds to the account that gets created, so the address that matters is theirs.