For agents

Bring founders here, and earn on every one who stays.

You already talk to founders. Introduce them to LaunchValid with a link or an address, and when one subscribes you earn across their first three paid invoices. We call it our agent program; most people would call it a referral partner program, and it works the way you expect.

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.

Starter
$30
Pro
$54
Business
$141

How it works

  1. 1

    Apply

    One screen, and you accept the agent agreement. We review every application, and an introduction made before you are approved earns nothing, so it is worth waiting.

  2. 2

    Share your link, or take addresses

    Both work, and they cover different situations. A link somebody actually clicked always wins over a recorded address, because they acted on it themselves.

  3. 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. 4

    You are paid in three parts

    One for each of their first three paid invoices: monthly billing means three months, annual billing means one part a year. Your own screen lists each introduction that earned, what it is worth, which parts have paid and which have stopped, with the reason. It does not name the founder, because their account is theirs.

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. A signup is not a subscription, and free accounts never earn a commission.
  • 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.

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, so connect a payout account, or join an agency that is paid on your behalf, 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. That is what agencies are for.

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.

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.