A driver with a roster, not a level on a ladder
A CobbledWorks Scout does one job. They find people with real relationships and bring them to the table. We do the teaching: our products, what we actually build, and how the introduction works.
The people a scout brings in become ConnectClub participants. That is the whole distinction. The scout works for CobbledWorks. ConnectClub is where the person they brought lands, and what that person does there is introduce a business owner to something we make.
How they actually bring somebody in. A scout is given a code, the same way a referrer is. They hand it to a person they know. That person uses it to join one of our weekly seminars online, and we take it from there. Scouts also get their own CRM for outreach, mirroring the one ConnectClub participants use.
CobbledWorks stewards the teaching, and that is deliberate. A system taught secondhand loses its shape, and one taught from the source cannot. Scouts bring the right people to the table; they never run the training.
Tristian picks every scout by name, and every seat is signed on paper. The seat cannot be earned by recruiting, and a referrer cannot climb into it by referring.
Every scout fills out a CobbledWorks Scout application and signs a Scout contract, paper built only for this seat. The same person can also be a ConnectClub participant, on entirely separate paper. Two contracts, two different jobs, and the line between them is deliberate.
One payment in, the whole thing paid out
Every build starts with the customer's $149 activation fee. When that first payment clears, the full $149 goes back out as the cost of winning that customer.
The referrer's other earnings do not change. They still get their share of the build fee and 10% of the monthly bill, per the published rate card. The scout gets no piece of any of that.
Two doors, two numbers. A website close pays the scout $75. A CRM or tracker close pays the scout $35. Both arrive the same way. Most of it lands on close day, the rest when the customer's first monthly payment clears. Both are bound by the same cap.
Numbers shown are the website build case. The referrer's $100 and the scout's $49 trigger on the customer's first payment clearing, same as today. The scout's $26 triggers on the next one, the first monthly payment.
Every dollar has a finish line built in
This is the part that makes the whole design safe to say out loud. The scout fee is bounded, and recruiting is worth zero.
Joining pays nothing, to anyone
No fee to join, and no payment for signing someone up. A new referrer costs nothing and earns their scout nothing until a real customer pays.
One level, and there is no second
Only scouts bring referrers in, and a referrer cannot recruit anyone. So there is no chain to build. The $75 is paid one step from the sale, and there is no third step, ever.
The $75 expires: decided, August 19 and 20
Every referrer a scout brings in sits in that scout's queue for twelve months, counted from the day that referrer signs on. The scout earns $75 on each of that referrer's closes, up to five closes or twelve months, whichever comes first. Then it stops for good, and the scout moves on to the next new referrer.
More drivers to one system, not more layers
Today two salespeople carry every introduction, and one of them is part time. Scouts reach people we would never meet, and every one of those people learns the system from the same source: us.
Here is one scout's year, with the decided bounds on. Real numbers, nothing multiplied.
Nothing fans out. Every dollar traces back to one real customer who bought a real website.
The $1,125 is not the pitch, and we should never pretend it is a job. The pitch is access and standing. One of about twelve names on the program, first look at the network, and pay that follows what their people close.
Why this is not an MLM
We do not dodge the question, we answer it. An MLM pays people for building a downline. This pays people for two kinds of real work, and both end.
I scout for CobbledWorks. I find good people and bring them into ConnectClub. The company does the training. When a real business buys a real website, I get paid, and it always ends inside a year.
Say it to a sceptic. No part of it needs an apology, and that is the whole standard.
Two dials open, two decided
Everything above is the working design. Four pieces are set: the $149 as acquisition cost, the $75 as the avenue, the name Scout, and the bound, five closes or twelve months. Two calls remain, and they get decided on the Friday, August 21 working call.
Seat count, and how a seat is won
Start with about twelve appointed names. Then publish a bar a referrer can meet later, with their own closed customers. Nobody can ever earn the seat by recruiting. Or keep it appointed for good.
The bound: decided. Five or twelve.
Set by Tristian on August 19. Per referrer, the scout earns through the first five closes or twelve months, whichever comes first. A hard cap, only for scouts, and it never renews.
What the first cohort owns
A fee ends. Ownership compounds. If founding scouts get anything ongoing, counsel will want it tied to the company, a fixed founding bonus or a company-level share. A share of their referrers' output would read as a downline override.
The name of the role: decided. Scout.
Set by Tristian on August 19. A scout finds talent and the organization develops it, so the stewardship principle lives in the word itself. Charter Scout stays available for the founding cohort.
- The two open dials, seats and founding ownership, get decided on the Friday, August 21 call.
- We write the Scout paper the same day. An application spells out the role, and a Scout contract is built only for this program. It is a 1099 contractor role, never employment. It is separate paper from the referral agreement on purpose. Both route to counsel in one package.
- CobbledWorks builds and runs the training: the sessions, the scripts, and the first-introduction walkthrough. Scouts bring people to it and never run it themselves, because the system stays with its steward.
- Early near-free builds carry an ask. They pay something nominal that exercises our billing rails, or they hand us a capability we did not have. They also agree to help promote the network.
- Seats are offered in person at the Huge Convention, August 27 and 28 in Orlando.