The finding, before the detail
Same person, same effort, two different seats. These totals are what they have collected in all, counting from day one.
Starts small, then builds on itself
A close pays $100 once. Then a slice of the build arrives across the instalments. Then 10% of that customer's monthly bill, for as long as they stay. Every customer they keep is still paying them in year three.
The two pay at different times
One person can hold both, on two separate contracts. The scout fee lands early, while their own referral money is still small. The residual is the part still arriving in year five, long after each purchase has paid its one fifty.
Stays flat, and it steps every third
A scout earns $50 when a person they brought in buys, one time. They earn nothing from the product, and nothing from anyone that person later introduces. Every third paying customer pays them $250 more, with no cap. Nothing carries into the next year on its own, so year three only pays if they are still finding people.
Move the dials
Nothing here is a house forecast. Set them to whatever you believe and the chart follows.
Thirty six months, side by side
Total collected to date. The shape matters more than any single number: one line bends upward, the other is a staircase of the same step.
| End of | The referrer | The scout | Both seats |
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What the model is saying
The scout fee is a finder's fee, not an income
A scout is paid for one event: a person they brought in buys. That pays $50, once. Nothing that person does afterwards pays the scout again, and neither does anyone that person introduces.
That is the design working. A scout cannot sit on a book of people and get paid for it. That is the exact thing that would make this look like a downline. The $250 on every third rewards volume of introductions, and it is still paid on purchases the scout brought in themselves.
The referrer's money is in the tail
The $100 is the smallest part of it. The 10% of the monthly bill has no end date. A referrer with a handful of happy customers collects every month without doing anything new. In the typical case, year three alone pays more than the first two years put together.
Worth saying out loud to anybody weighing the two: the scout is paid faster, and the referrer is paid longer.
Decided: $50 a purchase, and $250 for every three
Everything that paid a scout out of the product is gone. So is everything that paid a scout for somebody else's sale. The earlier model on this page did both, and it was overturned.
A scout is paid $50 when a person they brought in buys. One time, any door. A website, the CRM, the field tools, all the same fifty. Nothing they buy later pays the scout again.
Every third paying customer pays the scout $250 more. Recurring, with no cap. So the third, sixth and ninth purchase each pay $300, and 10 people pay $1,250 in all.
The scout never earns from the product. No share of the build, no percentage of a monthly bill, no residual. That is the half of the old model that made the seat read as a share of somebody else's book.
And never from anyone else's sale. A scout brings a person who might buy, not a referrer who might sell. There is no second degree left to argue about.
Why every three. Settled September 15, 2026, in his words, to stimulate activity. A one-time milestone pays less per head the harder a scout works, and it stops speaking to them at all once it is passed. $250 every three holds the same rate however far they go. The two payments come out of two different pots, settled the same day: the scout's $50 from the customer's $149 activation fee, and the $250 from the build price on a website or from the $295 setup on a tracker-only sale. Spread over three sales the bonus is about $83 a sale, against a build that starts at $995.
Why one person should hold both
The two seats are two different jobs on two contracts. A referrer introduces a business owner themselves, and keeps earning for as long as that customer stays. A scout hands a person a code, that person comes to a seminar, and the scout is paid once if they buy. Under the corrected mechanic both seats point at the same kind of person, a buyer. That is a call worth making before either seat is sold.
They also pay at opposite ends. The scout fee arrives the day the person buys, which is exactly when a new referrer's own residual is still small. The residual is the part that is still there in year five, long after each purchase has paid its one fifty.
On the settings above, the scout seat adds 0% to the first year, and it keeps adding at roughly that rate. The catch is that it only keeps adding while they keep finding people. By the end of year three the referral side is 0% of everything, and it is the part still paying if they stop.
It is two contracts and two roles, deliberately. One person signing both is not one program with two levels. It is one person doing two different jobs.
Where every rate comes from
- $149 activation fee, and the three build prices with their monthly plans:
site/src/pages/pricing.astro. - $100 close bonus on a website, paid when the customer's first payment clears. The 5, 8, 10 and 12% build share by all time closes. 10% of monthly payments with no end date. All three:
site/public/refer/pins/ranks.js. - The build share rides the instalments, up to 24 months, so it arrives as the customer pays rather than on day one.
- $50 to the scout when a person they brought in buys, once, any door. $250 more for every 3 paying customers, recurring and uncapped. Tristian, September 14 and 15, 2026, written up in
docs/scout-mechanic.md. - The 8% band and above need a W-9 on file. The model assumes it is filed, since the IRS wants one past $600 a year anyway.