pitch.referrals.sale
Refer people, not traffic.
↓ scroll · arrow keys
There are people who run real networks — a practitioner community, a newsletter that gets read, an alumni group from a sales training program — and because of it they know things platforms would pay to know: which member just launched an offer that deserves a real sales motion, and which member can genuinely close and is between things. They make those introductions already. For free. Because introductions are what a network runner does.
The only paid instrument ever offered to them is the affiliate program: recruit with a picture of someone else's earnings, pay through a dashboard that can't be audited, expire attribution in silence, change terms after the traffic is sent. It pays promoters for reach, not connectors for judgment — and its real price is charged to the referrer's own community, because every promotion made on those terms spends the trust of the people who granted it.
So the connectors keep saying no. And their judgment keeps being the only thing in the deal nobody pays for.
You've been right to say no. The instrument was built for promoters. You're a connector. Those are different jobs — and only one of them has ever had a product.
Judgment-shaped referrals, not traffic-shaped ones. The third referral type — an audience's deal flow — exists in the same machinery and is deliberately absent here: bringing an audience is the influencer door, creators.sale.
Settlement, the Mandate, and the Gate are real, live substrate mechanics, documented on api.forsale — the demand rail and sole authority over every deal. Everything any participant does only proposes; the deal's gate commits or refuses.
When referral programs go live, attribution will ride that same settlement record — the one that pays everyone else. Not new machinery invented for referrers: a new line in the machinery that already exists.
The Referrer stands outside the Deal. A Setter takes a Gig — a scoped piece of work inside the deal, with a defined finish line — and works it as a Role in the seller's pipeline. A Referrer takes nothing: no Role, no Gig, no execution. A referral is a source edge on the deal, not a split of anyone's work.
Which is why referring a closer never costs the closer. In the declared model, the share is a seller-side cost in Settlement — never carved from a contractor's payout — so a closer's commission is never touched: every referral, the entire commission. That is a property of the design, not a policy that could be walked back. You can vouch for a friend without quietly taxing the friend. That is the only arrangement a person whose name is the asset would ever accept.
This surface carries no earnings screenshots, no income examples, no top-referrer leaderboards, no lifestyle photography, and no figures of any kind — on purpose, stated as a promise on the page itself. A program that pays on verified settlements doesn't need to pay in promises.
In the affiliate corner of the internet, the anti-pitch is the trust engine: the one surface a real connector can afford to be seen on is the one that refuses the corner's aesthetics. And the refusal can't be copied cheaply — a competitor who drops the screenshots gives up the recruiting machinery the whole register runs on.
door api.forsale
actor developer seller
brings offers via API — the demand rail and sole authority over every deal
door closers.sale / closers.deals
actor individual closer or setter
brings labor — role-scoped Gigs
door closers.agency
actor firm
brings a bench — the Firm as envelope, members as actors
door creators.sale
actor creator
brings deal flow — an audience's demand
door referrals.sale
actor connector
brings vouched participants — sellers in (demand referral), closers in (supply referral)
current true
One attribution primitive, many doors over it — exactly as the closer brands are doors over one marketplace substrate. The split within the referral layer is crisp in both directions: this door pays for people you personally vouch for, one at a time. Have an audience instead of a network? That door is creators.sale.
referrals.sale is live today: the survey works, your answers are kept, and the confirmation says what we committed to. The site was real before this deck was.
And the rail itself? Settlement has run end-to-end in the demo kernel on api.forsale — fee, commission, and platform fee on one deal — but no external seller's deal has settled yet. When one does, it posts with the record in evidence. A door built on candour doesn't get to be coy about the substrate under it.
There are no live referral programs yet, and the page says so. The claim that matters posts when a vouched introduction produces a settled outcome with the referrer's share attributed on it — with the settlement in evidence.
Share bounds, stacking rules, and attribution windows are open questions, named as open. Whatever they land as, they will be declared before you refer — never discovered after. We would rather state what is unfinished than quote a term we'd have to walk back.
A short survey — what you run, and who you could credibly refer: sellers, closers, or both. We ask who you could refer; we never ask for your list, your audience, or a post.
Going first counts for something: founding referrers are first in line when programs open, and the terms — share, stacking, windows — are declared to you before anyone else, before you commit a single name. Your survey response is the fast track.
And if you ever see this brand publish an earnings screenshot, that is the day the promise broke.