# Commission partners

URL: /workflows/plays/commission-partners · Id: `play:commission-partners`

> Commission partners pay publishers, creators and Agents a share of the collected, net-of-refund revenue they bring, after the refund window.

Commission partners pay publishers, creators and [Agents](/business/nouns/agent) a share of the revenue they bring. The share is computed on collected, net-of-refund revenue after the refund window, so a reversed sale never pays out.

## Ratings
| Dimension | Rating | Reads |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scalability | 4 of 5 | high: higher grows further with spend or automation |
| Cost | 3 of 5 | medium: lower costs less per Customer |
| Latency | 3 of 5 | medium: lower answers sooner |

## Budget
| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tier | $0 |
| Minimum effective budget | $0 a month |

## How it runs
Each partner signs an [Agreement](/business/nouns/agreement) with a rate, a term and a coded link. Attribution is written when the link is used, never reconstructed later. Payouts run weekly once the refund window closes.

## Processes
Runs as [Outbound](/workflows/processes/outbound), accountable to the [Marketing Team](/agents/marketing).

## Fits
| Fits | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Family | demand |
| Shelf | Compound: builds an engine that keeps growing (Grow) |
| Moves | [Referral share](/agents/marketing#referral-share) |
| Motions | [b2c](/business/motions/b2c), [b2b](/business/motions/b2b), [b2d](/business/motions/b2d), [b2a](/business/motions/b2a) |
| Venues | [Instagram](/workflows/plays#instagram), [TikTok](/workflows/plays#tiktok), [YouTube](/workflows/plays#youtube), [MCP Registry](/workflows/plays#mcp-registry) |
| States | [Live](/business/lifecycle/states/live), [Repeatable](/business/lifecycle/states/repeatable), [Scale](/business/lifecycle/states/scale) |

## Loop
| Step | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Hypothesis | Paying partners on collected, net-of-refund revenue raises referral share without raising refunds. |
| Measure | [Referral share](/agents/marketing#referral-share) over 90d, at least 30 observations |
| Learn | The learn step reads the Readout, records Evidence and a Decision, and drafts the next Variant. |

## Example
A [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) selling a podcast-editing agent pays 25 percent of first-year collected revenue to the reviewers and agents that refer users. One agent that recommends tools to podcasters earns $1,400 in its first quarter.