Partner program
Be the advisor who found the money.
For fractional CTOs, technical advisors and the agencies that built the product and still own the relationship. Bring a client a lower AI bill without touching their product — and keep earning on every invoice they ever pay.
Top commission rate
Commission on every invoice they ever pay
Price moves tracked — yours before we publish them
Fit
Is this you?
Three statements. If you nod at all three, this works from your first client conversation. If one is a maybe, it is still worth a call — we would rather talk than guess.
Your clients ship real product, and their AI spend keeps moving.
New features, new models, growing usage. Not a pilot, not a flat line. That movement is the whole reason a cost problem exists and the reason it comes back every quarter.
When infrastructure or vendor cost comes up, you are the one they ask.
Fractional CTO, technical advisor, or the agency that built the thing and still owns the technical relationship. If that conversation routes through someone else, this program will not do much for you.
You want one more reason to be visibly right.
Finding a client money they had not noticed losing is not a pitch, it is the job. That is the test we care about most: does recommending us cost you social capital, or earn it?
The reason this compounds: you already paid for the trust once. If you sit inside four companies at a time, one decision to recommend us reaches all four — and every client you take on after that arrives already covered.
What you put in front of a client
A recommendation that costs you nothing to make.
An advisor stakes their standing on every suggestion. Here is exactly what your client experiences, so you can judge that risk before you spend it.
The free level already produces the number
Your client connects and reads their own spend before paying us anything. You are not asking them to buy something on your word, you are asking them to look.
Nothing in their product changes to find it
No rewrite, no migration, no vendor lock-in as the price of the diagnosis. Reading comes first and switching is always a separate, explicit decision they make.
It lands inside the week, not the quarter
Connect, read, and you have a figure for the next call. A recommendation that needs a two-month evaluation before it proves anything is not one you can make repeatedly.
If there is nothing to save, it says so
A well-run stack sees a small number and we do not dress it up. That is what makes the big numbers usable in front of your client.
The sentence
“I found a way to cut your AI bill without touching your product. Give me an hour and I will show you the number.”
That is the whole pitch, and it is one you can make in a check-in without changing the subject. What we will not do is put words in your mouth: we do not promise a percentage before we have read the client’s spend, and we will not let you either.
Commission ladder
Every client you bring lifts the rate on all the others.
Your rate is set by lifetime referred revenue across your whole client base, and applies to everything your referrals pay from that point on. Read live from the same table that prices your payouts.
Associate
from $0 referred
15% commissionAdvisor
from $5K referred
20% commissionSenior Advisor
from $10K referred
25% commissionPrincipal
from $40K referred
30% commissionFellow
from $130K referred
35% commissionThe deal
No cookie games. No estimated money.
Three commitments that decide whether a partner program is worth your reputation.
60-day window, then lifetime
A referral link is remembered for 60 days and the first click wins. A workspace created after that needs a fresh click, or the code entered by hand. Once a workspace is attached the attribution is frozen and stays yours for the life of the account, with no reset at renewal.
Paid invoices only
Commission is written by the payment webhook when a real invoice is paid. Nothing is estimated, nothing is clawed back out of thin air.
Tiers you can see
Your rate rises with referred revenue on a published ladder. Your dashboard shows exactly how far you are from the next level.
Beyond the commission
What you get that your competition does not have.
Two of these work the day you are activated. Two are commitments we honour when you take us up on them, and we say so rather than dressing them up as features.
Live today
The market data before it is published
The public Intelligence page only publishes a month once it is frozen. Your partner dashboard shows the month while it is still moving — price moves, cuts and new listings across every model and host we track. It is the difference between telling a client what happened and telling them what is happening.
Live today
A badge that can be checked, not just displayed
On activation you get a Certified Partner badge and LinkedIn banners generated from your own record, plus a verification link on costmyai.com carrying your name, tier and join date. Anyone can open the link. Nobody can issue one for themselves.
Commitment
Co-marketing on a named case study
From the second tier up, we will build and publish a case study with you. This needs a client willing to be named, so it starts the day you have one — not before. We will not publish an anonymous composite and call it a case study.
Commitment
A direct line on the roadmap
We will take partner feedback directly, on a call rather than through a form, and tell you plainly what we will and will not build. This is a person's time, not a product feature: ask for it and we will book it.
How it works
Three steps from a recommendation to a payout.
Apply
Tell us who you work with. We activate partner accounts by hand, not by form fill.
Share your link
You get a link — costmyai.com/r/YOUR-CODE — and a dashboard. A click attributes the signup for 60 days; the code can also be entered by hand in Settings.
Get paid
Every paid invoice from your referrals writes one line in your ledger at your current rate. Paid out monthly, on the 1st, once your balance reaches $50. Smaller balances carry over and are never lost.
For experienced partners
The details that decide whether this fits your practice.
How is my reputation protected if the client does not save anything?
The free tier lets the client read their own spend before anyone pays. If there is nothing to save, the tool says so. You are not selling a promise; you are offering a number they can verify themselves.
When do payouts actually land?
We run partner payouts on the 1st of each month. Your balance must be at least $50 to trigger a transfer; anything below that rolls forward and is never lost. Every line in your ledger is written by the payment webhook on a real paid invoice.
How does the commission structure work across multiple clients?
Your rate is set by lifetime referred revenue across every workspace you have brought in, and it applies to all future invoices from that point on. The attribution window is 60 days, first click wins, and once a workspace is attached it stays attached for life.
What client data can I see, and what stays private?
You see your own dashboard: attributed workspaces, tier progress, and earned commission. You do not see client spend, usage, team members, or internal data. We also never contact your referrals to upsell them — the client relationship remains yours.
The client relationship stays yours.
You see which workspaces are yours, which level they are on, and every dollar you have earned. You never see their spend, their usage or their people — and we never go around you to sell them something. Neutrality applies to partners too.