Referral Terms

The GBTI Network, operated by Gethsemane LLC (United States), shares revenue with the members whose content brings new paying members in, the members who improve or discuss that content, and the members who personally invite someone who joins. The distribution is fixed and automatic. Content owners do not choose it. This page states the terms. By participating you agree to them. These terms are forward-looking program terms, and they are subject to final review before the program is activated. We may update these terms, and any change applies to revenue distributed after the change takes effect.

What you earn

When a visitor becomes a paying member, the network looks at the content that brought them in and the content that closed the signup, and distributes a fixed share of that member’s paid membership revenue, for the lifetime of that membership:

• Discovery share, 30 percent. The author of the first eligible member-owned article, product, or prompt the visitor viewed earns 30 percent.
• Closing share, 10 percent. The author of the last eligible item the visitor viewed before joining earns 10 percent. If the same item was both the first and the last, that author earns the full 40 percent.
• Collaboration pool, 5 percent. A fixed 5 percent pool is shared, automatically and equally, by the members who commented on or contributed to those first-touch and last-touch items before the signup. The qualifying contributors and commenters are counted once at the moment of conversion, and the pool is divided evenly among them. There is no persistent points ledger and no owner-set delegation. If there are no qualifying contributors or commenters, the pool is retained by the platform.

Separately from the content shares above, a member who personally brings someone in through their own invite link earns an invite commission:

• Invite commission, 10 percent lifetime. When a member’s personal invite link brings in someone who becomes a paying member, that inviting member earns a flat 10 percent of the new member’s paid membership revenue, for the lifetime of that membership. This commission is paid from the platform’s retained share. It never reduces the discovery, closing, or collaboration shares earned by content owners and collaborators.
• No double dipping. The invite commission does not pay when the inviting member already earns a content share (discovery, closing, or collaboration) on the same conversion. A member earns either the content share they are owed or the invite commission on a given signup, never both.

Percentages are calculated on the gross amount of each paid invoice, before fees. The platform retains the remainder: 55 percent on a normal conversion, and 45 percent when the invite commission is paid. Owners do not decide whether an accepted contribution or a published comment is revenue-bearing.

How attribution works

Attribution is touch-based, inside a 90-day window:

• The first touch is the earliest eligible member-owned item viewed within the 90 days before the signup. A touch older than the window expires, and the next eligible touch inside the window becomes the first touch.
• The last touch is the final eligible item viewed before the signup. Views after the signup do not change it.
• The invite commission is attributed to the member whose personal invite link the new member used to join, within the same 90-day window.
• The distribution is frozen at the moment of conversion. The discovery, closing, collaboration, and invite shares are all fixed at conversion. Later comments, later contributions, edits, or ownership changes do not change the split for a member who has already converted; they may matter for future signups.
• Self-dealing does not pay. You cannot earn on your own membership, and a content owner’s own comments or edits on their own item (including the pinned “from the author” note) never count toward the collaboration pool.

To attribute touches, the network records which eligible content a visitor viewed. This happens only with the visitor’s consent, the record is kept no longer than the attribution window, and it is deleted on request. See the Privacy Policy.

When you get paid

Each distribution is held for 90 days before it becomes payable. This settlement hold covers the refund and chargeback window, so a share is only paid once the underlying payment is settled.

To receive a payout you must:

1. Be an active paying member when the payout is made. If your membership lapses you stop earning new shares, and resubscribing resumes it; shares you earned while active remain payable. A member who is not eligible at payout time has that share returned to the community.
2. Complete Stripe Connect onboarding. Payouts are sent through Stripe Connect, which handles identity verification, bank payout, and tax forms. Until you onboard, your shares accrue and wait, but nothing is transferred.

Payouts are sent in cash through Stripe Connect. Account credit is not offered at this time.

Clawbacks

If a member’s payment is refunded or charged back, the distribution for that payment is voided. Because of the 90-day hold, a voided share is cancelled before it is ever paid out. We do not claw back money that has already been transferred to you; the hold exists so that we do not have to.

Abuse

Shares are earned on paid revenue only. Trials and refunded payments earn nothing. Manipulated attribution, bad-faith comment or contribution farming, bot activity, and self-dealing are excluded by admin action, and a banned member forfeits all unpaid shares.

Questions

The amounts you are owed are always derived from the underlying Stripe records, so your earnings reconcile exactly to real payments. If you have a question about a distribution, reach out to the team in the community Discord.