A professional publishing network with shared upside
GBTI gives members a place to publish useful work, discuss what they are building, create gated resources, and grow alongside other professionals. A portion of member dues is shared back when that work helps grow the network, and members can also share a personal invite link to earn a flat 10% lifetime commission on anyone who joins through it.
Why a network
Creators need a home for their work
Most independent creators want to publish and be found, without standing up a CMS or paying to host and maintain a site. The network handles that, surfaces work to AI assistants, and adds the one thing most publishing collectives leave out.
No site to host or maintain
Publish without a CMS, hosting bills, or upkeep. Your work lives on the network and renders on your member profile.
Built for AI recommendations
Content is structured so AI assistants can read and recommend it, which lifts how often your work gets surfaced.
Publishing with an earning path
Most collectives stop at distribution. Here, the work that brings members in earns a share for the people who made it.
Why members join
What membership gives you
Membership is built for professionals who want a place to publish useful work, improve alongside other members, and belong to a network that rewards contribution.
A private Discord where professionals talk through ideas, share work in progress, ask questions, and build relationships away from public social noise.
A recurring two-hour session on product development, publishing, business progress, technical decisions, and member coaching.
Discover aligned projects and combine skills. One member brings the idea, another the technical depth, another the distribution.
Create gated articles, products, prompts, downloads, and resources that enrich the network and give new members a reason to join.
The network distributes and promotes member work across social channels, so useful work travels further than it would from a private account.
Curated updates and signals relevant to the network's professional interests, tuned to cut noise and surface what helps you build.
A Chrome extension and other tools that make the gated parts of the network smoother to access and use.
A shared home for publishing, discussion, collaboration, and belonging among people who take the work seriously.
A portion of membership revenue can be shared back with members whose published work, comments, and contributions help grow the network.
How value flows
Member work creates value at every touch
A reader might discover the network through an article, come back through a product, read the comments, and notice what members improved before they join. In this network, those touches matter, and each one can earn. A member can also bring someone in directly with a personal invite link, which earns a separate lifetime commission.
See the full splitThe split
How a conversion is divided
Every conversion is distributed the same way. Content owners do not decide what counts. If a contribution is accepted or a comment is published, the model pays it automatically. The donut shows the content split. A separate manual invite lane is described below it.
The owner of the first eligible article, product, or prompt the member touched inside the attribution window.
The owner of the final eligible item they touched before they converted to a paying member.
Split evenly among members who commented on or contributed to the first-touch and last-touch items.
Funds hosting, tooling, weekly sessions, and the shared work of running the network. This becomes 45% when the manual invite lane pays.
The manual invite lane. Separate from the content split, a member who shares their personal invite link earns a flat 10% lifetime commission when someone joins through it. It is paid out of the platform share, so the first-touch and last-touch content owners are never diluted: the platform simply keeps 45% instead of 55% on that conversion. No double dipping: when the inviter already earns a content share on the same conversion, for example when they invited the reader to their own article, they earn the larger content share instead, not the 10% invite commission.
Discovery and closing
First touch and last touch
A conversion only uses eligible touches inside a 90-day window. The earliest touch earns the discovery share. The final touch before signup earns the closing share.
In-between touches matter to the member's journey, but they do not earn a share. If the same item is both the first and last touch, that one owner earns both shares, for 40%.
Participation
The 5% collaboration pool
At each conversion, every accepted contribution and every published comment on the first-touch or last-touch item counts as one qualifying share. The pool splits evenly across the qualifying shares for that conversion. There is no running points balance or reputation score, just a fresh count taken at the moment a member joins.
A spelling fix counts the same as a new section. A published comment counts the same as a merged pull request. Owners do not decide which participation is revenue-bearing. If it is accepted or published, it counts.
One member with two qualifying contributions earns two shares of the pool.
A worked example
The same split in dollars
Take one conversion where four members commented on or improved the first-touch and last-touch items, and no invite link was used. Using today's $150 membership, the content split lands like this.
Dollar figures use today's $150 annual membership. Percentages are fixed; the dollar amount follows the membership price. When a member joins through an invite link instead, that inviter earns the flat 10% lifetime commission, $15.00 of this membership, out of the platform share, so the platform keeps 45% rather than 55% and the content owners are unchanged.
In plain terms
The rules that keep it fair
Members are trusted by default. These guardrails keep the split honest without putting an editor between you and your payout.
90-day window
Only touches within 90 days of conversion count. Older touches expire and the next eligible one takes over.
90-day hold
Payouts wait through a hold period that protects against refunds, chargebacks, and fraud.
Frozen at conversion
The split is snapshotted when the member joins. Later edits or comments do not change a past payout.
One share each
At a conversion, every accepted contribution and every published comment counts as one equal share of the collaboration pool. There is no running points balance.
No self-dealing
Your own comments and edits on your own content do not earn from the collaboration pool.
Lifetime invite commission
An invite link pays a flat 10% of the invited member's membership for as long as they keep paying, out of the platform share, so content owners are never diluted.
No double dipping
If the inviter already earns a content share on the same conversion, for example by inviting a reader to their own article, they take the larger content share, not the 10% invite commission.
Refunds do not pay
Reversed, refunded, or charged-back revenue produces no distribution.
Eligible at payout
Banned, suspended, or inactive members forfeit their share. It returns to the platform.
Paid via Stripe
Eligible recipients are paid through Stripe Connect once the hold period clears.
Questions and answers
Membership and revenue questions
Straight answers on what membership includes, how revenue sharing works, and what this network is not.
What is GBTI?
GBTI is a professional publishing network where members publish articles, products, prompts, tools, and gated resources. It combines a private community, recurring shop talk, curated news, distribution support, and a revenue-sharing model for member-created value.
What do members get?
Access to the private Discord community, weekly two-hour shop talk sessions, curated news, gated member content, specialized network tools, and opportunities to collaborate with other professionals. Members can also publish their own work and participate in the value it creates when it helps grow membership.
What happens during weekly shop talk?
Shop talk is a recurring two-hour member meeting covering product development, business decisions, publishing plans, technical questions, and current challenges. It is part working session, part coaching space, and part professional accountability room.
Can members create gated content?
Yes. Members can create gated articles, products, prompts, downloads, and resources for other members. Gated content gives current members more value and gives prospective members a stronger reason to join.
What is the network syndicate?
The network syndicate helps distribute and promote member-created material across social networks and public channels, so useful member work reaches more people than it would from a private account alone.
Can members work together on projects?
Yes. GBTI is designed to create opportunities for joint ventures. Members can meet collaborators, test ideas, combine skills, and build projects together when there is mutual interest and fit.
How does revenue sharing work?
When a new member joins after interacting with member-owned content, part of that member's dues may be distributed to the members who helped create the value path.
The first eligible member-owned item in the path can receive 30%. The last eligible item before signup can receive 10%. A 5% collaboration pool can be shared by members who commented on or contributed to those first-touch and last-touch items. The platform retains 55%.
Separately, a member who shares a personal invite link can earn a flat 10% lifetime commission when someone joins through it. That commission comes out of the platform share, so it never reduces the content owners, and the platform keeps 45% on that conversion. It does not stack with a content share on the same conversion.
Do comments and small contributions count?
Yes. The network is designed to reward participation. A useful comment can count. An accepted spelling fix can count. A formatting improvement, correction, added example, or accepted contribution can count. The goal is to make participation easy, not to turn every contribution into a negotiation.
Can content owners block contributors from revenue sharing?
No. If a contribution is accepted, it can count. If a member comment is published and remains valid, it can count. Content owners do not decide whether accepted participation is revenue-bearing.
Is this a referral program?
Partly. Members can invite people directly and earn a commission when an invite becomes a paying member, and member-owned content, comments, and contributions also earn through the value path. Neither path is about recruiting for its own sake. Both reward helping new members discover and join a community with genuine membership value.
Do members earn for inviting people?
Yes. Members get a personal invite link and earn a flat 10% commission when someone they invite becomes a paying member. The commission is a lifetime share of that member's membership revenue, paid for as long as they keep paying, to the inviting member only. There is no downline, and nothing is earned on anyone the new member later invites.
The invite commission is paid out of the platform's retained share, so it never reduces the first-touch or last-touch content owners. It also does not double up with content earnings: if the inviter already earns a content share on the same conversion, for example by inviting a reader to their own article, they keep the larger content share instead of the invite commission.
Why are member dues shared back?
Member dues fund the network, support gated infrastructure, reduce abuse, and create a healthier publishing environment than platforms where all member activity benefits only the platform. GBTI shares part of the upside because the network becomes more valuable when members publish, comment, contribute, and help useful work travel.
Why have member dues at all?
GBTI is a closed network and a private club. Dues are what maintain and grow it, the same way a country club or a makers shop runs on membership. They fund the infrastructure, keep the community private, reduce spam, and discourage low-effort participation.
A paid membership also gives the network a revenue base that can be shared back with members who help create value.
What is the Chrome extension for?
The Chrome extension is a specialized member tool that improves the gated infrastructure experience. It helps members access and use the parts of the network built specifically for the private member layer.
Who should join?
GBTI is for professionals, builders, writers, developers, operators, and product-minded creators who want a place to publish useful work, improve with others, and participate in a community where contribution is visible.
Publish, and share in what it earns
Your work keeps paying after you ship it.
Start with a 90-day trial. No card required. Publish and become eligible for the split when you join.