Why pay the worker and the owner differently?

Because they are doing different things. The worker on a van spots the job and needs a reason to bother in the moment, so that reward is small and immediate. The owner is sending you business, so that reward is larger and lands when the job is actually paid. Paying only the owner means nobody on the ground remembers the program exists.

What stops people gaming it?

Referrals are accepted rather than automatic, and the owner payout only fires when a job is marked complete and paid. A fabricated referral earns a small gift card at most, and you can override or decline any of it from the inbox.

How do payouts actually happen?

Worker rewards are instant gift cards. Owner payouts default to an offline check, with the amount set per program and overridable per job. You fund a wallet, and the balance is visible alongside what is owed.

Trades and service businesses whose crews are constantly in front of work they do not do. A plumber sees a roof. An electrician sees a panel nobody has touched in thirty years. That referral usually goes nowhere because there is no mechanism for it.

Do we have to be a client to use it?

No. It is sold on its own, with no engagement and no minimum spend.

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Make referrals happen on purpose.

A network of partner businesses whose people send you work, with tracking from the first introduction and payouts that fire on their own. The cheapest growth most companies have is sitting with their happiest customers, unasked.

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The problem

Referrals happen by accident.

Everyone agrees referrals are the best leads they get, and almost nobody can tell you how many they had last quarter or who sent them. There is no mechanism, so it depends on whether someone happened to remember your name at the right moment.

Meanwhile a plumber is standing in a house looking at a roof that needs replacing, and a roofer is looking at a panel nobody has touched in thirty years. That work goes nowhere because there is nothing in place to move it.

How it runs

Three steps, then it runs itself.

Invite the businesses

Add partners one at a time or upload a CSV. Each gets a claim link, and you get a link you can share yourself.

Their people send work

A worker at a partner business spots a job that is not theirs and passes it over. The referral is tracked from that moment.

Everyone gets paid

The worker earns a gift card the moment the referral is accepted. The owner is paid when the job completes.

The invite a business dialog, with fields for business name, contact name and email, plus a bulk CSV option, explaining that each business gets a claim link. — Invite partners one at a time or in bulk. Each gets a claim link, and you get one to share yourself.

The design

Two rewards, because there are two decisions.

The worker who spots the job gets a gift card the moment the referral is accepted. The business owner gets a larger payout when the job completes and is paid.

That split is the whole point. A small instant reward is what makes someone bother in the moment. A larger deferred one is what keeps the referrals worth having. Programs that pay only the owner tend to die quietly, because nobody on the ground has any reason to remember they exist.

The rewards settings, showing a five dollar worker reward per accepted referral, a $250 owner reward per completed job, an optional one-time welcome gift, and the owner payout method. — Both rewards are yours to set, and either can be switched off. Amounts can be overridden per job.

What you get

The whole program, not just a link.

Partner network

Invite businesses individually or by CSV, each with its own claim link and tracked referrals.

Referral inbox

Every introduction in one queue, accepted or declined by you, with payouts overridable per job.

Automatic payouts

Instant gift cards for workers, checks for owners, funded from a wallet you top up.

Leaderboard

Who is actually sending you work, which is usually not who you would have guessed.

Questions we get

Before you ask.

Why pay the worker and the owner differently?: Because they are doing different things. The worker on a van spots the job and needs a reason to bother in the moment, so that reward is small and immediate. The owner is sending you business, so that reward is larger and lands when the job is actually paid. Paying only the owner means nobody on the ground remembers the program exists.
What stops people gaming it?: Referrals are accepted rather than automatic, and the owner payout only fires when a job is marked complete and paid. A fabricated referral earns a small gift card at most, and you can override or decline any of it from the inbox.
How do payouts actually happen?: Worker rewards are instant gift cards. Owner payouts default to an offline check, with the amount set per program and overridable per job. You fund a wallet, and the balance is visible alongside what is owed.
Who is this for?: Trades and service businesses whose crews are constantly in front of work they do not do. A plumber sees a roof. An electrician sees a panel nobody has touched in thirty years. That referral usually goes nowhere because there is no mechanism for it.
Do we have to be a client to use it?: No. It is sold on its own, with no engagement and no minimum spend.

Your best leads already know you. Give them a reason.

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No engagement required. Plenty of people use one and never speak to us about anything else.