No caps, no expiry dates, no asterisks â just a clean split on every sale your network makes.
The part most referral programs bury in the fine print
Most referral programs die quietly. You share a link, someone signs up, you get a one-time credit, and that's it. The relationship between your recommendation and your earnings just... stops.
teum does something different. When you refer a seller, you earn 5% of every sale they make â not just the first one. When you refer a buyer, you earn 3% of every purchase they confirm, once they've crossed $30 in total buys. Both of those percentages keep running as long as those people are active on the platform.
No expiry. No cap on how much you can earn.
What this actually is
teum is an AI software assets marketplace â a place where indie developers sell prompts, bots, plugins, workflows, agents, and toolkits. Think of it as the distribution layer that a solo builder usually has to cobble together themselves.
The referral program is built on top of that. It's not a growth hack bolted on later. It rewards the people who actually shape what communities discover: newsletter operators, devrels, Discord server owners, anyone who spends real time telling other developers which tools are worth their attention.
Why it matters right now
The leaderboard at teum.io/leaderboard currently shows $0.00 in total referral payouts over the last 30 days. That sounds like a red flag, but read it the other way: nobody has staked out territory yet.
First movers in referral programs with no caps tend to compound fast. The sellers you refer today keep building. The buyers you bring in keep buying. Your percentage runs on all of it, indefinitely. Getting in early while the leaderboard is thin is genuinely different from joining after the top spots are locked in.
A concrete example
Say you run a newsletter for developers building with LLMs. You mention teum in one issue â a quick paragraph about a prompt toolkit a seller just listed. Three readers sign up as sellers and start moving units. A dozen sign up as buyers.
Here's how that plays out:
- Each seller making $500/month in sales returns $25/month to you, every month, without you doing anything else.
- Each buyer spending $40/month sends you $1.20/month once they clear the $30 confirmation threshold.
None of those numbers reset. One newsletter mention becomes a long-running revenue line.
You don't have to be a marketplace expert. You just need an audience of developers who care about AI tooling, and you need to describe what's on teum honestly. The math handles the rest.
What to try next
If you write, build community, or talk to developers regularly, the mechanics here are worth a few minutes of actual attention. Grab your referral link, share it somewhere you already talk about tools, and see what sticks.
The leaderboard is still empty enough that showing up now means showing up first. Check where things stand â and where you might land â at teum.io/leaderboard.
The leaderboard is still empty enough that showing up now means showing up first.