No caps, no expiry, and a leaderboard that's still wide open.
The part most referral programs quietly hide
Most referral programs pay once. You send someone over, they buy something, you get a cut â and that's it. The relationship ends the moment the cookie expires.
teum's referral program doesn't work that way. If you refer a seller, you earn 5% of every sale they ever make on the platform. Not just the first one. Every one, forever.
That's the part worth pausing on.
What the program actually is
teum is an AI software assets marketplace â developers list and sell things like prompts, agents, plugins, workflows, and toolkits. Think of it as the place where the people building with AI tools also sell those tools to each other.
The referral side is straightforward. You get a link. Share it. If someone signs up as a seller and starts making sales, you earn 5% of every transaction they complete. If someone signs up as a buyer and spends money, you earn 3% of every confirmed purchase they make after their first $30.
No caps on earnings. No expiry date. The percentage just keeps running.
Why it matters right now
Here's the honest case for paying attention to this early: the leaderboard at teum.io/leaderboard is still opening up. Total referral payouts in the last 30 days sit at $0.00 â which sounds discouraging until you realize it means no one has locked in a lead yet.
If you run a developer newsletter, manage a Discord, or just have a corner of the internet where AI builders hang out, you're in a position to claim early spots before the field fills in.
Referral programs that compound over time reward the people who show up first. The structure here â lifetime percentages on both sides of a transaction â means a single well-placed seller referral could pay out for years.
What this looks like in practice
Say you write a weekly newsletter for developers building with LLMs. You mention teum, share your referral link, and three subscribers sign up as sellers.
One of them builds a solid prompt toolkit for code review. It sells steadily â maybe $200 a month in total sales. That's $10 a month coming back to you from one seller, indefinitely, without any additional effort on your part.
Add a few buyers into the mix â someone who starts buying workflows regularly and clears that $30 threshold â and the 3% buyer-side cut layers on top.
None of this requires you to do anything beyond the initial mention. The referral link does the work going forward.
What to do next
If you want to see where the referral standings actually are â and whether the leaderboard is worth entering â check it out directly. It's early enough that showing up now means something.
"Refer sellers: 5%. Refer buyers: 3%. Forever."
See who's already on the board, and whether there's a gap worth filling, at teum.io/leaderboard.
A single well-placed seller referral could pay out for years â the structure rewards the people who show up first.