No caps, no expiry, and a leaderboard that's still wide open.
The thing nobody mentions upfront
Most referral programs expire. You bring someone in, they buy something six months later, and you get nothing because your cookie timed out. teum doesn't do that. Referred sellers and buyers stay linked to you permanently â which changes the math significantly if you're the kind of person who recommends tools for a living.
What the teum referral program actually is
When you join teum as a referrer, you get a personal link. Share it with someone who wants to sell AI assets â prompts, bots, plugins, workflows, agents, toolkits â and you earn 5% of every sale they ever make on the platform. Bring in a buyer instead, and you earn 3% of every confirmed purchase they make, once they cross $30 in total buys.
No caps. No expiry. That's the whole structure.
It's designed for people who already talk about developer tools: community builders, newsletter writers, devrels, Discord moderators, anyone whose recommendation carries weight with other builders.
Why the timing matters
The teum leaderboard is still opening. Total referral payouts in the last 30 days sit at $0.00 â which sounds discouraging until you realize what it actually means: nobody has a head start yet.
In most affiliate programs, the top 10 spots are locked up by people who got in two years ago and built SEO moats you can't compete with. Here, the leaderboard is blank. The person who refers the first serious seller on teum will sit at the top by default â and since earnings compound with every future sale that seller makes, early positions have outsized value.
This isn't hype. It's just how uncapped, no-expiry programs work when the platform is new.
A concrete example
Say you run a newsletter for indie developers. You mention teum in one issue. A reader signs up as a seller and starts listing their prompt packs â earns $200 in the first month, $400 the next, $600 the month after as their catalog grows.
Month 1: you earn $10. Month 2: $20. Month 3: $30. After a year of modest but steady growth, that single referral is generating real passive income â and you didn't have to do anything after that one newsletter mention.
Now multiply that by five sellers you recommended over six months. The compounding is the point.
For buyers, the structure is similar. If a developer you referred buys $150 worth of toolkits over a year, you've earned $4.50. Small per transaction, but it's 3% of every purchase they ever make on the platform â forever.
The formula: Refer sellers: 5%. Refer buyers: 3%. Forever.
What to do next
If you already have an audience of developers â even a small one â it's worth grabbing your referral link now rather than later. The leaderboard rewards first movers in a pretty literal sense: whoever builds the earliest referred seller base will hold those positions while the platform grows around them.
Check where things stand and claim your spot at teum.io/leaderboard. The board is quiet right now. That won't last.
The leaderboard is blank. The person who refers the first serious seller on teum will sit at the top by default.