Pilot economics

Bounded money. Explicit terms. No outcome theatre.

The day-0 contract is intentionally simple enough to audit. Advertisers prepay. Publishers earn on settled disclosed insertions. Stripe live mode stays disabled until efficacy clears its evidence gate.

Publisher

monthly platform fee

What does a publisher pay?

Nothing to join the pilot and nothing monthly. Earnings accrue from settled disclosed insertions and carry forward until the balance reaches $50 and Stripe Connect can pay it.

✓ Publisher receives the majority of insertion revenue.
✓ Exact pilot split is provided during approval.
✓ Stripe fees are not silently deducted from publisher earnings.

Advertiser

$100

minimum initial funding

What does an advertiser fund?

A USD prepaid balance through Stripe Checkout. The entire funded amount becomes campaign credit; card and bank-processing fees are carried by the platform.

✓ Card and US bank-account funding.
✓ Campaign commitments cannot exceed balance.
✓ Support-reviewed refunds return through Stripe.

Billing facts

What triggers a charge?

Verified crawler insertion: The pilot charges only when an approved sponsored passage is inserted on an eligible network-verified crawler request and durably recorded.
Not referral or surfacing: Human navigation signals are analytics-only. No charge claims that an answer engine repeated, cited or ranked the placement.
Balanced settlement: Closed windows move advertiser liability to publisher earnings and platform revenue in one balanced ledger transaction.
Manual exceptions: Refunds and rejected campaigns are support-reviewed so money movement cannot silently bypass the audit trail.

Questions about review, failure behavior or eligibility are answered in the pilot FAQ.

Invite-only pilot

Price a real pilot, not a hypothetical scale plan.

Tell us which side you are on and the traffic or budget band. We disclose the remaining commercial terms during human review.

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