Referral partners

Refer an owner. Earn 30% of our fee when they get paid.

Accountants, fractional CFOs, M&A advisors, IT providers, and bankers already have the relationships. We do the pricing, the buyer process, and the negotiation. When a license closes and the owner is paid, 30% of our fee goes to the person who made the introduction. Nothing is added to the owner's cost, and the owner is told.

Free to join. No quotas, no caps, no second tier. Paid when we are paid.

How it works

You make the introduction. Everything after that is ours.

01

Tell us who you are

Three minutes on the form below. We reply within one business day with your referral link, your code, and the terms in writing. Free to join, nothing to install.

Day 1
02

Send an owner your link

Your link opens the seven-question qualifier. The code travels with their answers and is written to their record the moment they submit. It holds for 90 days from their first visit, and a later ad click does not overwrite it.

When you are ready
03

We run the process

A 20-minute fit call, the one-page manifest, pricing against live buyer demand, a first offer in 24 to 48 hours of a complete manifest, a competitive round, negotiation, and counsel coordination. You hear from us when they book, when an offer goes out, and when a license signs.

Ours to do
04

You are paid when we are

The buyer pays the owner directly, in full. We invoice our fee after the owner has the money. Your 30% is paid within 30 days of our fee arriving, with a statement showing the arithmetic.

At close
What we pay

30% of our fee. Flat, published, and out of our pocket.

Our fee is 12% of the first $250,000 paid to the owner and steps down from there, so the owner keeps the large majority of the license. A referral program only works for an advisor if the client comes out ahead, and this one is built so you can show them the arithmetic.

30%
Of our fee on every deal you refer. No tiers, no caps, no quotas.
$0
Added to the owner's cost. Their schedule is the published one.
90 days
Your code holds from the owner's first visit on your link.
0
Second tiers. We pay the person who knew the owner.
Worked example · illustrative
Buyer pays the ownerOur feeYour 30%
$150,000$18,000$5,400
$600,000$58,000$17,400
$1,500,000$115,000$34,500

Illustrative. Arithmetic on the published schedule, not deals we have done and not a forecast. Indicative range observed across the market for single-company operational data licenses. Not a quote. Actual value depends on buyer demand, data quality, rights, and exclusivity.

Who refers well

The people who already know which companies qualify.

The bar is 20+ desk staff, 3+ years of records, data in 3+ systems. If you are not sure whether a client clears it, send them anyway: the seven-question form tells them where they stand in three minutes, and the ones below the line are told what to start keeping, not turned away.

01

CPAs and bookkeepers

You already know which clients have ten years of clean records in accounting, email, and a ticketing system nobody cleaned out.

02

Fractional CFOs

A one-time, non-dilutive payment for records a company already owns is the kind of line you are paid to find.

03

M&A advisors and business brokers

Operational records are an asset most sellers never list. Licensing them before a sale, or alongside one, is a conversation you are already in.

04

IT providers and MSPs

You know which systems hold the history, how far back it goes, and whether the exports are clean. That is most of the manifest.

05

Bankers and lenders

An owner weighing a working-capital line may have a better option sitting in their mail server.

06

Associations and peer groups

One plain-English session on what this market is, and who should be wary of it, reaches a room of owners who qualify.

The rules

What we do in your name, and what we never will.

Your reputation travels with the introduction. These are the terms we put in writing before you send a single link.

What we do

  • Name you to the owner and tell them what we pay you, before they sign anything.
  • Pay on the published schedule, in writing, with a statement showing the deal, our fee, and your share.
  • Tell you at each milestone: booked, offer out, license signed. And when a referral does not attach, within one business day.
  • Run the owner through the same process as everyone else: named buyers, chain of custody, the red-flags checklist they can run against us.

What we never do

  • Cold-call your client's staff or customers, or contact anyone you did not introduce.
  • Use your firm's name or logo in our marketing without written permission.
  • Buy lists, scrape contacts, or pay for introductions to people the partner does not know.
  • Let a partner quote a price, promise an offer, or sign anything on our behalf. The estimator and the pricing page do the numbers, with the disclaimer attached.

If your profession bars you from accepting a referral fee, say so on the form. We will confirm it in writing and refer your client through exactly the same process.

Toolkit

Two things to send. Nothing to write.

An introduction email and a one-paragraph version for a text or a newsletter. Both say only what the site says, with the fee disclosure already in them. Replace the code with yours once you have it.

Your link will look like https://datatruffle.ai/get-offer?ref=yourcode

Introduction email
Subject: A market for your company's records

{First name},

There is a market now for the everyday records a company produces: support tickets, closed deals, project threads, calls. AI labs pay to license de-identified copies of them, and companies with 20+ desk staff, 3+ years of records, data in 3+ systems are the ones they want.

I am not qualified to price it, so I am pointing you at someone who is. Data Truffle is a seller-side agent: they price your records against live buyer demand before anything goes to market, run several buyers against the same one-page manifest, and take a success fee only when you are paid. Your data never passes through them.

Seven questions, three minutes, no files:
https://datatruffle.ai/get-offer?ref=yourcode

If a license closes they pay me a share of their fee. It comes out of their fee, not yours, and they will tell you the same thing.

{Your name}
Short version
Worth three minutes: Data Truffle prices a company's operational records (tickets, deals, calls, project threads) against what AI labs are paying, then runs a competitive process. Success fee only, data never passes through them. https://datatruffle.ai/get-offer?ref=yourcode
Questions partners ask

The ones that come up on the first call.

When exactly am I paid?

After we are. The buyer pays the owner directly, we invoice our fee once the owner has been paid, and your 30% is sent within 30 days of our fee arriving, with a statement. If a buyer pays in milestones, your share follows each one.

What if the owner was already talking to you?

Then the referral does not attach, and we tell you so within one business day of the booking rather than let you find out at close. A referral counts when the owner's first contact with us came through your link or your introduction by name.

Is there a second tier for recruiting other partners?

No. We pay the person who made the introduction, and nobody above them. Multi-level structures turn the fee into a reward for building a network instead of for knowing the owner, and we would rather partners be able to explain the whole arrangement to their client in one sentence.

Does the owner's fee change because I referred them?

No. The owner is on the published schedule, 12% of the first $250,000 stepping down to 5%, exactly as if they had arrived on their own. Your share comes out of that fee. Nothing is added to it.

Does the owner know I am being paid?

Yes, in writing, before they sign an engagement letter. We name you and state what we pay you. A referral fee the client does not know about is on our own red-flags checklist, and we are not going to put it on the other side of our own table.

Is there a cap, a quota, or an exclusivity clause?

No cap, no quota, no minimum, and the arrangement is non-exclusive on both sides. Refer one owner a year or twenty, and refer anyone to anyone else you like.

What about my professional rules on referral fees?

Some professions restrict or require disclosure of commissions and referral fees. CPAs in particular should check their state board's rules. We put every payment in writing for your file, and if your rules do not allow you to accept a fee, tell us: we will say so in writing and refer your client through exactly the same process.

Can I refer my own company?

You can sell your own company's data through the normal process, and the fee schedule is the same. There is no referral share on your own deal.

Do I get a dashboard?

Not yet. You get an email when a referred owner books, when an offer goes out, and when a license signs, plus a statement with every payment, and you can ask for a status on any referral at any time. We would rather say that than show you a screenshot of a portal that does not exist.

Apply

Three minutes. Your link and the written terms within one business day.

Letters, numbers, hyphens. Yours if it is free.

By applying you agree to our terms and privacy policy. We will use your details to set up the referral arrangement and for nothing else unless you ask.

We hunt. You get paid.

Know an owner sitting on ten years of records?

Apply, send them your link, and we take it from there. Or, if the owner is you, start with the seven questions.

Measured from a complete data manifest. A first offer is a process target, not a guarantee; buyers decide eligibility, price, and terms.