Most "creator programs" in AI pay you in confetti: a dime per signup, a $100 minimum before you ever see a cent, and a dashboard that mostly counts money you'll never collect. We built Folk's earning programs the opposite way — cash, per real customer, with no payout floor.

Here's the whole picture in one place.

Quick answer: Invite a friend → they get a 7-day Pro trial, you get $25 cash when they subscribe and actually use Folk. Build a folkway and share its link → $10 cash per new customer it brings, plus $1/month for every paying subscriber running it. Everything pays out from one place: folk.com/dashboard/referrals.

The referral program: get $25 each

Share your personal invite link (folk.com/gift/yourcode). Your friend gets a 7-day free trial of Folk Pro — the only way to get a monthly trial — and you earn $25 cash when they:

1. subscribe to any paid plan (first real payment), and
2. actually use Folk — at least 15 messages.

Both conditions matter, in either order. That's deliberate: we pay for real, sticky invites, not signup farming. Rewards stack with no cap, and Folk texts you as your friend progresses so you always know where your $25 stands. Friends on regional or student pricing earn you $5, matching what they pay.

Feeling ambitious? Get 100 friends to start a trial and the founders personally send you $250 (plus an office tour and merch if you're in San Francisco).

The details live in docs → invite friends.

The folkway creator program: your recipe is a paycheck

A folkway is a shareable routine — a daily verse, a flight-deal watcher, a morning brief — that anyone can install in one tap. You don't need to code anything: describe the routine to your Folk and it builds the folkway and hands you a share link, instantly, no review.

That link is an earning link:

event	you earn
a new person joins through your link, subscribes, and uses Folk	$10 cash ($2 for regional/student pricing)
a paying subscriber actively runs your folkway	$1/month, per subscriber, for as long as they run it

The royalty is the part we're most excited about. A bounty pays once; a folkway that people actually live with pays you every month. Twenty paying subscribers running your morning-brief folkway is $20/month of passive income — and it grows with every install.

Two honest boundaries: folkways made by the folk team never earn anything, and usage by itself (without a subscription) pays $0 — the money comes from real revenue, so it can keep flowing forever.

Want more reach? Submit your folkway to the public gallery — listings are curated by the folk team, and your share link keeps working during review.

How this compares

Poke, the closest thing to a folkway ecosystem, pays recipe creators $0.10–$1.00 per signup — and only pays out in months where you're owed at least $100. At those rates, a creator needs hundreds of signups before a single dollar moves.

Folk's version: $10–$15 per real customer, first dollar pays out for real. We'd rather pay fewer creators more money for users who actually stick than pay everyone in dimes they can never collect.

Getting paid

Every reward — referral or folkway — clears about a week after the customer's first payment (the refund window), then pays out automatically:

1. open folk.com/dashboard/referrals → connect payouts
2. verify your identity once and add where the money goes
3. cleared rewards land automatically from then on

Don't want to do the payout setup? Convert any unpaid cash to Folk account credit instantly, right from the same page.

Rates are program policy and may change; the docs are always the current source of truth.

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Text your Folk:

what's my referral link?

or

make me a folkway that texts me the best flight deals to tokyo every morning — and give me the link so I can share it

Either message is the whole setup. The rest is automatic.