You already tell people whose software to trust. This is the version where you get paid for it — one rate across everything we do, paid monthly on money we actually collect, for a full year.
The deal · one sentence, no asterisk
Not 10% of the build and something else on the support retainer. Not a tier you unlock after three. One number, everything we do, every invoice, for a year — because a deal you cannot repeat from memory over coffee is a deal nobody repeats.
The build, the integrations, the AI work, the data infrastructure, the support retainer afterwards. If they pay us for it, you earn on it.
30 days after their money reaches us, with the invoice attached so you can check the arithmetic.
ACH to whoever the W-9 names. If you are a client, take it as credit against your own invoices instead and it is worth half again as much.
What it pays
Put in what you think the company you have in mind actually spends on the system it has outgrown. One referred client is usually worth more than a quarter of whatever you are being paid to think about this.
On the build
$25,000
Paid as their invoices clear, 30 days behind each one.
On 12 months of support
$6,000
Arrives monthly, with the invoice it came from.
Per referred client
$31,000
Or $46,500 as credit against your own invoices.
Your numbers, not ours — we scope after the strategic assessment, so there is no price list to paste in here. Commission is calculated on what the client pays Brem and never on cloud spend, third-party licenses or model API costs billed through at cost.
Who refers
Nobody on this list set out to sell software. They are the person who gets asked the question — should we keep paying for this, or should we build it — because they are already trusted with something adjacent.
Register a referralYou have the system in your repositories and you know what it cost. You are the referral a COO actually believes. Take cash, or take it as credit against your own support retainer at 1.5×.
You get handed the build-versus-buy question at three companies at once, and you already know which one has outgrown its SaaS. Making the introduction is a twenty-minute email that pays like a quarter of consulting.
You map the process, find the waste, and then watch the recommendation die because no off-the-shelf system does what the map says. Hand the build over and keep the advisory relationship.
You are deep in a platform that covers eighty percent of what a client needs. The other twenty percent is a custom application, an integration layer and a data model — and it is not what your practice does.
You see the software line on the P&L across a portfolio and you know exactly which company is renting per-seat software it should own. You are the most credible referrer on this list.
A design studio that does not ship backends. A web shop that will not touch a data warehouse or an AI pipeline. Send the part you do not want; we do not go after the part you do.
You have a membership in logistics, storage or healthcare that all runs the same broken spreadsheet and keeps asking you who builds the replacement. A standing arrangement with terms you can publish to members is straightforward to set up.
How it runs
Use the form, forward an email, or just copy us in. We need the company name and a way to reach someone who can make a decision. That registers it to you for 90 days.
The same strategic assessment everyone gets: we look at the systems and the data landscape, and a person walks them through what we found. They keep the findings whether or not they hire us. No hard sell — your name is on this introduction.
You hear which, from us, either way. If they were already in our pipeline we tell you within a business day rather than letting you wonder.
10% of every invoice they pay, for 12 months, sent 30 days after their money clears. Monthly, by ACH, with the invoice it came from attached.
Your name
The reason people stop referring is not the money. It is the one time they sent someone they respect into a project that went badly and had to hear about it afterwards. So here is exactly what the person you introduce walks into.
A strategic assessment, and they keep it
We look at the operations, the systems and the data, and write down what we find. It is theirs whether or not they hire us — including the parts that say don't build this.
An engineer on the call, not a salesperson
Someone who has read the systems landscape walks them through it. No deck assembled before we looked at anything.
We'll tell them not to build it
If an off-the-shelf product genuinely covers it, we say so on that call. We would rather lose one introduction than the next nine.
They own the outcome outright
Every line of code, every model integration, every byte of data, delivered to their repositories. Nothing you introduce them to can be taken away from them later.
You hear back either way
Signed, stalled or passed — from us, not from you having to ask them how it went.
They never find out what you earned
The commission is between you and us. Nothing on their invoice mentions it unless you want it to.
The rules
Every line here is an argument somebody has had with a referral program before. Better to settle them on a page you can re-read than in an email six months in.
Regulated professions
We build for healthcare, so this comes up. Percentage-of-revenue referral fees paid to attorneys are governed by state bar rules, and arrangements involving healthcare providers can implicate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Those are real constraints, not paperwork, and we are not going to quietly hand you a number that creates a problem for your license.
What we offer instead
A flat fee at fair market value for a defined service — not a share of what the referred client spends — in a written agreement your compliance counsel reviews before anyone signs. Select the regulated option on the form and we will send the paper rather than a rate.
None of this is legal advice, and we are not your counsel. Run any arrangement past your own before you enter it.
A named introduction to a real decision-maker — a warm email, a call, a form submission with their details. Not a list of leads, not a scraped spreadsheet. It is registered to you for 90 days from the day you make it.
30 days after each of their invoices clears, then monthly for 12 months. Every payment comes with the invoice it was calculated from, so you can check the arithmetic yourself.
You are waiting as long as their procurement takes — this is enterprise software, not a subscription, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What you are not waiting on is us: the introduction is registered for 90 days, we tell you where it stands without you chasing, and the 90-day window extends automatically while a live conversation is still running.
Then you earn 10% of that project, and that is the end of it. One rate on everything is the whole point — there is nothing to read twice and nothing that pays out differently depending on which piece of work they bought.
No. Most of the best referrers are not clients — they are the fractional CTO, the operations consultant or the accountant who gets asked the question. Clients get one extra option: credit against their own invoices instead of cash, at 1.5× the value.
They get the same strategic assessment as anyone else: a real look at their operations and data, findings they keep either way, and an engineer on the call rather than a deck. Your name is attached to that introduction, so we treat it as yours to protect.
No cap, and no tier you have to hit before anything pays out. The first referral pays at the same rate as the tenth.
We will tell you within one business day. If they have been in an active conversation with us in the last 90 days, it is not a referral — and you will hear that from us immediately rather than discovering it when nothing arrives.
No, and we would rather say so up front. Percentage-of-revenue referral fees are restricted by state bar rules for attorneys and can implicate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute where healthcare providers are involved. Regulated referrers are offered a flat fee at fair market value, in a written agreement your compliance counsel signs off on. Ask and we will send the paper rather than a rate.
Yes, and for most people it should be. Payment goes wherever the W-9 says — your firm, your LLC, or you.
Refer
Give us a company name and someone to speak to. It is registered to you the moment this lands, and you will hear from a person within one business day.
Rather just send it over? info@brem.io
It's yours for 90 days from today. We've emailed you a copy of the terms, and you'll hear from a person within one business day.