Affiliation
We built KnapFlux affiliation for people and organizations who can create qualified introductions. You register as an affiliate, create one or more affiliate codes, declare the links you want us to track, and earn 15% of the normal price on eligible paid orders. Referred startups automatically receive a 15% discount as well, with one coupon per payment.
Some affiliate programs reward traffic. Ours rewards qualified introductions that create real value.
If you bring a startup that pays, you earn. If you help connect KnapFlux with an incubator, accelerator, coach, mentor, or VC who then brings us paying startups, you can earn at a much larger scale.
We designed the program to stay simple in principle: when a qualified introduction creates confirmed revenue, the affiliate who legitimately originated that revenue receives 15% of the normal price on eligible payments.
You register as an affiliate and access your dedicated affiliation space. From there, you can create one or several affiliate codes, define the links and sources you want us to track, and monitor conversions and payout readiness from your dashboard.
For startup referrals, the system is already straightforward: you introduce a startup, the startup pays, and you receive 15% of the normal price on eligible payments.
For incubators, accelerators, coaches, mentors, startup support organizations, and VCs, the product logic is the same, but the interfaces for those specific affiliation paths are still being rolled out. The economic logic, however, is already clear: one strong institutional introduction can multiply the number of paying startups over time.
When you refer a startup, two things happen at the same time.
Referred startups automatically receive a 15% discount as well, with one coupon per payment.
You earn 15% of the normal price on eligible paid orders.
Your 15% is calculated on the normal price, even when the paying startup benefits from a coupon.
On a standard startup ticket, this is roughly 75 euros per paid order.
And this logic applies across all eligible startup projects. If the same startup pays for several projects, your commission continues to apply across those payments, as long as the attribution remains yours under the rules of the program.
Suppose a startup comes through your affiliate link and later pays for 7 projects. Let us say the effective amount paid, coupons included, is 2,750 euros in total.
Your commission is still not calculated on the discounted amount. It is calculated on the normal price of each eligible payment. That means your 15% remains based on the undiscounted value, even if the startup used a coupon, and even if that coupon was higher than 15%.
In other words, if the startup pays across multiple projects, you remain affiliated across those eligible payments, and your commission is computed on the normal price throughout.
The startup affiliate path is already valuable. But the larger opportunity appears when you introduce KnapFlux to a support organization or to an investor who can channel a meaningful number of startups into the platform over time.
This includes incubators, accelerators, coaches, mentors, startup programs, venture builders, startup studios, and VCs.
The product remains the same. The multiplication effect changes completely.
If, for example, a VC decides that they only want to receive KnapFlux dossiers because they are better prepared, more structured, and much easier to work with, that can dramatically improve the quality of inbound while reducing the volume of unusable files. A fund that might otherwise receive 1,500 raw opportunities per year could choose to focus on 200 much stronger KnapFlux-ready dossiers instead.
For one year starting from the activation of that VC or support-organization affiliation, you remain eligible for 15% of the normal price on qualifying startup payments generated through that institutional channel.
This one-year window remains subject to the attribution rules described below.
Let us take an illustrative case.
You successfully introduce a VC to KnapFlux, and that warm introduction converts. Over the following twelve months, 470 startups collectively generate an average of 350 euros each for KnapFlux. That represents 164,500 euros in total.
Now assume 5% of those startups were already directly startup-affiliated through someone else. Those payments are excluded from your institutional attribution. That leaves 156,275 euros still attributable to your VC introduction.
Your commission at 15% is then 23,441.25 euros. In round terms, that is roughly 23.4k euros, and it can reasonably be described commercially as roughly 25k euros for a single warm introduction that genuinely converts and remains active.
This is why the institutional side of the program can become disproportionately powerful compared with one-off startup referrals.
One eligible payment can trigger only one affiliation payout within the affiliation program.
The first valid attribution always prevails.
If Startup A was directly referred by Affiliate X, and Startup A later presents its dossier to VC B who is also part of the affiliation program through Affiliate Y, Affiliate X keeps the attribution. The payment has already been attributed at the startup level, so no second affiliate payment is created.
If a non-affiliated startup presents its dossier to VC B, and VC B is an affiliated VC introduced by you, you receive the commission, unless that startup was already directly affiliated by someone else, or unless that same startup had already entered through another valid institutional affiliate path that takes precedence under the first-attribution rule.
If the startup is not directly affiliated, and its first valid institutional entry point is an affiliated incubator, accelerator, coach, mentor, or similar support organization, then that first valid institutional attribution prevails for the relevant eligible payments.
The core principle never changes: no double payment, no stacked commissions, and first valid attribution wins.
You affiliate Startup A. Startup A pays one ticket. You receive 15% of the normal price. Startup A later presents its dossier to VC B, whom you also affiliated. You do not receive a second affiliate payout, because the startup payment was already attributed to the direct startup affiliation.
You affiliate VC B. A non-affiliated startup presents its dossier to VC B. You receive your 15% if that startup was not already directly startup-affiliated by someone else, and if it had not already entered through another earlier institutional affiliate path that takes precedence.
You affiliate an incubator or startup support organization. A startup that is not directly affiliated enters KnapFlux through that support structure and becomes a paying customer. You receive your 15% on eligible payments, unless a prior direct startup attribution or earlier valid institutional attribution already exists.
To avoid abuse and reduce operational friction, an affiliate can request payout only once at least 3 regular affiliation payments are due and have remained due for at least one month.
Once that threshold is met and the payout is requested, payment is initiated within one week.
The transfer itself may be instant or may take a few days depending on the banking network and external payment rails. That part does not depend on us.
Qualified conversion, not traffic volume
Many affiliate programs only reward clicks. Ours rewards trust, qualified introductions, and actual paid conversion.
Single payment vs recurring economics
Many affiliate programs stop at one simple transaction. Ours can extend across multiple startup projects, and in institutional cases, across a much broader volume of startup payments over a defined one-year period.
Normal-price commission logic
Many affiliate programs discount the customer and reduce the affiliate proportionally. Ours does not. Your 15% is calculated on the normal price, even when the paying startup benefits from a coupon, and even when that coupon is more favorable than your own 15% referral discount.
Long-term value alignment
That is deliberate. We want the program to remain attractive for affiliates who create genuine value.
This program is designed for people who can create serious introductions, not just traffic.
That includes founders, operators, consultants, startup advisors, community builders, coaches, mentors, ecosystem connectors, incubator managers, accelerator teams, and investors who understand the value of sending better-prepared startups into a stronger workflow.
If you know people who should use KnapFlux, the program gives you a clean and economically aligned way to make those introductions count.
We do not claim that every introduction will convert. We do not promise instant payouts on isolated activity. And we do not allow overlapping commissions on the same eligible payment.
What we do offer is simpler and more serious: a transparent affiliation framework where qualified introductions can create meaningful recurring value when real payments happen.
If you want to refer startups directly, or help bring incubators, support organizations, and VCs into the KnapFlux standard, open your affiliation space and start creating your codes, links, and tracked sources.
Full program terms and attribution rules apply.