The partner program

Fractional CROs and sales advisors already tell services firms how to find their next client. Most of that advice ends at "build a target list and work it." The partner program gives you something to hand them that does the work, and pays you for it.

Who it's for

People services firms already trust. Fractional CROs, outsourced sales leaders, revenue consultants and agencies that work with consulting, data, digital and managed services firms.

I've spent a lot of my career on that side of the table. The advisor who points a client at the right tool gets credit for the outcome. The partner program makes that credit real.

How to apply

Go to the partners page and fill in four fields. Your name, your email, your company and who you work with. That last one matters most. Tell me the kind of firms you advise and how many.

I read every application. Approved partners get their link within two business days.

What you get

Your own link to getstage1.com, with your code on it. Any firm that lands through it carries your code from whatever page they read to the sign-up form. When they sign up, their workspace is tagged to you.

Every time that firm pays an invoice, Stage 1 records your commission. The standard rate is 20 percent of every payment, for as long as the firm stays on a paid plan, with no cap. Payouts go out monthly once you pass $50, for payments the firm has already made.

You can't earn on your own firm's subscription. The program pays for the firms you bring in.

How we track it

On our side, every partner sits in one table. Name, code, rate, how many firms signed up, how many are paying, what's been earned and what's owed. When a payout goes out, we mark it paid and the owed number resets. Applications from the site land in the same place, and approving one creates the partner's link on the spot.

Nothing about it lives in a spreadsheet someone forgets to update. Each commission is recorded from the paid invoice itself.

Don't confuse this with the Partner plan on the pricing page. The Partner plan is Stage 1 with Inversion CRO building and running the playbook with a firm. The partner program is for people who send firms our way.

What your clients get

A method, not a list. Stage 1 reads the signals behind a buying decision, finds the buying committee, looks for a warm path first and drafts openers in the Inversion Selling method. Your clients get meetings. You get credit for the advice.

It fits the way you already work. You diagnose the pipeline problem. Stage 1 gives the client a weekly rhythm to fix it, and your next review has real accounts and real replies to talk about instead of activity counts. What a fractional CRO should fix first lays out where this lands in an engagement.

Why it matters for services

Services firms buy on trust, and that includes the tools they buy. A founder who'd ignore our ad will try something their advisor uses with three other clients. That's the same logic behind partner-sourced pipeline, and it works for us the same way it works for your clients.

If you're a Stage 1 user without an advisory practice, refer and earn gives you a link of your own.

Apply on the partners page. If the firms you advise sell $50K to $500K engagements, we should be working together.