Partnership conversations. Not affiliate links.
We're pre-seed. Our customer economics ($50K engagement + $50K/year production) don't support an affiliate-style MRR-commission program. Partner conversations happen bespoke, at engagement-fee scale, between operators. Public partner-program structure follows Phase-1 ship.
What we won't do: publish a commission table that overpromises before the customer economics support it. What we will do: substantive partnership conversations now, public program structure when it's real.
§1 — Where we are honestly
Early. Building the partner shapes that fit our customer economics.
JieGou used to run an SMB-shape affiliate program (10% customer discount + 25% partner MRR commission on $1,500/mo Essentials through $10,000/mo Enterprise tiers). That made sense when our ACVs ran on monthly recurring SaaS economics. Post-pivot — engineering-led mid-market ICP, $50K engagement + $50K/year production support — affiliate-style MRR commission doesn't fit the unit economics.
Partnership conversations now happen bespoke, between operators, at engagement-fee scale. Different partnership shapes have different commercial structures — SI co-sell (sub-contract inside larger transformation engagement) ≠ LLM-vendor co-sell (joint go-to-market with model provider) ≠ governance-software complementary (substrate-overlap co-marketing) ≠ marketplace SKU (channel-led distribution). We're building those shapes one by one and will publish a public partner-program structure when the patterns are real and the economics are stable.
Until then: partnerships@jiegou.ai is the entry point. One paragraph about your firm and where you think the substrate complement is gets you a substantive reply within one business day. The reply may be "let's talk" or "this isn't the right shape, but here's what would be" — honest either way.
§2 — Substantive partnership conversations live here
Three entry points. None of them require a commission table.
§3 — What partnership shapes look like
At engagement-fee scale, partnership is co-sell + co-delivery, not affiliate referral.
Common partnership shapes we're actively building, each with different commercial structures:
- SI / consultancy channel — JieGou operates inside the partner's broader transformation engagement. Partner takes the consulting fees + customer relationship; JieGou takes the operating fees on the substrate they integrate. Customer sees a single PO. Best fit: SIs with regulated-industry AI client portfolios and forward-deployed-engineer delivery models.
- LLM-vendor co-sell — Joint go-to-market with model providers. Partner brings model + brand; JieGou brings governance substrate + operator-grade integration. Best fit: model providers building partner networks for production AI deployments.
- Governance-software complementary — Co-marketing + substrate-overlap with vendors selling adjacent governance products (data governance, identity governance, model governance). Mutual referrals when the substrate complements rather than competes. Best fit: vendors where we'd reach the same CIO buyer with non-overlapping product surface.
- Marketplace SKU — Distribution through aggregator marketplaces where the channel handles billing + procurement plumbing in exchange for a margin point. Best fit: marketplaces serving our ICP shape with existing CIO-buyer relationships.
We don't publish per-partner commission rates because they vary by shape, by deal size, and by who carries which delivery risk. We do commit to plain-English commercials in writing before any partnership goes operational.
Substantive partnership conversation? One paragraph gets you a reply.
partnerships@jiegou.ai · one paragraph about your firm + where you see the substrate complement · reply within one business day · NDAs signed before commercial specifics · no commission table required.