Partner Agreement

Version 2026-08-25 · Effective August 25, 2026

This document has not been reviewed by a lawyer yet. It is a plain-language draft, written from an attorney-review package, and the sections marked Not final below are the ones still with our lawyer. If a section matters to a decision you are making, email johnsontechstudio@gmail.com and we will tell you where it stands, in writing, before you rely on it.

This Partner Agreement (“Agreement”) is between Johnson Tech Studio LLC dba gig33, doing business as Gig33 (“Gig33,” “we,” “us”), and you (“Partner,” “you”). It governs your use of the platform to introduce local businesses to our services. If you do not agree, do not use the platform.

Two other documents are part of this Agreement: the Partner Marketing & Communications Compliance Policy, which is the detail on what you may and may not say, and the Partner Privacy Notice. The commission schedule shown in your portal is part of it too. Read the Compliance Policy — it is the one that will actually come up in your day.

1. Who can be a partner

• You must be at least 18, give us accurate identity, tax, and payment information, and be legally able to do the things you choose to do.
• Enrolment is free. You do not have to buy anything from us — no membership, no software, no training, no lead lists, no inventory — to be eligible to earn a commission. If that ever changes, it will not change quietly.

2. You run your own business

• You decide whether to take part, when to work, how much, and which prospects to pursue. We do not set hours, quotas, exclusivity, or a territory.
• You may work for others, you cover your own costs and equipment, and you handle your own registrations and taxes. We collect a W-9 and issue a 1099-NEC where the law requires it (generally $600+ in a calendar year).
• Nothing here makes you our employee, and this Agreement alone does not entitle you to wages, overtime, benefits, paid leave, unemployment, or workers’ compensation.
• A label does not decide this. Whether someone is an independent contractor turns on how the relationship actually works, not on what a contract calls it. Not final — our lawyer has not yet reviewed how this program operates in practice, or how it stands under the rules of every state we might reach. We are telling you the arrangement we intend; we are not claiming a court or an agency has blessed it.

3. What you cannot do on our behalf

You have no authority to bind us. That means you may not sign a contract, set or change a price, approve a refund, promise a delivery date, give a warranty, incur an expense, open an account, collect a customer’s money, or promise a result. A business buys from us, through our own checkout or a written order we issue.

You may truthfully say you are an independent Gig33 partner who can introduce our services. You may not call yourself our employee, our account executive, an owner, a technician, a lawyer, or anyone authorised to sign for us.

4. Use the current approved materials

• Market only the offers, prices, features, claims, demos, and scripts currently approved in your portal. When something is updated, stop using the old version.
• You may not invent a discount, a bundle, a guarantee, a free trial, a refund promise, a payment plan, or a custom scope.
• Do not edit a screenshot or a demo to make a feature look live when it is not.

5. Honest selling — the part that matters most

This is where partner programs get their operators sued, so it is worth being blunt.

• No earnings claims. No guaranteed income, no guaranteed commissions, no “quit your job”, no “passive income”, no “easy money”, and no presenting an exceptional result as a typical one. We do not guarantee you will earn anything or get any prospects.
• No result guarantees to a buyer. Not rankings, traffic, leads, calls, bookings, reviews, revenue, or savings. Not “it pays for itself”, not “risk free”, and not “replaces your receptionist”. Describe what the product does and who handles what.
• No compliance or certification claims — not HIPAA, not PCI, not SOC 2, not “compliant in all 50 states”, not “Google partner” — unless we have confirmed in writing that it is true for that product on that date.
• No fake urgency, fake scarcity, fake testimonials, or invented customer results.

Regulators have been active against exactly this pattern in AI and business-opportunity marketing. Treat earnings, growth, refund, and automation promises as the category that ends your participation fastest.

6. Say that you earn a commission

Whenever you recommend us publicly — a social post, a video, a testimonial, a review, a referral link — and someone would not obviously know you get paid, say so, clearly, close to the recommendation. This wording works: “I’m a Gig33 partner and may earn a commission if you buy through my link.” The word “partner” on its own is not enough — most people do not read it as “is paid”.

7. Reaching out to prospects

• Follow the Compliance Policy. It has the detail per channel.
• No AI voice, no prerecorded messages, no autodialers, no mass calling tools, and no spoofed caller ID.
• No cold texting bought or scraped lists. No deceptive email. Never bypass a consent or opt-out requirement.
• Honour a do-not-contact request the first time you hear it.
• Send prospects to our own checkout link or a written order we issue. Never take card details, bank details, a password, or cash, and never tick a legal box on a buyer’s behalf.

8. How commission works

• The rates. 50% of collected setup revenue, and 15% of the base monthly subscription for the first 12 collected billing cycles, on eligible offers. Per-minute overage, taxes, and pass-through costs earn nothing.
• Collected, not promised. You earn on money we actually collect and keep. A payment that is refunded, charged back, reversed, written off, or found to be fraudulent reverses the commission it earned, in proportion.
• The schedule in your portal controls. Product-specific rates, exclusions, and eligibility live there, in a versioned schedule. Nothing said verbally overrides it.
• Status is not payment. An amount shown as pending or processing is not guaranteed until eligibility, settlement, refund and dispute windows, fraud checks, tax details, and payout requirements are all satisfied.
• Tax and payout details first. We need a valid W-9 where it applies before we can pay you, and we may hold a payout while we complete identity, tax, fraud, sanctions, or payment-provider checks.
• Offsets. If a reversal leaves your balance negative, we may set it against future commission, as far as the law allows.
• Rate changes look forward. If we change commission rates, we will not claw back commission you have already properly earned.

9. Which sale is yours

A sale is yours when our systems attribute it to you under the attribution rules in force at the time — a referral link, a partner ID, a prospect assignment, or another documented record. Our records decide it, absent an obvious error. If you think a sale was misattributed, tell us within 30 days of it appearing (or of when it should have appeared) in your portal.

10. Prospect information

• Collect the minimum you need to make an introduction and follow up lawfully.
• Business information we assign to you is for introducing that business to us — nothing else. Do not export it, resell it, redistribute it, or contact businesses that were not assigned to you.
• Do not upload a purchased lead list unless we have specifically approved it and it was lawfully sourced.
• Honour deletion and do-not-contact requests, and tell us straight away if you think prospect data or your credentials have been exposed.
• Do not scrape, harvest, or bulk-collect from the platform.

11. Confidentiality

Keep our non-public information confidential — pricing plans, customer lists, product roadmap, security details, source code, AI instructions, internal dashboards, other partners’ commission data, and sales analytics. Use it only to take part in the program, and return or delete it when we ask, except what you have to keep for your records.

12. Our brand

• While this Agreement is in force you may use our current approved names, logos, links, and sales materials to market approved offers. That permission is revocable and does not transfer.
• Do not register confusing domains, social handles, or trademarks, and do not create anything that looks like an official company account without our written approval.
• The platform, its software, designs, templates, previews, and scripts are ours. You may not copy, clone, mirror, reverse-engineer, or build a competing product from them, or remove notices.
• Do not run bots, scrapers, or crawlers against the platform, reach for data that is not yours, probe security, or overload the service.
• Feedback you give us we may use freely.

13. We will be checking

We may require compliance training, update the approved claims, review your sales materials, investigate complaints, look at your public marketing, make test enquiries, and require you to correct or remove something. Keep your own evidence of consent and disclosure for any outreach you do outside our systems. Repeatedly ignoring a correction is a serious breach.

14. Ending it

• Either of us can end your participation at any time.
• We may suspend or remove access immediately for fraud, deceptive marketing, collecting a customer’s payment, impersonation, unlawful outreach, misuse of prospect data, brand misuse, manipulating attribution, fake transactions, or anything that puts us at serious regulatory or reputational risk.
• Commission you have properly earned survives. Ending your participation does not wipe out commission already earned and payable, apart from amounts subject to a lawful reversal or offset.
• If we are investigating, we may hold a disputed amount while we look into fraud or a compliance problem, and we will tell you the outcome. Not final — whether a breach can forfeit earned commission outright is a question our lawyer has not answered, so this Agreement does not claim it can. A hold is a hold; it is not a forfeiture.
• What happens to future recurring commission after you leave is governed by the commission schedule that applied to that sale.

15. If someone brings a claim

As far as the law allows, you will defend and cover us for a third-party claim, regulatory demand, penalty, loss, or reasonable legal cost that comes out of a promise you made without authority, deceptive or unlawful marketing, breaking a communications or privacy law, infringing someone’s rights, misusing prospect data, fraud, your own tax or business obligations, or a serious breach of this Agreement.

16. What we do not promise, and what we are liable for

We do not guarantee you will earn a minimum amount, make a sale, or receive any number of prospects or opportunities. The platform is provided “as is” to the fullest extent the law allows. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for lost profits or opportunities.

Not final — the cap on our total liability to you is not settled. An earlier version of this page stated three months of commission; that figure came from no reviewed draft, the draft now under review proposes twelve, and neither is cleared. Rather than keep an unreviewed number that happened to suit us, this Agreement states none until our lawyer has settled it.

17. Disputes

If something goes wrong, email johnsontechstudio@gmail.com first and tell us what happened and what you want. Give us 30 days to sort it out before starting anything formal.

Texas law governs this Agreement, except where a law that applies to you cannot be overridden by contract. Not settled yet — we have not chosen the court or county where a dispute would be heard, and we will not assert a venue this document did not state.

This Agreement contains no arbitration clause and no class-action waiver. Not final — one is drafted and is with our lawyer, along with the separate question of whether the law that makes arbitration agreements binding even reaches people doing this kind of work. It is not in force and nothing here commits you to arbitration. If we ever adopt one, you will be told before it takes effect.

18. Changes and other terms

• We may change program terms going forward, with reasonable notice by email or in the portal. A change does not reduce commission you have already properly earned on a completed sale.
• If a material change requires it, we may ask you to accept the new version. The version and effective date at the top of this page will change when we update it.
• If part of this Agreement is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Not enforcing something once does not waive it.
• You may not transfer this Agreement without our written consent. We may transfer it to a company that acquires our business.
• The parts that should outlast the Agreement do — confidentiality, ownership, indemnity, and disputes.

Notices to us go to johnsontechstudio@gmail.com or Johnson Tech Studio LLC, 4319 Country Brook Dr, Dallas, TX 75287, United States. Notices to you go to the email address on your account.

See also the Partner Marketing & Communications Compliance Policy and the Partner Privacy Notice.