Creator program
The Nostimates creator program
The Nostimates creator program pays people who publish about AEO and GEO. You get a free research allowance of research credits to pull original numbers for your content, a referral link tracked by FirstPromoter, and 25% recurring commission for 12 months on every paying account that comes from your audience.
How it works
From first click to first payout
1. Apply with your work
Send us a newsletter, channel, podcast or community where you already publish about SEO, AEO or AI search. We read everything and reply within three business days. There is no follower minimum — a 900-subscriber technical SEO newsletter beats a general marketing account with 90,000.
2. Get credits and a link
Approved creators receive 10,000 research credits a month for research use and a FirstPromoter referral link. The credits are yours to run real studies with: sample a category across twelve engines and publish the distribution.
3. Publish something true
Write the post, record the video, run the workshop. We do not require approval, a script, or that you say nice things about us. We do require that any number you attribute to Nostimates data is a number our API actually returned.
4. Get paid monthly
FirstPromoter tracks the click, the signup and the subscription. Commission accrues on every invoice your referral pays for 12 months and is paid out on the 15th of the following month via PayPal or Wise, once the balance clears $50.
Terms
The rules, in one table
Nothing here is buried in a PDF. These are the terms you accept in FirstPromoter.
- Commission
- 25% of net revenue, recurring for 12 months
- Research allowance
- 10,000 credits per month while active
- Attribution
- Last click, 60-day cookie, FirstPromoter
- Cooling-off
- 45 days before commission is payable
- Payout
- PayPal or Wise, monthly, $50 minimum
- Content rights
- Yours. We ask only to quote and link it.
Good fit
- +Newsletter and blog authors covering technical SEO, AEO or GEO
- +YouTube and podcast hosts who run live teardowns
- +Course creators and workshop instructors training agency teams
- +Community operators running Slack, Discord or Circle groups for search people
- +Consultants who publish original research to win work
Not a fit
- −Coupon, cashback and deal-aggregation sites
- −Bidding on Nostimates brand terms in paid search
- −AI-spun listicles that have not touched the product
- −Anyone who wants us to ghostwrite the endorsement
We would rather fund research than buy ads
Almost nothing published about AI answer visibility is measured. Posts assert that a brand 'dominates ChatGPT' from a single prompt run on a single day, which is roughly as rigorous as calling an election from one household. The bottleneck is not opinion, it is access to sampled data.
So we give creators the data. A monthly credit allowance is enough to sample a full category across twelve engines with n≥10 and publish an actual distribution with intervals. That is a post nobody else in your niche can write, and it costs you nothing.
The commission exists because good research earns trust and trust converts. But the allowance is not contingent on conversions — if you publish a study that concludes our numbers are noisier than we claim, you keep the credits and we will link to it.
Tracked by FirstPromoter
Answers
Creators program FAQ
How much does the Nostimates creator program pay?
25% of net subscription revenue from every account you refer, recurring for the first 12 months of that account. On a $300/mo plan that is $75 a month, or $900 over the year, from a single referral.
Do I need a minimum audience size to join?
No. We approve on relevance and rigour, not follower count. A specialist audience of a few hundred agency practitioners is worth more to us than a large general marketing following.
Can I use Nostimates data in content that is not sponsored?
Yes, and we prefer it. The research allowance carries no editorial conditions. Cite the sample size, the engines, the country and the collection date, and use whatever the data says.
Can I be a creator if I also run an agency?
Yes. Many creators in the program are practitioners. If you are also a Nostimates customer, your own subscription is excluded from commission but referrals from your content are not.
Who tracks the referrals?
FirstPromoter. You get a dashboard with clicks, signups, approved commission and payout history, so you never have to take our word for the numbers.