Signing up, and what isn't decided yet

This is the section where a guide normally tells you to click a button. We can't, honestly, yet — the programme's mechanism is locked and its plumbing isn't built. So here's what's actually settled, what shape the sign-up will take, and what's genuinely open, marked as open.

This is not evasiveness, it's §3 applied to ourselves. A walkthrough of a flow that doesn't exist yet would be a fabricated screenshot, and the module you just read spent most of its length on why you don't do that.

1What is locked

These are decisions, not current guesses. They won't move.

That fourth row is worth a sentence, because it's the one that affects you practically. Attribution is verified on our side, not from anything your browser reports — which means a sale is credited when it is confirmed as a sale, not when a click is recorded. It's slower and less flattering than a live click counter, and it's the reason the number you're eventually shown will be one you can rely on.

2What's decided, and what isn't

Named plainly, because the alternative is inventing an answer. Two rows in this table spent most of this module's life as brackets; they were filled on the date shown, which is exactly what this table said would happen.

Decided:

Still open:

If you're reading a version of this module where a row has moved from the second table to the first, that decision has been made and the date beside it is the record. Anything still in the second table is still genuinely open.

3The shape sign-up will take

Not a walkthrough — a description of the parts that follow from what's already locked above, so you know roughly what you're agreeing to:

1. You have a copy. Section 1's requirement is also the practical one — the programme is for readers, not for people who found the commission first.
2. You read and sign the affiliate agreement. The single-level rule, the promotion restrictions §1 mentioned, and the disclosure obligation from §4 will all be in it. Read it rather than scrolling to the checkbox; it's short by design and it's the document that governs everything in this module.
3. You get your attribution — link, code, or both, per the open row above.
4. Sales are verified server-side and appear as statements, in the format you've already seen.
5. You get paid, by a mechanism that will be named here once it's chosen.

4Before you promote anything

A three-item check, all of it from the sections above:

• Have you actually used it? (§1) — portfolio built, pitches sent, ideally one job delivered.
• Do you know which column your sentence is in? (§3) — what you did, not what they'll get.
• Is the disclosure in the post itself? (§4) — the line, in the same place and format as the recommendation.

If all three are yes, you're doing the version of this that works. If any is no, fix that one first — none of them takes long, and each of them is the thing that would have gone wrong.

5That's the curriculum

This is the last section of the last module. Module 0A taught the craft; 0B found your starting point; 1 and 1.5 explained the shift and got you from zero to a first chat; 2 built the production stack; 3 made a brand's rules repeatable; 4 made your work provable; 5 and 5.5 turned the pipeline into reusable infrastructure and a portfolio; 6 connected all of it to money.

Module 7 was the smallest of the three paths in Module 6, placed last, and that's the honest ordering.

Go and do path 1. This one is a commission on a recommendation you'd have made anyway — and the readers it works for are the ones who have something to point at when someone asks how they're doing all this.