The full fine print,
in plain English.

It's our word-of-mouth program. You share Graphed Threads with your audience, and you earn $2.50 flat on every product sold through your link. We plant a tree for every product sold, so your referrals also put forests in the ground.

No — we approve anyone with genuine engagement, not just big accounts. Climate scientists with a Substack, a teacher with an active X presence, a city-level Instagram page, a newsletter about local weather — these all work better than a generic 500k-follower lifestyle account. Honest voice beats follower count.

Usually 1–3 business days. We review your socials to confirm they match what you told us. If you are approved, your dashboard and referral link are live immediately.

A unique referral URL (graphedthreads.com/a/<your-slug>), a dashboard showing clicks/conversions/earnings, $2.50 per product sold through your link, and a tree planted in your name for every product sold (shown on the dashboard).

Yes. Your /a/<slug> page lets you set a custom header, a short bio, and feature up to 12 products you want to highlight. Edit any of it from the Page tab in the dashboard.

Lead with specifics. Your hometown's warming-stripes shirt is more compelling than a generic product shot. Examples that work: 'I designed a shirt from Atlanta's last 100 years of climate data — here's what the line is telling me.' A timelapse of customizing a product for your zipcode. A side-by-side of the warming stripes for the city you grew up in vs. where you live now. The tree-planting impact (one product = one tree) is a legit hook on its own.

Instagram Reels and TikTok dominate because the visual product does the work for you. X/Threads is great for climate-science audiences. YouTube Shorts works for explainer-style content. Pinterest surprises people — climate infographics index well. Newsletters and blogs convert at higher rates because readers trust the writer.

Yes. We maintain a curated set internally and surface them in your ambassador dashboard — short caption templates for Instagram, voiceover scripts for TikTok, post copy for X/Threads, and intro paragraphs for newsletters. They're updated as we learn what converts. Look for the Templates tab once you're approved.

Three formats we see convert: (1) 15-second 'design your city' screen-capture — you open the site, type your zipcode, show the graph render. (2) Unboxing + 'what this line actually means' explainer. (3) 'Before you scroll, look at this' hook reel using the warming-stripes visual.

Wear the product outdoors at the location the graph represents — a Chicago warming-stripes shirt photographed on a Chicago rooftop lands harder than a studio shot. Natural light. Frame so the chart is legible. Avoid busy backgrounds that compete with the print.

Yes on Meta and TikTok, with proper disclosure (boosted posts need the paid-partnership label, not just a hashtag). Not on Google Search or YouTube for ads bidding on the terms "Graphed Threads" or variants — we reserve those for the brand. You can bid on generic terms like "climate apparel" or "warming stripes shirt".

Yes. Credit @graphedthreads where applicable, don't alter the chart or remove the brand, and don't present them as your own original photography.

Earth Day (April 22), the day your region hits its annual heat/cold record, IPCC report releases, big climate-news moments (hurricanes, heat domes, cold snaps), holiday gift-giving windows (November–December). Locally-relevant climate news is the single best trigger — post the same day.

No fabricated urgency ('only 3 left!' unless it's actually true). No fake testimonials. No undisclosed sponsored content. No buying followers/engagement. No implying Graphed Threads endorses a political candidate or party. No spammy DMs — we will remove ambassadors for abusing our brand.

$2.50 flat on every product in every attributed order. A customer who buys three products earns you $7.50. Shirts, hoodies, accessories, future drops — all the same flat rate.

No — commission is per product only. Shipping and tax are excluded from the calculation.

No. Once they click your link, you're credited for anything they buy on graphedthreads.com for the next 30 days, even if they navigate away to the homepage or a different product. Last-click wins.

Last click wins. The most recent click in the 30-day window is the one we credit. If they clicked you yesterday and someone else today, the next purchase goes to the other ambassador.

No. We check both user account identity and IP/fingerprint at checkout. Self-referred orders get an unattributed status — no commission, and repeat attempts are flagged.

Commissions clear 35 days after the purchase date (after the refund window closes). Once cleared, they're batched and paid on the next payout run, which happens on a regular schedule.

$25. If your cleared balance is below that, it rolls over to the next run. No fees deducted, no expiry.

Via Stripe Connect Express. We create your Stripe account at signup; you finish onboarding with Stripe directly (their flow, not ours — identity verification, bank account linking). Once Stripe says you're payout-enabled, you're in.

No. Stripe Connect Express supports sole proprietors using your SSN. If you'd rather operate under an EIN, you can during onboarding.

For US ambassadors earning $600+ in a calendar year, Stripe files a 1099-NEC on our behalf — no action required from us. You'll receive it from Stripe directly. Keep your address up to date in your Stripe account.

We log the failure to the audit trail, revert the affected ledger rows to cleared, and retry on the next scheduled run. You'll see the affected commission stay in your cleared balance. If it keeps failing, reach out — it's usually a Stripe account issue (documents needed, bank disconnected).

Yes. Always. Every post. Every platform. No exceptions.

Use Instagram's Paid Partnership label on the post (Advanced settings → Paid partnership). OR put #ad or #sponsored in the first line of the caption where it's visible without tapping 'more'. 'Affiliate' or 'commission earned' in plain language also works.

Toggle on the Branded Content disclosure when you post (required by TikTok for any paid/incentivized content). Adding #ad as backup never hurts.

Check the 'Includes paid promotion' box when you upload (Video elements step). Also state it verbally or in the description for longer videos.

Put #ad in the post text itself — not just your bio. Short posts, visible disclosure.

A plain-language note at the top of the post, before the link, that says something like: 'I earn a commission if you buy through my link.' Not at the bottom. Not in the footer. Not behind a tooltip.

Disclosure only in your bio. 'Affiliate' buried below the fold. A vague emoji. Disclosure after the purchase link. Disclosure only in comments. These all fail the FTC's 'clear and conspicuous' test.

First offense: we contact you with the specific post and give you a chance to add disclosure and review your other recent posts. Repeat non-compliance: removal from the program. Pending commissions are forfeited; cleared balance is paid out.

The commission is voided before it clears. No payout for that order. No deduction from your balance — we just don't pay the pending amount.

For the current program version, we absorb the loss. No clawback from your account. (This may change once refund volume justifies it; we'll announce any change in advance with 30 days' notice.)

Currently all-or-nothing: any refund on the order voids the entire order's commission. This is probably unfair in some edge cases (a 3-item order with 1 item refunded kills commission for the other 2) and we're tracking it as a known limitation.

Treated the same as refunds — if the chargeback happens during the 35-day window, the commission is voided. After the window, it stays as-is.

Commission you've earned on orders that are still inside the 35-day refund window. This number can go up (new orders) or down (refunds void entries) before it clears.

Commission that has passed the 35-day window and is waiting to be paid out on the next batch run. It will move to 'Paid' when the transfer happens.

Transferred to your Stripe Connect account. Stripe handles the final bank transfer on their own schedule (usually 2–7 business days).

A click is one valid tap on your /a/<slug> link (we filter bots, iframe stuffing, and duplicate clicks from the same session). A conversion is an attributed order that successfully cleared checkout. Your conversion rate = conversions / clicks.

The Ledger tab shows every commission entry you've earned, with order ID, amount, status (pending/cleared/paid/voided), and the date.

Email support via our Contact page. Include your ambassador slug and the specific order/date/amount in question. We aim to respond within 2 business days.

Click the Stripe onboarding link in your dashboard. Stripe handles the update flow directly — we don't store your banking details.

Not as a self-service feature yet. Email us and we can suspend new referral tracking while leaving your balance intact.

Email us. On the next payout cycle, we'll clear and pay your current pending + cleared balance. Your referral link will stop attributing new orders from that point.