Associate Terms of Service

These Associate Terms ("Terms") govern your work as a Bridge associate. By acting as an associate, you agree to these Terms, to the Bridge Terms of Service, and to your written associate agreement with Bridge. If anything here conflicts with your associate agreement, the agreement controls.

1. What an associate is

An associate is the person beside a creator: you find work worth owning, explain everything in plain language, set up the launch right, and stay on after it. You are the face of Bridge to the creators you guide, and these Terms exist to keep that trust deserved.

2. Your relationship with Bridge

You are an independent contractor, not an employee, partner, or joint venturer of Bridge. You may not sign contracts for Bridge, make commitments on its behalf, or hold yourself out as anything other than a Bridge associate. You are responsible for your own taxes, equipment, and expenses.

3. The creator comes first

• Act in the creator's interest in every decision, even when it costs you or Bridge.
• Plain language only. If you cannot explain it simply, do not recommend it.
• Never promise earnings, returns, or outcomes. The market sets the value, not us.
• Tell a creator to wait when waiting is right, even though waiting pays you nothing.

4. How creators pay, and how you are paid

Creators pay one fee: when a coin launches, the creator rewards split on-chain, 85% to the creator and 15% to Bridge. You are paid by Bridge, out of Bridge's share — never out of the creator's. Your share of house revenue is set in your associate agreement and in the Bridge compensation policy. The standard schedule: half of what Bridge earns on a creator you brought across and manage for the first twelve months, stepping down after that as the house carries more of the ongoing work. Sourcing and managing are credited separately when different associates do them.

Launch platforms set their own fee rates and change them over time. Your share is a percentage of what Bridge actually receives, so platform changes flow through proportionally. Bridge does not guarantee you any income.

5. One fee stream, no side payments

Bridge's only payment is its share of creator rewards, and so is yours. You may not accept payments, tokens, allocations, or anything of value from launch platforms, market makers, token teams, or anyone else connected to a creator's launch unless Bridge and the creator approve it in writing first. Undisclosed side payments are grounds for immediate removal and forfeiture of unpaid amounts.

6. Launch conduct

• Creators contract with Bridge. You run the launch, end to end.
• Fee splits follow the house launch procedure, including verification before any step that cannot be undone. Skipping it is cause for removal.
• Never place your own wallet, or a wallet you control, in a launch fee configuration.
• Never trade on launch information before it is public, snipe a client launch, or help anyone else do so.
• Disclose your role as a Bridge associate whenever you promote a creator's coin.
• Follow the laws that apply to you, including securities, market-conduct, and disclosure rules.

7. Bringing in other associates

An associate who recruits another associate may earn an override on house revenue from that associate's creators, as set in the compensation policy. Overrides are one level deep only, require your own creator work to stay active, and never come out of any creator's or any associate's own share. Recruiting is by invitation and reputation; cold-pitch or multi-level-style recruiting is not allowed.

8. Whose clients are they

Creators are Bridge clients, and Bridge holds the client agreement. The relationship you build is yours: while you are an associate in good standing, creators you sourced are credited to you, and no one at Bridge may move them from you without cause.

9. If you leave

Leave in good standing and you leave with your reputation and your relationships. You may stay in contact with creators you sourced, and Bridge will pay you a trailing share of house revenue on your book that steps down over twelve months after departure, then ends. Earned and vested amounts are never clawed back. If you are removed for cause — including side payments, misleading a creator, or breaking launch conduct rules — trailing payments are forfeited.

10. Confidentiality

Creator information, launch plans, deal terms, and Bridge's internal policies are confidential. Use them only to do your job, and never for trading. This obligation survives your departure.

11. No advice, no custody

Like Bridge itself, you do not give financial, investment, legal, accounting, or tax advice, and you never hold, control, or take custody of a creator's funds, tokens, or keys.

12. Term, removal, and changes

You may step down at any time, and Bridge may end an associate relationship at any time. Bridge may update these Terms; material changes apply prospectively and we will update the date above. Changes never reduce what you have already earned.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [Jurisdiction], without regard to conflict of law rules, and disputes are resolved as set out in your associate agreement.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us at hello@justbridge.org.