Frontmat partner agreement
This is the agreement between Star Hero AI LLC, which makes Frontmat, and you as a Frontmat partner. Version 2026-09. Accepting it in your partner portal is what makes it binding, and the portal records the date. If we change it, the version you accepted governs every studio you referred under it, and you are asked to accept the new one before your next referral counts.
1. What a partner does
You recommend Frontmat to studios, and you may build their booking into the websites you make for them. Nothing here requires you to recommend us, to hit a number, or to stop recommending anyone else. You are an independent business: not our employee, agent or representative, and you may not sign anything, promise anything or accept money on our behalf.
2. What we pay
- A bounty for each studio you bring that stays: the amounts and milestones shown in your portal on the day you were approved, which for founding partners is $400 when the studio pays its third month and $200 more at its twelfth.
- A studio is yours when it arrives through your link or your code, or when its owner links you in their own settings within 30 days of the studio being created, or when you created the studio for them.
- Bounties are paid monthly, on the first of the month after they are earned, to the payout details you give us. Your first bounty is held briefly for a look; every one after it is not.
- If the invoice that earned a bounty is refunded or disputed, the bounty is reversed. If it was already paid, it comes off your next payment rather than being demanded back.
- We pay in US dollars. Taxes are yours, and we may need a tax form before paying you.
3. Saying you are paid
Every time you recommend Frontmat in public, say you are paid for it, near the recommendation, before someone clicks. “I earn a referral fee from Frontmat” is enough. This is the Federal Trade Commission’s rule, not ours, and it is the one term here we will end a partnership over.
4. What you may not do
- Bid on “Frontmat”, its misspellings, or our name plus another product’s, in any ad network.
- Post your code or link on coupon, deal or cashback sites.
- Refer your own studio, a studio you own part of, or one where you hold a staff account, except a studio you created for a client, where you hold admin until they remove you.
- Offer discounts, guarantees, features or dates in our name. If we have not said it publicly, you cannot promise it.
- Say anything about another company’s product beyond the claims in our partner kit, with the caveat each one carries.
- Register a domain, handle or business name containing “Frontmat”, or present yourself as certified, official, approved or authorised by us. You are a partner, which is what the badge says.
- Send email in our name, or outreach that does not follow CAN-SPAM: a truthful subject, who you are, a real postal address, and an unsubscribe you honour within ten days.
- Use a studio’s data for anything except the work that studio asked you to do.
5. The marks and the kit
While you are a partner, you may use the Frontmat name, logo and partner badge as supplied in the kit, unchanged, to say that you work with us. That licence ends when the partnership does, and you take the marks down within 30 days. Everything else about our brand, software and content stays ours.
6. What each of us sees
Your portal shows, for each studio you brought: its name, its address, when it arrived, whether it is on trial or paying and for how many months, and what it earned you. It never shows a studio’s members, its revenue, its bookings or its owner’s contact details. A studio owner sees your business name in their billing settings, and under “My designer” if they linked you.
Anything you learn about a studio through this program is that studio’s confidential information. Do not repeat it, and do not use it for anything else.
7. Studios you create for clients
A studio you create belongs to the client from the moment it is made. You hold an admin account on it so you can build, and the owner can remove you at any time, without telling us. If nobody signs in to it for 90 days, we warn you four times, then close it and free your slot; its address returns to general use 30 days after that unless you ask us to hold it.
8. Ending it
Either of us may end the partnership with 30 days’ notice, in writing, for any reason. We may end it immediately for a breach of section 3 or 4. When it ends: your code stops crediting new studios, you take down the marks, and every bounty you have already earned is still paid, including one earned but not yet due.
9. The dull but necessary parts
Frontmat is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted or fit any particular purpose, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses. Whatever we owe you under this agreement is capped at the bounties payable to you in the twelve months before the claim. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to conflict of law rules, and the state and federal courts located in Ohio have exclusive jurisdiction, which is the same as our terms of service. You may not transfer this agreement to anyone else without us agreeing in writing.
Questions about any of it: hello@frontmat.studio. A founder answers.