Annual cap
0.50%
Maximum equity any single creator can earn in one year. Excess rolls forward.
The rules.
Pinned.
Every number that drives Ownership Program math is on this page. If it isn't here, it isn't a rule. Any change requires 90 days' public notice and Creator Council approval before taking effect.
In effect
v1
since 2026-01-01
§ One
Current
parameters.
These five values fully describe the caps, floors, and timing of the program as it runs today. Settlement reads from a frozen snapshot of these at period close — so a mid-period change can never retroactively rewrite a payout.
Lifetime cap
2.00%
Maximum equity any single creator can hold across all years.
Annual revenue floor
$500
Minimum settled revenue in a year to qualify for the Revenue bucket.
Quarterly revenue floor
$250
Activity gate — keeps the loyalty step function honest.
Dispute lag
120 days
Time from sale to settled. Settles after refund / chargeback windows close.
§ Two
Release
schedule.
The 25% creator pool is released across this fixed schedule. Unearned equity in any year stays unissued — there's no give-away — and any caps-driven excess rolls forward into the following year.
Year 1
2.00%
2026
200 bps of the company released this year.
Year 2
5.00%
2027
500 bps of the company released this year.
Year 3
5.00%
2028
500 bps of the company released this year.
Year 4
5.00%
2029
500 bps of the company released this year.
Year 5
5.00%
2030
500 bps of the company released this year.
§ Three
Bucket weights
+ timing.
Each year's release is split between three earning buckets. The dispute, dry-run, and notice windows define when settlement can run and how much warning any rule change requires.
Revenue
60%
Sales-driven. The largest bucket — builders earn the most equity.
Loyalty
20%
Step function with consecutive-year bonuses. Founding cohort gets 1.5× for three years.
Contribution
20%
Workshop / referral / mentor / moderation OPs. Council-reviewed, capped at 10,000 / yr.
Distribution cadence
Quarterly
Profit distributions are paid against your OP balance at the close of each quarter.
Dry-run window
14 days
Settlement runs in dry-run before commit. Creators see preview totals and can dispute.
Parameter notice
90 days
Public notice required before any parameter change can take effect, plus Creator Council majority vote.
Founding-cohort window
first 12 mo
Creators who join in the first 12 months get the founding-cohort 1.5× Loyalty multiplier.
Multiplier duration
3 years
Founding-cohort 1.5× applies to their first three consecutive active years only.
Want the why?
Read the program guide.
The numbers above are the operative rules. The plain-English explanation of how they fit together — three buckets, five-year release, caps, promises — lives on the program overview.
The program overview