We build commission engines that pay correctly.

Referral and affiliate platform development is the engineering of commission calculation engines, referral tracking, distributor portals and payout automation for affiliate programs and multi-tier compensation structures. The discipline centers on payout accuracy at scale — a plan that pays thousands of distributors across millions of transactions has to produce the same answer every time, and reproduce it months later when someone disputes a figure.

No, and you should be wary of any software vendor who says otherwise. Whether a compensation structure is lawful depends on how it is designed and where it operates, and that is a question for your own counsel. We are engineers. What we do is take the plan your team and your advisers have settled on, model it honestly so you can see what it really pays out at scale, and build calculation logic that implements it exactly. If the modelling surfaces something that looks wrong to us, we will say so — but the call is theirs, not ours.

Cost is driven by compensation plan complexity, tier depth, payout method, market count, integration scope and fraud prevention rigor. A single-tier affiliate program is a different budget than a deep multi-tier structure with multi-rail payout automation across several markets. Tier depth is the one that surprises people: each additional level multiplies the calculation work and the number of edge cases that have to be tested.

Yes — re-engineering the calculation layer after a plan change is one of the more common engagements we take. Teams change plans for all sorts of reasons, and the existing engine usually cannot express the new structure without a rewrite. We model the new plan against your historical volumes first, so you can see what it would actually have paid before you commit to it, then rebuild the calculation logic and migrate the distributor base. The plan itself is designed by you and your advisers. We implement it.

Compensation plan modelling, referral tracking and attribution, multi-tier commission calculation, distributor portal, payout automation, network reporting, and fraud detection. Review of the compensation plan itself sits with your own counsel. We model what it pays and build what they approve.

Through behavioral detection — identifying duplicate accounts, self-referral patterns and unusual network-growth signals before they inflate real payouts. Fraud in referral programs tends to follow specific detectable patterns; catching them early protects both the payout budget and the program's credibility with legitimate distributors.

Yes — on-chain referral tracking and token-denominated payouts are part of the practice, giving community members a way to verify their own referral chain and commission independently rather than trusting an opaque backend. This works particularly well for crypto-native communities that value transparency over convenience.

Match the platform to the compensation plan you actually intend to run, not to the one you might run someday. A single-tier referral programme is a genuinely simple build and works well for most products. Deep multi-tier structures, multi-rail payouts and per-market rules are a different class of engineering and worth it when the distribution model is central to the business. We model your plan against real volumes first, so the sophistication you pay for is the sophistication you will use.