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Affiliate program is live · 40% recurring · plus what's new this week
The affiliate program is live
As of May 17, 2026, the Obsidian Metrics affiliate program is active across the full product ladder — subscriptions, tier upgrades, and every standalone course. The commission rate is 40% across the board.
On the subscription side, that means: if you refer one Premium $19/mo member, that is $7.60/mo paid to you for as long as they stay subscribed. Refer one VIP $39/mo member and that is $15.60/mo recurring. Those figures track the life of the subscription — if someone stays subscribed for a year, the commission stays active for a year.
On the standalone course side, commissions are one-time but meaningful: Platform Stack 101 ($100) pays $40 per referral, Investing 101 ($150) pays $60, Trading Platforms Breakdown ($200) pays $80, Income Platforms Breakdown ($200) pays $80, Income Systems Breakdown ($250) pays $100, Premium Tool / Tools Classroom ($250) pays $100, and VIP / All Tools ($400) pays $160.
Tier upgrades also pay. If someone you referred at Premium later upgrades to VIP, you get the 40% on that upgrade.
The part that matters most for how this program actually works: even free members get paid when their referrals upgrade. You do not need to be on a paid tier to participate. If you share your referral link today as a free member, someone joins through it, and they later subscribe to Premium or VIP — you get the 40% commission on that subscription for as long as it is active. Attribution is tracked at the link level, not at the join-tier level.
To find your referral link: go to your Skool profile, click "My referrals," and copy the link. That is the only link you need. One link covers subscriptions, upgrades, and course purchases.
One clarification per Skool's rules: owners and admins of a community cannot earn affiliate commission on their own community. Every other member can.
Tier structure — what the community looks like now
As of May 16, 2026, the tier structure is locked at three tiers:
Free — No cost. You see all the feed sections (Discussion/Q&A, Member Wins, Requests, Financial Market daily updates) plus the public preview module in the Classroom.
Premium — $19/mo — Full ongoing Classroom access: every Platform Drop module as it publishes, every Systems Breakdown, the framework content library, monthly group office hours, and member-only discussion threads. Access to the Obsidian Tracker and System Lab tools. Education only — we do not provide personalized investment advice.
VIP — $39/mo — Everything in Premium, plus the advanced Classroom track, the monthly Platform Stack Audit Template (educational worksheet you fill out yourself), and first access to new tools before they roll down to the Premium tier. Group office hours and member-only threads remain the channel for follow-up questions. Education only — not personalized investment advice.
The founding $1 and $9 tiers have been retired for new joiners. If you joined as a founder before May 16, you have been comped to VIP $39 for 12 months as a launch thank-you. Nothing changes on your end.
One detail on the founding cohort: one founding member is still on the grandfathered $1/mo plan by their own choice — that subscription stays in place until they personally decide to change it.
What is new in the tools (as of May 17, 2026)
TreasuryDirect.gov is now platform number 23 across all three Obsidian Metrics properties — the public site, the Tracker, and the System Lab.
In the Tracker: TreasuryDirect now appears in the platform dropdown. You can log T-bill purchases, I-bond purchases, and Treasury interest income the same way you log activity on any other platform in your stack. If you have been tracking your bond-side manually or leaving it out entirely, this closes that gap.
In the System Lab: TreasuryDirect is now included in the platform comparison tool and the stack builder, so it can be evaluated against and combined with other platforms in the library when you are building or reviewing a system.
Across all three properties: the website (obsidian-metrics.pplx.app), the Tracker (obsidian-metrics-official-tracker-v2.pplx.app), and the System Lab (obsidian-metrics-system-lab.pplx.app) have all been rebranded to the Obsidian gold and near-black color system. The visual language is now consistent across every surface.
This week's drop — TreasuryDirect platform breakdown lands Monday
The first Platform Drop of Week 21 goes live Monday, May 18. The subject is TreasuryDirect.
A free teaser will be posted in the Financial Market feed Monday morning — no subscription required to read it.
The full breakdown lands in the Classroom for Premium $19/mo and above. It covers fees and account setup, a sign-up walkthrough, historical yield ranges for T-bills and I-bonds, and where TreasuryDirect fits inside three specific systems in the library.
One reason this one matters: TreasuryDirect is the only platform in the library where the counterparty is the US government — structurally different risk profile from every other venue in the stack.
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Educational only · Not financial advice · Results not guaranteed. We are not financial advisors. Verify the current state of any platform on its official site before deploying capital.
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