A referral program pays customers or it pays fraud. Design decides.
The incentive design decides who gets paid, so fraud controls and payout logic get built with the mechanics, not after the first abuse. Refer-a-friend loops, ambassador and partner incentives, affiliate structure, attribution, and the viral-loop math that says whether the channel compounds at all. It never executes a payout, never touches billing, and never reports a lift it cannot verify.
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When to reach for it
The user wants existing users or partners bringing in new customers, or is designing a referral or affiliate program.
What's inside
- Before Starting
- Referral vs. Affiliate
- Referral Program Design
- Program Optimization
- Measuring Success
- Launch Checklist
- Email Sequences
- Affiliate Programs
- Task-Specific Questions
- Tool Integrations
- Related Skills
Example prompt
Use $suede-referrals on [target]. The user wants existing users or partners bringing in new customers, or is designing a referral or affiliate program. Work through referral mechanics, incentive design that does not attract fraud, affiliate structure, and viral loop math, ground every recommendation in evidence the user can check, and return the decisions, the reasoning, and what to measure next.Reference material
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Credit
This Suede skill includes licensed source material. Attribution and licence terms remain in NOTICE.md.
Install this skill
It ships inside the Suede Creator Skills pack, so one install brings the whole pack and this skill with it. Claude Code takes two commands the first time and one after that; Codex installs the same pack natively.
$ /plugin marketplace add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills $ /plugin install suede-skills@suede
$ codex plugin add suede-skills@suede-codex
Cursor, Copilot, and Windsurf install through the skills CLI. Every path is on the install page, and every folder is readable first on GitHub.