PJ-greenlit 2026-05-08 ("A!!!! This is what i have beeen building this for!"). Compliance vendors don't run classic affiliate (drop-link-click-conversion) programs — they run CUSTOMER REFERRAL programs (PJ submits referral, vendor pays SideGuy on close). This is structurally on-doctrine for SideGuy: PJ is the trust layer + matchmaker, vendor pays for the vetted match (StubHub mechanism). Top 5 priority vendors: Vanta · Drata · Secureframe (immediate) · Wiz · Okta (deferred Q3). Revenue per close: $500 customer referral → $5K-$50K service partner deal. Source of truth: data/partner-status.json. Playbook: docs/playbooks/AFFILIATE-ACTIVATION-PLAYBOOK.md.
For 6 months, PJ built operator-honest comparison content. As of 2026-05-08, that content has receipts: - 81 impressions in 24h on the SOC 2 7-way (proven AI-citation winner) - 11 honest comparison pages live - 14 vendor entity pages (Blabbermouth pattern) - 5 service-discovery pages (StubHub pattern) - 530+ prospects in CRM, 67 captured today
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PJ-greenlit 2026-05-08 ("A!!!! This is what i have beeen building this for!"). Compliance vendors don't run classic affiliate (drop-link-click-conversion) programs — they run CUSTOMER REFERRAL programs (PJ submits referral, vendor pays SideGuy on close). This is structurally on-doctrine for SideGuy: PJ is the trust layer + matchmaker, vendor pays for the vetted match (StubHub mechanism). Top 5 priority vendors: Vanta · Drata · Secureframe (immediate) · Wiz · Okta (deferred Q3). Revenue per close: $500 customer referral → $5K-$50K service partner deal. Source of truth: data/partner-status.json. Playbook: docs/playbooks/AFFILIATE-ACTIVATION-PLAYBOOK.md.
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