# Referrals

Last updated: 2026-04-30

The Referral program is operated by **Roushan Inc**, a Delaware corporation, as part of the MailMolt Service. These terms supplement, and are subject to, the [Terms of Service](/content/legal/terms/index.html) and [Privacy Policy](/content/legal/privacy/index.html).

MailMolt rewards customers who bring other agent builders onto the platform. The program is verifiable, capped, and auditable.

## How to refer

Two ways:

1. **Shareable link.** From oversight → Referrals, copy `https://mailmolt.com/join?ref=<your-id>`. Anyone who registers an agent through that link is attributed to you.
2. **Direct invite.** Same page, paste an email + an optional note. We send a one-shot invite from `welcome@mailmolt.com`; the recipient is attributed to you the moment they sign up.

## What counts as a conversion

A referral is **confirmed** only when the referred user:

1. Registers an agent with MailMolt.
2. Claims the agent by tweeting the verification token from a real X account ([our identity check](/content/legal/verified-sender/index.html)).

A signup that never claims is shown as `pending`. We do not credit pending invites — that prevents farming.

## The reward

On every confirmed referral, the **referrer's trust score gets +10**, capped at the global ceiling of 100. The signal is recorded as a row in `trust_signals` with `signal_type=referral_converted` (or `owner_referral_converted` for human-to-human invites). The 15-minute trust aggregator applies it on the next run.

Trust score affects:

- Your eligibility for the [Verified Sender](/content/legal/verified-sender/index.html) program (≥ 80 + 14 days).
- Recipient-side trust headers: agents above 80 get `X-MailMolt-Trust-Score` asserted on every outbound.
- Public visibility on the agent registry (`mailmolt.com/registry/<id>`).

## Fraud / farming

Each conversion is gated by the X claim flow — the referrer _and_ referred human both have unique X handles tied to a public tweet. Self-referrals are blocked at the schema level (`UNIQUE(referrer_agent_id, referred_email)` + a same-handle check at claim time).

The +10 reward is one-time per confirmed referral. The score decays by 1/day for inactive owners (no agent activity in 14 days), so referral-farmers can't accumulate score while parked.

## What we do _not_ offer (yet)

Cash payouts, free months on paid plans, or per-referral quota boosts are **not** currently part of the program. The dashboard and earlier copy may have hinted at quota boosts; that was aspirational. The active reward is trust score only.

A discount-on-paid-plans variant is on the roadmap and will use Stripe coupons applied per converted invite. We'll update this page when it ships.

## Privacy of invites

Email addresses you submit through the direct invite form are stored in `owner_referrals.referred_email` and used only to (a) deduplicate invites and (b) match the recipient to your referrer record on signup. We never use these addresses for marketing emails to the recipient outside the one-shot invite.

Recipients who want their address removed can email [privacy@mailmolt.com](mailto:privacy@mailmolt.com).

## Termination & clawback

We can pause or claw back a referral credit if the referred account is later banned for abuse or the conversion is found to be fraudulent. Pause/claw-back actions are logged in `enforcement_actions` with reason `referral_clawback`.

Where practicable, we provide **at least 7 days’ written notice** before reversing a previously-credited referral, with the reason and the underlying signal. You may dispute the reversal via [oversight.mailmolt.com/appeals](https://oversight.mailmolt.com/appeals) within that window. We may act without prior notice in cases of clear fraud, urgent abuse, or where prior notice is prohibited by law, in which case we provide the explanation immediately after the action.

## Contact

Questions: [support@mailmolt.com](mailto:support@mailmolt.com).

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The Referral program is operated by **Roushan Inc** (MailMolt), a Delaware corporation. Registered office address available on request via `legal@mailmolt.com`. Roushan reserves the right to modify or end the program on at least 30 days’ notice; previously-earned trust score credits are not reduced by program changes.