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Referral Program Terms

Effective August 25, 2026 · previously August 10, 2026

Refer a fellow educator to Discernly and you both benefit: they start with free trial credit, and you earn a reward once they run a real lesson. These terms explain how referral rewards work, when they're earned, and the limited cases in which we may withhold or reverse them.

The short version

  • Rewards are Discernly account credit for AI usage. They have no cash value and can't be cashed out.
  • You earn a reward only when the educator you referred runs a genuine, non-simulated lesson that actually uses the platform. A sign-up alone doesn't earn anything.
  • To earn rewards, your own account needs credit you purchased, redeemed with a trial code, or we granted you. The educator you refer gets their starter credit either way.
  • We may withhold or void a reward that was never properly earned, for example self-referrals or fake accounts.
  • If a reward was already granted but you haven't spent it, and we determine the referral was fraudulent, we may deduct it. We won't claw back credit you legitimately earned and already used.

1. How rewards are earned

When someone signs up and names you as their referrer, we record a pending referral and give them trial credit to get started. Your reward is earned only when that educator completes a real, non-simulated classroom lesson that consumes platform usage. Simulated or demo lessons don't count, and a sign-up that never leads to a qualifying lesson stays pending and confers no reward.

Rewards are issued as Discernly account credit, usable only to purchase AI usage within the platform. Credit has no cash value, is non-transferable, and cannot be redeemed, sold, or exchanged for money.

2. Who can earn a reward

To earn a referral reward, your account needs credit of its own: credit you've purchased, a trial code you've redeemed, or credit we've granted you. Credit you received from a referral doesn't count toward this requirement. You can request trial credit at any time.

Educators you refer receive their starter credit on the same terms either way — this requirement applies only to the reward earned by the referrer.

This applies to referrals recorded from 25 August 2026 onward. Referrals already recorded before that date are unaffected and pay out as normal.

3. Review, withholding, and revocation

We may review referral activity, and where we reasonably determine a referral was fraudulent, duplicated, self-referred, generated through multiple or fake accounts, or otherwise obtained in violation of these terms or through automated means, we may:

  • Withhold or void a pending or ineligible reward that was never properly earned.
  • Revoke an already-issued reward that remains unspent, by deducting it from your credit balance.
  • Suspend the associated accounts where a pattern of abuse is established.

Indicators we may consider include a shared payment method, device, IP address, or email identity across the referring and referred accounts.

4. What we won't do

We will not claw back credit you legitimately earned and already spent. Revocation applies only to rewards that were never properly earned, or to earned credit that is still sitting unspent in your balance when we establish that a referral was fraudulent. We apply this section reasonably, and not to penalize good-faith participation.

The formal clause

Referral Rewards: Eligibility, Review, and Revocation. Referral rewards are issued as Discernly account credit usable only to purchase AI usage within the platform. Credit has no cash value, is non-transferable, and cannot be redeemed, sold, or exchanged for money. A reward is earned only when the referred educator completes a genuine, non-simulated classroom lesson that consumes platform usage; referrals that do not result in such qualifying activity are ineligible and confer no reward. To be eligible to earn a reward, a referring account must hold or have held platform credit obtained independently of the referral program, whether purchased, redeemed via a trial code, or granted by us; credit received as a referral starter or referral reward does not satisfy this requirement. We may review referral activity and may withhold or void any pending or ineligible reward, and revoke any already-issued credit, where we reasonably determine the referral was fraudulent, duplicated, self-referred, generated through multiple or fake accounts, or otherwise obtained in violation of these terms or through automated means. Indicators we may consider include shared payment method, device, IP address, or email identity across referrer and referred accounts. Where such credit remains unspent, we may deduct it from your balance; where a pattern of abuse is established, we may suspend the associated accounts. We will apply this section reasonably and not to penalize good-faith participation.

Questions about the referral program? Contact us at support@discernly.co.