Sub-Affiliate Due Diligence

How this document works

This document has two parts. Part A is filled in by you, the prospective sub-affiliate. Part B is filled in by the Lead Operator after they review your application. The completed document is retained by the Lead Operator as the audit record.

The questions are direct because the role is direct. We are recruiting up to fifty sub-affiliates from a much larger pool, and we have a small amount of time to assess each one fairly. Honest answers, completed cleanly, get you to a quick decision — positive or negative. Empty, evasive, or untrue answers fail the audit and end the application.

If you are unable to answer any question because the information is genuinely not yours to share, write so plainly. We will not assume the worst. We will assume the worst if you leave it blank or fabricate.

Part A · Applicant Section

To be completed by the prospective sub-affiliate

Section 01 · Identity

Who you are.

Full legal name *

Preferred public name / handle

Country of residence *

Tax residency (if different)

Primary email *

Primary phone (with country code) *

Trading entity / company (if applying via a registered business)

Company name, registration number, country of registration. Leave blank if applying as an individual.

Section 02 · Audience & Channels

Where your audience lives.

List every public channel where you have an audience that could reasonably be exposed to a Bitcoin Storm communication. Include only channels you personally own and operate.

Primary channel

Platform *

X / Twitter, YouTube, Podcast, Newsletter, Telegram, Discord, Substack, etc.

Handle / URL *

Follower / subscriber count *

Avg. engagement per post *

Likes / views / opens averaged over last 10 posts

Channel start date *

Links to your last five posts on this channel *

Direct URLs. The Lead Operator will review these.

Secondary channels (if any)

List up to four additional channels with handle, follower count, and one representative recent post URL each

Audience analytics

Attach screenshots of your platform analytics dashboard for the primary channel *

Last 28 days, last 90 days. Engagement, reach, audience demographics. PDF or images attached separately.

Section 03 · Audience Composition

Who your audience is.

Primary topical interest of your audience *

Bitcoin / crypto generally / finance / business / tech / lifestyle / other. One sentence is fine.

Geographic skew *

Top three countries

Primary language of audience *

Approximate age and demographic of your audience *

Best estimate from your platform analytics. Brief is fine.

Estimated US-based audience share (%) *

Reminder: the protocol cannot accept US persons. A high US share does not disqualify you, but it does shape how we'd work together.

Section 04 · Track Record

What you've promoted before.

Have you previously promoted any third-party financial product, crypto product, or service for compensation? *

If yes, list each: what, when, on what terms (rough), with what outcome. If no, write "No prior commercial promotions."

Have you ever been removed from a sponsorship or promotional engagement by a counterparty for any reason?

Yes No

Has any of your channels been removed, demonetised, or restricted by a platform?

Yes No

If yes to either of the above, explain briefly

Section 05 · Commercial Setup

How you get paid.

Are you registered for tax in your country of residence? *

VAT / sales tax registered? (if applicable)

Operating as: sole trader / limited company / partnership / other *

Professional indemnity insurance? Y / N

Bank for retainer payments — country and currency only *

Full account details collected at contract stage, not now.

Section 06 · Compliance & Conflicts

The hard-stop questions.

The questions in this section are compliance hard-stops. Answer truthfully. False answers detected at any point during the engagement — including post-contract — result in immediate termination, retainer cessation, and forfeiture of the Bitcoin bonus.

Are you a US person, US citizen, US green card holder, or US tax resident?

Yes No

Are you a Canadian resident or otherwise resident in any sanctions-listed jurisdiction?

Yes No

Have you ever been sanctioned, fined, or formally warned by a financial regulator (FCA, SEC, FINRA, ASIC, FINMA, or any equivalent)?

Yes No

Have you ever been a director of a company that entered insolvency, administration, or compulsory liquidation?

Yes No

Have you ever been disqualified as a director, declared bankrupt, or been the subject of an insolvency order?

Yes No

Are you currently promoting any product the Lead Operator might reasonably consider a competitor or conflict (other Bitcoin treasury protocols, prize-pool products, savings DApps, lottery products)?

Yes No

Have you previously been involved with a lottery, sweepstake, or unregulated speculative-investment product as an operator, promoter, or affiliate?

Yes No

Has a published investigation or adverse media article ever named you, your business, or a channel you operate?

Yes No

If you answered "Yes" to any of the above, give one paragraph of explanation per item

A "Yes" with honest context is not automatically disqualifying. A "No" found to be false is.

Consent to checks at shortlist stage: By signing this DD form, you consent to the Lead Operator running, at their sole discretion, an adverse-media search (Google), a public sanctions list check (OFSI / OFAC / EU consolidated list), a corporate registry check on any trading entity you've named, and — if you are shortlisted — a paid credit-reference check via a regulated credit bureau. Results are confidential, are not shared beyond the Lead Operator and the founder, and are destroyed after twelve months if no contract follows.

Section 07 · Capacity

How many users.

Your honest, sober estimate. Optimistic answers fail the audit alongside conservative ones — we are calibrating, not impressing. The right answer here is the one you actually believe.

Realistic 6-month user delivery *

Realistic 12-month user delivery *

Realistic 18-month user delivery (cap 10,000) *

What evidence supports those numbers? *

Past campaign conversion rates, audience size, comparable promotion outcomes. One paragraph.

Section 08 · Working Style

How you work.

Preferred timezone *

Preferred working hours

How fast do you typically respond to a non-urgent operator message? *

Same day / 24 hours / 48 hours / weekly. Honest is better than aspirational.

Are you available for a 30-minute monthly check-in call with the Lead Operator? *

Briefing format preferences

Written / video / call / async / mix. What helps you do your best work?

Section 09 · Why You

The qualitative gate.

Why this protocol, why this role, why now — in your own words. *

Maximum 200 words. Read aloud before submitting. If it sounds like a generic application letter, rewrite it.

Section 10 · Declarations

What you confirm.

I confirm that all information provided in this DD form is, to the best of my knowledge, accurate and complete.

Confirm

I have read the Sub-Affiliate House Rules and accept their content in principle, subject to formal sign-off at contract stage.

Confirm

I consent to the compliance checks described in Section 06.

Confirm

I acknowledge that submission of this DD form is not an offer of contract, and the Lead Operator's decisions on shortlisting and engagement are final.

Confirm

Applicant signature

Signature

Date

Part B · Lead Operator Audit

To be completed by the Lead Operator

How to use Part B

The audit rubric below is designed to be completed in 10–15 minutes per applicant. Each section corresponds to a public-checkable signal of audience quality, identity legitimacy, or compliance risk. Score each item Green (proceed), Amber (clarify), or Red (decline-on-this-signal-alone or two-strike-total).

Three Reds = automatic decline. Two Reds = one-time clarification request, then re-score. Zero or one Red = proceed to interview. The summary tally at the bottom of Part B records the verdict.

Audit Block A · Identity Legitimacy

Is this a real person?

A.01

Name & channel cross-reference

Does the legal name in Section 01 plausibly match the public identity of the channels in Section 02? Search the legal name + the channel handle. Do they connect?

Quick check: Google "[legal name] [channel handle]". Real operators show up in podcast directories, conference speaker lists, LinkedIn, news mentions. Fake or ghost identities don't.

Green Clear match

Amber Partial / ambiguous

Red No connection

A.02

Account age vs. follower count

Is the channel's follower count consistent with how long it has existed? An 8-week-old account with 40K followers is bought.

Quick check: 100–500 followers per month is normal organic growth. 2,000+ per month sustained — verify with viral-moment evidence (a thread that went viral, an event, a media appearance). No evidence = bought.

Green Consistent

Amber Fast but plausible

Red Implausible

A.03

Adverse media search

Search "[legal name] fraud", "[legal name] scam", "[legal name] investigation", "[legal name] lawsuit". Anything come up?

Quick check: 60 seconds per applicant. False positives (common name, unrelated person) are amber, not red — require clarification. Genuine matches are red.

Green Nothing surfaced

Amber Ambiguous results

Red Direct matches

A.04

Sanctions list check

Cross-check applicant name and country against UK OFSI consolidated list, US OFAC SDN list, EU consolidated sanctions list. Free public databases.

Quick check: A direct hit is automatic decline regardless of other scores. Even a partial / probable match is red until clarified.

Green Clear

Red Match or possible match

Audit Block B · Audience Quality

Is the audience real?

Why this block matters most: A 40K-follower account with 30K bot-pattern followers is worth less than a 4K-follower account with 90% real engaged followers. The signals below catch fake / inflated audiences in 5–10 minutes per applicant. Two Reds in this block alone is decline.

B.01

Engagement-to-follower ratio

Pull up their last 5 posts. For each: divide total reactions / views by follower count. Average across the 5.

Benchmarks: Real account = 1–5% engagement. Bought / bot account = below 0.5%. A 40K follower account averaging 200 likes per post (0.5%) is suspect; same account averaging 800 likes (2%) is real.

Green Above 1%

Amber 0.5–1%

Red Below 0.5%

B.02

Follower username pattern

Open the channel's followers tab. Scroll. What do the followers look like?

Real audience pattern: Real-looking names (first + last), real photos, varied bios, mix of profile types. Bot pattern: "Crypto_King_8472", "MoonHodler_99012", "Sarah__Investor_4421", default avatars, identical bios, accounts that follow 5,000 but have 12 followers themselves. This is the test that catches the most fakes in the least time.

Green Real-looking

Amber Mixed

Red Bot pattern

B.03

Comment-to-like ratio & comment quality

Sample 5 recent posts. For each: comments as % of likes, and comment quality.

Real engagement: Comments are 5–20% of likes, comments are full sentences, comments are on-topic. Bot engagement: Likes vastly outnumber comments (1,000+ to 1), comments are emoji strings, "Great post!", "🔥🔥🔥", or recycled phrases.

Green Real comments, healthy ratio

Amber One signal off

Red Both signals off

B.04

Engagement velocity over time

Look at posts from 6–12 months ago. What was the engagement then vs. now? Real growth is gradual. A 10× jump in engagement over a few weeks — with no public reason — is bought.

Quick check: Click on posts dated 6 months ago, then 3 months ago, then last week. Are likes/views growing in proportion to follower count, or has there been an unexplained spike?

Green Gradual growth

Amber Some spikes, plausible

Red Unexplained spikes

B.05

Audience-niche match

Sample 30–50 of the applicant's followers. Do they look like the audience the applicant claims (Bitcoin / business / finance / etc.)?

Quick check: A "Bitcoin podcaster" whose followers are mostly K-pop stans, OnlyFans models, or unrelated lifestyle accounts has either bought followers or has an audience that won't convert.

Green Clear niche match

Amber Mixed

Red Off-topic audience

B.06

Free third-party audit cross-check

Run the channel through a free public audit tool: SparkToro (X), Modash free tier (Instagram), Social Blade (YouTube). Look at the audience-quality score.

Quick check: Optional, takes 2 minutes. Useful if other signals were ambiguous; not required if Reds are already clear.

Green Healthy score

Amber Mid-range

Red Low score

Audit Block C · Compliance Posture

Are they contractable?

C.01

Hard-stop questions answered cleanly

Section 06 of the applicant's form. All No's = green. Honest Yes with clear context = amber-to-green at operator's discretion. Inconsistencies between Section 06 and what an adverse-media search shows = red.

Green All clean / honestly disclosed

Amber Disclosed, needs explanation

Red Inconsistencies / undisclosed

C.02

Corporate registry check (if applicable)

If applicant operates via a registered business: check Companies House (UK), SEC EDGAR (US), or equivalent. Directorships current? Insolvencies? Dissolved companies?

Quick check: 2 minutes. Companies House is free in the UK. Most jurisdictions have an equivalent free registry.

Green Clean record

Amber Minor flags

Red Serious flags

C.03

Conflict of interest scan

Look at applicant's recent posts (last 90 days). Are they currently promoting any product the Lead Operator would consider a conflict (other Bitcoin treasury protocols, prize-pool products, lottery products, savings DApps)? Match against Section 06 disclosures.

Green No active conflicts

Amber Past, exitable

Red Active and undisclosed

Audit Block D · Capacity & Fit

Will they actually deliver?

D.01

Stated capacity vs. visible audience

Their 18-month delivery target (Section 07) divided by 18 months gives a monthly conversion estimate. Is that realistic given their audience size and Bitcoin-niche conversion benchmarks (typical: 0.1–1% of audience converts to a paid action over a campaign window)?

Quick check: 10K-follower account claiming 10K conversions in 18 months would need a 100% audience conversion rate. Implausible. Same account claiming 200–500 conversions = realistic.

Green Realistic claim

Amber Optimistic but possible

Red Implausible

D.02

Geographic fit

US-audience share (Section 03). High US share = lower theoretical capacity, since US users can't be onboarded. A 50%-US channel with 40K followers = 20K addressable.

Green Below 25% US

Amber 25–60% US

Red Over 60% US

D.03

"Why You" answer quality (Section 09)

Read it aloud. Does it sound like them? Is it specific to the protocol (mentions mechanics, design choices, regulatory shape) or generic ("I love Bitcoin and want to grow my brand")? Generic = amber. Specific and personal = green. AI-generic with no personal voice = red.

Quick check: Even more important than audience size. An applicant who can't write 200 personal words about why they want this won't write 200 hours of campaign content.

Green Specific, personal voice

Amber Generic but readable

Red AI-generic, no voice

Audit Summary · Verdict

The tally.

Score tally

Block A · Identity Legitimacy (4 items)Greens: ____ · Ambers: ____ · Reds: ____

Block B · Audience Quality (6 items)Greens: ____ · Ambers: ____ · Reds: ____

Block C · Compliance Posture (3 items)Greens: ____ · Ambers: ____ · Reds: ____

Block D · Capacity & Fit (3 items)Greens: ____ · Ambers: ____ · Reds: ____

Total · Greens: ____ · Ambers: ____ · Reds: ____

Verdict

PROCEED 0–1 Reds total
or 2 Reds with clarifications resolved

CLARIFY 2 Reds — request clarifications, re-score

DECLINE 3+ Reds, OR any sanctions match

Lead Operator notes

Free-text. The qualitative reason for the verdict. Kept on file regardless of outcome.

Lead Operator audit completion

Lead Operator signature

Date completed

Document retention: Completed DD forms (whether successful or unsuccessful) are held by the Lead Operator for twelve months from completion. Successful applicants' DD forms transfer to the contract record on engagement. Unsuccessful applicants' DD forms are securely destroyed at the twelve-month point. Information from this DD is shared only with the founder and, where contractually required, with counsel and audit. It is never shared with other applicants, sub-affiliates, or third parties.