Everything the program is, in one page.

01 A welcome from us.

Logan P. and Logan D. here, both of us, equally. If you are reading this you have been approved, or you are about to be. Either way, thank you, and we do not mean that as a formality. Kodiac is two people. Affiliates are not a marketing channel to us, they are most of how anyone hears about this company at all.

This handbook exists because the alternative is what most programs in this category do: hand you a code and a banner image and wish you luck. The result is content that looks like an ad, gets ignored, and embarrasses everyone involved. We would rather give you the actual playbook. What works, why it works, what gets an affiliate paused, and the exact templates we have seen convert.

Read it once end to end. After that treat it as reference. Section 05 is the one that matters most and the one we will hold you to, so if you only reread one thing, reread that. If anything here is unclear or contradicts itself, write to either of us and whoever sees it first fixes it in the next revision.

We split the program down the middle. Both of us read every email, both of us approve every applicant, both of us write to you when something changes. If one of us is heads-down on a batch run and slow to reply, the other will not be.

02 Our promise to you.

These are commitments, not policies. If we break one you can hold us to it in writing, quoting this page.

1. We pay above market and we do not move your rate down. The rate you are approved at is a floor. We can raise it. We will not lower it without 60 days of written notice and a real conversation about why. If we add tiers, you climb the new ladder rather than being reset onto it.
2. Net 30 means Net 30. Any calendar month is paid by the 30th of the following month. If we are going to be late you hear why before the deadline, not after.
3. We do not claw back commission on legitimate orders. Once an order ships and the customer is satisfied, your commission is locked. We reverse only for refunds, chargebacks, or orders we determine to be self-purchased or fraudulent, and we tell you in writing when we do.
4. Your code is yours. We do not rotate it, retire it while you are active, or hand it to somebody else.
5. We reply within two business days. If you do not hear back, assume the mail went missing and resend. Both founders are on the affiliate inbox.
6. We do not poach your audience. Customers who arrive on your code are tagged as yours in our system. We do not run retention campaigns designed to route them away from you, and we do not bid on your name or your branded terms.
7. We tell you the truth about the product. If a batch does not meet spec you hear it from us before you hear it from a customer. If we discontinue a compound you have published about, we email you so you can update your content rather than leaving it pointing at a dead page.

03 What an affiliate actually does.

If you have done affiliate work elsewhere this section will surprise you. We are not asking for what other compound brands ask for.

You are not a salesperson.

You are a writer, podcaster, lab director or community lead who already produces work an audience trusts. Affiliating with Kodiac does not change what you make. It changes which supplier you point at when somebody asks where the material in the paper you just spent twenty minutes explaining actually comes from.

A normal month.

• Publish on a Kodiac compound when it fits. There is no quota. Strong affiliates tend to land two to six relevant pieces a month, but volume is not the metric we care about and we have never paused anyone for being quiet.
• Put your code where it belongs. Pinned comment, description, show notes, link in bio. Section 09 covers exactly where, per platform.
• Disclose, once per piece, in the content itself. FTC requirement, and also just correct.
• Stay in research framing. Section 05. This is the one with teeth.
• Send signal back. If your audience keeps asking for something we do not stock, tell us. If a customer reports a problem, forward it. This is genuinely useful to us and it is how the catalog gets decided.

What doing well looks like.

The affiliates we pay the most are not the ones with the largest audiences. They are the ones whose audiences trust their pharmacology coverage enough to click through, place a real order, and stay. A 5,000-reader pharmacology newsletter beats a 500,000-follower wellness account in this program every time, because the audience match is right and the wellness framing is the exact framing we cannot use.

You are doing well when the same customers reorder and tell us, unprompted, that they found us through you.

04 The pay structure, in full.

How a tier applies.

The tier rate applies to the entire calendar month you triggered it in, not from the moment of trigger forward. If your code clears the Established threshold on the 28th, every attributed order back to the 1st of that month is paid at 25 percent. The same logic applies to Principal.

Tiers reset monthly. They are not lifetime. That is what keeps the arithmetic simple enough for you to verify it yourself, which matters more to us than a ladder that only ever ratchets.

What counts, and the arithmetic.

Attributed revenue is the merchandise subtotal, before shipping and tax, on every paid order where the customer used your code. Your customer’s 10 percent discount comes off before your commission is calculated, so your rate applies to the discounted subtotal. We would rather state that plainly here than let you discover it from a payout.

What does not count.

• Self-purchases. Orders placed by you, by anyone at your household billing address, or by your business entity.
• Refunded or charged-back orders. Commission reverses.
• Wholesale and institutional contracts negotiated separately by us.
• Orders shipping somewhere we cannot legally serve. Those are voided at checkout, so they should never appear, but if one does it is excluded.

Payout cadence.

Books close on the last day of each calendar month, UTC. The month total settles once the final order has cleared. Payouts go out by the 30th of the following month, by the method you chose at onboarding. The minimum payout is 50 dollars and anything below it rolls into the next month rather than being forfeited.

When to ask for something different.

If you are running an institutional procurement conversation, a large bulk order, or a content sponsorship that does not fit this shape, write to us. We will do flat fees, retainer plus commission, or one-off payments for work we commission directly. The structure above is the floor of what is possible, not the ceiling.

06 FTC disclosure, and the pre-publish checklist.

Every piece where you mention Kodiac or your code needs a disclosure. This is enforced law, not a tone preference.

The standard is that a reasonable person cannot miss it. That means inside the content, not in a bio, not behind a “more” truncation, and not only in a pinned comment. Three formats follow; use the one that fits the surface.

Short form, for a caption or a post.

Affiliate: I earn a commission if you order through my code KODIAC-YOURNAME. The discount goes to you.

Long form, for a description, article or newsletter.

Disclosure: I have an affiliate relationship with Kodiac biolabs. If you use the code KODIAC-YOURNAME at kodiac.bio you get 10 percent off and I earn a commission. This does not affect what I publish, which compounds I cover, or my willingness to say when something is wrong with the product. Kodiac does not review or approve my content before it goes out.

Spoken, for video or audio.

Quick note before we start. I have an affiliate relationship with Kodiac, so if you use my code at their site I earn a commission. They have no say in what I cover or how I cover it.

The pre-publish checklist.

Six questions. If any answer is wrong, fix it before it goes out rather than after. This takes under a minute once it is habit, and it is the entire difference between an affiliate we never have to write to and one we do.

1. Is the disclosure inside the content, early, and impossible to miss without expanding anything?
2. Does any sentence describe a person taking the compound, including me?
3. Is every dose figure attributed to a specific study, and phrased as what that study did rather than what anyone should do?
4. Would a stranger reading only the title and thumbnail think this is a supplement recommendation?
5. Have I said at least one honest thing about what the evidence does not show?
6. Is my code correct, live, and pointing at kodiac.bio?

07 Video.

Video drives most of the attributed revenue in this program. If you skim anything, do not skim this.

Titles that work.

Treat the title as a promise about what the viewer will learn. The compound is the hook; we are the supplier reference, and a title about Kodiac converts worse than a title about the science.

Titles to avoid.

• “INSANE results from [compound]” reads as wellness clickbait and destroys credibility with the audience that actually buys.
• “I tried [compound] for 30 days” is a compliance violation in the title alone. So is any variant that keeps the personal-administration frame and adds the word research. There is no compliant version of this format; pick a different one.
• “[Compound]: the best supplement of 2026” positions the catalog as supplements.
• “Kodiac review” buries the science and converts poorly.

Structure for an 8 to 14 minute piece.

1. 0:00 to 0:15, the hook. A counterintuitive finding, a concrete analytical result, or a question your audience actually asked you this week.
2. 0:15 to 0:45, disclosure and frame. Spoken disclosure, then what the viewer will learn, then the research framing stated once so it governs everything after it.
3. 0:45 to 3:00, mechanism. What it binds and what that implies. A diagram earns its place here.
4. 3:00 to 7:00, evidence. Two to four papers. Name the journal, the year, the model and the sample size. Show the figure. Say what is weak.
5. 7:00 to 10:00, context. Half-life, stability, what to compare it against in the same class.
6. 10:00 to 12:00, the supplier note. Why you point at Kodiac for this compound: the per-lot COA, the lot verification, the price relative to the class. Read the code aloud and hold it on screen for at least eight seconds.
7. Close. The open question you would want answered, and an invitation to argue with you about it.

The pinned comment.

The highest-converting placement on YouTube. Pin it within five minutes of publishing. Note that it supplements the in-content disclosure and never replaces it.

Disclosure: affiliate. Code KODIAC-YOURNAME gets you 10 percent off at kodiac.bio.

Papers cited, in order: 1. Author, year, journal, DOI. 2. Author, year, journal, DOI. 3. Author, year, journal, DOI.

B-roll.

• Product photography from our asset library on a clean surface. Do not stage a laboratory you do not work in.
• Receptor and pathway diagrams. Cite the source if you traced one from a paper.
• The HPLC trace from a real COA. Ask us and we will send a cleaner export.
• Hand-drawn structures on paper. These perform surprisingly well and cost nothing.
• Never: syringes, vials being drawn, anything depicting preparation or administration.

08 Three sample scripts.

Not for copy and paste. They show structure, voice and disclosure working together, and every one of them stays in third-person literature framing on purpose.

Script 1. Mechanism deep dive, roughly 8 minutes.

Script 2. Paper review, roughly 5 minutes.

Script 3. Newsletter section.

09 Platform by platform.

Exactly what goes where. The disclosure rule does not change per platform; only its placement does.

Two details worth getting right.

• Hashtags. Compound-specific and field-specific tags bring the audience that converts. The wellness, weight-loss and supplement tag sets bring the audience that gets us both in trouble, and they convert worse anyway.
• Do not republish our monographs. Quote, paraphrase, and link back. Verbatim duplication splits the ranking between us and helps neither side.

10 Written and audio.

A thread, 7 to 12 posts.

1. Hook, disclosure and code. The disclosure cannot wait for post seven.
2. The claim or question the thread argues.
3. Background the reader needs to follow it.
4. Mechanism, one post, one diagram.
5. Evidence one: one paper, the key figure, one sentence of takeaway.
6. Evidence two, same shape.
7. Caveats and limitations. This post is what separates you from the wellness account.
8. Supplier note, code repeated.
9. The open question, and an invitation to disagree.

A long post, 1,500 to 2,500 words.

Disclosure block, then the question in 100 to 200 words, then background and mechanism in 300 to 500, then the evidence section in 600 to 1,000 citing three to six papers with DOIs, then class context in 200 to 300, then the supplier note in 100 to 200 with one coded link, then open questions, then a real reference list. The reference list is not decoration; it is the reason this format ranks and keeps ranking.

Audio.

Cold open of 15 to 30 seconds, then the spoken disclosure, then the content. The FTC bar is inside 90 seconds and we recommend inside 60. On a full episode about a Kodiac compound, mention the code once mid-episode and once at the end. In a guest interview, take the normal mid-roll slot and frame it as what it is: where you point people who ask about sourcing.

Show notes carry the written disclosure at the top, then the code, then timestamps and references.

12 Assets, links and attribution.

Your link.

Point people at kodiac.bio with your code. If you want the code applied automatically rather than typed at checkout, ask us and we will send you the exact link format for your code. It converts measurably better than asking somebody to remember a string.

Per-piece tracked links exist too, so you can see which video or issue actually produced orders rather than guessing from a monthly total. Ask and we will set them up. If a tracked link ever fails you are still paid through the code; the only thing lost is the per-piece breakdown.

Brand assets.

• Product photography, the wordmark on both grounds, and clean COA exports. Email either founder and we will send the current set.
• Do not recolour the wordmark, set it on a busy background, or add effects to it.
• Do not build a Kodiac-branded page, profile or handle. Your audience follows you, and a lookalike account is a support problem for us.

13 Payouts, taxes and operations.

• Method. Chosen at onboarding. If you want to change it, tell us before the 25th so it lands in that month’s run.
• Tax. You are an independent contractor, not an employee. US affiliates paid 600 dollars or more in a calendar year get a 1099, so we need a W-9 on file before the first payout crosses that line. Outside the US, you are responsible for your own reporting and we will provide a statement on request.
• Statements. Every payout comes with the orders behind it. If a number looks wrong, say so and we will reconcile it with you rather than asking you to trust a total.
• Leaving. Tell us and we pay the final month on the normal schedule. No clawback, no notice period, no exit conditions. Please do update or take down content that still carries a live code.

14 FAQ.

15 Your direct line to us.

There is no portal and no ticket queue. Write to either of us. Whoever reads it first answers, normally the same day and always inside two business days. If something is time sensitive, say so in the subject line and it jumps.

Worth writing about: a sentence you are unsure of before publishing, a compound your audience keeps asking for, a customer who reported a problem, a payout that looks wrong, a tracked link you want set up, or a deal that does not fit the standard structure.