The most common failure of evaluation firms is simple: they spend the fee revenue, then a wave of traders passes, and payouts stall. We designed against that from day one, and we publish the mechanics so you can hold us to them.
The 40% rule
40 cents of every dollar of evaluation and reset fees is credited to a dedicated payout reserve in our ledger at the moment the fee is collected — before payroll, before marketing, before anything. Every payout is drawn against that reserve. This is enforced in our accounting engine as a double-entry rule, not a quarterly good intention.
Launch-phase guardrails
- Payout caps: monthly payout caps per Qualified Account during the launch phase, raised as the reserve grows.
- First-payout waiting period: a minimum of 14 days of Qualified Account history before the first payout request.
- Funded-account limits: we cap the number of concurrent Qualified Accounts so that worst-case payout obligations never exceed the reserve.
What this means for you
If you pass and earn a payout, the money that pays you already exists and is already earmarked. We would rather grow slower with caps we can always honor than promise unlimited payouts we can only usually honor.