Bring a reader in once. Get paid every time they renew.
When someone becomes a paying member while reading your article, 75% of what they pay is yours, after card fees, every month or year they stay. You can check every payment yourself.
Stripe’s card fee comes off first. The rest is split 75 / 25. Co-authors share the 75% equally.
What contributors get
- Recurring income from your readers
- 75% of every membership payment from subscribers credited to you, on monthly and annual plans, through price changes and renewals. Not a one-time fee per article.
- Credit that stays yours
- A subscriber is credited once, to the article that converted them, and that credit never moves to another writer.
- A ledger you can audit
- Your dashboard lists every payment: what was paid, the card fee, the net, your share and the Stripe reference that matches your bank deposit.
- 75% of AI licensing income
- When an AI company pays to license the journal’s archive, contributors who opt in share 75% of the net, weighted by how much their work was used. How AI licensing is shared
- Sources who answer
- Post a request on the BEJ Source Desk and verified executives, investors and economists respond. Story details stay private until you publish.
- Paid monthly, straight to your bank
- Payouts go out in the first week of each month through Stripe. No minimum, and no invoices to send.
Keep your Substack. Add a journal that pays you.
Substack takes 10% plus card fees and leaves you to find every reader yourself. We bring the readers, pay you 75% for as long as they stay, share AI licensing income, and never ask for your phone number or a password. Publish in both.
What you’ll see when you sign in
Readers stay private, so each one appears as a number. Everything else is on the page: which article earned the credit, the plan, and every payment since.
| Subscriber | Credited for | Plan | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1042 | Subscribed while readingyour piece on first-time board directors | Monthly | Active |
| #1057 | Subscribed while readingyour venture debt explainer | Annual | Active |
| #1063 | Last article before subscribingyour pay-equity follow-up | Monthly | Active |
Illustration. Your dashboard shows the real amount of each payment and your share of it.
From application to first payout
- Apply. Tell us your beat and share three pieces of work.
- Get your byline. Once accepted, you get a contributor profile on the journal and a sign-in for your earnings dashboard.
- Connect your bank. Stripe collects your bank and tax details. The journal never sees them.
- Publish. Each new paying member your articles bring in is credited to you from their first payment.
- Get paid. Each month’s earnings arrive in the first week of the next month.
Apply to contribute
Tell us what you cover and show us three pieces. An editor reads every application.