Subscription Library Revenue-Share Terms

Version 1.0

These terms explain how Adaptibles pays instructors whose courses are included in the Subscription Library, the fixed-fee access route available to Monthly and Annual members. They sit alongside, and do not change, the existing Course Pass terms.

1. Scope

This document applies to any instructor who opts one or more of their courses into the Subscription Library, the route that lets Monthly and Annual members access that course as part of their membership, without an additional Course Pass purchase.

It does not apply to courses sold only through Course Pass. An instructor with courses in both routes is bound by these terms for the subscription-eligible courses only; their Course Pass courses continue under the existing Course Pass terms, unchanged.

2. Definitions

3. Opting a course in

• You choose which of your courses, if any, join the Subscription Library. It is opt-in per course, not an all-or-nothing setting on your account.
• A course can be in the Subscription Library and also sold through Course Pass at the same time; the two routes are independent, and you are not asked to choose one over the other.
• Opting in applies from the date it is confirmed. It is not retroactive: engagement from before a course joined the Subscription Library is not counted toward a payout.
• You can opt a course out at any time. Opting out stops it earning in future Settlement Periods; it does not affect payouts already calculated for periods before the change.

4. How your share is calculated

Each Settlement Period, your payout for a Subscription Library course is:

(your course's Qualified Learning Engagement ÷ total Qualified Learning Engagement across all eligible Subscription Library courses) × the Instructor Pool

The Instructor Pool is a fixed percentage of Net Subscription Revenue for that period. This percentage is illustrative and subject to confirmation before these terms are finalised (an initial range of 30–40% has been discussed internally); the confirmed figure will replace this note before publishing.

Two things keep this fair and sustainable:

• Capped by design. The Pool is always a fixed share of revenue actually collected, never an open-ended sum. Adaptibles' exposure does not grow simply because engagement or instructor numbers grow.
• Excludes ineligible courses. A course is only counted in the total if it is marked payout-eligible for that period (see Sections 5 and 6). An ineligible course's engagement is not counted anywhere in this formula, in the numerator or the denominator.

5. New courses: the discovery period

A brand-new Subscription Library course has no engagement history, so without an adjustment it would earn nothing in its first Settlement Period purely for being new, regardless of its quality.

To offset this, a course's Qualified Learning Engagement is weighted upward by a fixed, capped factor for its first full Settlement Period after joining the Subscription Library (illustrative: 1.25×, to be confirmed). This boost:

• applies automatically, once, with nothing for you to request or configure
• is funded from within the existing Instructor Pool, not paid on top of it
• ends automatically at the start of your course's second Settlement Period

6. Founding Instructor courses

If you joined Adaptibles as a Founding Instructor, any course you created through that application route was built under a free, no-payment agreement. That agreement stays in force for the life of that specific course, even if you later continue on the platform as a standard, paid instructor using the same account and the same email address.

This works at the course level, not the account level, so there is nothing for you to manage across the two periods:

• Each course carries its own founding/standard status, set automatically when it is created and locked against later change.
• A founding course remains free to you permanently. It is never eligible for a Subscription Library payout, however popular it becomes, and its engagement is left out of the pool calculation in Section 4 entirely, so it never reduces what other instructors earn.
• Any course you create outside the Founding Instructor route, before, during, or after your time as a founding instructor, is a standard course and is payout-eligible under these terms in the ordinary way.
• Your founding courses stay visible in your instructor dashboard alongside your standard courses, clearly labelled, with full engagement and usage data shown. You will never need a second account to hold both.

7. Settlement cycle and payout status

Subscription revenue is recognised across the service period it was paid for (for example, an Annual member's payment is spread across their full year, not booked entirely in the month they paid). Each eligible course's payout for a Settlement Period moves through four states, visible in your dashboard:

8. Course Pass earnings are unaffected

Nothing in these terms changes how Course Pass works. If a learner buys a course directly through Course Pass, you are paid your set price plus the existing platform fee arrangement, exactly as today, whether or not that same course is also in the Subscription Library.

9. Changes to these terms

Adaptibles may update these terms from time to time, for example to confirm the Pool percentage, refine the engagement weighting, or adjust the discovery-period boost. Any material change will be issued as a new numbered version, and you will be asked to review and re-accept before it applies to you.

A change is never applied retroactively: it affects future Settlement Periods only, never one already Finalised or Paid under an earlier version.

10. What you're agreeing to

Ticking "I accept the Subscription Library revenue-share terms (v1.0)" confirms that you understand and agree that:

• Opting a course into the Subscription Library is per course and reversible going forward, but not retroactive.
• Your payout is a share of a capped pool, calculated by engagement, not by the price you would otherwise charge.
• A new course may earn nothing, or very little, until engagement builds, even with the discovery-period boost in Section 5.
• If any of your courses were created through the Founding Instructor route, they remain permanently excluded from this payout, by agreement, regardless of your status as an instructor afterwards.
• These terms may be updated, and you will be asked to re-accept a new version before it applies to you.

11. Questions and disputes

If you have a question about a payout, or think a figure is wrong, contact support@adaptibles.com with your account email and the course and Settlement Period in question. Raise it before a payout reaches Paid status where possible, since a Finalised figure is locked for that period.