Partners
You already know the buyer. We do the work you don't want to staff.
Unicorn Flames runs recruiting, training, and Claude fluency engagements for scaling firms. If you advise those firms — as a fractional CMO, a small agency, a coach, an accountant, or an HR consultant — you're already in the room when the need shows up. This page is about what happens next.
The partnership
This is a referral relationship, not a reseller agreement. You introduce. We deliver. Your client gets a shop that does this every week instead of a generalist learning on their dime.
What you get
- A named partner contact — not a form that goes into a void.
- Visibility into what happens after the intro, so you're not guessing.
- A referral fee when the engagement closes. [TIM TO DECIDE]
- First refusal on co-delivery when the scope overlaps with yours.
- No obligation to refer anything you don't believe in.
What we need from you
- Warm intros only. A name, a context, and a "they're expecting you."
- Honest framing of the problem — what you've seen, what you've tried.
- A heads-up if you already have a competing partner in the account.
- Permission to mention you introduced us, unless you'd rather we didn't.
- Feedback when we get it wrong. We'd rather hear it from you than lose the client.
Who this is for
We work with partners who meet the same buyers we do but can't serve recruiting, training, or Claude fluency needs themselves. If that's you, keep reading.
Fractional CMOs
You sit in the room when a founder admits the marketing hire is wrong, the team can't ship, or nobody knows how to use AI without embarrassing themselves. You can name the problem. You don't want to run the search or the training. We do.
Small agencies
You serve the same mid-market buyers we do — but you don't have a recruiting arm or a training practice. Rather than watch the client hire a generalist recruiter or a generic AI consultant, hand it to a shop that does this every week.
Business coaches
Your clients trust you with the hard questions. When the answer is "you need to hire differently" or "your team needs to actually use Claude," you shouldn't have to fake your way through it. Refer it out and stay the trusted advisor.
Accountants and HR consultants
You see the org chart before anyone else does. You know when a scaling firm is about to make an expensive hiring mistake or when a team is quietly drowning in AI tooling they don't understand. That's a referral, not a sales pitch.
How it works
Four steps. No pipeline theater, no partner portal, no quarterly business reviews.
- 1
Intro call
Thirty minutes. You tell us who your clients are and what a good referral looks like. We tell you what we actually do and where we're not a fit. If it's not a match, we say so on the call.
- 2
Warm intro
When a client hits a recruiting, training, or Claude fluency wall, you send an email that connects us. You set the context. We take it from there.
- 3
We run the engagement
Scoping, delivery, and follow-through are ours. You stay the advisor your client already trusts. We don't pitch them on anything outside the scope you referred.
- 4
You get paid
When the engagement closes, we settle up. [TIM TO DECIDE] — fee structure, payment method, and timing are still being finalized.
Terms
We'd rather be honest about what's settled and what isn't than dress this up.
Commercial structure
[TIM TO DECIDE] — referral fee percentage or flat fee, payment timing (on close, on first invoice, on engagement completion), and any minimum engagement threshold are not yet finalized.
What is settled: warm intros only, no cold lists, no exclusivity, no obligation on either side. If the terms change, existing partners hear it from us directly before anything is published.
Partner questions
What counts as a qualified referral?
A named contact at a company that is actively hiring, actively training, or actively trying to get fluent with Claude — and who has agreed to a conversation with us. Warm intros only. We don't want a list of cold emails.
Do you take over the relationship?
No. You introduced us. We run the engagement. You stay the advisor your client already trusts. We don't pitch them on anything outside the scope you referred.
What if the referral doesn't convert?
Then nothing happens. No fee, no awkward follow-up, no pressure on you. We'll tell you what we heard so you're not flying blind with your client.
Can we co-brand or co-deliver?
Sometimes. If the engagement makes sense as a joint thing — a training rollout inside a broader marketing engagement, for example — we'll talk about it. Default is a clean referral, not a partnership theater exercise.
How do you handle conflicts?
If you already have a recruiting or training partner you work with, tell us. We'd rather know up front than find out later. We're not trying to replace anyone's existing bench.
What do you need from us to get started?
A 30-minute call to understand your client base and what a good referral looks like for you. Then a simple intro email when the moment comes. That's it.
Start a partnership conversation
If you work with scaling firms and you've ever watched a client make a bad hiring decision or flounder with AI tooling, we should talk. Thirty minutes, no deck.