You didn't start a growing company to spend Tuesday afternoon comparing discount codes. So we didn't build one.
This week we're opening BeaconQ's referral program, and it's built the same way we build the product: plainly, with the actual mechanic visible, nothing you have to decode.
The offer
Send us another team with the same problem you had — "what did we actually ship this week, without turning into someone who checks in on people" — and once they're really using BeaconQ (an objective set, a check-in written, two people on board), you get two months added to your plan. If you're not paying yet, the credit is waiting the moment you are. No cap. No code to remember. No tiered nonsense.
Why two months, not 20% off
A percentage discount is a marketing decision. Two months of the actual product is a trust decision — it only costs us something once the team you sent has genuinely started using BeaconQ, which means it only pays out when it's actually earned us a customer, not a click. It also means we're not tempted to make the number look bigger than it is with an asterisk; two months is two months.
The honest math: BeaconQ's flat-price plans mean a real referral roughly pays for itself in reduced churn and word-of-mouth alone, before the next one even shows up. That's the only reason we can afford to be generous about it — not a growth-hacking gimmick, but the cheapest, most honest channel available to us. A cold email costs us nothing but time and gets ignored more often than not; a founder-to-founder recommendation costs us two months and gets taken seriously.
The part we're not going to fake
The obvious next section here is a case study — a named team, a screenshot, a quote about how referrals worked out for them. We don't have one yet that we can point to honestly, and we're not going to invent one to fill the space. Building this anonymously means we don't get to borrow a face or a logo to make a post feel more finished than the truth is. The moment a referred team is running long enough to say something real, we'll publish it with their name on it, not ours.
Until then: this is the plain version. If you're already running BeaconQ for real, and you know another founder white-knuckling their way through the same Friday problem you had, send them our way. That's the whole ask.
Where this fits
We keep coming back to the same idea on this blog: the tools that work for a growing team aren't smaller versions of enterprise tools, they're built for a different question. Enterprise PM software answers "how do we control thousands of people." A growing company needs to answer "how do the twelve of us stay pointed at the same goal without a status meeting eating Tuesday." Referrals work for the same reason the product does — they travel founder to founder, not through a sales deck.
If that's the problem you're solving too, start free at beaconq.com — and if BeaconQ earns a place on your team, tell the next founder who has the same problem you did.
— J, BeaconQ