The deal in plain terms, the guarantee in writing, the honest numbers as well as the good ones, and every document you'd want to read. Fifteen minutes here covers more than most people check.
One launch fee, four packages (1 to 10 stores) — start with as little as 2.5% down, and it's the only money you pay us up front. Our success fee only ever comes from profit. Your other running costs can be as low as ~$100/month — Shopify and apps — and advertising is your choice: $50/day, or free with two A.I.-made posts a day that you publish. Financing the launch fee is optional.
Profitable on your ads by day 120 — or your call: a full refund of the launch fee, or the next 120 days on us. Written triggers; conditions apply and are linked below.
Average revenue across all 730+ clients (2020–2026 dataset), including those who never launched. Clients run 2.2 stores on average. Gross, not profit. Some earn nothing or lose money.
Shopify (~$39/mo) and a few apps — that’s the organic track: two A.I.-made posts a day that you publish, no ad spend. Prefer paid ads? Add $50/day per store, paid to the ad platforms, never to us.
Start with as little as 2.5% down. You separately fund advertising and normal store running costs — as low as ~$100/month, ads optional.
30% on Portfolio, capped at an amount equal to your launch fee. No profit, no fee, ever.
Keep us on at half the rate with no minimum, or run the stores yourself at 0%.
Not profitable by day 120? Full refund of the launch fee, or 120 more days free.
| Package | Stores | Success fee | Long-term if you keep us |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 1 | 40% of net profit | 20% · or 0% self-run |
| Portfolio | 2 | 30% of net profit | 15% · or 0% self-run |
| Estate most chosen | 5 | 20% of net profit | 10% · or 0% self-run |
| Legacy | 10 | 15% of net profit | 7.5% · or 0% self-run |
Success fee is collected monthly from net profit only, and stops once it has paid an amount equal to your launch fee. Long-term rate has no monthly minimum; if a store's share falls under $1,000/month for three months we hand it back rather than charge a retainer. Every package includes a lifetime licence, seven A.I. employees per store, white-glove setup, stores in your name, 100% done-for-you operations, coaching and course library, and your choice of track.
Day 120: up to 30 days to build and launch, then 90 days live. If your stores aren't profitable on their ads — after a test you funded and let run — it's your call: refund or 120 more days free. The conditions are published at aidropsurfing.com/money-back-guarantee-terms and set out in your agreement, in plain language.
Financing is optional, not required: the launch fee can be financed from 2.5% of the total package down through an independent lender, subject to credit approval. Half our fee comes from profit either way.
Every package runs on either track, and you can switch whenever you like. The difference is what you put in and how fast it compounds.
Our team writes, launches and optimises across up to 10 product tests, cuts the losers and scales the winners. You never touch an ad account.
Two pieces of content a day, generated for you. You review, post, and log two quick action items — about twenty minutes a day.
Different niches, different starting points — some early wins, some scaled brands. Watch the ones that look most like your situation.
Dashboards show gross revenue, not profit. Screenshots are from real clients and are not typical results.
Rustic Furniture Outlet
Ascension Brands
Lantern Gear
Carved
Advanced Mixology
Canvas Vows
Scarletto’s
Real stores, real revenue — aggregate results across our client base.
730+ client entries across our programmes, 2020–2026 — surveys plus Shopify and Meta Ads dashboard data; clients run 2.2 stores on average.2 stores on average. Individual results vary. Full survey →
Refunds, chargebacks and complaint rates — the numbers nobody else publishes.
Program-wide figures across our team's programs, published and updated at aidropsurfing.com/avg-results.
A due-diligence page that only lists upside isn't due diligence. These are the limits, in plain language — the agreement says the same thing in longer words.
Every package is split in two. The launch fee is paid up front (wire, card, or financed from as little as 2.5% down). The rest is a success fee that only ever comes from your stores' net profit — a share of profit, capped at an amount equal to your launch fee. If the stores never profit, we never see it. It isn't a loan and there's no interest.
Yes — one, in writing. Day 120: by the end of the 120-day Guarantee Period (up to 30 days setup + 90 active campaign days), at least one of your ads has averaged 1.7× return on ad spend over any 10 consecutive days — or, on the content track, profitable sales from your content. If not, you elect either a full refund of the launch fee (less the processing fee in the agreement) or another 120 days of managed services free. Never both. Conditions: your chosen track run as agreed (ads funded while testing, or 80% of the daily content actions), up to 10 products tested as scheduled, accounts in good standing. Day-120 terms →
A share of net profit — 40 / 30 / 20 / 15% by package — collected monthly from profit only, and it stops once it has paid an amount equal to your launch fee. Net profit is defined in the agreement: sales minus product, shipping, fees, ad spend and software. How quickly that happens depends entirely on your store’s results.
Your call. Keep us running the stores day-to-day at half the success-fee rate (15% on Portfolio) with no monthly minimum, locked for life — or take them in-house with your own team or A.I. agents at 0%. If you keep us on and a store's share drops under $1,000 a month for three months, we hand it back fully documented rather than charge a retainer.
As little as ~$100/month: Shopify (~$39) plus a couple of apps — that's the organic track, where your A.I. employees make two posts a day and you publish them, no ad spend. If you run the paid-ads track instead, you fund $50/day per store directly to the ad platforms. Product cost comes out of each sale. Start-up perks from third-party providers can cover $10K–$100K+ in software and A.I. credits, subject to their approval.
Then run the organic track: two A.I.-made content pieces a day that you publish, no ad spend — total running costs around $100/month. You can switch to ads ($50/day per store) once the first profits can fund them, and Syndicate testing pools product tests across clients so any budget goes further.
Financing is optional and covers the launch fee only, through independent lenders (Affirm, Klarna, Elective and others; US & Canada; 0–36% APR by credit profile) from 5% of the launch fee down. You're responsible for repayments regardless of store performance. If you're declined, nothing changes about the deal — pay the launch fee by wire or card and the success fee still only comes from profit.
Real ones — we won't pretend otherwise. You can lose time, and margins can be negative during testing. On the paid-ads track, whatever you put into ads goes to the platforms; the organic track needs none. Your launch fee is protected by a written 120-day guarantee, and the success fee only ever comes from profit — but no profit is guaranteed. If any of this would cause hardship, don't enrol.
Before building her own brands, Elle spent over six years in marketing with global names including ALO and Charlotte Tilbury — helping Charlotte Tilbury become the #2 beauty brand in the Middle East and scaling ALO across four markets. Today she runs multiple online businesses that generate seven figures in client revenue, combining A.I., e-commerce, content and digital businesses.
Elle graduated in Economics & Mathematics in 2018 and followed the "safe" path into corporate marketing — growing to $80K a year before the long hours made her question what success was really for. She started investing early (a finance-background father taught her markets and risk from childhood) and eventually traded the corporate ladder for solo travel, courses, A.I. and digital marketing. Her focus now: practical ways to turn emerging technology into real businesses — so people without a big team, a technical background or years of experience can build in the new A.I. economy.
Read Elle's full story →AI Drop Surfing has been building and running client stores since 2020 — 730+ client entries in our results dataset. The 730+ client results dataset on this page is that track record.
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