A hub is two to five people who run something together. There are three kinds, they are built the same way, and what a hub earns is shared on the same terms every time.
Every hub walks the same five stages, E through to A. Each one opens when the last is done.
Once a hub is trading, this is how what it earns is shared, and why each share exists. The money itself moves through the company structure and its bookkeeping — that is where the exact figures are set and kept, and they vary. Treat this as the framework, not a calculation.
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A client belongs to ARC, not to the hub. ARC invoices the client, and the work is delivered through the hub — which is what makes the split above enforceable rather than a handshake. It is also why a hub member is not paying a referral fee on that work: they are not being referred to it, they are the hub it came to.
When a hub is full and the work keeps coming, the hub duplicates. The people who started it invite the next group out of it, that group becomes a hub of its own, and the hub above keeps a share of what it seeded. That is the line in the split marked the hub above, and it is what makes growing the network worth doing rather than a cost.