Transparency
How we make money
Right now, we don’t. The plan is to earn a fee when you ask us to connect you with training — never for changing what we tell you. We’re writing that down before there’s any money in it, because that is the only point at which the promise is worth anything.
As of 29 July 2026
Today, RoleMath earns nothing
No ads, no commissions, no paid placements, no affiliate links. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and no provider has paid for anything you can see. No provider is being paid and no visitor’s details have been sent to any training provider.
You can now ask us for help sourcing training — that path opened on 29 July 2026 and is described on the request page. It is an email, not a form: you send it, so nothing about you exists here until you do. No provider has received anything from it, and none will without us naming them to you first.
We are writing this before the money arrives rather than after, while the wording still costs us something to commit to.
The plan, stated plainly
What we intend to charge for — and who pays
Not you. The reference pages stay free. The intended business is introductions: when someone has decided they want training and asks for help finding it, we point them at instruction that fits, and the provider may pay a fee for that introduction.
There are two versions of that, and they are different businesses:
- Individuals. Someone who has worked through the free material and concluded they want structured instruction — a course, a bootcamp, a practice-exam bundle — can ask us to point them at options that fit their target credential, budget and timeline.
- Employers. A manager certifying a team, spending a training budget or unused vendor learning credits, can ask us to source instructor-led training and produce a comparison they can take to finance.
In both cases the introduction is optional, it comes after the advice rather than inside it, and nothing about you is shared until you specifically say yes.
The commitment
What will not change when the money starts
- Money can buy an introduction. It can never buy a verdict.
No provider can pay to change a fit-or-skip call, an exam fact, a comparison, a cost figure, or where a credential sits on the experience ladder. Those come from the vendor’s own published pages and from federal data, and a provider has no way to touch them. If we ever recommend a provider, that is a separate, optional step that happens after the advice — never inside it.
- The free path stays visible next to the paid one.
Where a free or official route exists, it is shown next to any paid option, at the same size. Most people who land here should not buy training at all — they should work through the vendor’s own free material first, and we will keep saying so even when saying so costs us a fee.
- We will not fake a number for anyone.
No pass rates — we have not found a major vendor that publishes one, so neither do we. Pay and outlook stay occupation-level BLS and O*NET context, never a promise about you. Exam facts come from the vendor’s page with the date we read it. That does not change for a paying partner.
- No training provider hears about you unless you ask, and then only the ones you agree to.
We do not sell personal information. Nothing goes to a training provider unless you specifically ask for an introduction, and then only to the providers we name to you and you agree to — at most two. That is a promise about providers, not a claim that the site stores nothing: the planner keeps the answers you type so we can check the scoring, and hosting providers keep ordinary server logs. Privacy sets out exactly what is held and how to have it deleted.
- This page changes before the site does.
When money starts, the date and the terms appear here first — not quietly, not afterwards, and not only in a policy nobody reads.
Why say it now
The obvious objection
“Of course a site that wants referral fees says its advice is independent.” Fair. So here is the part you can actually check: the figures on this site carry the source they came from and the date it was read, and those sources are the vendors’ own pages and federal data. If you find a figure that does not carry one, that is a defect and we would want to hear about it. If a verdict here ever drifted toward whoever pays, the citation next to it would stop matching — and you would be able to see that without taking our word for anything.
The other check is simpler. Watch whether we keep telling people not to buy training when they don’t need it. Most visitors don’t.
Common questions
Questions about how we make money
- Does RoleMath make money?
- Not yet. As of 29 July 2026 RoleMath has earned nothing to date: no ads, no commissions, no paid placements, no affiliate links. The reference pages are free to read, and charging providers rather than readers is precisely how we intend to keep them that way.
- How does RoleMath intend to make money?
- By helping people and teams find training, and being paid for that introduction — not for the advice. Two cases. An individual who has decided they want structured help rather than self-study can ask us to point them at instruction that fits, and the provider may pay a fee for that introduction. An employer certifying a team can ask us to source instructor-led training, on the same basis. Whether a fee is charged for the introduction itself or only when it leads to a purchase is not settled — there is no provider agreement yet, and when there is one the terms will be described here before they take effect. In both cases the introduction is optional, it happens after the advice, and nothing is shared without a specific yes.
- Does that mean your recommendations are for sale?
- No, and this is the line the whole site rests on. Provider payment is not an input to any certification fact, verdict, comparison, difficulty judgement, or free-resource recommendation. Those are built from official vendor pages and federal data, and no provider has any input into them — nothing about a commercial relationship is an input to how a page is built or ordered. A provider can pay to be introduced to someone who asked for an introduction. A provider cannot pay to change what we told that person.
- Will you hide the free option to sell me training?
- No. Where a free or official path exists it stays visible next to any paid one. For most visitors the honest answer is that the vendor’s own free material plus an exam voucher is enough, and the site says so — including on pages where recommending paid training would earn more.
- Is any of this live yet?
- Partly, as of 29 July 2026. You can now ask us to help you source training — by email, from the request page, which means nothing about you exists here until you send it. What is still not live: no provider has paid us anything, no provider has received anyone’s details, and there is no agreement with any of them. The commitments above were written ahead of the money rather than after it, which is the only point at which they cost anything to make.