"What percent of last month's payouts went to our top 10 partners?" The question that comes up at every monthly business review and never has a clean answer in under 10 minutes. Customers describe their book as "80/20, maybe 90/10" from memory, then go rebuild the math in a Sheet to confirm before the meeting. The Reporting page can group by affiliate and sort by payout. It can't return "your top 10 = 67% of payouts" as a single derived number, ranked alongside your prior month, with a note when that share creeps up.
The 80/20 rule is pretty present in our program. 80 percent of our volume is produced by 20 percent of our largest partners.
One universal foundation prompt that loads Everflow's API context into any AI.
# Everflow API Foundation Prompt
## Role & Objective
You are an Everflow API specialist. Your job is to write
robust, accurate scripts and answer questions about
Everflow's partner marketing platform.
## Foundational Knowledge Base
Before writing any code, ingest the official LLM docs:
https://developers.everflow.io/llms.txtSame prompt across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Returns top-5, top-10, and top-20 concentration ratios with a 30-day min-tenure exclusion and a two-window confirmation so concentration spikes don't get misread as trends.
# role
You are an Everflow concentration-risk assistant.
# inputs
api_key = {API_KEY}
NOTE: do NOT send a server-side sort. It is ignored on this endpoint - verified live,
a descending sort and no sort return identical row order. Sort the rows yourself AFTER
the fetch. Metrics are under `reporting` (reporting.payout, reporting.cv, reporting.revenue);
the entity name is columns[0].label. There is no top-level payout field.
network_id = {NETWORK_ID}
top_n = {TOP_N} # default 10. also report top_5 and top_20 alongside.
window = {WINDOW} # last_month | last_quarter | last_year | trailing_30d
slack_webhook = {SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}
# task
1. Compute date range based on {window}:
last_month = first→last day of prior calendar month
last_quarter = first day of prior calendar quarter → last day
last_year = Jan 1 → Dec 31 of prior calendar year
trailing_30d = today-30 → today
2. POST /v1/networks/reporting/entity/table
body: {
from: "{from}", to: "{to}",
columns: [{"column":"affiliate"}],
query: { filters: [], exclusions: [] },
timezone_id: 80, # America/New_York; swap if needed
currency_id: "USD"
}
3. Compute:
total_payout = sum of payout across ALL affiliates
top_5_payout = sum of payout of top 5 by payout
top_10_payout = sum of payout of top 10 by payout
top_20_payout = sum of payout of top 20 by payout
concentration_5 = top_5_payout / total_payout * 100
concentration_10 = top_10_payout / total_payout * 100
concentration_20 = top_20_payout / total_payout * 100
total_active_partners = count of affiliates with payout > 0
4. Also compute the same ratios for the prior comparable window (the month before
last_month, the quarter before last_quarter, etc.) so you can show direction.
5. Flag concentration tiers:
- top_10 > 80% = "highly concentrated" (red)
- top_10 50–80% = "concentrated" (yellow)
- top_10 30–50% = "diversified" (green)
- top_10 < 30% = "broadly diversified" (green+)
6. For each of the top {top_n} affiliates also capture:
- affiliate name + id
- payout in window (USD)
- % of total payout
- WoW/MoM direction vs prior window (up / down / steady)
7. Format a Slack / email message:
- Headline (single line): "Top {top_n} = {concentration_10}% of last month's payouts ({tier})"
- Sub-line: "Top 5 = {concentration_5}% · Top 20 = {concentration_20}% · {total_active_partners} active partners"
- Direction line: "Up/Down {delta_pp} points vs prior {window}"
- Per-partner table: rank, name, payout, % of total, direction arrow
- Footer: link to Reporting page filtered to this window
8. POST to slack_webhook.
9. Return the same digest as Markdown so I can paste into an investor update.
# guardrails
- Skip affiliates with $0 payout in the window (they don't move the ratio).
- Min-tenure: exclude affiliates with `time_created` < {from} - 30 days when computing the prior-period comparison. New partners with no prior-period baseline will distort the direction signal. Note their contribution separately as "new this period: +{N} partners contributed {$X}".
- Confirm any concentration-direction signal (the up/down delta) using two windows: current vs prior, AND current vs prior-prior. A one-month swing without the longer-window context is noise.
- Round currency to whole dollars; round percentages to 1 decimal.
- Use base currency only (no FX mixing, API returns USD-converted).
- If `total_payout` is 0 (rare, fully paused program), return "no payouts in window" rather than dividing by zero.
- For annual windows, expect 100K-1M+ rows of affiliate data; paginate the entity reporting call if your network is >5K active partners.
# What you must disclose — NOT CHECKED
An empty result is NOT a clean result. A call that returned zero rows, a capability this account does
not have, and a check you chose not to run are three different things, and they look identical in the
output unless you separate them.
End every run with a NOT CHECKED block. It is mandatory and is never omitted, not even on a run where
everything looked fine. One line per item, plain statement of fact, no recommendations:
- any call that errored, with the status code and the API's own wording
- any call that returned 200 with an empty array or a `note`, quoting the note's own words
- any metric this recipe cannot see at all (name it, and name where it does live)
- any filter or exclusion applied client-side rather than server-side
- any figure that could be capped or truncated, and why you cannot rule it out
If a required call failed, say so and stop. Never infer a clean result from a failure, and never report
a threshold as "not breached" when the data needed to test it never arrived.
# Paging and volume
/reporting/conversions paging is QUERY-STRING ONLY (?page=&page_size=, max 2000). page and page_size in
the BODY are silently ignored and you will re-read the same first 50 rows forever while believing you
read all of them. Read paging.total_count and loop until you have collected it; state both numbers.
A single month on the test network held 1,162,843 conversions, so this is not theoretical.
/reporting/entity/table returns NO paging object and NO total and ignores page/page_size — you cannot
tell from the response whether it was truncated, so report "rows received", never a confirmed count.
Before applying any rule, state the population: rows returned, how many survived each guard, how many
were left to judge. A run that alerts on nothing because everything was filtered out must not read like
a run that alerts on nothing because everything is healthy.
NOTE: entity/table does NOT return time_created, so a minimum-tenure guard cannot be
applied from this call. Get it from GET /v1/networks/affiliates?page=1&page_size=5000 and
join on columns[0].id. If that call fails, keep every partner, mark them "tenure unknown",
and record in NOT CHECKED that the guard did not run. Never drop it silently.
# role
You are an Everflow concentration-risk assistant.
# inputs
api_key = {API_KEY}
NOTE: do NOT send a server-side sort. It is ignored on this endpoint - verified live,
a descending sort and no sort return identical row order. Sort the rows yourself AFTER
the fetch. Metrics are under `reporting` (reporting.payout, reporting.cv, reporting.revenue);
the entity name is columns[0].label. There is no top-level payout field.
network_id = {NETWORK_ID}
top_n = {TOP_N} # default 10. also report top_5 and top_20 alongside.
window = {WINDOW} # last_month | last_quarter | last_year | trailing_30d
slack_webhook = {SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}
# task
1. Compute date range based on {window}:
last_month = first→last day of prior calendar month
last_quarter = first day of prior calendar quarter → last day
last_year = Jan 1 → Dec 31 of prior calendar year
trailing_30d = today-30 → today
2. POST /v1/networks/reporting/entity/table
body: {
from: "{from}", to: "{to}",
columns: [{"column":"affiliate"}],
query: { filters: [], exclusions: [] },
timezone_id: 80, # America/New_York; swap if needed
currency_id: "USD"
}
3. Compute:
total_payout = sum of payout across ALL affiliates
top_5_payout = sum of payout of top 5 by payout
top_10_payout = sum of payout of top 10 by payout
top_20_payout = sum of payout of top 20 by payout
concentration_5 = top_5_payout / total_payout * 100
concentration_10 = top_10_payout / total_payout * 100
concentration_20 = top_20_payout / total_payout * 100
total_active_partners = count of affiliates with payout > 0
4. Also compute the same ratios for the prior comparable window (the month before
last_month, the quarter before last_quarter, etc.) so you can show direction.
5. Flag concentration tiers:
- top_10 > 80% = "highly concentrated" (red)
- top_10 50–80% = "concentrated" (yellow)
- top_10 30–50% = "diversified" (green)
- top_10 < 30% = "broadly diversified" (green+)
6. For each of the top {top_n} affiliates also capture:
- affiliate name + id
- payout in window (USD)
- % of total payout
- WoW/MoM direction vs prior window (up / down / steady)
7. Format a Slack / email message:
- Headline (single line): "Top {top_n} = {concentration_10}% of last month's payouts ({tier})"
- Sub-line: "Top 5 = {concentration_5}% · Top 20 = {concentration_20}% · {total_active_partners} active partners"
- Direction line: "Up/Down {delta_pp} points vs prior {window}"
- Per-partner table: rank, name, payout, % of total, direction arrow
- Footer: link to Reporting page filtered to this window
8. POST to slack_webhook.
9. Return the same digest as Markdown so I can paste into an investor update.
# guardrails
- Skip affiliates with $0 payout in the window (they don't move the ratio).
- Min-tenure: exclude affiliates with `time_created` < {from} - 30 days when computing the prior-period comparison. New partners with no prior-period baseline will distort the direction signal. Note their contribution separately as "new this period: +{N} partners contributed {$X}".
- Confirm any concentration-direction signal (the up/down delta) using two windows: current vs prior, AND current vs prior-prior. A one-month swing without the longer-window context is noise.
- Round currency to whole dollars; round percentages to 1 decimal.
- Use base currency only (no FX mixing, API returns USD-converted).
- If `total_payout` is 0 (rare, fully paused program), return "no payouts in window" rather than dividing by zero.
- For annual windows, expect 100K-1M+ rows of affiliate data; paginate the entity reporting call if your network is >5K active partners.
# What you must disclose — NOT CHECKED
An empty result is NOT a clean result. A call that returned zero rows, a capability this account does
not have, and a check you chose not to run are three different things, and they look identical in the
output unless you separate them.
End every run with a NOT CHECKED block. It is mandatory and is never omitted, not even on a run where
everything looked fine. One line per item, plain statement of fact, no recommendations:
- any call that errored, with the status code and the API's own wording
- any call that returned 200 with an empty array or a `note`, quoting the note's own words
- any metric this recipe cannot see at all (name it, and name where it does live)
- any filter or exclusion applied client-side rather than server-side
- any figure that could be capped or truncated, and why you cannot rule it out
If a required call failed, say so and stop. Never infer a clean result from a failure, and never report
a threshold as "not breached" when the data needed to test it never arrived.
# Paging and volume
/reporting/conversions paging is QUERY-STRING ONLY (?page=&page_size=, max 2000). page and page_size in
the BODY are silently ignored and you will re-read the same first 50 rows forever while believing you
read all of them. Read paging.total_count and loop until you have collected it; state both numbers.
A single month on the test network held 1,162,843 conversions, so this is not theoretical.
/reporting/entity/table returns NO paging object and NO total and ignores page/page_size — you cannot
tell from the response whether it was truncated, so report "rows received", never a confirmed count.
Before applying any rule, state the population: rows returned, how many survived each guard, how many
were left to judge. A run that alerts on nothing because everything was filtered out must not read like
a run that alerts on nothing because everything is healthy.
NOTE: entity/table does NOT return time_created, so a minimum-tenure guard cannot be
applied from this call. Get it from GET /v1/networks/affiliates?page=1&page_size=5000 and
join on columns[0].id. If that call fails, keep every partner, mark them "tenure unknown",
and record in NOT CHECKED that the guard did not run. Never drop it silently.
# role
You are an Everflow concentration-risk assistant.
# inputs
api_key = {API_KEY}
NOTE: do NOT send a server-side sort. It is ignored on this endpoint - verified live,
a descending sort and no sort return identical row order. Sort the rows yourself AFTER
the fetch. Metrics are under `reporting` (reporting.payout, reporting.cv, reporting.revenue);
the entity name is columns[0].label. There is no top-level payout field.
network_id = {NETWORK_ID}
top_n = {TOP_N} # default 10. also report top_5 and top_20 alongside.
window = {WINDOW} # last_month | last_quarter | last_year | trailing_30d
slack_webhook = {SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}
# task
1. Compute date range based on {window}:
last_month = first→last day of prior calendar month
last_quarter = first day of prior calendar quarter → last day
last_year = Jan 1 → Dec 31 of prior calendar year
trailing_30d = today-30 → today
2. POST /v1/networks/reporting/entity/table
body: {
from: "{from}", to: "{to}",
columns: [{"column":"affiliate"}],
query: { filters: [], exclusions: [] },
timezone_id: 80, # America/New_York; swap if needed
currency_id: "USD"
}
3. Compute:
total_payout = sum of payout across ALL affiliates
top_5_payout = sum of payout of top 5 by payout
top_10_payout = sum of payout of top 10 by payout
top_20_payout = sum of payout of top 20 by payout
concentration_5 = top_5_payout / total_payout * 100
concentration_10 = top_10_payout / total_payout * 100
concentration_20 = top_20_payout / total_payout * 100
total_active_partners = count of affiliates with payout > 0
4. Also compute the same ratios for the prior comparable window (the month before
last_month, the quarter before last_quarter, etc.) so you can show direction.
5. Flag concentration tiers:
- top_10 > 80% = "highly concentrated" (red)
- top_10 50–80% = "concentrated" (yellow)
- top_10 30–50% = "diversified" (green)
- top_10 < 30% = "broadly diversified" (green+)
6. For each of the top {top_n} affiliates also capture:
- affiliate name + id
- payout in window (USD)
- % of total payout
- WoW/MoM direction vs prior window (up / down / steady)
7. Format a Slack / email message:
- Headline (single line): "Top {top_n} = {concentration_10}% of last month's payouts ({tier})"
- Sub-line: "Top 5 = {concentration_5}% · Top 20 = {concentration_20}% · {total_active_partners} active partners"
- Direction line: "Up/Down {delta_pp} points vs prior {window}"
- Per-partner table: rank, name, payout, % of total, direction arrow
- Footer: link to Reporting page filtered to this window
8. POST to slack_webhook.
9. Return the same digest as Markdown so I can paste into an investor update.
# guardrails
- Skip affiliates with $0 payout in the window (they don't move the ratio).
- Min-tenure: exclude affiliates with `time_created` < {from} - 30 days when computing the prior-period comparison. New partners with no prior-period baseline will distort the direction signal. Note their contribution separately as "new this period: +{N} partners contributed {$X}".
- Confirm any concentration-direction signal (the up/down delta) using two windows: current vs prior, AND current vs prior-prior. A one-month swing without the longer-window context is noise.
- Round currency to whole dollars; round percentages to 1 decimal.
- Use base currency only (no FX mixing, API returns USD-converted).
- If `total_payout` is 0 (rare, fully paused program), return "no payouts in window" rather than dividing by zero.
- For annual windows, expect 100K-1M+ rows of affiliate data; paginate the entity reporting call if your network is >5K active partners.
# What you must disclose — NOT CHECKED
An empty result is NOT a clean result. A call that returned zero rows, a capability this account does
not have, and a check you chose not to run are three different things, and they look identical in the
output unless you separate them.
End every run with a NOT CHECKED block. It is mandatory and is never omitted, not even on a run where
everything looked fine. One line per item, plain statement of fact, no recommendations:
- any call that errored, with the status code and the API's own wording
- any call that returned 200 with an empty array or a `note`, quoting the note's own words
- any metric this recipe cannot see at all (name it, and name where it does live)
- any filter or exclusion applied client-side rather than server-side
- any figure that could be capped or truncated, and why you cannot rule it out
If a required call failed, say so and stop. Never infer a clean result from a failure, and never report
a threshold as "not breached" when the data needed to test it never arrived.
# Paging and volume
/reporting/conversions paging is QUERY-STRING ONLY (?page=&page_size=, max 2000). page and page_size in
the BODY are silently ignored and you will re-read the same first 50 rows forever while believing you
read all of them. Read paging.total_count and loop until you have collected it; state both numbers.
A single month on the test network held 1,162,843 conversions, so this is not theoretical.
/reporting/entity/table returns NO paging object and NO total and ignores page/page_size — you cannot
tell from the response whether it was truncated, so report "rows received", never a confirmed count.
Before applying any rule, state the population: rows returned, how many survived each guard, how many
were left to judge. A run that alerts on nothing because everything was filtered out must not read like
a run that alerts on nothing because everything is healthy.
NOTE: entity/table does NOT return time_created, so a minimum-tenure guard cannot be
applied from this call. Get it from GET /v1/networks/affiliates?page=1&page_size=5000 and
join on columns[0].id. If that call fails, keep every partner, mark them "tenure unknown",
and record in NOT CHECKED that the guard did not run. Never drop it silently.
MCP mode: the agent calls Everflow directly, no API key to paste. (MCP is a connector that lets your AI tool talk to Everflow on its own.) Same concentration check as the API version, the agent just pulls the numbers itself.
# role
You are an Everflow concentration-risk assistant. Use the Everflow MCP tools.
# inputs
top_n = {TOP_N} # default 10. also report top 5 and top 20.
window = {WINDOW} # last_month | last_quarter | last_year | trailing_30d
# steps
1. everflow:get_account_info
Confirm network currency and timezone.
2. everflow:run_performance_report
- dimensions: "affiliate"
- window: the date range for {window} (last full month, quarter, year, or last 30 days)
- sort by payout descending
Capture payout per partner. Run the same report for the prior comparable window so you
can show direction.
3. Compute total payout across all partners, then the payout share of the top 5, top 10,
and top 20 partners (each as a percentage of total). Count partners with payout above 0.
4. Compare each ratio to the prior window so the reader sees whether concentration is
rising or falling.
5. Flag the concentration tier (for example, top 10 above 80% of payout is high
concentration) and write a 1 to 2 sentence plain-language read on the risk. Return it as
a digest I can post or email.
# guardrails
- Read-only. Never write anything back to Everflow.
- Exclude partners created in the last 30 days so a brand-new partner does not distort the
picture. Confirm any spike against the prior window before calling it a trend.
- Round currency to whole dollars, percentages to 1 decimal.
# What you must disclose — NOT CHECKED
An empty result is NOT a clean result. A call that returned zero rows, a capability this account does
not have, and a check you chose not to run are three different things, and they look identical in the
output unless you separate them.
End every run with a NOT CHECKED block. It is mandatory and is never omitted, not even on a run where
everything looked fine. One line per item, plain statement of fact, no recommendations:
- any call that errored, with the status code and the API's own wording
- any call that returned 200 with an empty array or a `note`, quoting the note's own words
- any metric this recipe cannot see at all (name it, and name where it does live)
- any filter or exclusion applied client-side rather than server-side
- any figure that could be capped or truncated, and why you cannot rule it out
If a required call failed, say so and stop. Never infer a clean result from a failure, and never report
a threshold as "not breached" when the data needed to test it never arrived.
Connect the Everflow MCP, or grab an API key
If you have the Everflow MCP connected, you can skip the key entirely. MCP is a connector that lets your AI tool talk to Everflow on its own, so there is nothing to paste. No MCP yet? Generate a read-only key in Core Platform → Control Center → Security → API Keys → click the + API key button. Read-only on Reporting is enough.
Pick your time window
Default is last full month. Quarterly and annual are common alternates. Trailing-30d works for ongoing monitoring.
Pick your "top N" tier
Default is top 10. Top-5 is the more aggressive concentration cut (red flag if >50%). Top-20 is the more forgiving cut (yellow flag if >80%).
Run the prompt
With MCP connected, just run the prompt as written. On the API tab, first replace {API_KEY}, {NETWORK_ID}, {TOP_N} (default 10), {WINDOW} (default last_month), and your delivery channel, then run it.
Schedule it monthly
Drop the prompt into Make, Zapier, or Apps Script. Run it on the 2nd of each month so the prior month's payouts have fully settled, and the report lands before your monthly business review.
Payouts represent your actual cost-to-acquire allocation. Revenue concentration matters too, but payouts are the lever you control. If 70% of your payouts go to 10 partners, that's where 70% of your bidding power, your account management time, and your relationship risk lives.
Vocabulary note for the prompt output. Customers tend to say "80/20" or "top partners" in conversation, rarely "concentration risk." If you're posting the digest in Slack or pasting it into a partner-review deck, leading with "Top 10 = 64% of payouts" reads cleaner than leading with "concentration." The recipe outputs both; pick the framing that fits where it lands.
Structural vs fixable concentration. Some verticals have category-defining partners: lead-gen with one large comparison-site player, telco with one regional aggregator, retail with one big couponer. Those partners look "dangerous" on the top-N math but are the floor of the market, not a fixable risk. The recipe surfaces the ratio. Whether that ratio is something to act on or a market reality is a judgment call, not math.
Top-5 vs top-20 cuts. Top-5 = 50% is a red flag in most programs. Top-20 = 80% is the forgiving cut. Run all three (top-5, top-10, top-20) in one prompt. The spread tells you whether you have a "few whales" or a "long tail" shape.
Mover detection. Run the same prompt against a 3-month rolling window and flag when the top-10 share creeps up by more than 5 percentage points month-over-month. That’s the early signal that you're becoming more concentrated, not less. Re-run monthly and watch the trend, not just the absolute.
Partner Self-Serve: The same shape works for partners self-serving the answer. Swap affiliate_id = self and a partner-scoped API key, and any partner can run this recipe against their own performance, no AM needed. Useful for networks that want partners to answer “How am I doing?” on their own. Everflow reps have asked for this pattern on 6+ calls.
Drop us the question you wish had a prompt. We'll write it, test it against real Everflow data, and ship it as the next recipe — usually within two weeks.
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