Kody Bateman Net Worth: What the Record Shows

Executive Summary

Disclosure first. Rob Fore, who edits topearners.net, holds a live SendOutCards (Promptings) position, so the company Kody Bateman founded pays the editor. Rob’s sponsor in that business is Jordan Adler, profiled here as dossier #3 [the editor’s own statement, 16 Oct 2026]. That gives the editor a stake in how SendOutCards and its opportunity read on this page. The same evidence rules apply here as everywhere else on the site: each company number below is tied to a dated company document, a court filing or the platform that shows it.

Kody Bateman started SendOutCards, a Utah greeting-card company, in 2003, and it has been sold through distributors from the start: the first archived home page, from August 2003, is titled “Greeting Cards Business Opportunity” VERIFIED. The company now trades as Promptings, with its corporate office in South Jordan. Bateman does not run the company day to day. The staff page lists him as Chief Visionary Officer and co-founder, and his job in practice is to tell the company’s story, write its books and present its flagship event VERIFIED. He took the visionary title in January 2018 while still serving as chief executive, and in an early-January 2019 statement he described himself as “Founder, Chairman and CVO” VERIFIED. Gregg Bryars served as chief executive from January 2019 to April 2022 VERIFIED as Bryars’s LinkedIn record. The staff page today names no chief executive, and who holds that title now is not public UNKNOWN.

The story that runs the company. In 1989, by his account, he felt an urge to stop and say goodbye to his older brother and did not act on it; months later his brother died in an industrial accident, and Bateman promised himself he would act on such promptings from then on and help others do the same VERIFIED: TEDx transcript. That promise is the company’s mission and the reason its product exists: a card you send because someone came to mind. His own tellings put the gap at about two months (2010 podcast), two to three months (TEDx, 2012) and two months (his products page, 2026) VERIFIED. Press versions differ more: a 2008 trade magazine narrates three months, a 2009 newspaper says two weeks, and a 2011 convention write-up says a week VERIFIED as their wording. The core of the story is constant in his own tellings, while the timing moves.

What the record shows about money. His own pay is not public: no salary, distribution, ownership percentage or company financial statement exists in the public record UNKNOWN. Company revenue is on record for four years. Inc. listed $2.6 million for 2005 and $32.9 million for 2008 when it ranked the company No. 158 in 2009 VERIFIED: Inc. profile via Wayback. In a May 2008 Direct Selling News interview he gave his own numbers: $10.5 million of sales in 2006, $25 million in 2007, and a 2008 he expected to reach $60 million VERIFIED as his statement; Inc.’s 2008 figure fell well short of that projection. Bryars, describing his own appointment, calls the company a “$25M” business that had seen “six consecutive years of revenue and EBITDA decline” VERIFIED as Bryars’s statement. BusinessForHome’s widely repeated $46 million, printed unchanged for every year from 2020 to 2025 with a 35% payout, is a tracker estimate without a stated source, not a company number VERIFIED as printed. No later figure is public, and nothing in the record shows his assets or his debts, so Top Earners does not print a net worth figure for him, just as it prints none for anyone else on the site.

What the field earns. The newest income disclosure on the company’s document index is the one covering 2023. Of all affiliates on the books that year, 61.15% averaged nothing a month and 71.38% averaged ten dollars or less, while 0.90% topped $1,000 a month on average, before any expenses VERIFIED. Two older statements raise questions of their own: the 2020 disclosure, issued under the Promptings name, repeats the 2019 table in every row, and its file was created in August 2022. No 2021 statement turned up in the company index or the web archive VERIFIED.

Where a customer’s money goes. His personal site sells nothing directly. Its one commercial button sends visitors to promptings.com with no referral code, and its book buttons go to Amazon with no associate tag VERIFIED. The money moves inside the company. Customers subscribe at ACT, Casual, Advanced or Pro levels; the ACT plan cost $10 a month at the January 2026 Kickoff and $12 by August, and Pro costs $112 VERIFIED. Consultants pay $14 a month or $99 a year, are steered toward a $349 Full Impact Package as the quick road to Silver, and then toward his event VERIFIED: plan. His books carry no commission under the plan; the seminar, course and journal systems do VERIFIED. His site’s footer carries a broad affiliate disclaimer, but it never says in plain words that he founded the company it links to VERIFIED.

The record and the present. The only federal case naming him came from a private arbitration. In 2016 DEC Unlimited and DEC Partners, the parties named opposite SendOutCards and Bateman in an American Arbitration Association caption, petitioned a Utah federal court to enforce a deposition subpoena compelling former SendOutCards president Erik Laver to testify; Send Out Cards, LLC and Kody Bateman took no position, and the court dismissed the petition for lack of jurisdiction in October 2016 VERIFIED: D. Utah 2:16-mc-00935 orders. What the arbitration was about and how it ended are not public UNKNOWN. SendOutCards v. Zimmerman (2018 to 2020, dismissed) is one of several cases in which the company itself sued a former distributor; those are company-level VERIFIED via Pacermonitor. Online, he is quiet: 602 YouTube subscribers and no upload since 5 October 2020, a personal site rebuilt on Framer in spring 2026 with no email sign-up, and his TEDx talk embedded openly on it VERIFIED. There is no caution flag.

The Edge

“The Founder’s Room” [PARTIALLY REPLICABLE]. Bateman controls every link in a chain that ends in a room he leads. He founded the company, its product is the practice his story preaches, and the company’s September 2026 plan sells his three-day event, Promptings to Prosperity, at $1,995 VERIFIED: plan. The consultant who sells a ticket earns $700, but only if the buyer attends; and to reach Platinum, or any rank above it, a consultant must either attend the event this year or last or promote a Silver within six months VERIFIED. The plan, in other words, routes ambitious consultants into his room INFERRED from verified terms. Only someone who owns the compensation plan can write his own event into it, so that part of the edge does not copy INFERRED.

Why the story carries the product. Distributors retell the 1989 promise in their own recruiting copy, in a chamber newsletter and a local paper, as the reason they joined VERIFIED: 2019 sources. Sending a card is the philosophy in action, so the company never has to separate the product from the message INFERRED. His talk does not even name the company: the TEDx version ends by asking the room to write someone a card and mail it VERIFIED. A replicator can borrow the discipline, not the story: one true account tied to a product’s daily use, with its details fixed once and never moved. His own varying intervals show why fixing them matters VERIFIED variance; INFERRED lesson.

Rooms over platforms. The company had grown to $32.9 million in 2008 revenue years before he opened a YouTube channel in July 2016 VERIFIED dates. Its reach came from conferences, referral-group meetings and the field, and it still does: his channel has been idle since October 2020 while the company keeps issuing plans and running events VERIFIED. What a newcomer can copy is the format, a recurring live gathering that teaches a philosophy without a pitch. What cannot be copied is ownership of the plan, the event’s place in it, and two decades of field history INFERRED.

Journey

1989: Skips a goodbye to his older brother, who dies in a workplace accident months later; the promise to act on promptings follows. VERIFIED: his tellings

1991: Sees network marketing drawn on a whiteboard at a luncheon and is “hooked instantly”. VERIFIED: 2010 interview

June 2003: sendoutcards.com registered on 16 June; SendOutCards, LLC incorporated two days later, per BBB. VERIFIED; CORROBORATED

August 2003: The site is live as a “Greeting Cards Business Opportunity”. VERIFIED: Wayback

January 2005: Jordan Adler becomes an Eagle distributor; by 2010 Bateman calls him the company’s top earner. CORROBORATED

May 2008: Tells Direct Selling News the company did $10.5 million in 2006 and $25 million in 2007. VERIFIED as his statement

2009: Inc. ranks SendOutCards No. 158, on $32.9 million of 2008 revenue and 71 employees. VERIFIED: Inc. profile via Wayback

2010–2012: Promptings is published (2010), the company’s 2011 disclosure shows 72% of US distributors earning nothing, the TEDx talk goes up (January 2012) and MLM Blueprint follows (June 2012). VERIFIED; CORROBORATED for book dates

July 2016: Opens his YouTube channel and releases eleven music videos in one day. VERIFIED

October 2016: A federal court in Utah dismisses, on jurisdiction, a petition to compel former company president Erik Laver’s deposition in a private arbitration; SendOutCards and Bateman took no position. VERIFIED

January 2018: Takes the Chief Visionary Officer title while still chief executive. VERIFIED: his statement

August 2018: The Power of Human Connection is published. CORROBORATED

January 2019: Gregg Bryars is named chief executive; Bateman is styled “Founder, Chairman and CVO”. VERIFIED

October 2020: Last upload to his YouTube channel. VERIFIED

January 2021: Greener Still LLC launches as the parent company and opportunity brand. VERIFIED: company post

April 2022: Bryars’s tenure as chief executive ends. VERIFIED as his LinkedIn record

August 2022: Greener Still becomes Promptings on 22 August; the 2020 income disclosure file is created three days before. VERIFIED

January 2026: The company’s Kickoff cuts card prices and launches a members’ community; the ACT plan is $10 a month, rising to $12 by August. VERIFIED

September 2026: The current plan keeps his event at $1,995 and as a Platinum route; his personal site was rebuilt on Framer earlier in the year. VERIFIED

Score Note

This dossier scores 40, Tier 3, cohort Program. The label “Founder-evangelist” names his job: he owns the company and spends his time telling its story.

Income: 16/40. Company revenue is documented for 2005 to 2008, by Inc. and by his own 2008 interview, and once more by its 2019 to 2022 chief executive, at about $25M when Bryars arrived VERIFIED; the last as Bryars’s statement. That is evidence of company scale, not of his pay. An owner income above $100,000 is plausible for the founder of a business of that size still trading after 23 years, but no pay, ownership or distribution record exists INFERRED; UNKNOWN. The tracker’s flat $46 million adds nothing, because it never changes and cites no source VERIFIED as printed.

Audience: 8/30. His own reach is small: 602 YouTube subscribers, 36,826 lifetime views across 204 videos, and a TEDx talk at 6,791 views VERIFIED. He reports that The Power of Human Connection sold close to 25,000 copies by January 2019 VERIFIED as self-report. His real audience is the company’s field, whose size the company does not publish UNKNOWN.

Activity: 8/20. His site was rebuilt in 2026 and his event is live in the September 2026 plan VERIFIED. Against that, he has posted nothing to YouTube since October 2020, and the blog on his site summarizes 2020 podcast episodes written under the company’s marketing byline VERIFIED.

Dossier value: 8/10. The story-to-product-to-room design is unusually well documented, in his transcripts and in the company’s own plans and disclosures VERIFIED. Docked for scale claims on his site, such as 700,000 users and 20 million referrals, that are unaudited and have not changed since at least 2021 VERIFIED as claims.

Three facts behind the score. (1) No caution flag. The one case touching him personally was a side dispute over a witness subpoena in a private arbitration; he took no position and the court dismissed it on jurisdiction, and the company-level cases are the company suing former distributors. (2) The money is the company’s, not his. Revenue is on record for 2005 to 2008 and once more for January 2019; nothing shows what reaches him. (3) The field’s results are thin. In the company’s 2023 disclosure, fewer than one in a hundred affiliates averaged above $1,000 a month, and six in ten averaged nothing at all.