White-Label Margin Split

White-label margin split is the ratio between what a client pays monthly and what the platform charges the agency for that same site. When the platform fee is fixed and low, the agency keeps the spread only if delivery labor stays near zero after launch. Lindo bundles hosting, CMS, SEO tools, and client invoicing into one workspace, which removes several line items an agency would otherwise bill separately, but it also caps how much of the retainer can be justified as ongoing work. Duda and Kopage follow the same pattern: rebrand the builder, resell hosting, and earn on the gap. The framework forces a simple calculation before signing a client: platform cost plus estimated monthly revision hours must sit below the retainer, or the account is a loss leader. Forrester's October 2026 warning about shared AI supply-chain failure points applies here too, since a single platform outage hits every client site at once.