Ever formed a micro agency?
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'Lead Finders' are going to give you the bottom of the barrel clients, and are going to skim-off a good portion of the project budget, meaning you'll be in a struggle to produce your best work. IMO It's a bad way to open a relationship, paying a finders fee. As the client is often not aware that 20% of their budget just got skimmed off by the guy who was supposed to be helping them (and they probably paid him for consulting too).
In general it's best to earn your relationships yourself. Sell them on your capabilities, impress them with the work you do for them, and make it easy to work with you again. That's how you build a long-term business. Not buying projects from some slimeball.
(just my opinion, there may well be cases that this is okay and or common)