Editorial policy

How we write, check and correct

This covers our blog, our comparison pages and our guides. We make RecruitAffiliates.ai, so we have a stake in any page that compares tools. Here is how we keep those pages fair.

Who writes our pages

Posts carry the team byline: the RecruitAffiliates.ai team. We use AI to help research and draft. We check facts against their sources before a page goes live. No company pays us to write about it, to be listed, or to be placed higher.

We don't use affiliate links to other tools. A link to another company goes to its own page, with nothing added to it.

How we check other tools

• We read each tool's own site: its pricing page, its product pages and its help docs. We note the date we read them.
• We compare each tool on the same points. What does it find? What does its cheapest paid plan cost? Is there a free trial? Who is it for?
• If we've used a tool ourselves, the page says what we did and when. If we haven't, we don't say we have.
• When our own product is on a list, the page says that we make it.
• We state facts and leave the choice to you. We don't run other tools down.

How we date facts

Prices and plans change, so every fact about another company carries a date.

• Each comparison page says when we checked it, at the top. Its sources are listed at the foot, one link for each fact.
• Our build won't publish a comparison fact that has no source or no date. It flags any fact over 90 days old, and we read those again first.
• A blog post shows the day it was published. Once we have re-read its facts, it also shows "Checked on" with that date. We don't change the date for a typo fix.
• Our own prices and limits come straight from our plans data. So they can't go out of date on one page and not another.

How we use our scan data

A scan is what our product does when you type in a website. It reads public pages, videos and posts, and finds the people who promote brands like that one.

Some pages use figures from our own scans. When they do, they say:

• how many brands we scanned, and what kind (such as "a skincare brand");
• the date of the scans;
• how we counted;
• how many rows we checked by hand, and what we found.

We name a scanned brand only when it is our own, such as AffiliateRail, our sister product. Other brands are named by kind. Example scans built with made-up brands say that they are made up.

The limits. A scan sees only public pages. It misses people who promote by email, in private groups, or in a way we can't read. It can also count a site as a promoter when it isn't one. We haven't measured how often that happens, which is why we check rows by hand. Our figures come from a small sample. Treat them as what we found, not as a picture of every brand.

How we fix mistakes

• Spotted something wrong? Email support@recruitaffiliates.ai with the page and the fix. We reply within one working day.
• If we got it wrong, we fix the page and change its date.
• If the fix changes a price, a number or a verdict, we add a note at the foot of the page. It says what changed and when.
• A company we write about can ask for a fix the same way. Send the page on your own site that shows the right fact.
• Listed on one of our public pages and want to come off? Email the same address. It's done within two working days.

Read more about RecruitAffiliates.ai, or see how we score each affiliate we find.