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Disclosures

Every commercial relationship this publication maintains, named and dated. The publication earns affiliate commission from a subset of vendors it covers; the relationships and the editorial firewall that governs them are listed below.

The two hard rules

  1. Never affiliate-link a vendor whose tracked claim has been Partial or Not holding. The audited-vendor firewall is enforced at build time —scripts/check-affiliate-firewall.ts fails the build if any affiliate link points at a vendor with a negatively-audited claim. The firewall verdict for every registered vendor is published below; this page is itself the public face of that firewall.
  2. Never publish content commissioned by an affiliate. No sponsored articles, no "in partnership with" pieces, no review-for-payment. Editorial decisions are independent of affiliate relationships. If a vendor sends an unsolicited pitch, it's named in the article alongside the editorial decision.

How affiliate links appear

Every affiliate link on this site:

  • Carries rel="sponsored noopener" per FTC structured-data guidance.
  • Renders a visible Sponsored pill next to the link text — same on every link, no hiding.
  • Is preceded by an article-level disclosure block above the H1 of any piece that contains affiliate links.
  • Routes through a typed component (<Recommend> or <RecommendBox>) that resolves the firewall at render-time and refuses to emit a link to a blocked vendor.

Categories monetised

  • Enterprise SaaS / B2B — vendor platforms used by enterprise IT.
  • AI tooling subscriptions — model APIs, agent frameworks, productivity AI.
  • Books and courses — training and reference materials.

Consulting referral fees are NOT taken. The tracked-claim cadence cannot verify the outcome of a human-led consulting engagement; taking commission on something the publication cannot audit would contradict the trust model. This rule is permanent until the audit infrastructure can resolve it.

Vendor registry

Every vendor that may receive an affiliate link from this site is listed below with its current firewall status. The status updates automatically the moment a tracked claim about the vendor moves to Partial or Not holding.

Vendors registered, programs not yet enrolled

These vendors are known to the registry but the publication has not yet signed up to (or chosen not to enrol in) their affiliate programs. No commission is earned from these vendors today. They appear here so the registry is fully public.

  • Anthropic · category: ai-tooling-subscription · registers: enterprise, operators
    Firewall: clear · Vendor registered 2026-04-26 for future affiliate eligibility. Program not yet enrolled.
  • n8n · category: ai-tooling-subscription · registers: operators
    Firewall: no-claims · Vendor registered 2026-04-26. n8n.io operates a referral-style partner program; pending enrolment.

Source of truth

The data on this page is generated at build-time from content/vendors/*.yaml and the live claim ledger. The schema is documented at content/vendors/_README.md. Edits go through the same editorial review as every claim — dated, append-only, never quietly modified.

For corrections to anything on this page, email peter.walda@agentmodeai.com.

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