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The Affiliate Desk of the AI Academy

Every affiliate link on the internet should have to earn its place.

ClearAff runs independent, audit-grade review hubs. We read the regulator's register, the fee schedule, and the fine print — before a single link goes live. Our rankings come from observed data only, never from who pays us.

4 live review hubs Primary sources, named on every claim Rankings never for sale
Portfolio

Four hubs. One standard: proof.

Each ClearAff hub is an independent review desk for one market. We publish how we test, name every primary source, and label every figure — so you always know what is observed and what is not.

Gold & Retirement

Gold IRA Edge

Independent reviews of gold IRA custodians — setup fees, annual storage, minimums, and buyback terms, read from the custodians' own published documents.

Honest mark: measured custodian performance is not yet measured — every figure on the hub is labeled from published sources.
Visit goldiraedge.com
Software

Software Merit

Independent reviews of business software platforms — pricing that includes the renewal rate, real feature limits, and the catches buried in plan tiers.

Honest mark: hands-on performance scores are not yet measured — rankings rest on published specs and pricing audits.
Visit softwaremerit.com
Forex Brokers

Trader Merit

Audit-grade reviews of forex brokers — regulation checked against the regulator's own registers, fee schedules read in full, withdrawal terms verified.

Honest mark: live spread measurements are not yet measured — the hub says so plainly until the windows close.
Visit tradermerit.com
Web Hosting

Server Merit

Independent reviews of web hosting providers — benchmarked like a lab report, written like a human. Intro rates and renewal rates published side by side.

Honest mark: benchmark numbers are not yet measured — the audit windows are dated and public.
Visit servermerit.com
Method

The audit standard behind every hub.

Four rules govern everything we publish. They are checkable — that is the point.

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Audit against primary sources

Every material claim is checked against a primary source — the regulator's register or the vendor's own published documents — and every claim names that source.

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Honest marks

Every figure is labeled TARGET or OBSERVED, so you always know what is real and what is projected. Anything we have not measured stays labeled "not yet measured."

03

Nothing invented

No fake scores, no invented traffic, no phantom revenue, no rented testimonials. If a number is not observed, it does not appear as one.

04

Reader-first

Rankings are never for sale. Our testing happens before any commission exists — the order is structural, not a promise.

By the numbers

Small numbers, stated plainly.

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Live review hubs
OBSERVED
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Single inbox for everything
OBSERVED
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Observed affiliate revenue
OBSERVED
Our team

The people behind the audits.

Aurélien Portuese, Founder of ClearAff

Aurélien Portuese

Professor of Economics, University of Miami
Founder, ClearAff

We are a small team that reads the fine print for a living. We built ClearAff because affiliate content had become marketing with a comments section — so we built the review desks we wanted to read ourselves.

We check primary sources, label every figure as TARGET or OBSERVED, and refuse to publish what we have not measured. Our rankings cannot be bought, because our testing happens before any commission exists.

Contact

Talk to us.

Corrections, evidence we missed, a hub we should build next, or a straight disagreement with a ranking — we read everything.