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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Visit servermerit.com
Method

Our methodology: audit-grade review, consistently applied.

Every ClearAff hub operates under four methodological principles. Each is independently verifiable — that is the point.

01

Primary-source verification

Every material claim is substantiated against a primary source — the regulator's public register or the vendor's own published documentation — and each claim cites that source.

02

Transparent labeling

Every figure is classified as TARGET or OBSERVED, so readers can distinguish projections from measured facts. Anything not yet measured is labeled "not yet measured."

03

No fabrication

No invented scores, no estimated traffic, no unverified revenue figures, no solicited testimonials. An unobserved number is never presented as an observed one.

04

Reader primacy

Rankings are not available for purchase. All testing is completed before any commercial relationship exists — a structural safeguard, not a pledge.

By the numbers

Small numbers, stated plainly.

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Live review hubs
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Single inbox for everything
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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.