Commercial
Affiliate disclosure
Short version: as of September 4, 2026, AI Ledger Intelligence has no affiliate relationship with any vendor on this site, and no link here earns us anything.
Current position
How we intend to make money
Affiliate commission on software and service referrals, plus — potentially, later — referral fees for implementation work. That is the model. We are telling you before it earns anything, rather than after.
Several vendors in this category operate public affiliate programmes. We have not joined any of them. When we do, this page changes on the same day, and so does every page the vendor appears on.
Publicly known programmes we have not joined
For completeness, these vendors run affiliate programmes we are aware of and are not part of:
| Product | Network | Our status |
|---|---|---|
| Puzzle | Puzzle Partner Program | Puzzle's public partner page states that affiliate partners earn fees on referred customers. AI Ledger Intelligence submitted an affiliate-partner application on 2026-10-02; the exact commission schedule has not been confirmed. |
| QuickBooks Online | Intuit / publisher network | Intuit's Product Referrals route requires a U.S. EIN, U.S. address and U.S. bank account, so that route is not currently eligible for this publisher. A separate publisher affiliate route may be available and has not yet been joined. |
| Xero | PartnerStack | Xero's current global affiliate application offers $200 USD when an eligible referral becomes a paying Xero customer and uses a 90-day cookie. AI Ledger Intelligence has not submitted the application yet. |
| Zeni | Zeni Affiliate Program | Zeni currently invites bloggers, newsletter writers and review sites to its affiliate program. AI Ledger Intelligence began the application on 2026-10-02 but has not submitted the final step. |
How commercial interest is kept out of rankings
Three specific mechanisms, all checkable:
- Architecture. The scoring code that powers the software finder does not import the affiliate module. Commercial status is not a variable the ranking can read.
- Ordering. Category pages are ordered by published entry price, ascending. It is a fact, not a judgement, and you can verify it against the pricing table.
- Data separation. Affiliate status lives in a separate field on each product record and is never read by any code that produces a shortlist, a score or a table order.
None of this is a substitute for you being sceptical. It is what we can offer that is verifiable rather than merely asserted.
How links are labelled
- A monetised link carries a visible ad label, routes through
/go/<product>/so the destination is visible, and usesrel="sponsored nofollow". - A non-monetised link goes directly to the vendor with
rel="nofollow". - Every page carrying vendor links also carries a disclosure box stating the current position.
- Today, every link on this site is the non-monetised kind.
What we will never do
- Accept payment for inclusion, position, ratings or coverage
- Let a commercial relationship change what a product page says about a product's limitations
- Remove a documented fact because a vendor objects to it
- Claim a partnership that does not exist, or imply endorsement by a vendor
- Say we have tested something we have not
- Publish an accuracy figure we cannot source
Other interests
We hold no equity in, and receive no consulting income from, any vendor covered on this site. If that changes it will be disclosed here and on the relevant product pages before publication of anything affected.
Questions
Does AI Ledger Intelligence earn money from the products it recommends?
Not currently. We have no affiliate relationship with any vendor listed on this site, so no link here earns anything today. The intended model is affiliate commission, and this page will list every relationship the moment one exists.
Can a vendor pay to be included or ranked higher?
No. Inclusion is editorial and position on category pages is determined by published entry price, ascending. The finder scores against your stated constraints. We do not sell placement, ratings, reviews or coverage, and we will not.
How do I know an affiliate link when I see one?
Monetised links carry an "ad" label, route through a visible /go/ redirect, and use rel="sponsored". Non-monetised links go straight to the vendor. Today every link on the site is the second kind.
Does affiliate status affect the software finder?
It cannot. The scoring module does not import the affiliate module, so commercial status is not available to the ranking logic at all. That is an architectural constraint, not a policy promise.