Agentbrisk

Affiliate and Advertising Disclosure

Last updated: 2026-05-09

Plain-English disclosure of how Agentbrisk makes money, written to comply with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's guidelines on endorsements, the EU's Digital Services Act, and similar transparency rules elsewhere. We publish this so you know exactly what's commercial and what isn't.

The short version

  • We earn revenue from display advertising and from a subset of outbound links that are affiliate links.
  • We do not accept money in exchange for positive reviews, higher rankings, sponsored placements, or any other compromise of our editorial independence.
  • If a link earns us money, that does not change how we wrote about the product, where we ranked it, or whether we recommend it.

Display advertising

Some pages on Agentbrisk display advertisements served by third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense and equivalent programmatic platforms. We do not select individual ads. Ads are matched to readers based on browsing behavior, page content, or contextual targeting, depending on your consent and the ad network's algorithms.

Display ads are clearly distinguishable from editorial content through visual treatment, position, or labeling. The presence of an ad on a page does not represent our endorsement of the advertised product. We do not have the ability to vouch for ads that appear on the site, and we encourage you to do your own research before clicking ads or making purchases.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links from Agentbrisk to vendor websites are affiliate links. When you click an affiliate link and complete a qualifying action (typically a purchase or signup), the vendor pays us a small commission. The commission comes from the vendor's marketing budget, not from your wallet, you pay the same price you would otherwise.

Common affiliate programs we participate in include vendor-direct programs and the Impact, PartnerStack, and similar networks. Specific links may be tagged with tracking parameters like ref=agentbrisk or similar, depending on the vendor.

Whether a link is an affiliate link does not affect:

  • Whether we cover a product.
  • How we rank it in any list, comparison, or recommendation.
  • Whether we recommend it for a specific use case.
  • What we say about its strengths and weaknesses.

We routinely write critical reviews of products that have affiliate programs we participate in, and we also routinely write positive reviews of products that have no affiliate program at all.

What we will not do

These are absolute rules. We don't make exceptions for any vendor, no matter the size of the offer or the relationship.

  • We do not accept payment in exchange for positive reviews.
  • We do not accept payment for placement in any list, ranking, or comparison.
  • We do not publish sponsored articles disguised as editorial content.
  • We do not let advertisers preview, edit, or veto editorial coverage.
  • We do not accept gifts, free trips, or other compensation that could compromise our independence.
  • We do not "delete bad reviews" in exchange for advertising spend.
  • We do not use AI to generate fake reviews, fake testimonials, or fake user quotes.

What we will do

  • Disclose affiliate relationships clearly through this page and through proximate disclosure on relevant pages.
  • Apply the same editorial standards to vendors with and without affiliate programs.
  • Reject advertising from products we wouldn't recommend or that violate our standards.
  • Take down ads from any vendor that pressures us about editorial coverage.
  • Write critical reviews of products that earn us affiliate revenue when the criticism is warranted.

Why this matters

Trust is the only thing a review site genuinely has. The moment we trade a ranking for cash, the rankings stop being useful, the readers stop trusting us, and the site loses its reason to exist. Many AI tool directories have made the opposite trade and look superficially successful for it. We've made a deliberate choice to earn less in the short term in exchange for being a site that's worth reading in the long term.

How affiliate disclosure appears on individual pages

For most outbound vendor links, we don't tag each individual link with "(affiliate)". This page provides the global disclosure that some such links are affiliate links. For comparison pages and "best for X" listicles, where the affiliate stakes are highest, we'll add a clear "Some of the links below may be affiliate links" notice near the top of the page.

FTC and international compliance

This disclosure is intended to comply with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides, the EU's Digital Services Act transparency requirements, and similar consumer protection regimes in other jurisdictions. If you believe this disclosure falls short in your jurisdiction, please email us so we can address it.

Questions

If you have questions about a specific link, recommendation, or any aspect of how we make money, email [email protected]. We answer questions about disclosure on the record.

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