Affiliate Disclaimer

AI Productivity Daily is published by AI Productivity Daily. Some articles on this Site contain affiliate links. We want to be direct about what that means, how it works, and how it does and does not affect what we publish. This disclosure is made in compliance with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, codified at 16 CFR Part 255.

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is a tracked link to a third-party product or service. When you click an affiliate link and then sign up for a subscription, start a trial, or purchase a product, the vendor may pay us a commission. The commission comes out of the vendor's budget, not your price. The price you pay is the same whether you click an affiliate link or go directly to the vendor's site.

On this Site, affiliate links most commonly point to AI tool subscriptions (Claude, ChatGPT, Notion, Perplexity, Make, Zapier, and similar), software-as-a-service productivity tools, and educational platforms.

How we disclose affiliate relationships

Per FTC guidance, material connections between an endorser and a product must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. We meet this requirement in three ways:

• A persistent affiliate disclosure line in the site footer on every page
• This disclaimer page, linked from the footer and from the advisory disclaimer that appears at the top of every article
• Inline language inside individual articles when an affiliate relationship is particularly relevant to the recommendation

Editorial independence

Affiliate relationships do not influence which tools we cover, which tools we recommend, or what we say about them. Specifically:

• We write about tools we actually use. A tool gets reviewed because we have hands-on experience with it in a real workflow, not because the affiliate payout is attractive. Some of the tools we cover most often pay zero affiliate commission.
• We will say a tool is not worth it. If a tool in our affiliate roster has gotten worse, is overpriced relative to alternatives, or has a problem we caught in real use, we will say so in the article — even when an affiliate relationship is in place. We would rather lose a single commission than mislead a reader.
• We do not accept payment for favorable coverage. We do not sell sponsored posts disguised as editorial recommendations. We do not accept payment to remove negative commentary, change a ranking, or move a tool higher on a comparison list. If we ever publish a sponsored piece in the future, it will be labeled as such in the headline.
• We disclose the relationship, not just the link. When an article materially depends on a recommendation of an affiliate tool, the article itself includes language making the affiliate relationship clear in addition to the persistent footer notice.

What we do not earn commission on

Not every tool we mention has an affiliate program, and even among the ones that do, we are not always enrolled. Mentions of open-source projects, free tools, and many enterprise products generate no commission. Recommendations to use a tool you already pay for never generate commission. General how-to tutorials about a specific tool may or may not include an affiliate link — when they do, it's in addition to the tutorial, not the reason for it.

Advertising on the Site

Separate from affiliate links, this Site displays advertising through Google AdSense. AdSense ads are served programmatically based on Google's targeting, not on individual editorial decisions made by us. We do not control which specific ads appear, and an ad in an article is not an endorsement of that advertiser. For details on the cookies and data involved in ad serving, see the Privacy Policy.

AI tool reviews — independence policy

Because AI tools change so quickly and so much money is being spent marketing them, the review category needs an explicit standard. Ours is:

• A tool must be in active use by us before we publish a review of it. We don't publish reviews based on demo videos or press releases.
• When pricing or features are cited, the date and source of the figure is included. We update articles when we notice changes.
• Affiliate status is disclosed within the review itself, not just in the site-wide footer.
• Where a tool we have an affiliate relationship with has a clearly stronger free or open-source alternative for the reader's likely use case, we say so.

Your action is required

Affiliate links do not commit you to anything. Clicking a link costs nothing and creates no obligation. If you sign up via an affiliate link, your contract is with the vendor under their terms — not with us. The vendor handles billing, support, and cancellations. We are not party to that relationship.