How Tech Vault AI makes money, what that changes about our reviews, and what it will never change. Written plainly, because a disclosure nobody reads protects nobody.
Four answers up front. The detail follows below.
Some links on Tech Vault AI are affiliate links, and where they are, we may earn a commission if you buy through one. That is how a site like this stays free to read.
We do not put affiliate links in everything. They appear only where one actually fits — where a specific product is being discussed and a reader might reasonably want to go and look at it. Plenty of our articles carry no affiliate link at all.
This is a deliberate choice. Stuffing a link into every paragraph makes an article worse to read and worse to trust, and it pushes writing towards whatever pays rather than whatever is useful. We would rather link where it helps and leave it out where it does not.
An affiliate link is an ordinary link with a tracking code attached. If you click it and then buy something, the seller pays us a small commission for sending you their way.
You pay exactly the same price. The commission comes out of the seller's margin, not out of your pocket. There is no surcharge and no worse deal for using our link.
The tracking itself is done by the seller, not by us. What comes back to us is an aggregate report of sales — never your name, address, or payment details. The detail is in our Privacy Policy.
Given what we cover, our affiliate relationships fall into three groups:
As each relationship goes live, it is covered by everything set out on this page. We keep this section accurate as the list grows.
Every review and comparison on Tech Vault AI carries a disclosure notice inside the article itself — near the top or near the foot of the piece — so you never have to leave the page to find out how we are funded.
That notice appears whether or not the article contains a single affiliate link. Since we only add links where they genuinely fit, many of our articles carry none — and the notice is there anyway. We would rather over-disclose on a piece that earns us nothing than under-disclose on one that does.
If a review was written using access a vendor provided rather than a copy we bought, that is stated in the review too. Sponsored or paid placements, where they exist, are labelled as such and kept separate from editorial reviews.
Two ways, and we are open about which applies in each case.
Paying for things ourselves is deliberate. Buying a product is the only way to find out what the upgrade prompts feel like, what the cancellation flow does, and whether the plan you actually need costs what the pricing page implies.
Commission rates are never a factor in a score, a verdict, a recommendation, or the order of a ranked list. A tool that pays nothing can beat a tool that pays well, and regularly does.
Scores are set before commercial terms are looked at, and a product that disappoints gets said so in plain language regardless of what it would pay us. If a tool is the wrong choice for the reader, the honest answer is worth more than the commission.
Where a genuinely good option has no affiliate program at all, we still recommend it. Some of our strongest recommendations earn us nothing.
Affiliate commission is not the only way this site is funded, and you deserve the full picture:
The full commercial terms are set out in our Terms of Service.
This is not a token line at the bottom of a legal page. Write in, and you get a real answer from the person who wrote the review.
Email info@techvaultai.com and you will get an answer within 24 hours. No sales pitch attached — if the honest answer is that you do not need the product, that is the answer you will get.
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