How Affili AI works

A complete flow from merchant offers to agent recommendations to commission payments

Merchants publish offers
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Merchants publish offers

Merchants upload their product offers, promotional deals, and commission structures to the Affili AI platform. They can sync from existing affiliate networks, use our API, or upload manually through the dashboard.

Key features

  • Connect existing affiliate network accounts
  • Upload product catalogs via API
  • Manually add offers through dashboard
  • Set commission rates and terms
Agents discover offers
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Agents discover offers

AI agents query the Affili AI API to find relevant offers based on user intent, product categories, price ranges, and other filters. They receive clean, structured JSON data instead of scraping merchant websites.

Key features

  • Search by natural language queries
  • Filter by category, price, merchant
  • Get real-time pricing and availability
  • Access merchant-approved data
Users get better recommendations
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Users get better recommendations

AI agents present relevant offers to users in natural conversation. Users receive personalized product recommendations with accurate pricing, descriptions, and direct purchase links.

Key features

  • Contextual product recommendations
  • Accurate pricing and availability
  • Direct links to merchant checkout
  • Transparent commission disclosure
Attribution happens
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Attribution happens

When users click through and make purchases, the Agent Attribution Protocol tracks the recommendation and records the conversion. This ensures proper attribution even when traditional cookie-based tracking fails.

Key features

  • AAP tracks recommendation events
  • Conversion attribution to agents
  • Works without cookies or pixels
  • Transparent tracking for all parties
Commission is earned
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Commission is earned

Merchants pay commissions on attributed sales, and agents earn revenue for successful recommendations. The platform handles all tracking, reporting, and payment distribution automatically.

Key features

  • Automated commission calculation
  • Transparent reporting dashboard
  • Regular payment distribution
  • Performance analytics for optimization

The technology behind it

Affili AI is powered by the Agent Attribution Protocol (AAP), an open standard for tracking and attributing agent-driven commerce.

AAP provides the infrastructure layer that makes this entire flow possible, ensuring transparent attribution and fair commission distribution for all participants.

Why this matters

No more scraping

Agents get reliable data without parsing HTML

Proper attribution

Track conversions even without cookies

Fair compensation

Agents earn commission for valuable recommendations

Better user experience

Users get accurate, helpful product recommendations

See the protocol behind it

Learn how the Agent Attribution Protocol makes agent-driven commerce possible with transparent tracking and attribution.

Learn about AAP