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The affiliation venture group

We build affiliation ventures — and teach you the playbook.

Four audit-grade review hubs. One selective three-week academy. The exact playbook, taught by the people running it.

Meet the ventures
4 review hubs · audit-grade method Remote · a few hours a week Academy applications open
The portfolio

Four holdings. One thesis.

ClearAff is built like a fund and run like a newsroom: four independent review hubs across four high-value niches, all operating under one audit-grade methodology. The method is the moat — programs are tested before any commission exists, every material claim is checked against a primary source, and rankings come from observed data only. Rankings are never for sale.

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Gold IRA Edge

Independent reviews of gold IRA custodians — setup fees, annual storage, minimums, and buyback terms, read from the custodians' own published documents. It protects retirement savers from the fee traps buried in the fine print.

Its recipe: primary-source verification. Every material claim is checked against the custodian's own published documents before a ranking is earned.

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Software Merit

Independent reviews of business software platforms — pricing that includes the renewal rate, real feature limits, and the catches buried in plan tiers. It tells buyers what a tool really costs, not what the landing page says.

Its recipe: renewal-rate transparency. Intro rates and renewal rates are published side by side, so readers see the real price — never the teaser.

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Trader Merit

Audit-grade reviews of forex brokers — regulation checked against the regulator's own registers, fee schedules read in full, withdrawal terms verified. It keeps traders away from unlicensed operators.

Its recipe: regulator-register verification. A broker's license is confirmed on the regulator's own register — never taken from the broker's word.

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Server Merit

Independent reviews of web hosting providers — benchmarked like a lab report, written like a human. Intro rates and renewal rates published side by side, so buyers never get ambushed at renewal.

Its recipe: lab-style benchmarking. Performance is measured, not quoted — and all testing finishes before any commercial relationship exists.

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For investors

The moat is the method

Audit-grade review methodology, applied identically across every hub: primary-source verification, transparent labeling, no fabrication, reader primacy. Trust compounds — and rankings cannot be bought at any price.

Diversified by niche

Four uncorrelated reader markets — gold IRA, business software, forex, web hosting. Each hub is an asset on its own; together they are a portfolio, resilient to any single niche's cycle.

The Academy is the growth engine

The ClearAff Academy trains the affiliates who generate the portfolio's traffic and deal flow. Students learn on real methodology; the portfolio gains distribution. A flywheel, by design.

Method

Our methodology: audit-grade review, consistently applied.

Every ClearAff hub operates under four methodological principles. Each is independently verifiable — that is the point.

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Primary-source verification

Every material claim is substantiated against a primary source — the regulator's public register or the vendor's own published documentation — and each claim cites that source.

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Transparent labeling

Every figure is classified as TARGET or OBSERVED, so readers can distinguish projections from measured facts. Anything not yet measured is labeled "not yet measured."

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No fabrication

No invented scores, no estimated traffic, no unverified revenue figures, no solicited testimonials. An unobserved number is never presented as an observed one.

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Reader primacy

Rankings are not available for purchase. All testing is completed before any commercial relationship exists — a structural safeguard, not a pledge.

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“The method is the moat — everything else is execution.”The ClearAff Method
By the numbers

An industry worth mastering.

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Projected global affiliate spend by 2030
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Of brands run affiliate programs
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Average revenue for every $1 of affiliate spend
The ClearAff Academy

Three weeks. The real playbook. Your best shot at a remote income stream.

The ClearAff Academy is a three-week enrollment program that teaches you how the affiliation business actually works — the same research discipline, program selection, and tracking our review hubs use every day. Small cohort, fully remote, a few focused hours a week. Built for people who want the best possible chance at building a stable source of remote income.

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Week one — How affiliation really works

How affiliate programs and commissions actually work: cookie windows, attribution, one-time versus recurring payouts. How to read program terms like an auditor — and how to pick programs worth your time.

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Week two — Content, traffic, and tracking

How to build review-style content readers trust, the fundamentals of earning traffic, and how to set up tracking so every click and conversion is attributed to you.

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Week three — Launch, measure, compound

Launch your first promotions, read your numbers honestly, double down on what works, and learn how recurring commissions can compound into something that starts to look like a living.

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After the three weeks

Graduates keep the playbooks, the tracking templates, and access to the community. You leave with a working setup and a plan — taught by the people who run the review hubs.

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Working remotely from a bright home office

How recurring commissions compound.

This is the arithmetic the whole program is built around. A recurring commission pays every month the customer stays — so each new referral stacks on top of the ones before it. The base grows month after month: not because any single referral pays more, but because the referrals accumulate.

active referrals × average recurring commission = monthly revenue — paid again next month

Your time, your trajectory.

The Academy is built for people with lives — a job, a family, a few focused hours a week. You decide how much time you invest; the curriculum shows you exactly what to do with it.

The steady start
<5 hours / week
~$5k / month
Most popular The serious builder
~10 hours / week
~$12k / month
The full commitment
~25 hours / week
~$30k / month

Fully remote, fully flexible.

The industry, in numbers.

Industry benchmarks (independent surveys) — context for the opportunity, not our results.

$20B+

Global affiliate marketing industry — the US alone is around $12B — still growing at double-digit rates yearly.

~$8,038/mo

Average affiliate marketer income across 2,270 surveyed affiliates — though 41% earn under $1k/month. A power-law game: skill decides which side you are on.

17×

Earnings rise steeply with experience: under a year ~$636/mo, one to two years ~$4,196/mo, three to five years ~$10,789/mo.

~$15,551/mo

E-learning affiliates average the highest earnings of any niche — the exact niche this Academy trains for.

Selective by design.

Enrollment is selective. Every applicant completes a final exam before the program begins — no one starts without passing.

We do this for one reason: so that only ready students begin, and every student in the cohort can reach their own financial goals. If you are serious, we are serious.

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“Three weeks. One playbook. A portfolio that compounds.”The ClearAff Academy
Our team

The people behind the audits.

Aurélien Portuese, Founder of ClearAff

Aurélien Portuese

Professor of Economics, University of Miami
Founder, ClearAff

We are a small team that reads the fine print for a living. We built ClearAff because affiliate content had become marketing with a comments section — so we built the review desks we wanted to read ourselves.

We check primary sources, label every figure as TARGET or OBSERVED, and refuse to publish what we have not measured. Our rankings cannot be bought, because our testing happens before any commission exists.

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