Competitors

Your Competitors list is who a scan searches around. Open it from Brand, then Competitors.

The three tiers

RecruitAffiliates.ai sorts every competitor into one of three groups, so you can see at a glance what each one is for.

• Direct. Companies selling the same thing you do. A buyer puts you and them side by side before they choose.
• Adjacent. Other tools the same buyers use, even though they don't do what you do. Someone who buys one often buys the other too, so their affiliates are worth finding.
• Platforms. The affiliate software a direct competitor runs on, like Tolt or PartnerStack. Worth watching because the same affiliate often promotes several programs on the same platform.

Adding a competitor is capped by its own tier: up to eight Direct, up to eight Adjacent, up to four Platforms. Twenty in total, on every plan and the trial, because even a trial needs to show real volume.

Those limits apply when you add one. An older list can show more than eight in a tier, and every row on it still counts toward your scan.

Why networks aren't on the list

An affiliate network, like Impact or Everflow, isn't a competitor: it's software your competitors' programs run through, not a product anyone chooses instead of yours. RecruitAffiliates.ai still watches its tracking links, because a page that links through Impact to a competitor is proof the same way a direct link is. You'll see a short line under your list naming the networks watched this way. They never take a spot in your twenty.

Each competitor's card

Every card in your list shows:

• Its name and domain.
• How many of your affiliates already promote it, worded as "48 affiliates found". A brand new competitor, or one no affiliate has linked to, reads "No affiliates found".

Add a competitor

1. Open Brand, then Competitors.
2. Type its domain, like rival.com.
3. Pick its tier: Direct, Adjacent or Platform.
4. Press Add.

If a tier or your list of twenty is full, RecruitAffiliates.ai tells you so in plain words, and you remove one before adding another.

Remove a competitor

Press Remove on its card. There's no confirmation step: adding it back is just as quick.

When an edit takes effect

Adding or removing a competitor never starts a scan and is never charged. It's saved straight away and read by your next weekly scan. The affiliates you already have don't change.