# RecruitAffiliates.ai

Find affiliates, agree their terms and move accepted partners into AffiliateRail.

Use RecruitAffiliates.ai to recruit affiliates for your SaaS. Start with the [setup guide](/getting-started).

RecruitAffiliates.ai lives at [app.recruitaffiliates.ai](https://app.recruitaffiliates.ai). Links to its old address forward you there.

RecruitAffiliates.ai handles the work before an affiliate joins your program. It finds candidates, keeps your offer and tracks each conversation. When someone accepts, RecruitAffiliates.ai creates the partner and their commission rule in AffiliateRail.

## Start with the free trial

The trial lasts 7 days and needs no card. It includes:

- Your top 50 matches, with score parts and source content.
- 20 email lookups. Each finds one affiliate's address and tells you whether we could check it.
- Five new searches.
- One connected mailbox.

The account becomes read-only when the trial ends. Your matches and deals stay visible. For 14 days after that you can still answer anyone who replied. Exporting your saved affiliates needs a paid plan. RecruitAffiliates.ai won't charge you or start a paid plan.

## Follow the recruitment path

1. **Find candidates.** [Discover](/discover) ranks websites, YouTube channels and podcasts. Read [how website discovery works](/discovery), [how YouTube discovery works](/youtube) and [how podcasts are found](/discovery#podcasts).
2. **Check the evidence.** Open a score to see its four parts. Each part links back to the source content.
3. **Save the right people.** Use the cards on Today to go one at a time, or use the list. Saving a match costs nothing.
4. **Find an email.** RecruitAffiliates.ai charges one email lookup only for a usable address. [See how email lookups work](/credits).
5. **Agree the terms.** Store the rate and payment length as a deal. RecruitAffiliates.ai keeps every version.
6. **Activate the partner.** [The hand-off](/handoff) creates their AffiliateRail record and commission rule together.

## Understand the score

Every website and podcast match gets a score out of 100, with its four parts. YouTube channels show YouTube's own counts instead of a score. [How](/youtube#youtube-numbers).

| Part | Points | What RecruitAffiliates.ai checks |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| How closely they cover your topic | 40 | Work about your category and named competitors |
| How big their audience is | 30 | Audience size, country and your targeting |
| Recent activity | 20 | How recently they published |
| Commercial fit | 10 | Signs they already promote products |

Scores of 60 or more enter Discover. Scores from 40 to 59 stay under **Worth a look**. RecruitAffiliates.ai drops anything below 40.

Discover is one list, with every kept person in it, best fit first. [How the one list works](/discover#one-list).

## Run the work after discovery

- Move saved matches through the [pipeline](/pipeline), including reply-driven stage changes and safe undo.
- Check plan allowances, exports and payment status under [billing](/billing).
- Choose optional email updates and read every product event in [notifications and emails](/emails).

## Write your offer first

Nothing is sent until your offer exists. Write it once, in **Settings**, **What you offer**:

1. What they earn: a percentage of each sale, or a fixed amount per sale.
2. How long it pays: for as long as the customer pays, for a number of months, or on the first payment only.
3. Tiers, if you want them: after a set number of customers, the rate rises.
4. A bonus and a gift, if you offer them.

The offer is stored as numbers, not as a note. A percentage is stored in **basis points** (2,000 is 20%). A fixed amount is stored in the smallest unit of its currency (1,500 is $15.00). That's what lets the terms an affiliate accepts become their commission rule in AffiliateRail without anyone retyping them.

## RecruitAffiliates.ai and AffiliateRail

RecruitAffiliates.ai and AffiliateRail share one account. Their trials and subscriptions are separate.

RecruitAffiliates.ai covers recruitment. AffiliateRail covers tracking, commissions and payouts. An accepted deal crosses that boundary once, through the hand-off.

## What happens when an action fails

RecruitAffiliates.ai keeps the data you've entered. A failed search refunds its email lookup, and so does one that finds nothing new. A failed hand-off creates no partial partner or commission rule. The screen tells you what to fix before retrying.

## Email lookups [#credits]

Saving a match is free. Two things spend an email lookup:

- **Revealing a verified email** spends one email lookup. You're charged only when a usable address comes back. No result, an invalid address or a failed lookup refunds it.
- **Running a new search** spends one search. You're charged only when it finds at least one new affiliate. A search that fails, or finds nothing you didn't already have, refunds it.

Allowances reset each month and don't roll over. Annual billing doesn't change that reset. When you're out, the button says so before you press it, and names the plan with more.

## Plans

| | Launch | Grow | Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $79 a month, or $790 a year | $199 a month, or $1,990 a year | Custom |
| Email lookups | 200 a month | 600 a month | Unlimited |
| Searches | 20 a month | 60 a month | Unlimited |
| Mailboxes | 1, +$15 a month per extra mailbox | 3, +$15 a month per extra mailbox | Mailboxes to fit |
| Rename and reorder pipeline stages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| API and webhooks | No | Yes | Yes |

Paying yearly gets you 2 months free: $65.83 a month on Launch, $165.83 on Grow. Launch runs one brand and Grow runs five.