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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.

4 review hubs · audit-grade method Remote · a few hours a week
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.

01

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.

02

Transparent labeling

Every figure is labeled by status, so readers can distinguish projections from measured facts. Anything not yet measured is labeled "not yet measured."

03

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.

04

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

What remote certified marketers can earn

The ClearAff Academy is the certification process: selected enrollees need to pass a final exam to benefit from the on-going support that will maximize their success.

Low commitment
>$7,000/month
According to Authority Hacker, respondents in its seven most profitable niches (of 2,270 professional affiliate marketers surveyed) reported earning a mean of >$7,000/month.*
Average Commitment
$8,038/month
According to Authority Hacker, its 2,270 surveyed professional affiliate marketers reported earning a mean of $8,038/month.**
Strong Commitment
>$12,500/month
According to Influencer Marketing Hub, 3.78% of surveyed affiliate marketers reported earning >$12,500/month (>$150,000/year).***

Sources

  1. *Authority Hacker, “Affiliate Marketing in 2024: Survey of 2,270 Affiliate Marketers” (page shows “Updated November 15, 2024”; archived copy dated Jan 15, 2025; the original page now redirects). Group: respondents in its seven most profitable niches, of 2,270 professional affiliate marketers surveyed. Retrieved October 4, 2026 (from the Internet Archive copy). Caveats: a mean, not a median and not a typical result; respondents were self-selected, recruited from Authority Hacker’s own email list, podcast and social channels, and are predominantly website owners (mean 2.8 years’ experience); Authority Hacker sells affiliate training; survey fielding date not stated; archive copy.
  2. **Authority Hacker, same survey and page as * above. Group: all 2,270 respondents. Retrieved October 4, 2026 (from the Internet Archive copy). Caveats: a mean pulled up by high earners, not a median and not a typical result; self-selected respondents from Authority Hacker’s own audience; no distribution published; fielding date not stated; archive copy.
  3. ***Influencer Marketing Hub, “The State of Affiliate Marketing: Benchmark Report (2023)” (page last updated June 24, 2024; survey from its 2022 report). Group: surveyed affiliate marketers; share reported by IMH: 3.78% >$150,000/year. Retrieved October 4, 2026. Caveats: self-reported; sample size, recruitment method and survey date not stated; the published shares add to 90.63%; $12,500/month = annual figure ÷ 12 (our arithmetic). These figures come from published surveys and platform data about affiliate marketers in general. They are not results of ClearAff or its students (we have no student results yet), and they are not a promise or prediction of what you will earn.

Not financial, tax or legal advice.

The ClearAff Academy

Three weeks. The real playbook.

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.

Adult students learning with their teacher in a bright classroom
01

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.

02

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.

03

Week three — Launch, measure, compound

Launch your first promotions, read your numbers honestly, and double down on what works.

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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

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. 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.

Aurelien Portuese, Founder of ClearAff

Aurelien Portuese

Professor of Economics, University of Miami
Founder, ClearAff

We are a small team on a mission to teach and deliver financial empowerment. We built ClearAff so students and working professionals can harness the power of affiliate marketing and build real financial independence. Years of hands-on experience, a tested methodology and a proven teaching approach stand behind the ClearAff Academy, our certification process, which opens the door to remote work on your own terms.

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