Editorial Independence & Affiliate Policy

Building a global AI testing infrastructure, running heavy 70B parameter LLMs for stress tests, and employing elite human editors requires significant capital. We sustain Agent Critiq through strategic, transparent affiliate partnerships. When you click a "Deploy" or "Test" link on our platform and subsequently make a purchase of that software, we may receive a commission at strictly zero additional cost to you.

To ensure absolute objectivity, our architectural engineers who conduct the tool stress-testing and draft the final reviews are physically and logically separated from our monetization/business development team. The editorial team does not know which tools offer affiliate commissions and which do not. A tool's ranking in our database is driven entirely by its technical score, latency tests, and utility.

If a highly-advertised corporate AI model fails our context-window retention test or hallucinates data during our QA process, we will state it clearly in our review. If an indie-developer's open-source tool outperforms the corporate giant, it will be ranked higher—commission or not.