Disclosure and Transparency

The short version

My AI Guide earns money when readers sign up for tools we recommend through our links. We also run paid workshops and a community. That's the full list.

We never accept payment in exchange for a higher rating, a better-placed mention, a removed negative review, or a coverage decision. If a vendor asks, we say no. If a vendor offers something borderline, such as early access, a gifted subscription, or a partnership, we'll tell you about it on the relevant page.

This page explains how all of that works in detail. If you'd rather have a quick answer than read it, the rule we work to is: your trust is worth more than any single vendor relationship, so we'd rather lose the deal than bend the editorial.

How we make money

My AI Guide has four revenue streams:

1. Affiliate commissions. When you click a link on this site to sign up for a tool and later subscribe or purchase, we may earn a commission from the vendor. The amount you pay does not change.
2. Paid workshops. We run occasional paid workshops under the SmartBee brand, where readers can learn to use specific tools or AI workflows in depth.
3. Community membership. SmartBee operates a paid community for readers who want ongoing access, Q&A, and peer discussion.
4. Paid partnerships and sponsored content. Vendors may pay us to produce or promote a sponsored post, review, or brand-partnered piece. Sponsored content is always clearly labelled as sponsored at the top of the page, before any body content appears. See “Relationships with vendors” below for the full rules.

We do not run display advertising, and we do not sell your data.

How affiliate links work

Any link on this site that takes you to a tool's sign-up page may be an affiliate link. These links use a redirect on our own domain before sending you to the vendor. When you click, you'll briefly see a myaiguide.co URL before landing on the product page. We disclose the presence of affiliate links on every page where they appear, in line with UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidance.

You can always visit a tool's website directly by typing its URL into your browser. If you choose to, the tool won't know you came from us, and we won't earn a commission. The choice is yours and we're fine either way.

Editorial independence: what affiliate money does NOT buy

The following things are not for sale, to any vendor, at any price:

• Editorial ratings. Our multi-dimensional rating is based on how well a tool serves non-technical users, not on how much it pays us. Tools we have no affiliate relationship with are rated on the same scale as tools we do.
• Review content. Pros, cons, caveats, and verdicts are written by our editorial team based on research and use. Vendors do not review drafts before publication.
• Rankings and placement. When we say a tool is “best for X”, we mean it. Vendors cannot pay to appear higher in a category, a comparison, or a recommendation.
• Negative review removal. If a tool is not a good fit for our readers, we say so. A vendor cannot pay to have critical coverage taken down.
• Editorial rigour on sponsored posts. Sponsored content still passes our research and fact-check process, and is always clearly labelled at the top of the page. Vendors cannot pay to skip editorial standards or to have an unverified claim stand.

If any of these commitments is ever breached, we will publish a correction on this page with the date and a description of what happened. To date, no such correction exists.

Relationships with vendors

Where a vendor relationship might reasonably affect how a reader reads a review, we disclose it on the relevant page. Examples of disclosures you may see:

• “The reviewer used a complimentary plan provided by the vendor for evaluation.”
• “My AI Guide has an active affiliate relationship with this vendor.”
• “This tool is built by a team that has previously appeared as a guest on our podcast.”

We accept paid partnerships, sponsored content, and brand-funded coverage. Any such content is clearly labelled as sponsored at the top of the page, before any body content appears, and carries the same label in RSS feeds and sitemaps. Sponsored content does not affect our editorial ratings, rankings, or coverage decisions on independent (non-sponsored) pages.

If you see a review, comparison, or roundup on this site without a sponsored label, it is independent editorial work.

AI and automation in our workflow

We use AI tools to help us research, summarise, and cross-check information (the same category of tools we review on this site). Every published review is read and edited by a human member of our editorial team before going live. We do not publish unreviewed AI-generated content.

We mention this because we think readers of an AI tool directory deserve to know how AI is used in the work they're reading.

Corrections and conflicts

If you find a factual error, a pricing figure that's out of date, a conflict of interest we should have disclosed, or a breach of any of the commitments above:

• Email us at support@smartbee.build with the page URL and what you'd like corrected.
• We aim to respond within three working days.
• Corrections are applied to the relevant page with a dated note, and significant corrections are logged on this page.

How to verify our independence

Because disclosure statements are only as good as the company making them, we publish additional evidence of our operating model in public:

• Our editorial process, contact email, and publisher identity are documented on /about.
• A machine-readable briefing for AI systems, including our citation guidance and commercial model, is available at /for-ai.
• My AI Guide is published by A Hive Mind Ltd, registered in England and Wales. Full company details are available via Companies House.

Contact

For disclosure questions, correction requests, or conflict-of-interest reports: support@smartbee.build

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Last updated: April 2026