AI agent for affiliate marketing managers
Affiliate Self-Referral and Cookie Stuffing Detection Agent
Catch suspicious affiliate conversions before commissions are paid.
What it does
A small number of affiliates earn commissions by buying through their own links, or by dropping tracking cookies without a real click, and the money is often paid before anyone notices. Each week this agent pulls conversions by affiliate and checks click-to-sale timing, repeated IP addresses, coupon use and whether the order email or address matches the affiliate's own details. If a pattern fails a check, it widens the sample to earlier weeks and gathers order evidence before flagging. It writes a short case with the numbers and drafts a hold or warning. Edge case: an affiliate who buys for their own household may be allowed by your terms. The manager approves any hold, reversal or warning.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Weekly run before payout
- Pull conversions, click logs and order details by affiliate
- Measure click-to-sale time and repeat IPs
- Match order emails, names and addresses to the affiliate's own details
- Check coupon use and cookie patterns
- Do two or more signals point to the same affiliate?If not: widen the sample to earlier weeks and test again. Back to step 2.
- Gather order evidence for flagged conversions
- Draft a case with the numbers and a proposed action
- Manager approves any hold, reversal or warningThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Case list and clean payout list
How it decides
It flags affiliates whose conversions share several suspicious signals, and confirms with order evidence over a wider time window.
- Flag click-to-sale times under 5 seconds on more than 20 percent of orders
- Flag matching order and affiliate email or address
- Require 2 signals before opening a case
- Treat household purchases as allowed only if the terms say so
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Click-to-sale time limit (default 5 seconds)
- Signals required (default 2)
- Look-back window in weeks
- Whether household purchases are allowed
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Manager approves any commission hold or reversal
- Manager approves any warning to an affiliate
Hard limits
- Never holds or reverses a commission itself
- Does not accuse the affiliate, the case states facts only
It stops when
- Done: all flagged cases reviewed before payout
- Stop: click logs are not available for the period
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide
