Affiliate disclosure
Some of the tool links here pay us a commission. Here is exactly where, and what it does and does not change.
Last updated 2 August 2026
Draft, pending legal review
This page describes how we intend to operate, written by the people building the product. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer, and it does not yet name a governing jurisdiction. If you are relying on anything here for a decision that matters, write to us and ask.
The short version
A few of the links to outside tools are affiliate links. If you sign up through one, the tool may pay us a small share. It costs you nothing extra, and in some cases the link is worth more to you than the plain one because it carries a trial or a discount.
What it does not change
Which tool a Build recommends is never decided by whether that tool pays us. This is a written rule rather than an intention: a Build uses the tool that gets a non-technical person to a working result with the least friction, and if the one that pays nothing is better, that is the one in the Build.
We do not take payment to feature a tool, we do not write Builds to order for a vendor, and nobody outside this company gets to see a Build before it is published.
Where you will see them
Affiliate links appear in the tools list on a Build page and occasionally inside a step where the Build tells you to sign up for something. Where a link is an affiliate link, the Build says so on the page rather than burying it here.
You are never required to use one. Searching for the tool by name and signing up directly gets you the same result, and no Build behaves differently depending on which route you took.
Why we do it at all
The membership is the business. Affiliate income is a small second line that helps cover the cost of testing tools we would be paying for anyway. If it ever grew large enough to make us want to recommend something we did not believe in, the right answer would be to stop taking it, and we would rather write that down now than find out later.
Questions
If you want to know whether a specific link is an affiliate link, ask support@smartwaybuilds.io and we will tell you straight.