Affiliate disclosure

Current state

• Some eligible outbound product links are now affiliate links. If you click one and buy, the retailer may pay this publication a commission. Your price is exactly the same.
• A product link only appears when a signed, dated evidence row shows that the product actually covers your declared situation. An enabled affiliate rail is never, by itself, a reason to show a product.
• Programs: BLUETTI and ALLPOWERS (Awin, US, publisher ID 3023093, verified 8 August 2026) are technically live. Zendure’s contract is executed (Impact program 33101, contract 292602, 7 August 2026) but remains switched off until its tracking URL and attribution parameter are confirmed.
• Acceptance into a program is administrative approval, not an editorial endorsement and not a paid partnership.
• No merchant or manufacturer partnership exists, and no partner or brand logo is displayed.
• No sponsored content, gifted units, or paid reviews.

Why you will often see no product at all

Most declared situations end without a product link — because the running or startup watts are unknown, because the outage needs a different architecture, or because no signed evidence row covers it yet. In those cases the site tells you the next measurement to take instead of naming something to buy. That is the intended outcome, not a failure.

The rule that protects you

Ranking happens before commission. A verdict set is computed from your declared situation and the dated catalog. That order is fixed before any commercial layer is applied. Commission rate, program availability and merchant relationship are never inputs to the engine.

• A merchant cannot buy a position, a badge, or inclusion in a verdict set.
• A product with no affiliate program available can still be the recommended verdict.
• An abstention verdict earns nothing, and the system will still return it.

Tracking

Future affiliate adapters will use deep links with SubIDs that record the source, the scenario and the verdict that produced the click. This exists to measure whether the engine gives good advice — for example, whether a given verdict type leads to returns or regret. It is never a ranking input, and it is not used to build advertising profiles.

Editorial independence

If a commercial relationship ever conflicts with an honest verdict, the verdict wins and the relationship is dropped. Any material change to this policy will be dated and logged on the updates page. Partnership or affiliate inquiries go to editor@beforethebattery.com.