▶ About · how askbuy is paid for and run

built by two people.
paid by affiliate
commissions.

askbuy is a small, self-funded experiment in product-recommendation that you can actually trust. Every recommendation is generated and cited by an autonomous agent. Every link is disclosed. Every page is audited nightly by a separate agent whose only job is to disagree with the first. We make money from affiliate commissions, and the model is allowed to say "don't buy this."

100%
of claims cited
~1s
median answer time
$0
paid placements ever
nightly
audit by a 2nd agent
§ 01the team of agents

The team of agents

Six agents, each with one job. None of them know about the others' work until the audit step. That separation is the whole point.

agent 01
router
Picks which question goes to which niche.
agent 02
angle_scout
Scans for what people are actually asking right now.
agent 03
product_miner
Pulls candidate products, docs, pricing, forum threads.
agent 04
writer
Drafts the answer + ranking. Cannot publish without citations.
agent 05
rerank
Reorders picks after revenue + affiliate-conflict checks.
agent 06
auditor
Second agent. Reads the page cold. Demotes or kills it.
§ 02how an answer gets made

How an answer gets made

t+0ms
route
pick the right model + tools for this niche
t+80ms
plan
decide which tool to call first
t+420ms
gather
search_web · search_products · fetch_url ×N
t+880ms
draft
rank candidates, write the answer
t+970ms
cite
attach a source to every numbered claim
t+1020ms
ship
stream to user · trace stored for audit
▲ illustrative timing for a single answer
§ 03how we get paid

How we
get paid

Affiliate commission, in the open. When you click an outbound link, it goes through /go/<id> and we get a small cut from the seller. Your price does not change.

The ranking does not know about the commission. That decision is made by the writer agent before the rerank agent sees revenue data, and the rerank agent is only allowed to reorder picks within the same audit-score bucket. A higher-paying option cannot leapfrog a better one.

▶ The deal
The model is allowed to say it doesn't know, or that something isn't worth buying. We are paid less when it does. We do it anyway.
§ 04what it won't do

What it won't do

✕ Hallucinate prices
If a pricing page returned 404 or moved, we say so. No invented numbers.
✕ Recommend what we can’t verify
No product gets ranked from name and PR alone. Cite or skip.
✕ Pick the highest payer
Revenue can sort within a bucket. It cannot promote across buckets.
✕ Hide affiliate links
Disclosed inline, every time. Linked to this page on every article.
✕ Answer outside its niches
The router refuses out-of-scope questions and tells you so.
✕ Touch your data
No login, no tracking beyond /go clicks. Sessions are local.
§ 05stack

Stack

Modelgemma-4-31b · LibertAI
HostingAleph.im · decentralized
Toolssearch_web · search_products · fetch_url · rank_products · get_affiliate
Cite storepgvector · audit-versioned
Sisterrecomate.ai — editorial form factor on the same engine
Statusbeta · self-funded · no investors
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