{"slug":"sponsor-policy","id":"sponsor-policy","type":"pricing","title":"Sponsor Policy","description":"Disclosure and ranking rules for sponsorships, paid placements, affiliate links, referral links, and commercial relationships on AI Future Ready.","last_updated":"2026-04-24","last_verified":null,"verification_status":"unverified","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/sponsor-policy.md","html_url":"/pricing/sponsor-policy","api_url":"/api/v1/pricing/sponsor-policy.json","content_hash":"23d6586bf1ac5c5011b310d1e1c372f41e6ec99724f546496f6432554e77c6f7","sha256":"23d6586bf1ac5c5011b310d1e1c372f41e6ec99724f546496f6432554e77c6f7","tags":["sponsorship","disclosure","pricing","trust","commercial"],"relationships":{"links":[],"related":[{"id":"commercial-data-license","title":"Commercial Data License","type":"pricing","html_url":"/pricing/commercial-license","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/commercial-license.md","shared_tags":["pricing","commercial"],"score":4},{"id":"pro-data","title":"Pro Data","type":"pricing","html_url":"/pricing/pro-data","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/pro-data.md","shared_tags":["pricing","commercial"],"score":4},{"id":"public-roadmap","title":"Public Roadmap","type":"pricing","html_url":"/pricing/roadmap","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/roadmap.md","shared_tags":["pricing","trust"],"score":4},{"id":"agent-readiness-audit","title":"Agent Readiness Audit","type":"pricing","html_url":"/pricing/agent-readiness-audit","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/agent-readiness-audit.md","shared_tags":["pricing"],"score":3},{"id":"change-alerts","title":"Change Alerts","type":"pricing","html_url":"/pricing/change-alerts","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/change-alerts.md","shared_tags":["pricing"],"score":3},{"id":"pro-data-sample","title":"Pro Data Sample","type":"pricing","html_url":"/pricing/pro-data-sample","markdown_url":"/content/pricing/pro-data-sample.md","shared_tags":["pricing"],"score":3}],"explicit":{}},"metadata":{"title":"Sponsor Policy","type":"pricing","id":"sponsor-policy","description":"Disclosure and ranking rules for sponsorships, paid placements, affiliate links, referral links, and commercial relationships on AI Future Ready.","last_updated":"2026-04-24","status":"draft","tags":["sponsorship","disclosure","pricing","trust","commercial"]},"content_text":"# Sponsor Policy\n\nSponsorship is allowed only if it is obvious to humans and visible to agents.\n\n## Core Rule\n\nPaid relationships must be disclosed in markdown and JSON. Paid relationships must not silently affect recommendation scores.\n\n## Allowed\n\n- clearly labeled page sponsorship\n- clearly labeled newsletter sponsorship\n- clearly labeled API sponsorship metadata\n- clearly labeled referral or affiliate links\n- clearly labeled \"sponsored by\" text\n\n## Not Allowed\n\n- unlabeled paid placement\n- hidden ranking influence\n- sponsored content presented as independent scoring\n- affiliate links without disclosure\n- provider-written claims without source labeling\n\n## Required Metadata\n\n```yaml\nsponsored: true\nsponsor: \"Example Company\"\nranking_influence: false\ndisclosure: \"Paid sponsorship. Ranking score was not changed by sponsorship.\"\n```\n\n## Recommendation Scores\n\nRecommendation scores should be based on task fit, pricing, deployment fit, and source-backed metadata. Sponsorship can pay for placement or visibility only when labeled; it cannot silently change score formulas.\n\n## Agent Rule\n\nAgents should ignore sponsorship as a quality signal. If sponsorship is present, mention it when summarizing why a page or recommendation appeared.","content_length":1596,"generated_at":"2026-04-24"}