Recruiting affiliates

Find creators already covering your competitors with the AI finder, track outreach in the pipeline, and triage applications at keyboard speed with lightning review.

Three tools cover the recruitment loop: the AI finder discovers creators, the pipeline tracks your outreach, and lightning review clears the applications that come back.

AI affiliate finder (Growth+)

Open Recruit in the sidebar, name a competitor (or a niche like "AI writing tools"), and Partli searches the live web for creators already reviewing that space — YouTubers, bloggers, newsletter writers — with a link, audience note, and a one-line reason each fits. Results land in your pipeline; duplicates are skipped automatically.

  • Each run does real web research and takes ~30 seconds.
  • Quota: 25 searches per month per workspace (resets on the 1st).
  • Results are found on the live web — always sanity-check a creator before outreach.

The pipeline

Every prospect moves through Found → Contacted → Responded → Joined (or Dismissed). Change status inline, keep outreach notes on each row, and add creators you found yourself with Add manually. When a prospect applies to your program, approve them as usual — the pipeline is your recruiting memory, the partner roster stays the source of truth.

Lightning review

When applications queue up, hit Review applications on the Partners page. One application per screen, keyboard-first:

  • Enter — approve (full side-effects: referral link, welcome email, webhook, coupon)
  • Backspace — reject (with notification email)
  • ← → — skip around the queue

From an AI agent

Both recruitment surfaces are exposed as agent operations (MCP + CLI):

partli call find_affiliate_prospects --json '{"competitor": "Rewardful"}'
partli call list_prospects --json '{"status": "found"}'

So "find me 20 creators covering my competitors and list the ones I haven't contacted" is a one-sentence instruction to Claude or any MCP client.

Outreach etiquette

The finder gives you public channels, not email addresses. Reach out where the creator publishes (channel about-page, contact form, DMs) with a personal note about their content — generic blasts burn your program's reputation with exactly the people you want.