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Sponsored editorial

$500. One post, written by Stork.

Send us a URL. We use the product, form a view, and publish what we actually think. You don't get approval over the copy — that's the point, and it's why the piece is worth quoting.

What you get

  • A permanent post on stork.ai, labeled Sponsored — published in 8 languages, not just English.
  • A send to our newsletter.
  • Social distribution across our channels.
  • Structured for AI answer engines, which cite us by name.
  • Full rights to quote and link it anywhere, forever.

What we don't promise

Search traffic. Some of our posts pull thousands of readers; most don't, and we can't tell you in advance which yours will be. If you're buying clicks, buy ads instead.

Eight languages, not one.

Every post we publish is translated into English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean, each on its own indexed URL with proper hreflang. That's part of the deliverable, not an upsell.

It matters more than it sounds. Across the last 90 days, 65% of everything read on this blog was read in a language other than English — Korean alone out-read English by a wide margin. We can't promise your post repeats that. We can promise it ships in all eight, which is the part we control.

Payment buys the work, not the verdict.

We write after payment clears, and we publish what we find. No approval rights, no killing the piece because you don't like it, and no refund for an unfavourable review. The one thing we do refund is our own failure to publish — if we never ship the post, you get your money back.

Every outbound link carries rel="sponsored", and the post carries a visible disclosure. It has no effect on our directory rankings or Quadrant scores — those aren't for sale at any price.

Will we cover it?

Paste the product URL. We read the site and tell you in about a minute — free, and before you pay anything. We only cover AI tools and software. It doesn't have to be your own product.

Newsletter sponsorship

Sole sponsor of a daily AI newsletter.

One sponsor per issue, at the very top of the email — your banner, above the news, linked to wherever you want it. It goes out every day to people who build and buy AI tooling, and afterwards you get the real numbers, including unique clicks on your own link.

What we measure

  • 23% unique open rate, 16% click-to-open, across the last six issues.
  • Across those six issues, 1,223 different people opened at least one. That is reach counted per person, not per send.
  • 2,400+ opted-in subscribers, 800 of them from the last 30 days. That is the number we actually send to — not everyone whose address we hold.
  • 0.04% complaint rate — the number we protect hardest, because it is what keeps the rest working.
  • 63% of the people who open read it from a company domain, counting neither free mail nor privacy relays. They are AI startups, not enterprise procurement.
  • No estimated reach, no impressions-with-a-multiplier. When your window ends you get measured delivered, unique opens and unique clicks on your own link.

What you upload

  • A banner, 1200×600. It runs full width at the top of the issue, above everything, linked to your URL.
  • Optionally one or two sentences under it. We don't rewrite your copy.
  • A destination URL, UTM'd however you like. No banner? A square logo works too.
  • All of it goes on your own campaign page after checkout — upload, preview the exact block, change it any time.
  • Creative is reviewed before it runs. If we can't run it, you get a full refund — not an argument.

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One sponsor block per issue, and it's yours. Further down, an issue can carry a single labeled line for a directory listing — a separate $29 product, one line of text, no logo and no button; it never runs above you. Every block is labeled, links carry rel="sponsored nofollow", and a paid slot never buys an editorial pick.

What we'll run

Creative is checked against these before it goes out — usually within the hour, by a machine, with a person on anything it isn't sure about. If we can't run yours you get the reason and a link to fix it, or a full refund. Your money is never held hostage to a taste argument.

AI tools, AI agents, and software
That is the whole list. Developer tools, SaaS, APIs, infrastructure, and the services software companies actually buy — hosting, security, payments, data. If your product is not software or sold to people who build it, this is not the right newsletter, and we would rather say so before you pay than after.
An AI tool is not automatically allowed
Anything built to undress, impersonate, or surveil a person is out no matter how good the model is: nudify and deepfake apps, voice cloning sold for deception, phone spyware, tools whose pitch is beating plagiarism or AI detection.
Never: adult, gambling, or schemes
No adult or sexual content of any kind, including AI companions marketed on it. No casinos, sportsbooks, betting or lotteries. No tokens, presales, airdrops, guaranteed returns, trading signals, or recruitment schemes. No weapons, drugs, or anything illegal where the reader lives.
Payments infrastructure yes, tokens no
A crypto payments processor, an exchange, a wallet, an on-ramp — those are software products and they are welcome. A token, coin, presale, airdrop, or yield offer is not, whoever is running it.
The ad has to lead where it says
The destination must load, must be the domain you booked with, and must be the thing the ad promised. A link that bounces the reader to a different site is the one thing we check every time.
No invented urgency, numbers, or identities
No countdowns that reset, no statistics about this newsletter's audience that we did not measure, no impersonating another company or us, and no banner that pretends to be a system dialog, an inbox, or a close button.
Nothing that harms the reader
No malware or deceptive downloads, no phishing or credential capture. Destinations are checked against Google Web Risk before an ad runs.
The disclosure is not for sale
The block always carries a sponsor label in the reader's own language, and the links always carry rel="sponsored nofollow". Buying the slot never buys an unlabelled mention or an editorial pick.
We do not rewrite your copy
What you write is what runs. We will refuse creative that misrepresents your own product, which is a different thing from editing it.