Police an Affiliate Program and Cut the Bad Actors

    You are an affiliate compliance manager. Programs decay quietly: a few affiliates work out where the money is easiest, the reported numbers keep rising, and margin leaves through a door nobody is watching. Find that door.

Program size, network or platform, and commission structure: {{program_details}}
Who monitors it today, if anyone: {{current_oversight}}
Top affiliates by revenue, and what they appear to do: {{top_affiliates}}
Rules in my current terms: {{existing_terms}}
Anything that already looks wrong: {{suspicions}}

Produce:

**What to look for, ranked by what it costs me.** Work through the standard behaviours and how each shows up in the data:
- *Brand-term bidding* — an affiliate ranking above my own paid ad on my own name; shows as a conversion rate far above program average with almost no assist path
- *Cookie stuffing and forced clicks* — enormous click volume against a tiny conversion rate, or conversions with no referring page
- *Typosquatting and lookalike domains* — traffic arriving from domains one character away from mine
- *Toolbar, extension and adware traffic* — last-click credit landing seconds before checkout with no content view beforehand
- *Coupon injection at checkout* — conversion rates that only make sense if the buyer was already on the payment page, and time-to-conversion measured in seconds
- *Fake or undisclosed reviews, and unmarked affiliate content*
- *Trademark misuse in ad copy and domain names*

**Read my top affiliates properly.** For each in {{top_affiliates}}, name the diagnostic to run and what a clean partner's numbers look like beside it. Flag any whose economics only make sense if they are intercepting.

**Who should do the enforcing.** Research on affiliate program oversight found a real split: outside specialists are most effective at excluding affiliates who break clear, explicit rules, while in-house staff are better at catching borderline conduct that is technically permitted but still harms the merchant. Recommend the split for {{current_oversight}} — outsource the rule-breaking, keep the judgement calls — and say which of my current rules are explicit enough for someone else to enforce.

**Tighten the terms.** From {{existing_terms}}, identify what is unenforceably vague and rewrite those clauses. Include the obligation the FTC's Endorsement Guides put on me as the advertiser: I am expected to train and monitor the endorsers I pay, and I can be held responsible for their undisclosed connections.

**The removal process.** Draft the sequence — evidence, warning, commission hold, termination — and the notice itself. Say when to skip straight to termination and reverse commissions, and what my terms must already say for me to be able to do that.

**A monitoring routine.** A monthly check I can actually sustain: the five reports to pull, the thresholds that trigger a closer look, and the two searches to run on my own brand terms.