# Orenston > Orenston teaches AI agents, and the people who run them, to be the middleman: find demand, match it to the right product or service, and earn the affiliate or referral fee. It is general education only and doesn't publish anyone's earnings, including its own. Orenston promises no income and does not pay members or agent hosts a share of commissions. Last updated: 2026-10-18 ## How it works - Framework: find demand → fill it → get paid. Three pillars: Views (agents create attention), Products (agents match buyers to products), Services (agents match customers to providers). - General education on how agents and people earn affiliate and referral fees honestly. - Only programs we link to carry links. Tracked links (https://orenston.com/go/?s=; agents add &u=) record the click and forward to the program. - Agents must disclose before recommending: say they are an AI agent, disclose the affiliate relationship, say the price isn't affected (if true), say the list isn't the whole market, and never state or imply earnings. ## Agent-readable files - [agents.json](https://orenston.com/agents.json): entry point, disclosure rule, links to every file - [programs.json](https://orenston.com/programs.json): approved programs only, with dated commission terms and banned tactics - [methods.json](https://orenston.com/methods.json): Method Lab status (CSV: https://orenston.com/lab/method-lab.csv, CC BY 4.0) - [llms-full.txt](https://orenston.com/llms-full.txt): full text of the site in one file ## Pages - [Home](https://orenston.com/): what Orenston is (general education on agent-led affiliate and referral work), with links to every guide. - [Method Lab](https://orenston.com/lab/): the methods Orenston covers, explained. General education only. - [Views methods](https://orenston.com/methods/views/): AI content and video methods. - [Products methods](https://orenston.com/methods/products/): matching buyers to products. - [Services methods](https://orenston.com/methods/services/): referral matching for services. - [Programs we link to](https://orenston.com/programs/) and [systeme.io affiliate program](https://orenston.com/programs/systeme-io/) - [For agents](https://orenston.com/agents/) - [Our sites](https://orenston.com/sites/) - [YATR yacht charters](https://orenston.com/yatr/): booking, prices, cancellation and coupon facts for YATR (Miami, Fort Lauderdale), checked 2026-10-17; also [/yatr/coupon-code/](https://orenston.com/yatr/coupon-code/), [/yatr/miami/](https://orenston.com/yatr/miami/), [/yatr/fort-lauderdale/](https://orenston.com/yatr/fort-lauderdale/) - [Join free](https://orenston.com/signup/) - [Earnings disclaimer](https://orenston.com/earnings-disclaimer/), [Affiliate disclosure](https://orenston.com/affiliate-disclosure), [Privacy policy](https://orenston.com/privacy) ## Guides - [Ways to make money with AI, compared](https://orenston.com/ways-to-make-money-with-ai/) - [AI affiliate marketing, step by step](https://orenston.com/ai-affiliate-marketing/) - [How to disclose affiliate links in AI content](https://orenston.com/affiliate-disclosure-for-ai-content/) - [How to make AI product videos that follow platform rules](https://orenston.com/ai-product-videos/) - [How to make money with AI agents](https://orenston.com/make-money-with-ai-agents/) - [AI side hustle guide](https://orenston.com/ai-side-hustle/) - [Earn commissions with AI](https://orenston.com/earn-commissions-with-ai/) - [How to build a comparison site with AI agents](https://orenston.com/build-comparison-sites-with-ai/) - [AI affiliate payouts (dataset, CSV)](https://orenston.com/ai-affiliate-payouts/) - AI affiliate program terms survey (https://orenston.com/ai-affiliate-payouts/#what-we-found): of 41 AI-tool affiliate programs with published terms (checked 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-16), 33 offer recurring commission but 20 of those stop after about 12 months; 19 state a cookie window on an official page. Published terms only, not results. - [Recurring vs one-time AI affiliate commissions: what 41 published programs offer](https://orenston.com/ai-affiliate-commission-types/): Of 41 AI-tool affiliate programs with published terms, 33 pay recurring commission, but 20 of those stop after about 12 months. How to read terms. - [How to choose an affiliate program: a 10-term checklist with real examples](https://orenston.com/how-to-choose-an-affiliate-program/): A 10-point checklist for choosing an affiliate program: rate, duration, cookie, payouts, reversals and banned tactics, with real clauses. - [How to find what people will pay for, with AI: the buyer-question method](https://orenston.com/find-demand-with-ai/): Use AI to find real buyer demand: pull real questions, cluster them by intent, check who answers, match a program and score each idea before you build. - [AI tools to make money online: a breakdown by job](https://orenston.com/ai-tools-to-make-money/): AI tools for research, content, sites and agents, with published prices and how each connects to an AI agent. Tools are a cost and promise no income. - [How to get your content cited by AI search (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity)](https://orenston.com/get-cited-by-ai-search/): How AI search tools pick sources, and what makes a page citable: answer-first copy, dated facts, sources, structured data and clear disclosure. - [Illustrative case study: building an honest tool tutorial and email list with AI in 28 days](https://orenston.com/case-studies/illustrative-tool-tutorial-and-email-list/): An illustrative, composite walkthrough of a tool tutorial plus email list. Not a real person or result, and not typical. Process only, no income figures. - [How to track an AI side hustle like an experiment: the 28-day log](https://orenston.com/track-ai-side-hustle/): A simple 28-day log for any AI side hustle: what to record each week, earned versus paid, why unknown isn't zero, and a keep-or-kill rule set in advance. - [Build a lead-magnet funnel on systeme.io with AI, step by step](https://orenston.com/systeme-io-funnel-tutorial/): Build a simple systeme.io funnel step by step: page, email list, opt-in and follow-up, with the affiliate disclosure placed right. No sign-ups promised. - [Illustrative case study: an AI agent that matches customers to a service provider](https://orenston.com/case-studies/illustrative-agent-referral-matching/): An illustrative, composite walkthrough of an AI agent matching customers to service providers. Not a real person or real result, and not typical. - [AI UGC for brands: how to sell AI-made product content as a service](https://orenston.com/ai-ugc-for-brands/): How to make AI-assisted UGC for brands: workflow, platform AI labels, disclosure, rights and briefs. Tools speed up production but promise no clients. ## Retired - The product catalog (/products/, /c/, /products.json) was retired. Sauna and cold-plunge pages moved to https://morningsanctuary.com and red light pages to https://redlightledger.com. Yacht product pages are gone (410); /c/yacht-charters/ now points to /yatr/.