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Poppy AI

A genuinely well-reviewed AI content-research workspace whose own affiliate-recruitment page tells creators they are “just ONE video away from making $10k/month” - with no median, no typical-result data, and no income disclosure attached to any of it.

Reviewed September 14, 2026 Founded Not confirmed to precision for GetPoppy AI Corp specifically - no exact incorporation or public-launch date was found in any source. Founder figures relayed by a business newsletter in May 2025 describe bootstrapping the company to roughly $500,000/month in revenue within 11 months, which is consistent with a company still in its early years as of this report rather than a long-established one, but that is an inference from growth-narrative timing, not a confirmed founding date, and it should not be treated as one. This report’s “Poppy AI” is unrelated to, and does not share a founding date with, a separate 2018-founded journaling-app company of the same brand name (see whatItIs). Confidence: Medium
B-GRADE
7.2/10
Weighted composite

REAL PRODUCT, UNDISCLOSED AFFILIATE INCOME CLAIMS

A real, independently-reviewed AI canvas/research tool that a rational buyer could purchase with zero affiliate involvement - attached to a single-tier, no-buy-in affiliate program whose own recruitment page runs uncapped $500-$10,000+/month income tiers with no disclosure of what a typical affiliate actually earns.

The question you came with

Can you actually make money with Poppy AI?

GO, WITH CONDITIONS Only under conditions, and they are specific

Only if the people you reach buy the Base plan. That is the one published plan this program pays on. The creator agreement pays 20% on a referred customer's purchases under $500 for 12 months, which is $79.80 on a $399-a-year Base sale. The $2,268-a-year Creator plan, or an upgrade to it, pays you nothing. Joining is free and nothing has to be bought to stay in, so the structure is sound. The conditions come from the terms wrapped around it.

It pays for a real sale of real software to your own referral. There is no override on other affiliates and nothing is earned for recruiting anyone. Tracking is a 30-day last-touch cookie, payment comes 30 days after the sale, and the creator agreement's minimum payout is $100. Your cost is your own time and content. Paid ads and coupon sites need the company's prior written approval, and bidding on Poppy AI's name is barred outright, so organic content is the main road in.

The recruitment page shows three income tiers, $500 to $1,500 a month, $2,000 to $3,000, and $10,000 and up, plus one named affiliate's “$35,604 in total earnings (and counting).” It gives no median, no share who earn nothing and no time period for that total. It also leaves out the $500 limit. At $79.80 a sale, the bottom tier takes 7 to 19 Base sales a month and the top tier takes 126 (our arithmetic: $500, $1,500 and $10,000 each divided by $79.80, rounded up).

Participant economics scores 5.5, under the 6 a clean pass needs, for reasons written into the agreements. Joining grants the company a “perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license” to your content, name, likeness and voice, including for paid ads, with no further payment. The company may change any term “at any time at our sole discretion.” The program page states both “up to 20%” and “up to 25%,” and the agreement defers to your dashboard. An older ThriveCart agreement, still online, pays on the first purchase only, with a $1,000 minimum by wire.

What it costs to be in
$0

no fee, no minimum purchase, and no required product subscription to apply to the affiliate program through its creator portal on Dub (an older ThriveCart portal is still online); the only real cost is whatever an affiliate chooses to spend on their own content production (paid ads need the company’s prior written approval), and separately whatever a buyer chooses to pay if they subscribe to the product itself.

What has to be true for this to work for you
  • Your audience fits the $399 Base plan, not the bigger tiers. Only purchases under $500 earn a commission, so a buyer who takes Creator at $2,268 a year, or upgrades to it, earns you $0 no matter how much your content did to win the sale.
  • You have, or are willing to build, an organic audience. Paid ads and coupon or deal sites need the company's written approval first, and bidding on its brand name is banned, so free content is the route a new affiliate can take without asking anyone.
  • You are comfortable granting a perpetual, irrevocable license to your content, name, likeness and voice, usable in the company's paid ads with no further payment. That license survives the end of the agreement for any reason, so read it before you film a single video.
  • You confirm which agreement and which rate you are under. The creator agreement pays from $100 through the partner dashboard; the ThriveCart one pays on the initial purchase only, from $1,000, by wire. Check the dashboard rate too, since the program page says both 20% and 25%.
  • You plan from your own numbers, not the recruitment page. Poppy AI publishes no income disclosure, so the tiers and the $35,604 total show what the company chose to feature, not what is typical. Each Base sale pays $79.80, or $74.80 if the $25 new-user discount lands on that charge (our arithmetic: 20% of $374).

That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.

20%
Affiliate commission on a personally-referred sale
for 12 months on qualified purchases under $500, per the program page and the creator agreement; no recruitment override
$100
Minimum affiliate payout under the creator agreement
the older ThriveCart agreement still sets $1,000, paid by wire transfer
4.9/5
G2 rating from independent reviewers
across just 13 reviews, 91% of them five-star (June 2026 capture) - a thin sample
$35,604
Named affiliate’s cumulative earnings, quoted as recruitment proof
with zero income disclosure or median figure published alongside it

Legal status

LEGAL - on 28 October 2026, CourtListener searches of federal court dockets and published opinions for “GetPoppy” and “Poppy AI” returned no results, and SEC EDGAR full-text searches for the same two terms returned no filings; the FTC’s case library could not be searched by script, and state attorney-general and state-court records were not searched. That is an absence in those searches, not a clean regulatory record. Separately and distinctly: the company’s own official affiliate-recruitment page displays specific, uncapped, tiered dollar income claims ($500-$1,500/mo, $2,000-$3,000/mo, $10,000/mo+) and a named top-performer’s cumulative-earnings figure with no accompanying median, percentile, or “results not typical” disclosure of the kind the FTC’s Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255) and general Section 5 deception guidance are built to reach - that is a description of a real disclosure gap and a category of regulatory risk exposure, not an allegation that any enforcement action has been taken against this company.

Confidence: Medium

Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.

What this actually is

Follow the money

A genuine, functioning SaaS product should be said first: Poppy AI is a visual, canvas-based AI research-and-content workspace, built by GetPoppy AI Corp of San Francisco and founded by Rafeh Qazi and Naz Dumanskyy. A user drags source material - videos, PDFs, documents, URLs, transcripts - onto a shared visual board, attaches AI chat nodes that reference that material directly, and turns raw research into scripts, hooks, ad copy, landing pages, or presentations, with a choice of underlying AI model rather than a single locked-in backend. Three independent reviewers, each of whose sites discloses affiliate links, describe this feature set consistently, including automatic transcription of video sources.

Important naming caution: “Poppy AI” is a name shared by at least three unrelated companies, and this report is strictly about getpoppy.ai / GetPoppy AI Corp. A separate, unrelated “Poppy AI” at poppy.ai, founded in 2018 and based in Walnut, California, makes a group-journaling app and has raised $230K, per CB Insights; and a UK-registered “POPPY AI LTD,” incorporated on 30 January 2025, has no confirmed operational link to this company. None of that history, funding, or address belongs to the company graded here.

A rational buyer could purchase this product with no affiliate or income angle attached, and would have real reasons to do so: a G2 rating of 4.9/5 across a small but strongly positive set of 13 reviews, a detailed and substantive AppSumo review, and a founder growth narrative - self-reported and relayed by two business newsletters - of reaching $500,000 a month in revenue within 11 months (May 2025) and over $400,000 a month in recurring revenue (July 2025), alongside the homepage’s own claim of 13,000-plus creators, founders and marketers. None of that is audited, but it is internally consistent with a real, actively-growing software business rather than a shell built around an income opportunity.

The concern this report exists to flag sits entirely on the affiliate-recruitment side. Poppy AI runs a free-to-join, single-tier, pay-per-personally-referred-sale affiliate program at a headline 20% commission rate - structurally simple and, unlike a recruitment-driven compensation plan, not dependent on building a downline. But the company’s own official recruitment page displays uncapped income tiers up to “$10,000/mo+,” a named affiliate’s $35,604 cumulative-earnings figure, and copy claiming affiliates are “just ONE video away from making $10k/month” - with no median, no percentile breakdown, and no disclosure of what a typical affiliate actually earns anywhere this research found.

A $399/year Base-plan subscription sold through a referring affiliate

This report’s own construction from the program’s 20% commission and the homepage’s $399/year Base price - Poppy AI does not publish a payout-split chart of its own, and it does not publish how the remaining 80% divides between AI-model costs, payroll, marketing and margin.

20% 80%
To the referring affiliate (sourced 20% commission rate)To GetPoppy AI Corp - AI-model costs, payroll, product development, marketing, and margin (not broken out by the company)
ProductPricePays
Base (annual)
2,000 credits every month, 1 seat, every Poppy AI model, per the homepage; sold through a $1 seven-day trial that converts to the annual charge unless canceled.
$399/year ($33/mo billed annually)
annual
20% (≈$79.80)
Creator (annual)
8,000 credits every month, 3 seats, VSL and landing-page builder, custom domain, per the homepage; also sold through the $1 trial.
$2,268/year ($189/mo billed annually)
annual
none under the creator agreement (sales of $500 or more are excluded)
Power User
16,000 credits every month, 5 seats, chatbots and agents, and API access, per the homepage and the API launch page. One pricing site (ChatGrid, a competing canvas tool) reported $4,788/year at checkout on 9 October 2026.
custom, quoted on a booked demo
not published
none if the sale is $500 or more
$1 trial
The conversion payment is non-refundable; one trial per customer, per the subscription terms and refund policy.
$1 for 7 days, then the plan price
one-time, then annual
20% of the referred customer’s qualified purchases under $500 for 12 months
Viral Content Academy add-on
Non-refundable, per the refund policy, which names it as an add-on offered at checkout.
$97
one-time, offered at checkout
not stated
Background check

Who runs it, and what they ran before

RQ
Rafeh Qazi
Co-founder

Introduced as co-founder in a Smart Passive Income podcast episode (SPI 877) and named as co-founder in a My Daily Business podcast episode (472). His prior venture is Clever Programmer, a coding-education YouTube channel/platform that the SPI episode describes as having over 1M YouTube subscribers and 100,000+ students taught - a real, findable, longstanding public track record. Giving multiple on-record interviews discussing the business candidly is a level of public accountability this report credits as unusual for a small SaaS-affiliate operation. No regulatory action, fraud judgment, or criminal proceeding against him was located in any source reviewed.

ND
Naz Dumanskyy
Co-founder

Full name Nazariy Dumanskyy; introduced alongside Rafeh Qazi as co-founder in the same Smart Passive Income podcast episode, and interviewed as co-founder in My Daily Business episode 472. No adverse regulatory or legal history was located in any source reviewed for this report.

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Governance note
Two transparency gaps worth naming plainly

GetPoppy AI Corp’s terms, privacy policy and affiliate agreements do not state where it is incorporated (Delaware, California, or elsewhere). Separately, and more consequential for a reader: “Poppy AI” is a brand name shared by at least three entities - this getpoppy.ai company; a 2018-founded group-journaling app company based in Walnut, California, at poppy.ai, with $230K raised, per CB Insights; and a UK-registered “POPPY AI LTD,” incorporated 30 January 2025 per Companies House, with no confirmed operational link to getpoppy.ai. None of the 2018 founding date, the journaling-app description, the funding figure, or the Walnut address belongs to the company this report grades.

Registered address

San Francisco, CA
Poppy AI’s privacy policy, terms and site footer give the address of GetPoppy AI Corp as 28 Geary Street Ste 650 Suite 217, San Francisco, CA 94108. None of its published terms, policies or affiliate agreements states a state of incorporation.

Compensation plan

What has to be true for you to get paid

To coverYou need
Free-content affiliate referring buyers to the $399/yr Base plan 7 sales/month to reach the low end of the “Getting started” tier ($500/mo); 19 sales/month to reach its high end ($1,500/mo)
At $79.80 per Base sale (20% of $399): $500 ÷ $79.80 = 6.3, so 7; $1,500 ÷ $79.80 = 18.8, so 19 (our arithmetic). Joining costs nothing, and the $100 minimum payout is reached on the second sale.
Paid-traffic affiliate spending $200/month on ads driving to the Base plan 3 sales to recover the ad spend; 9 sales to net $500 after it
$200 ÷ $79.80 = 2.5, so 3; $700 ÷ $79.80 = 8.8, so 9 (our arithmetic). The creator agreement bars paid advertising without the company’s prior written approval, so this route is open only with that approval.
Affiliate whose audience buys the $2,268/yr Creator plan no commission at any volume
The creator agreement excludes sales of $500 or more, “whether sold by us or by the customer upgrading,” so a Creator-plan sale earns nothing; only Base-plan sales and smaller purchases count toward the page’s income tiers.
Reaching the page’s “Top performers” tier ($10,000/mo+) 126 Base-plan sales a month, about four a day
$10,000 ÷ $79.80 = 125.3, so 126 sales every month (our arithmetic). None of the named results on the recruitment page is stated as a monthly figure; each is a total.

Read this twice

This is this report’s own arithmetic, built from the program’s 20% commission, the homepage’s $399/year Base price and the creator agreement’s rules - Poppy AI does not publish break-even worksheets of its own. The recruitment page’s “Getting started” tier of $500/mo to $1,500/mo takes 7 to 19 Base-plan sales a month, and its “Top performers” tier takes 126; the page does not say that the higher-priced plans earn no commission, which leaves Base-plan volume as the only route to any of its tiers. That undisclosed condition is itself a legitimate marketing-conduct concern independent of whether the headline numbers are achievable by any individual affiliate. The Dub program page also gives new users $25 off a first purchase; if that discount falls on the $399 charge, the sale pays $74.80 and the tiers take 7 to 21 and 134 sales a month (our arithmetic). No saved document says which charge it applies to.

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Seventy-nine dollars eighty cents is the program’s 20% commission applied to the $399/year Base plan, the lowest published plan price. The cost line is $0 because joining the affiliate program itself carries no fee, no minimum purchase and no required subscription. Modeled as one payment per sale: the creator agreement pays on a referred customer’s purchases under $500 for 12 months after the first, and Base bills once a year; sales of $500 or more, including the $2,268/year Creator plan, earn nothing. The presets are keyed to the company’s own recruitment-page income tiers: reaching the low end of its advertised "Getting started" bracket of $500/mo to $1,500/mo on Base-plan sales takes roughly 7 sales a month, and the high end roughly 19 - a volume the page itself does not disclose, next to named creators’ running totals rather than a published median. Your own subscription cost of $0/mo is included.

Your money

What it costs to replace this yourself

Poppy AI’s published prices against the alternatives one independent reviewer names for the same jobs (his site discloses affiliate links). This is a consolidation pitch - multi-model chat, transcription of video sources and content generation on one visual board - rather than a like-for-like single-feature comparison.

What they sell youWhat you'd use insteadYour cost
Poppy AI Base - $399/yr ($33/mo billed annually), multi-model chat + canvasA mainstream general AI chat assistant (paid tier)$20/mo
Poppy AI Base - $399/yr ($33/mo billed annually)A second mainstream AI chat assistant (paid tier)$20/mo
Poppy AI Power User (API access) - custom price on a demo callA content-generation and scheduling tool with API access$29/mo
Poppy AI Base - $399/yr ($33/mo billed annually), transcription of video sourcesA free AI notebook tool that transcribes video$0
Total as sold
$33/mo billed annually (Base, $399/yr) or $189/mo billed annually (Creator, $2,268/yr); Power User is quoted on a demo call
Total, built yourself
$0 to $29/mo for any one of these tools, or $69/mo for both chat assistants and the API tool together (our arithmetic)

Price-to-value

Poppy AI’s entry price sits above any single one of these tools bought alone, and Base is billed a year at a time. Whether the consolidation of multi-model chat, transcription and content generation into one visual workspace is worth that premium over one or two cheaper tools is a genuine, close call, and the reviewer’s own advice is to buy Poppy AI for the board workflow, not for the AI models.

Odds of profit

Three operators, five horizons

Probability of cumulative net profit

Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%3 mo6 mo1 yr3 yr5 yr 11% 40% 11%
Casual creator posting free videos (our arithmetic) - Monthly commission from Base-plan referrals only, at $79.80 a sale; no cost to join; the sales counts (median 0, top decile 7 rising to 19) and P are our assumptionsEstablished review channel (our arithmetic) - Monthly commission from Base-plan referrals only; its median makes the 7 sales a month that reach the “Getting started” floor; the sales counts (median 7, top decile 26) and P are our assumptionsCreator aiming at the “Active creator” tier (our arithmetic) - The 26 to 38 Base-plan sales a month that $2,000/mo to $3,000/mo requires; the page’s named $35,604 is a running total with no time period; the sales counts (median 0, top decile 26 rising to 38) and P are our assumptions

Casual creator posting free videos (our arithmetic)

Monthly commission from Base-plan referrals only, at $79.80 a sale; no cost to join; the sales counts (median 0, top decile 7 rising to 19) and P are our assumptions

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 25% $0
6 mo 20% $0
1 yr 15% $0
3 yr 12% $0
5 yr 11% $0

Established review channel (our arithmetic)

Monthly commission from Base-plan referrals only; its median makes the 7 sales a month that reach the “Getting started” floor; the sales counts (median 7, top decile 26) and P are our assumptions

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 60% $559
6 mo 55% $559
1 yr 52% $559
3 yr 45% $0
5 yr 40% $0

Creator aiming at the “Active creator” tier (our arithmetic)

The 26 to 38 Base-plan sales a month that $2,000/mo to $3,000/mo requires; the page’s named $35,604 is a running total with no time period; the sales counts (median 0, top decile 26 rising to 38) and P are our assumptions

HorizonP(profit)Median
3 mo 15% $0
6 mo 15% $0
1 yr 12% $0
3 yr 12% $0
5 yr 11% $0

Methodology note. MODELED: Poppy AI publishes no income disclosure and no distribution of affiliate earnings, so no participant data anchors these rows. Each dollar figure is monthly commission at that horizon, from three sourced facts: a 20% commission (program page), the $399/year Base price (homepage), and the creator agreement’s exclusion of sales of $500 or more, which leaves Base-plan sales at $79.80 as the commissionable unit. 7 sales a month gives $559, 19 gives $1,516, 26 gives $2,075 and 38 gives $3,032 (the floor and top of the “Active creator” tier). The sales counts per cohort and the share in profit at each horizon (P) are this report’s assumptions; no source measures them. P is the share earning any commission, since joining costs nothing, and it is set below 50% wherever the median is $0. The one company-published figure, “$35,604 in total earnings (and counting),” states no time period, so it is not placed on any horizon.

Go-to-market

Where you are actually allowed to promote this

Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.

Channel
Status
Notes
Review, tutorial and podcast content that promotes Poppy AI
COMMON AND ENCOURAGED
The three independent review sites cited here each disclose affiliate links, and a podcast host sends listeners to his own page for 25% off a subscription - a normal affiliate-marketing pattern, but the program’s dollar-figure recruitment tiers create structural pressure toward under-disclosure across this content ecosystem.
Material-connection disclosure (“#ad,” “sponsored”) on affiliate content
REQUIRED BY THE AGREEMENT; NOT MEASURED
The creator agreement requires every endorsement, review, post, video or email to “make it clear that you may receive compensation.” No source samples how consistently creators comply.
Paid ads, branded-keyword bidding and coupon or deal sites
RESTRICTED BY THE AGREEMENT
The creator agreement bars bidding on Poppy AI’s name or branded keywords outright, and bars paid advertising and coupon, deal or cashback sites without the company’s prior written approval, which leaves organic content as a new creator’s main route.
Uncapped tiered income claims on the official recruitment page
DISPLAYED WITH NO INCOME DISCLOSURE
The $500-$1,500/mo, $2,000-$3,000/mo, and $10,000/mo+ tiers, plus the named $35,604 case study, appear with no median, no percentile breakdown, and no “results not typical” disclaimer found anywhere in retrievable material.
Self-serve checkout for higher-tier plans
BASE AND CREATOR PUBLISHED; POWER USER BY DEMO
The homepage sells Base ($399/year) and Creator ($2,268/year) through a $1 seven-day trial and routes Power User, the tier with API access, to a booked demo with a custom price.
Multi-level or sub-affiliate recruitment commission
NO EVIDENCE FOUND OF ANY SUCH MECHANISM
The program page on Dub lists a single sale reward (20% for 12 months) and no click, lead or recruitment reward, and both affiliate agreements pay only on qualified sales through the affiliate’s own links or codes.
Fee, minimum purchase, or ad-spend quota to join or remain an affiliate
NONE FOUND
Becoming an affiliate appears to be free, with no evidence of a required starter purchase, minimum sales volume, or minimum ad spend to stay active in any source reviewed.
Affiliate cookie duration
DISCLOSED: 30 DAYS, LAST TOUCH
The creator agreement tracks referrals “using last-touch attribution for 30 days after their click”; the older ThriveCart agreement states last-touch attribution with no window.
The evidence

Red flags and green flags

Red flags

14
1No published income disclosure alongside prominent tiered income claims
The official affiliate recruitment page displays $500-$1,500/mo, $2,000-$3,000/mo, and $10,000/mo+ brackets with no median, average, percentile breakdown, or “results not typical” disclaimer found anywhere in retrievable material.
2“Just ONE video away from making $10k/month” recruitment copy
A classic hyperbolic-outlier framing style that, even where the underlying single case may be genuinely true, sets expectations for the median participant with no countervailing typical-results context.
3A named affiliate’s $35,604 total-earnings figure is used as recruitment proof
The page states “$35,604 in total earnings (and counting)” under the headline “How Sophie Made $35,604 With Just ONE TikTok”; no dashboard, screenshot, audit trail, or time period accompanies it.
4Sales of $500 or more earn no commission
The creator agreement pays only on a referred customer’s purchases under $500, so the $2,268/year Creator plan and Power User earn nothing; the recruitment page’s income tiers do not mention the limit.
5A perpetual, irrevocable license to affiliates’ content and likeness
Joining gives the company a “perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license” to a creator’s content, name, likeness, voice and social handles, including in paid ads, with no further payment.
6The company may change the program terms at its sole discretion
The agreement lets the company modify any term “at any time at our sole discretion,” applying changes to sales after written notice, and sends disputes to binding JAMS arbitration in San Francisco.
7The program page states two commission ceilings
Its rewards section says “Earn up to 20% per sale for 1 year” and its FAQ says “You can earn up to 25% per sale for 1 year”; the agreement says the current rate “is specified in your partner dashboard.”
8The $1 trial converts to a non-refundable annual charge
The 30-day money-back guarantee covers only a plan bought directly, without a trial, and only after an onboarding call; the homepage sells every plan through the $1 trial, which converts to $399 or $2,268 for the year unless canceled, and a trial conversion is non-refundable.
9The Power User price is not published
The homepage lists Power User as “Custom built around your team” behind a “Book a Demo” button; only Base and Creator carry a published price.
10Two affiliate agreements are online at once
The creator agreement on getpoppy.ai sets a $100 minimum payout and 12 months of commissions; the agreement still shown on the ThriveCart affiliate portal limits commissions to the initial purchase and sets a $1,000 minimum paid by wire transfer.
11A confusing three-way naming collision with unrelated companies also called “Poppy AI”
A 2018-founded journaling-app maker and a 2025-incorporated UK company share the brand name, creating real risk that a consumer or journalist conflates the wrong company’s funding, founders, or address with this one.
12GetPoppy AI Corp’s state of incorporation is not stated
Its terms, privacy policy and affiliate agreements name GetPoppy AI Corp and a San Francisco address but no state of incorporation.
13Revenue figures are founder-reported and unaudited
The $400,000 and $500,000 monthly revenue figures come from the founders, relayed by two business newsletters; no filed financial statement or independent data provider confirms them.
14Affiliate disclosure is required but unaudited
The creator agreement requires every post to “make it clear that you may receive compensation”; no source measures how consistently creators comply, and the program’s dollar-figure incentives are a structural pressure point.

Green flags

8
1A real, independently-reviewed, functioning SaaS product
Specific features - a choice of AI models, automatic transcription of video sources, a visual canvas workflow - described consistently by three independent reviewers, each of whose sites discloses affiliate links.
2Strong third-party review-platform scores
A G2 rating of 4.9/5 across 13 reviews (June 2026 capture), a Trustpilot score of 4.9 across 352 reviews (January 2026 capture), and a detailed, substantive AppSumo review including a genuine cost critique - specific, varied feedback inconsistent with a purely astroturfed review base.
3Identifiable, publicly accountable founders with a real prior track record
Rafeh Qazi’s Clever Programmer (1M+ YouTube subscribers) and multiple on-record podcast interviews discussing the business candidly - not an anonymous or pseudonymous operation.
4No multi-level or recruitment-commission structure found anywhere
The affiliate program pays only on personally-referred sales, structurally avoiding the pay-for-recruitment pattern that drives the worst compensation-plan scores on this site.
5No fee or minimum purchase required to become an affiliate
And no evidence of a required minimum ad spend or sales quota to remain active, in any source reviewed.
6A 30-day money-back guarantee on a plan bought directly
It covers the first plan payment on a purchase made without a trial and is conditioned on attending an onboarding call, giving those buyers a real, disclosed exit path if the tool does not fit their workflow.
7The agreement requires affiliates to disclose that they are paid
Every endorsement, post or video “must make it clear that you may receive compensation,” and misleading or false representations of the product are grounds for immediate termination.
8sec (securities exposure) is genuinely near the ceiling by the Howey test
No capital-at-risk, no promised return on any deposited funds, no investment-contract structure anywhere in the program - whatever else is true about the marketing, this is not an investment scheme.
What would move this grade

We would like to be wrong about this

Upward

  • Publication of an actual income disclosure or aggregate affiliate-earnings statistics (median, average, or percentage earning nothing) alongside the existing top-performer highlight reel.
  • One published commission rate in place of the program page’s “up to 20%” and “up to 25%,” and a single affiliate agreement in place of the two now online.
  • Commissions on the Creator and Power User plans, which the creator agreement now excludes as sales of $500 or more, or a statement of that limit on the recruitment page itself.

Downward

  • Discovery that the $35,604 case-study figure cannot be substantiated at all if directly investigated - that is, found to be fabricated or grossly misleading rather than merely unaudited.
  • Evidence of widespread, systematic non-disclosure (missing sponsorship tags) across a large, representative sample of the affiliate video and social-content ecosystem, which no source has yet sampled.
  • Discovery of an actual multi-tier or sub-affiliate recruitment-commission component that neither affiliate agreement nor the program page contains.
The better trade

Grade is B-. A real, independently-reviewed AI content-research tool with a conventional, low-risk single-tier affiliate program, undercut by an official recruitment page that runs uncapped income tiers with zero disclosure of what a typical affiliate actually earns.

What is genuinely good here should be said plainly, and first. Poppy AI is a real product - a visual, multi-model AI canvas workspace that independent reviewers on G2 and AppSumo describe consistently and rate strongly, built by named, publicly accountable founders with a genuine prior track record. Its affiliate program costs nothing to join, requires no starter purchase and no minimum ad spend, and pays commissions only on real, personally-referred sales rather than on recruiting other affiliates - a structurally simple, low-risk design compared with a recruitment-driven compensation plan. No government enforcement action against the company was found, and the affiliate agreement requires every creator to disclose that they may be paid.

Then the number that shapes most of this grade. Poppy AI’s own official affiliate-recruitment page lays out three uncapped income tiers by name - $500-$1,500/month, $2,000-$3,000/month, and $10,000/month and up - alongside copy stating affiliates are “just ONE video away from making $10k/month,” and a named affiliate’s $35,604 cumulative-earnings figure with no stated time period. None of it is accompanied anywhere this research found by a median, an average across all affiliates, a percentage who earn nothing, or a typical-results disclaimer. This report’s own arithmetic shows what the brackets take - 7 to 19 Base-plan sales a month for the “Getting started” tier and 126 for “Top performers,” since sales of $500 or more earn no commission - but Poppy AI publishes no data on which outcome is actually typical, and that gap is the precise pattern this site exists to flag.

A handful of smaller items round out the picture without changing its shape. GetPoppy AI Corp’s published terms do not state its state of incorporation, and a genuine, confusing brand-name collision exists with at least two unrelated companies also called “Poppy AI” - neither a fault of this company, but both real transparency costs for anyone trying to verify who is actually behind getpoppy.ai. The Power User price is quoted only on a booked sales call, and the creator agreement’s exclusion of every sale of $500 or more, its ban on paid ads without written approval, and its perpetual license to creators’ content and likeness are terms a prospective affiliate should read before committing content-production time.

1

Treat the $500-$10,000+/month tiers as a range of possible outcomes, not a floor

No published data shows what share of affiliates land in each bracket, or what share earn nothing at all - model your own plan from the sourced 20% rate and your own realistic traffic and conversion assumptions instead.

2

Read the creator agreement before building a content plan

It sets a 30-day last-touch cookie, pays only on purchases under $500 for 12 months after the first, bars paid ads without written approval, and grants the company a perpetual license to your content and likeness.

3

Check which affiliate agreement you are under

The creator portal agreement pays out from $100 through the partner dashboard; the agreement on the ThriveCart portal still sets a $1,000 minimum paid by wire transfer and pays on the initial purchase only.

4

Judge the product on its own merits separately from the affiliate pitch

The independent G2 and AppSumo reviews are a legitimate reason to evaluate Poppy AI as a buyer with zero interest in becoming an affiliate - that decision does not need to be made alongside, or influenced by, the income-tier claims on the recruitment page.

Poppy AI’s own affiliate page says its creators are “just ONE video away from making $10k/month”; it publishes no data on what a typical affiliate actually earns.
Scorecard

Nine dimensions, weighted

Comp structure & KoscotDoes the plan pay for recruitment or for sales to real customers?
20%
9.0
Every source describing the program - the official getpoppy.ai/become-an-affiliate recruitment page, the ThriveCart-hosted affiliate signup portal, and every third-party summary found - describes a flat, single-level, pay-per-personally-referred-sale structure. No mechanism was found anywhere for an affiliate to earn an override or commission on sales made by another affiliate they recruited; there is no sub-affiliate tier, no downline-of-downlines payout, and no fee charged to anyone for recruiting anyone. That is a materially different, and materially less risky, compensation design than a Koscot-style pay-for-recruitment MLM plan, where an affiliate’s income depends on building and being paid from a chain of other recruiters rather than on selling a real product to a real end customer - and it deserves to be said plainly rather than buried under the marketing concerns graded elsewhere in this report. The score is held just short of a perfect mark for two narrower reasons: the program page states both “up to 20% per sale for 1 year” and “up to 25% per sale for 1 year,” while the agreement says the current rate “is specified in your partner dashboard”; and two agreements are online at once, the creator agreement (commissions for 12 months on purchases under $500) and an older ThriveCart agreement (commissions on the initial purchase only).
Securities exposureAny passive return on capital? Howey, staking, tokens, withdrawal friction.
15%
9.5
This dimension asks one question only: is a participant’s capital taken against a marketed or promised return on that capital? For Poppy AI, the answer is no on every path examined. A customer pays a flat subscription fee for software they receive; an affiliate risks nothing to join and is paid a disclosed commission for a completed sale they generate, which is economically identical to any commissioned sales-referral arrangement rather than an investment contract. There is no pooled fund, no staking or token mechanic, no promised return on money deposited, and - because comp scores high above - no multi-level recruitment-commission structure of the kind that would push a compensation plan toward a pyramid-style securities analysis. A reader who sees a mid-band B- overall grade sitting beside a sec score near the ceiling should understand that this is not a contradiction: the marketing-conduct problem graded hard elsewhere in this report (mktg) and the participant-economics friction graded under partecon are conduct and disclosure concerns, not capital-at-risk concerns. Nobody’s deposited principal is exposed to loss here the way it would be in a true investment-contract scheme; the half-point held back is a margin of caution, not a doubt about the structure: neither affiliate agreement contains any deposit, return or capital term.
Ownership & track recordWho runs it, what did they run before, and what happened to it.
15%
6.5
Real credit belongs here first: Rafeh Qazi and Naz Dumanskyy are named and appear on the record as co-founders in a Smart Passive Income podcast episode and a My Daily Business interview, and Qazi carries a longstanding prior public track record - Clever Programmer, a coding-education platform the SPI episode describes as having over 1M YouTube subscribers - rather than operating anonymously. Giving repeated on-record interviews discussing the business candidly is unusual transparency for a small SaaS-affiliate operation and this report credits it accordingly. The score sits at 6.5 rather than higher for two separate reasons, neither a finding of wrongdoing. First, corporate detail is thin: none of GetPoppy AI Corp’s published terms or policies states where it is incorporated, and no independent (non-founder-sourced) audited revenue, funding, or valuation figure exists anywhere in this research. Second, and distinctly, there is a genuine, confusing three-way naming collision - at least two unrelated companies also trade or have traded as “Poppy AI” - that a careless reader, journalist, or search engine could easily conflate with this company. That confusion is not this company’s fault, but it is a real ownership-transparency cost borne by anyone trying to verify “who is actually behind getpoppy.ai,” and it is scored here as a minor ding for exactly that reason.
Product reality & demandWould a rational buyer purchase this if no income offer existed?
12%
7.5
Poppy AI is a genuine, functioning product independent of any income narrative - a visual, canvas-based AI research-and-content workspace that three independent reviewers describe consistently (each reviewer’s site discloses affiliate links): drag source material (videos, PDFs, documents, URLs) onto a shared board, attach AI chat nodes that reference that material directly, and turn it into scripts, hooks, ad copy, or presentations. Reviewers credit specific features - a choice among leading AI models rather than a single locked-in backend, and automatic transcription of video sources. That product independence shows up in third-party validation: a G2 rating of 4.9/5 across 13 reviews, 91% of them five-star (June 2026 capture), a Trustpilot score of 4.9 across 352 reviews (January 2026 capture), and at least one detailed, substantive AppSumo review candidly titled around a pricing complaint rather than a scam allegation - the kind of specific, varied feedback that is inconsistent with a purely astroturfed review base. The deduction below a top mark reflects two limits on that evidence: the G2 sample is only 13 reviews, thin for real statistical confidence even at a strong rating, and the three review sites that describe the product in detail all carry affiliate links.
Participant economicsReal cost in, realistic money out, and whether they publish the numbers.
10%
5.5
Real cost to participate as an affiliate is genuinely close to zero: no starter kit, no inventory, and no requirement to buy a subscription oneself before qualifying to earn commissions - a structural advantage over inventory-loading or buy-in-gated programs, and it is why this dimension does not score at the bottom of the scale. The creator agreement states the mechanics: a 30-day last-touch cookie, commissions on a referred customer’s qualified purchases for 12 months after the first, payment 30 days after the sale, and a $100 minimum payout through the partner dashboard. Set against that, three frictions are documented. Sales of $500 or more are excluded, so a referral who buys the $2,268/year Creator plan, or upgrades to it, earns the affiliate nothing; bidding on Poppy AI’s name or branded keywords is barred outright, and paid advertising and coupon or deal sites need prior written approval; and the creator grants the company a “perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license” to their content, name, likeness and voice, including for paid ads, with no further payment. An older agreement still shown on the ThriveCart portal sets a $1,000 minimum paid by wire transfer and pays on the initial purchase only.
Price-to-valueWhat the same capability costs on the open market.
8%
6.0
The homepage prices Base at $399/year ($33/month billed annually) and Creator at $2,268/year ($189/month billed annually), each after a $1 seven-day trial, and quotes Power User, the tier with API access, on a booked demo. One independent reviewer sets that against two mainstream AI chat assistants at $20/month each, a content tool with API access at $29/month and a free AI notebook that transcribes video: Poppy AI’s entry price is above any single one of those, and Base is billed a year at a time, up front. The consolidation pitch is real - multi-model access, transcription of video sources, and content generation folded into one visual workspace rather than several separate subscriptions - and that is a legitimate value case for a buyer who would otherwise stack two or three point solutions. The deduction reflects two findings: the $1 trial converts to a non-refundable annual charge, and the Power User price is set on a booked sales call rather than published, which reduces a prospective buyer’s ability to comparison-shop before engaging with sales.
Payout sustainabilityCan the company fund the plan out of margin, or only out of inflow?
8%
6.5
Poppy AI’s affiliate commissions are paid out of a percentage of a real completed subscription sale, not out of a pooled fund or a fee charged to new affiliates - and the underlying business appears to be a real, growing, revenue-generating SaaS company rather than a shell whose only cash flow is new-participant inflow. Founder figures relayed by two business newsletters describe $500,000 a month within 11 months without outside funding (May 2025) and over $400,000 a month in recurring revenue (July 2025), and the company’s homepage claims 13,000+ creators, founders and marketers - a growth narrative structurally consistent with real product revenue funding real commission payouts, and that consistency is credited here even though it rests on self-reported figures. The score is held at 6.5, not higher, precisely because none of those revenue, funding, or customer-count figures are independently audited: they trace entirely to the founders and the company’s own pages, not to a filed financial statement or an independent data provider, so the company’s true financial position rests on plausible, not confirmed, evidence.
Marketing conductIncome claims, regulator run-ins, hype, deadline stacking.
7%
3.5
This is the report’s central concern, and it should be stated with the specificity it deserves. The company’s own official affiliate-recruitment page (getpoppy.ai/become-an-affiliate, now served at getpoppy.ai/creators) is titled around “Earn 20% Commissions” and lays out three uncapped income tiers by name - “Getting started” at $500/mo to $1,500/mo, “Active creator” at $2,000/mo to $3,000/mo, and “Top performers” at $10,000/mo+ - alongside copy stating affiliates are “just ONE video away from making $10k/month” and a named case study crediting one affiliate (identified as “Sophie Theodorou,” @teach2ai) with “$35,604 in total earnings (and counting)” under the headline “How Sophie Made $35,604 With Just ONE TikTok.” None of these figures is accompanied anywhere this research found by a median, an average across all affiliates, a percentage of affiliates who earn nothing, a stated time period over which the $35,604 accrued, or any “results not typical” disclaimer - the precise pattern of specific, prominent income claims with zero typical-result context that the FTC’s Endorsement Guides and general Section 5 deception guidance are designed to reach. The page also does not say that the creator agreement excludes sales of $500 or more, so of the published plans only Base, at $79.80 a sale, counts toward the tiers it advertises. This is a genuine, citable income-claim problem on its own terms, regardless of how conventionally the underlying comp structure (graded under comp) is actually built.
Operator terms & exitWho owns the customer, what you forfeit, how hard it is to leave.
5%
5.5
Standard SaaS protections should be credited: cancellation at any time with access to the end of the paid period, an emailed reminder before each annual renewal, a full refund of any mistaken or duplicate charge, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on a first plan payment bought directly, without a trial (conditioned on attending an onboarding call). The score sits at 5.5 because those protections are narrower than they look. The homepage starts every plan with a $1 trial, and a trial that converts to the annual charge ($399 for Base, $2,268 for Creator) is non-refundable, as are renewals and upgrades, so a buyer on the main path to purchase has no money-back guarantee; and the customer terms send disputes, small claims aside, to binding individual arbitration with no class actions (with a 30-day opt-out by email). On the affiliate side, the company may change any term “at any time at our sole discretion” for sales after written notice, prohibited activity can mean “forfeiture of any accrued commissions,” disputes go to JAMS arbitration in San Francisco, and the license to a creator’s content and likeness “survives termination of this Agreement for any reason.”
Weighted composite
7.17
B-

Dimension profile

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Comp structure& Koscot 9.0 Securitiesexposure 9.5 Ownership &track record 6.5 Product reality& demand 7.5 Participanteconomics 5.5 Price-to-value 6.0 Payoutsustainability 6.5 Marketingconduct 3.5 Operator terms& exit 5.5

Hard caps that bind here

Income-disclosure cap (applied leniently) Poppy AI publishes no income disclosure, and the standing rule holds a company that publishes none at C. The rule is applied leniently here, as its wording allows where buyers who never resell the product create real demand: joining the affiliate program costs nothing and requires no purchase, self-referrals are prohibited, the product carries 352 Trustpilot reviews (January 2026 capture), and The Startup Series reported in July 2025 that 30% of revenue comes from referrals, which leaves most sales outside the affiliate channel. The nine weighted scores give a composite of 7.17, with mktg at 3.5, the lowest dimension, because of the undisclosed income tiers. No other ceiling is applied.
What would force a binding cap below B- in the future an FTC action or state attorney-general action specifically targeting the affiliate income claims; confirmed evidence that the $35,604 named case-study figure or the $500/mo to $1,500/mo “Getting started” tier claim is fabricated rather than merely unaudited and self-reported; or discovery of an actual hidden multi-level recruitment-override layer that no saved document shows. Any of those would move mktg or comp materially and could justify a binding ceiling this report does not apply today. The ceiling does not rest on, and should never be read as resting on, the product’s real and well-evidenced functionality, the founders’ legitimate public track record, or the mere existence of aggressive marketing language by itself absent any confirmed enforcement action - aggressive tiered income copy is graded hard under mktg already; it is not, on its own, grounds for a further cap.

The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.

Sources consulted

What we read

Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.

  1. Poppy AI Creators Program | Earn 20% Commissions
    Compensation planTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026archived copy

    The company’s own affiliate-recruitment page (the URL now redirects to getpoppy.ai/creators): the 20% commission headline, the three income tiers (Getting started $500/mo to $1,500/mo, Active creator $2,000/mo to $3,000/mo, Top performers $10,000/mo+), the “just ONE video away from making $10k/month” copy, and the named “$35,604 in total earnings (and counting)” case study. The 7 September 2026 capture carries the same tiers and figures under the title “Become a Poppy AI Affiliate” and links to the ThriveCart portal; the current page links to the Dub portal.

    Not established by this document: No income disclosure, median or time period appears on either version.

  2. Creator Partner Agreement | Poppy AI
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026

    Applies to creators enrolled through the creator portal: last-touch attribution for 30 days after a click; commissions on a referred customer’s qualified purchases for 12 months after the first, on sales under $500 (sales of $500 or more, services and B2B sales excluded); payment 30 days after the sale; a $100 minimum payout through the partner dashboard; a perpetual, irrevocable license to creators’ content and likeness; a ban on branded-keyword bidding, and prohibitions on paid ads and coupon sites without prior written approval; a disclosure requirement; a sole-discretion modification clause; and binding JAMS arbitration in San Francisco.

    Not established by this document: Undated; the commission rate itself is deferred to the partner dashboard.

  3. Privacy Policy | Poppy AI
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026-10-27

    Names GetPoppy AI Corp, 28 Geary Street Ste 650 Suite 217, San Francisco, CA 94108, and support@getpoppy.ai; last updated 27 October 2026.

    Not established by this document: States no state of incorporation.

  4. Subscription Terms | Poppy AI
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026-10-27

    Edition of 27 October 2026 (purchases before that date fall under the 5 August 2026 edition, also published): a $1 seven-day trial converting to the plan price shown at checkout (currently $399/year), annual billing and automatic renewal, a renewal reminder email, cancellation at any time, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first plan payment that excludes trial conversions, renewals and upgrades.

    Not established by this document: Gives only the Base price; the Creator price is on the homepage and the Power User price is not published.

  5. API Launch | Poppy AI
    Company documentTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026

    States that APIs launched on the Power User plan, with 16,000 monthly credits.

    Not established by this document: Gives no Power User price.

  6. Terms and Conditions | Poppy AI
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026-10-27

    Customer terms, last updated 27 October 2026, between the user and GetPoppy AI Corp: California law, binding individual arbitration with no class actions, and a 30-day opt-out by email.

    Not established by this document: States no state of incorporation.

  7. POPPY AI LTD - Companies House filing
    Corporate registryTier 1UK Companies House · 2025-01-30

    A UK private limited company of the same brand name, company number 16219557, incorporated 30 January 2025, active, with nature of business 62012 (business and domestic software development) - cited to disambiguate the naming collision, not because it is related to getpoppy.ai.

    Not established by this document: No confirmed operational connection to getpoppy.ai.

  8. Poppy AI Reviews | Trustpilot
    Open-market comparisonTier 4Trustpilot · 2026-01-11archived copy

    Claimed company profile showing a 4.9 score across 352 reviews in the 11 January 2026 capture.

    Not established by this document: The live page returns 403 to a scripted fetch; figures are from the January 2026 capture.

  9. My Honest Review of Poppy AI
    ReportingTier 3Ryan Doser (independent reviewer) · 2026-08-03

    Describes the board workflow, transcription of video sources and model choice, and compares $20/month AI chat plans, a $29/month content tool with API access and a free AI notebook; the page discloses affiliate links. Its 3 August 2026 update describes a demo-only site and a revenue guarantee that the current getpoppy.ai no longer shows.

    Not established by this document: Its pricing account predates the current homepage, which again publishes Base and Creator prices behind a $1 trial.

  10. Poppy AI Review
    ReportingTier 3VidProMom (independent reviewer) · 2026

    A second independent review describing the visual board, the choice between AI models and automatic transcription; the page discloses affiliate links.

    Not established by this document: None material.

  11. Poppy AI Review
    ReportingTier 3EntreResource (independent reviewer) · 2026

    A third independent review describing the visual mapping and the AI models used; the site carries an affiliate disclosure.

    Not established by this document: None material.

  12. SPI 877: The Best AI Tool with Rafeh Qazi and Nazariy Dumanskyy
    ReportingTier 3Smart Passive Income · 2026

    On-record interview introducing both co-founders; the episode page describes Clever Programmer as having over 1M YouTube subscribers and 100,000+ students, and the host offers listeners 25% off through his own page.

    Not established by this document: Founder-narrative content; growth figures discussed are self-reported.

  13. My Daily Business, Episode 472 (Nazariy Dumanskyy interview)
    ReportingTier 3My Daily Business · 2026

    An on-record interview with co-founder Nazariy Dumanskyy about building Poppy AI with Rafeh Qazi.

    Not established by this document: Self-reported founder content.

  14. How Poppy AI Bootstrapped to $500K Monthly Revenue Selling $1000/Year Subscriptions
    ReportingTier 3Startup Spells · 2025-05-10

    Relays the founders’ figures: $500,000 a month within 11 months without external funding, and $100,000 in a week after one affiliate video.

    Not established by this document: Self-reported, founder-sourced figures relayed by a business newsletter, not audited financials.

  15. How Poppy AI Grew to $400K/Month by Helping Creators Make Viral Content
    ReportingTier 3The Startup Series · 2025-07-03archived copy

    Says Poppy AI generates over $400,000 in monthly recurring revenue and serves around 5,000 creators.

    Not established by this document: The live URL returns 404; read from the 11 March 2026 capture. Self-reported figures, not independently audited.

  16. Poppy AI Reviews | G2
    Open-market comparisonTier 4G2 · 2026-06-23archived copy

    A 4.9/5 rating across 13 reviews, 91% of them five-star, as shown on a G2 review page for the product in a 23 June 2026 capture.

    Not established by this document: A small, 13-review sample; G2 blocks scripted fetches, so the figure is from the capture.

  17. Useful concept, but the real cost is hidden behind expensive credits - Poppy AI review
    Open-market comparisonTier 4AppSumo · 2026-06-09

    A verified purchaser’s 9 June 2026 review of the lifetime deal, criticizing credit prices and API access gated to Power User, with a founder-team reply.

    Not established by this document: One individual review; not a platform-wide aggregate figure.

  18. Poppy AI Pricing (2026): Plans, Credits & Trial
    Open-market comparisonTier 4ChatGrid.ai (a competing canvas tool) · 2026-10-23

    Reports Poppy AI’s checkout prices on 9 October 2026 (Base $399, Creator $2,268, Power User $4,788 a year) and a sold-out AppSumo lifetime listing; cited only for the Power User figure, which the homepage does not publish.

    Not established by this document: A competitor’s blog, not the company’s own pricing page.

  19. Poppy AI - Products, Competitors, Financials (CB Insights)
    Open-market comparisonTier 4CB Insights · 2026

    Describes the unrelated Poppy AI at poppy.ai: a group-journaling app company founded in 2018, based in Walnut, California, with $230K raised - cited only to keep it separate from getpoppy.ai.

    Not established by this document: Unrelated to this report’s subject; cited for disambiguation only.

  20. Poppy AI affiliate portal and Affiliate Agreement (ThriveCart)
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp (via ThriveCart) · 2026

    The older affiliate portal, still online, and its agreement: commissions limited to the initial purchase, last-touch attribution with no stated window, a $1,000 minimum payout, wire-transfer payment, a sole-discretion modification clause and JAMS arbitration.

  21. Poppy AI homepage and plan prices
    Company documentTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026

    A $1 seven-day trial on every plan; Base $399/year ($33/mo billed annually, 2,000 credits, 1 seat); Creator $2,268/year ($189/mo billed annually, 8,000 credits, 3 seats); Power User custom by booked demo (16,000 credits, 5 seats, API); “Trusted by 13,000+ creators, founders & marketers.”

  22. Refund Policy | Poppy AI
    Policies & proceduresTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp · 2026-10-27

    Effective 27 October 2026 (the 5 August 2026 edition is also published): the 30-day money-back guarantee covers a first plan payment bought directly, without a trial, and requires an onboarding call; trial conversions, renewals, upgrades and the $97 Viral Content Academy add-on are non-refundable.

  23. Poppy AI Affiliate Program | Dub
    Compensation planTier 1GetPoppy AI Corp (via Dub Partners) · 2026

    The creator portal’s program page: “Earn 20% per sale for 1 year” and $25 off a new user’s first purchase; its FAQ says “up to 25% per sale for 1 year”; a single sale reward with no click or lead reward. The page’s embedded reward rules (updated 21 October 2026) set 0% on any sale over $400 and on six listed product IDs, while the creator agreement’s text excludes sales of $500 or more; the page does not say which governs.

Unable to verify

What we could not get

  • The Power User plan price - the homepage quotes it on a booked demo; one pricing site reported $4,788 a year at checkout on 9 October 2026.
  • The commission rate set in the partner dashboard - the program page says both “up to 20%” and “up to 25%” per sale, and the agreement defers to the dashboard.
  • Whether an annual Base renewal, which falls 12 months after the first purchase, counts inside the creator agreement’s 12-month commission window.
  • GetPoppy AI Corp’s state of incorporation and any registered-agent filing - none of its published terms, policies or agreements states them.
  • Independently audited revenue, funding, or customer-count figures for GetPoppy AI Corp - all current figures trace to the founders and the company’s own pages, relayed by business newsletters, not to filed financial statements.
  • The time period over which the named affiliate’s cited $35,604 in cumulative earnings actually accrued, and any underlying verification or proof document for that figure.
  • Whether the UK-registered “POPPY AI LTD” (incorporated 30 January 2025) has any operational connection to getpoppy.ai.
  • How consistently creators follow the agreement’s compensation-disclosure rule across their videos and posts - no source samples it.

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QIs Poppy AI the same company as another app also called “Poppy AI”?
No, and this is worth stating plainly. “Poppy AI” is a brand name shared by at least three unrelated companies: this report covers only getpoppy.ai, operated by GetPoppy AI Corp of San Francisco and founded by Rafeh Qazi and Naz Dumanskyy. A separate, unrelated “Poppy AI” at poppy.ai, founded in 2018 and based in Walnut, California, makes a group-journaling app, and a UK-registered “POPPY AI LTD,” incorporated on 30 January 2025, has no confirmed operational link to getpoppy.ai. None of that history, funding, or address belongs to the company graded here.
QDoes Poppy AI have a multi-level or recruitment structure?
No evidence supports that. Every source describing the affiliate program - the official recruitment page, the ThriveCart-hosted signup portal, and third-party summaries - describes a flat, single-level, pay-per-personally-referred-sale structure at a headline 20% commission. No mechanism was found for earning an override on sales made by another affiliate one has recruited, which is a materially different and materially less risky design than a recruitment-driven compensation plan.
QIs the “Getting started” $500/mo to $1,500/mo affiliate claim realistic?
It is mathematically achievable under the 20% commission - this report’s own arithmetic shows it takes 7 to 19 Base-plan sales a month, because the creator agreement pays nothing on sales of $500 or more. Whether it is typical cannot be assessed, because Poppy AI publishes no data on what a median or modal affiliate actually earns - the claim describes a possible outcome, not a documented average one.
QDoes Poppy AI publish an income disclosure for its affiliates?
No. This research found no median, average, or percentile earnings data anywhere in the affiliate program’s public materials - only a small number of hand-picked top-performer figures (a named affiliate’s $35,604 cumulative total, and smaller totals for four other named creators) presented alongside three broad, uncapped income-tier brackets. That is a genuine, citable disclosure gap.
QIs Poppy AI worth buying as a product, without joining the affiliate program?
On the independent evidence available, a rational buyer could purchase it with no affiliate angle at all - it holds a 4.9/5 G2 rating (albeit across a thin 13-review sample) and a detailed, substantive AppSumo review, and reviewers consistently credit specific features like multi-model AI choice and automatic transcription of video sources. Base costs more than a single mainstream AI chat subscription, and a 30-day money-back guarantee applies to a first plan payment bought directly, without a trial.
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Written by Claude AI
Reviewed by Rob Fore · Published by Listech Inc · September 14, 2026

This report was researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, working from primary documents - Poppy AI’s own compensation plan, its policies and procedures, its terms of service, its income disclosure statement where one exists, and its regulatory and self-regulatory file. It was scored against nine weighted dimensions that are published in full, with their weights, on the methodology page.

Before publication it was reviewed by Rob Fore, who checks every source link, every figure against the document it came from, and every allegation against its stage-label - an investigation is not a finding, a warning letter is not an enforcement action, and a filed claim is not a verdict.

The editor does not set the grade. The published score is the weighted composite of the nine dimension scores, and the build refuses to emit a page where the two disagree by more than 0.06. A grade moves when the evidence moves it and not otherwise.

Rob Fore has marketed online since 1996, wrote Online MLM Marketing (2014), and is CEO of Listech Inc, the Nevada corporation that publishes this site. He holds affiliate positions in companies graded here - including LiveGood, which this site grades D, SendOutCards, which it grades C−, and the Home Business Academy, which it grades B−. Those positions are disclosed on the reports they touch, and changed nothing on this page.

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