# Affil.ai

> Affil.ai is an AI-powered compliance and monitoring platform for financial affiliate marketing. It automatically reads the blogs, comparison sites and partner pages where affiliates promote a company's products, flags regulatory violations across thousands of pages, and turns each issue into a trackable ticket - letting banks, fintechs and other regulated brands scale affiliate programs without drowning in manual review. Founded in 2024 by John Ta, Vivek Olumbe and Vishal Vinjapuri, the company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and has raised about $500K.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** John Ta (Co-founder & CEO), Vivek Olumbe (Co-founder & CTO), Vishal Vinjapuri (Co-founder / Engineering)
- **Team size:** ~7 employees
- **Products:** AI Compliance Monitoring, Compliance Ticketing System, Automated Risk Suggestions, Page Discovery & API
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's S24 batch, Raised approximately $500K in early funding, Launched an AI compliance product monitoring thousands of affiliate pages

## Products & services

- **AI Compliance Monitoring** — Automatically monitors affiliate and third-party marketing content across blogs, comparison sites and web pages, using AI to understand page context (for example, distinguishing between multiple credit cards on one page) and flag regulatory or brand violations across thousands of pages.
- **Compliance Ticketing System** — A centralized workflow that turns each detected violation into a trackable support ticket, so brands and affiliates can resolve issues and document remediation.
- **Automated Risk Suggestions** — Proactively surfaces compliance risks and suggested fixes to reduce violations before they escalate.
- **Page Discovery & API** — Automatically discovers relevant affiliate pages across monitored sites and exposes data through APIs for integration into existing marketing and compliance workflows.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's S24 batch
- Raised approximately $500K in early funding
- Launched an AI compliance product monitoring thousands of affiliate pages
- Founders previously built a personal-finance nonprofit across 8 colleges with 2,500+ users and $25,000+ raised

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Launched on Y Combinator as 'Affil: AI Compliance for Financial Affiliate Marketing' during the S24 batch.
- **2024-08** — Y Combinator publicly congratulated founders John Ta and Vivek on the launch.

## Links

- Website: https://affil.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/affilai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/affil_ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-31