Affiliate Program

Partner with Paper Digest

Share the AI-powered research platform your audience already needs, and earn 20% of what every new user you refer pays during their first 60 months.

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About Us

Paper Digest is an AI-powered research platform based in New York City. Since 2018, millions of researchers, students, and professionals from thousands of universities, companies, and government agencies have used our tools to read, write, get answers grounded in the scientific record and follow research progresses. Our mission is simple: help people spend the least amount of time staying on top of the research that matters to them.

What You Earn

20% of what each new user you refer pays during their first 60 months — on any plan, whether monthly, half-yearly, yearly, or our one-time 6-month plan. For example, on a monthly plan, that's 20% of each payment for up to 60 months: someone who stays one month earns you one month of commission, while someone who stays 60 months or longer earns you the full 60, after which the referral stops paying out. Approved affiliates also get a free Paper Digest account, so you can explore the platform on your own work and get to know it properly before you tell your audience about it.

Commission applies only to new users you bring in. Commission is paid on completed, non-refunded payments. Referrals are attributed through your unique affiliate link. We value long-term partnerships and would love to grow with creators who consistently reach the right audience.

Creators We Love to Work With

Follower count matters less to us than fit — if your audience is students, researchers, or academics, we'd love to hear from you even if your following is still modest and growing.

The right audience

You reach students, researchers, or academics — graduate students and postdocs are a big plus.

Genuine interest

You're excited about how AI is reshaping research and knowledge work.

Integrity first

You see Paper Digest as a research and productivity tool, not a shortcut for cutting corners.

Talking Points

The features our audiences respond to most. Pick whatever fits your content best.

End-to-End Research Support

Paper Digest covers the full research workflow in one place: discover relevant work, track new papers in your field daily, read PDFs with an AI assistant, generate automatically cited literature reviews, draft and refine your own writing, and organize papers in your personal library. It's one tool for the whole journey — no stitching together a separate app for each step.

Daily Paper Digest

Customized daily highlights of the newest and most impactful work in your field, drawn from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and thousands of journals and conferences. Never miss a breakthrough in your area.

Literature Review & Research

Generate a grounded literature review on any topic, with citations behind most sentences, plus deep research reports that pull from real sources rather than guessing.

Conference Paper Digest

Browse an entire conference in about an hour. Every accepted paper comes with highlights, plus review and research tools to dig deeper, across a large number of conferences.

Academic Reader

Upload a PDF and get instant answers, explanations, and summaries as you read, so you can understand a paper in a fraction of the time. It's integrated with My Library, so you can also organize documents, add tags, take notes, and share with others.

Academic Writer

Write, edit, cite, and refine your own drafts with AI assistance built specifically for academic writing.

Do's and Don'ts

Do

  • Name "Paper Digest" clearly in your content.
  • Show the product in action; genuine demos convert best.
  • Reply to positive comments so they rise to the top of your posts.

Don't

  • Frame Paper Digest as a way to cheat — position it as a research edge or study advantage instead.
  • Overstate what the product can do or make claims we haven't stated ourselves.

Restrictions

To protect the brand and avoid conflicts with our own marketing, affiliates may not:

  • Bid on Paper Digest brand terms in paid search, or run any paid ads (Google, Bing, Meta, etc.) that link directly to our site or your affiliate link. Brand-name keyword bidding and direct linking are not permitted and won't be credited.
  • Use our brand name in ad accounts, profile names, or paid hashtags without prior written approval.
  • Promote your link primarily through coupon or discount sites.
  • Use cookie stuffing, forced clicks, pop-unders, browser add-ons, or any technique that sets or overwrites tracking without a real, user-initiated click on your link.
  • Misrepresent the product or the offer in any way.

Violating these terms may result in withheld commissions and removal from the program.

Payment

We pay affiliates in the first week of every month, for any balance that has reached $100 or more. Balances below that roll over and are paid out once they cross the threshold. You can be paid by PayPal, Zelle, or bank transfer — just tell us your preference when you join. As you approach your first payout, we'll ask for a short standard tax form; there's nothing to complete up front.

How to Get Started

  1. 1

    Email team@paperdigest.org with your social media handles / channel links and a few sample posts or examples of your work. Let us know whether you're a US person for tax purposes.

  2. 2

    We'll review your application within a couple of business days. If it's a fit, we'll reply with your unique affiliate link, set you up with a free Paper Digest account, and confirm your preferred payment method.

  3. 3

    Start sharing Paper Digest with your audience and earning commission.

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