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Spring Platform Update — AI Caller V2 & Caller-First Repositioning

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Affilync Team
Affilync Team
AI-Powered Affiliate Marketing Platform

The platform has shipped a substantial wave of changes between March and now. This entry catches the changelog up.

TL;DR​

  • AI Caller V2 is live with TCPA-compliant outbound dialing — consent gating, DNC suppression, real-time opt-out detection, per-state quiet hours, and refund credits.
  • Repositioning. Affilync is now positioned as an AI-Caller-first affiliate marketing platform — call tracking and the AI receptionist are the lead surfaces, with link tracking, analytics, and campaign management as supporting capabilities.
  • Market Intelligence and Competitor Analysis merged into a single Brand Insights surface in the analytics dashboard.

AI Caller V2 (May 10)​

The outbound AI dialer is now compliance-ready for TCPA-regulated industries. Every dial passes through a five-check pre-flight before the call is placed:

  1. Active, unexpired TCPA consent record for the called number.
  2. Number is not on the platform DNC list or the brand's own suppression list.
  3. The called party's local time is within the per-state quiet-hour window.
  4. Per-day rate cap for the brand has not been exceeded.
  5. Per-tier concurrency cap has not been exceeded.

Real-time opt-out detection listens for "stop", "remove me", and similar phrases during the call; the suppression write happens before the AI's acknowledgement TTS plays, so an early hang-up still records the opt-out.

Calls hung up under 30 seconds generate an automatic refund credit. Conversation intelligence rollups (lead score, sentiment trajectory, topic detection, next-best-action) are now available in AI Caller > Conversation Trends.

See the full AI Caller documentation.

Caller-First Repositioning (May 14)​

The platform's product narrative now leads with the AI Caller and call-tracking surface. Affiliate marketing — links, conversions, payouts — is now positioned as the supporting workflow that makes the calls profitable, rather than the lead product. Existing affiliate features are unchanged; only the messaging and navigation hierarchy moved.

Brand Insights — MI + CA Merge (May 12)​

The previously separate Market Intelligence and Competitor Analysis dashboards have been consolidated into a single Brand Insights surface in the analytics dashboard. The capabilities are unchanged — only the UI shell merged. Old direct links to either dashboard redirect to the unified view.

Operational Improvements​

  • Reliability: shipped 30+ production bug fixes across billing, authentication, webhooks, data exports, and dashboard performance.
  • Audit logging: sensitive account actions — password and MFA changes, and administrative user changes — now write to an immutable, SOC2-aligned audit trail.
  • Webhook signing: signed-webhook integrations now enforce timestamp freshness in addition to signature verification, so stale replays are rejected.

What's Next​

  • Federal DNC SAN consumer-feed integration once operator credentials are provisioned.
  • Stripe Connect for direct affiliate payouts (currently in late-stage testing).
  • Shopify and TikTok Shop Partner Dashboard submissions (pending operator action).