Weekly Boost rules

One week. A public paid leaderboard.

Weekly Boost is paid advertising for reviewed AI products. Each week runs from Monday 00:00 UTC up to, but excluding, the following Monday 00:00 UTC. A payment buys participation for the remainder of that week. It does not buy seven days from the time of payment.

All paying products appear on the full, paginated leaderboard. The current top three also appear in the homepage Sponsored section. There is no guaranteed first position, time in the top three, number of impressions, clicks, customers, sales or search / AI recommendations.

Amounts and ranking

The first payment for a product in a week is at least $10 USD. Further payments are at least $5. Enter whole dollars; each payment is capped at $1,000. You pay only the additional amount you explicitly confirm. All participants pay, including those outside the top three.

Rank follows the product’s effective paid service amount for that week. Refunds and disputed amounts do not increase rank. Equal amounts favor the product that first obtained an effective payment in that week. If its effective amount reaches zero, it loses that tie-break priority. One product occupies one entry.

Checkout never reserves a rank. Someone may pay while you are checking out, so a suggested position is only an estimate. We do not automatically increase your payment. There is no subscription, automatic bidding, prize or automatic renewal.

When promotion begins and ends

Promotion begins after we verify your payment and add it to the leaderboard. Public rankings refresh within 60 seconds under normal operation. New Checkout sessions close one hour before the week ends; each session expires within one hour. We stop taking new payments at the displayed cutoff.

If a payment cannot be activated before the week ends, it is due a full refund. It will not be silently moved to the next week. Each new week starts at zero and requires a new, voluntary purchase. Past rankings may be archived and are labeled as paid rankings, not editorial awards. Archive storage does not promise permanent promotion.

Eligibility and materials

You must be authorized to promote the product you select. Only reviewed, published products are eligible. Payment does not buy review approval, editorial praise, organic ranking changes, or permission to edit a product. Your purchase records the approved logo, short description and destination shown at checkout.

Before a first payment, confirm that you represent the product: we send a six-digit code to a work email at the product’s own domain, or at a company domain we have confirmed for it. A confirmation applies to one product in one browser for 30 days. Personal email providers are not accepted. If your team does not use such a domain, email support@sota.cc from your work address. Payments already in progress are not affected.

We may pause unsafe, misleading or unauthorized promotion. Remaining unfulfilled service is handled under the refund policy below. We do not add fake paid competitors or buy our own ranks to drive up prices. Newsletter distribution and social posts are not included.

Stopping and refunds

Being outbid or receiving less traffic than expected does not itself entitle you to a refund. Your basic delivery is participation on the full leaderboard; losing homepage eligibility is a normal ranking change.

You can stop your own payment’s contribution through its private payment link. That contribution leaves the live ranking immediately. We refund its unused service time proportionally; normally delivered time is not refundable. Other independent payments for the same product remain in effect. Contact support if you need to stop multiple payments.

Duplicate charges and payments we cannot activate receive refunds for the duplicate or unfulfilled amount. For an activation delay, service outage or product removal, we calculate unfulfilled time from the verified payment time to the agreed week end, merge overlapping unavailable periods, and prorate the paid amount. Total refunds never exceed the amount paid. If a partial compensation refund leaves promotion active, it reduces the effective amount used for ranking.

Refund requests are recorded immediately and processed by support. “Refund due” means it is awaiting processing, not that money has arrived. The bank or payment provider determines the arrival time. Disputed payments stop contributing while reviewed. Applicable mandatory rights take precedence over this policy.

Reports and privacy

Your private payment page provides status and a weekly product report. We aim to provide the report within 48 hours of the week ending and notify you using Resend. Query failures and delivery problems are shown separately from zero results.

Impressions and website clicks are sampling-weighted browser events, not unique visitors or verified customers. An impression requires at least half the card to be visible for one second in an active tab. Blockers, privacy preferences, repeat clicks and automated traffic can affect counts. Product-wide results cannot attribute conversions or clicks to a particular additional payment.

We use your payment email for service messages, not marketing subscriptions. Keep your private payment link secret. Read our privacy policy.

Future changes and support

The rule version you accept remains attached to your payment. Material pricing, period and placement changes apply to future purchases and will not reduce the agreed rights for a week already purchased. Contact support@sota.cc with payment, authorization or refund questions.