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Soveraine earns commissions from third-party providers when readers sign up through links on the site. The reader pays the same price either way. Here is exactly how that works and what it changes.

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The short version

Soveraine is funded by affiliate commissions. When you click a link on Soveraine and sign up to a third-party service — a formation agent, business bank, payment processor, insurance provider, e-residency facilitator, employer-of-record platform or similar — that provider may pay Soveraine a commission. You pay the same price you would pay going direct.

This page sets out the details required by the US Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides, the UK Advertising Standards Authority's CAP Code, the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, and the corresponding rules in other jurisdictions where our readers live.

An affiliate link is a link to a third-party service that contains a tracking parameter identifying Soveraine as the referrer. When a reader clicks the link, signs up to the service, and (depending on the programme) makes a qualifying action — typically completing signup, paying for a service, or making a first deposit — the provider attributes the referral to Soveraine and pays a commission.

The cost to you, the reader, is identical whether or not you use an affiliate link. The link does not change the price, the terms, your support experience, or your standing with the provider. The only thing it changes is whether Soveraine earns a referral fee.

You are free to bypass affiliate links entirely. Navigating directly to a provider's website by typing its address into your browser, or using a non-affiliated search result, has no effect on price and is a perfectly valid choice.

Which services pay us

At the time of writing, Soveraine is in the process of joining the following affiliate networks and direct partner programmes:

  • PartnerStack — covers Doola, Firstbase.io, Deel and others in the US LLC formation and global-employment space.
  • Awin — covers Northwest Registered Agent, Bizee and others.
  • Tapfiliate — covers Sleek and others in the Hong Kong / Singapore formation space.
  • In-house programmes — Companio (Estonia), Wise (business banking), SafetyWing (nomad insurance), Northwest Registered Agent (direct), and several others.

A full programme-by-programme list is maintained internally and will be published here as each programme goes live. We list commission ranges in each individual article where the relevant service is covered.

Where we cover a service whose affiliate programme we have applied to but not yet been accepted into, we say so. Where we cover a service that has no affiliate programme at all — and several of the most useful providers in this niche do not — we say that too, and we recommend them on their merits without any financial interest on our part.

Commission ranges

Affiliate commissions in this niche vary widely. Some examples, with the headline rates published by each programme as of May 2026:

  • Deel — up to $1,500 per new customer, qualified-action based
  • Doola — 30% of the sale, up to roughly $899 for a bookkeeping plan
  • Firstbase.io — $40 base plus $250 per US customer, lifetime
  • Northwest Registered Agent — $150 per company formation
  • Bizee — up to $175 per sale
  • Sleek — 10% of all services for five years
  • Companio — €50–€75 per new customer
  • Wise — approximately £50 per business account, lifetime cookie
  • SafetyWing — approximately 10% of premium, recurring for the first 364 days

These are the published headline figures; actual amounts received depend on the programme's qualifying-action rules, attribution windows and payout terms. We do not publish individual commission amounts at the article level, because the figures shift with promotional periods and contract changes. The summary above is updated as the programmes change.

How this affects (and does not affect) what we write

Soveraine's editorial policy addresses this in full. The short version:

  • Rankings reflect editorial assessment, not commission size. The provider that pays us the highest commission does not therefore appear at the top of a comparison.
  • We do not accept payment for favourable coverage, sponsored rankings, or "pay-to-play" inclusion in lists. We have refused these offers and will continue to do so.
  • We publish critical assessments of services that pay us commissions where the evidence justifies it. The test is whether the assessment is what we would publish if no commission existed.
  • Where a free or non-affiliate alternative is materially better for a specific reader profile, we recommend it.

The most reliable way to keep these promises honest, in our view, is the structural fact that we sell no services of our own. Affiliate income is fee income for an act the reader was already considering; it is not a sales pitch.

Affiliate links on Soveraine are:

  • Carry the rel="sponsored" attribute, in line with Google's link-attribute guidance.
  • Disclosed in the persistent disclosure bar at the top of every page on the site.
  • Disclosed again on the article level, close to the relevant link, whenever a page contains an affiliate link.
  • Often routed through a branded redirect such as soveraine.com/go/<provider> for tracking and link-management reasons. The destination is always the legitimate provider's own site.

Tracking cookies

Many affiliate programmes use a tracking cookie set when you click an affiliate link, which the provider's site reads on signup to attribute the referral. The duration of the cookie ranges from a single session to "lifetime" (in practice, until you clear cookies), depending on the programme. We do not have visibility into your individual signup; we receive only aggregated reporting from the affiliate network.

You can decline these cookies at the consent banner shown to readers in jurisdictions where consent is required. Declining them does not affect your ability to read the site or to sign up to any provider; it only prevents Soveraine from being credited as the referrer.

Soveraine occasionally publishes content that is paid by the subject, distinct from affiliate articles. Any such content is clearly labelled "Sponsored" at the top of the article and at the start of the article's text, in addition to being technically marked as sponsored. We will not publish sponsored content whose substantive claims we do not believe to be true, and the editorial team retains the right to refuse a sponsorship.

At the time of writing, Soveraine has published no sponsored content.

Reader questions

If you have any question about whether a particular recommendation is influenced by an affiliate relationship, write to hello@soveraine.com and we will answer specifically. Reader trust in this niche is our most valuable asset.

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