FTC material connection · editorial independence
Disclosure & Editorial Independence (February 2026)
How CapperCheck makes money, which links pay us, and why that never changes a rating. The short version: we rate transparency, not outcomes — and we are paid on subscriptions that convert, not on whether any pick wins.
Updated February 2026 · independently researched
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Affiliate disclosure: the links below are affiliate links — if you subscribe we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It does not change our assessment, and we are not paid to rate any service favorably. Full disclosure.
CapperCheck is a reader-funded, independent comparison site. Some outbound links to the picks communities we cover are affiliate links, hosted on the Whop marketplace. If you click one and subscribe, we may earn a commission from the operator, at no extra cost to you — you pay the same price you would pay reaching the program directly. This is our material connection to the services on this site, disclosed here in plain terms as the FTC requires, and repeated in a block placed directly above any link that earns us a commission.
Editorial independence — ratings are not for sale
This is the part that matters. Our commission is identical no matter what score a program gets. We earn the same cut whether we rate a service a 2 or a 4 out of 5, so the money has nothing to pull on — it cannot make a rating go up. No operator has paid for coverage, a higher score, or the removal of a red flag, and none reviews or approves our copy before it publishes. We sort our comparison table by a published transparency score, never by which program pays us most; some of the programs that pay us the most sit low in that table on purpose, and we would rather tell you that than hide it.
What our ratings are — and are not
Before you read any score here, understand exactly what it measures: how a program treats a buyer, not whether it wins. Here is the line, both ways.
What our ratings ARE
- A transparency score — how much the operator discloses: a real, traceable identity, pricing that matches across surfaces, losses posted alongside wins.
- A buyer-protection signal — one-time vs churn-friendly billing, whether a free tier lets you audit before paying, whether negative reviews get scrubbed.
- A dated snapshot, re-checked and re-stamped — every claim is tied to a verification last run 2026-02-04.
What our ratings are NOT
- Not a prediction that you will win. Sports betting is negative expected value by design; a transparent operator is still selling into a losing game.
- Not an endorsement. A higher transparency score means "less opaque," not "worth your money."
- Not proof of any record. We found no public bet log for any program we cover on Pikkit, Betstamp, OddsJam or Action Network — and a purchase-gated Whop star average is buyer sentiment, not verified performance.
The specific relationships
To keep this concrete, here is exactly where we do and do not have an affiliate relationship right now. When a program's affiliate terms are confirmed on the Whop dashboard, its link is live; when they are not, we disable the link rather than guess or route you through an unverified handle.
Active affiliate links (commission on Whop signups)
- Ghostsportzpickz — affiliate link live; we may earn a commission on a Whop subscription. Read our Ghostsportzpickz review.
- House of Stimms — affiliate link live; we may earn a commission on a Whop subscription. Read our House of Stimms review.
- Parlay Minds — affiliate link live; we may earn a commission on a Whop subscription. Read our Parlay Minds review.
Pending — no live affiliate link
- Official Picks — affiliate relationship pending. The program's affiliate handle and commission terms are not yet confirmed, so its link is disabled and renders as a placeholder, not a paid link. Our Official Picks review still publishes in full.
How we make money
Three ways, plainly: affiliate commissions from some Whop subscriptions (disclosed above), licensed sportsbook affiliate deals where we add them (with per-state age and geo gating), and baseline display advertising. We do not sell picks, run a Discord, or take a cut of any bet. We are not a sportsbook and not a capper — we scrutinize the people who are. That independence is the entire product; the day we started selling the picks we review, this site would be worth nothing.
Corrections, questions, and your data
Nothing on CapperCheck is financial, investment or betting advice, and prices on Whop change — if we have something wrong, tell us and we will re-check against the live page and re-date the entry. For how we build a transparency score and what "verified" does and does not mean, read our methodology, published under a named byline because we hold operators to a standard we should meet ourselves. For how we handle your data and the terms of using this site, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
This page is provided for transparency and is not legal advice.