Building the product was
never the hard part.
Since AI cracked the market open in 2023, we’ve shipped a lot of products. Some worked, some broke even, some quietly died. What tripped us up was never the engineering or the design — it was the launch. Qanary is the tool we wished existed every one of those times.
The launch is where good products go to die.
We burned budget on ads
Every launch started the same way: pour money into paid acquisition and hope the channel pays back before the runway runs out. Sometimes it did. Often it didn’t — and a product that never got a fair shot is impossible to tell apart from one that simply doesn’t sell.
Then the budget ran out
When you can’t buy attention anymore, you have to earn it — organic social, cold email, networking, showing up. It works, but it’s slow and it doesn’t compound on its own. We kept looking for a channel that grows while we’re busy building the next thing.
Affiliates were the answer
Letting other people distribute the product and paying them only when they actually deliver a customer turned out to be the most honest way to launch without burning budget. You spend nothing until a sale exists.
But the tools got in the way
Existing affiliate platforms were complicated to wire up and expensive from day one — you commit real money for a product you don’t yet know will sell. That’s exactly the bet a founder can’t afford to make. So we built our own.
Launch first. Pay once it’s working.
Qanary is affiliate and referral software built for the moment you have a product and no proof yet. It’s simple to use, sets up in minutes — point an AI agent at it from your terminal and it wires the tracking for you — and it’s free to start. Distribute your product, earn affiliate revenue on a real free event allowance, and only upgrade once you’ve hit the limits — which means your SaaS is already making money.
Simple to use
No affiliate-marketing PhD required. Create a campaign, set a rate, invite people. The complexity stays under the hood.
Set up by an AI agent
Hand the llms.txt to Cursor, VSCode, or any
terminal agent and it installs the snippet and checkout wiring for you.
Free until it sells
A genuine free plan with a real event allowance. You upgrade when growth forces you to — never before there’s revenue to justify it.
Two builders who kept hitting the same wall.
Leon
Growth PilotOver 10 years in digital marketing. E-commerce and SaaS specialist, formerly CMO of a tech startup. Leon has run the launches — and paid the ad bills — that made the case for building Qanary.
Quentin
Tech WizardOver 10 years in computer engineering and software development, with deep expertise in AI engineering. Quentin builds the attribution spine that makes every event count — and makes it something an agent can set up.
Launch your product without burning budget.
Start free, distribute through affiliates, and upgrade only once it’s already paying off.
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