Affiliate and editorial disclosure

Last updated 21 October 2026

Build Your Setup is free to use. It earns money when you buy something after following one of its links to Amazon. This page explains how that works, how products are chosen and ordered, and what our review summaries can and can't tell you.

As an Amazon Associate, Build Your Setup earns from qualifying purchases.

How we earn

Build Your Setup is in the Amazon Associates program in the United States and in Australia. Our links to Amazon carry our tag. If you follow one and then buy on Amazon, Amazon may pay us a commission on that purchase, and sometimes on other things you buy on the same visit. You pay the same price either way.

Visitors in Australia are sent to amazon.com.au, and everyone else to amazon.com. We don't work with any other store right now, and the site carries no ads. Wherever there are store links, the page says we may earn a commission.

Money doesn't decide what you see

No brand pays to be listed or placed higher. The ranking never looks at what we would earn: a product that paid us nothing would be shown, and placed, exactly the same.

How products are chosen

The catalog is built from products listed on Amazon. Each one is sorted by what it is (a USB or XLR microphone, a chair rated for 350 lb, a 75% keyboard) from its listing and the maker's specs, with help from AI models. When a listing doesn't say, we leave that detail blank rather than guess. Accessories, mixed bundles and listings with no real brand are left out.

How products are ordered

A product shows up only if it meets every answer you give. Everything on screen fits, so the order is about what to look at first: models that are well known and well liked by buyers come ahead of obscure ones, with a small nudge for a clear product photo. The first product is labelled “Best match”, and “Budget pick” marks a noticeably cheaper product near the top.

The buying guides use the same rules with fixed answers. A guide lists only products that meet everything it asks for, and a guide only exists when at least five do.

How review summaries are made

Product pages sum up what published reviews say about one product. We don't test products ourselves.

• We search the web for reviews of that exact model and keep only the ones clearly about it.
• An AI model reads them and writes the verdict, what reviewers like, what they don't, and who it suits.
• Software checks that every point cites at least one of those reviews, and that the downsides are kept.
• Each page lists its sources and the date they were read.

We never use Amazon customer reviews or ratings for these summaries.

What a summary can't tell you

A summary is only as good as its sources, and AI can misread or overstate them. It isn't a test result, and it isn't the view of anyone who used the product for us. Reviews also age: a product can change after it was reviewed. If a point matters to your purchase, open the linked review and check it.

Prices

We never print prices. They change daily, and Amazon shows today's price and stock. Budget answers filter on recent prices, and amounts in other currencies are converted with the day's exchange rates (rates by Exchange Rate API). Treat them as a guide.

Mistakes and corrections

If something is wrong, such as a spec, a summary point or a broken link, tell us through the contact form. We'll check it and fix it.