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Ask Affise Anything: How the Affise MCP Turns Your Workflow into a Conversation
A blog series for the people who run affiliate programs.
You already have all the data: clicks, conversions, payouts, trafficback events. It’s all in Affise right now. The issue isn't that the data is missing. The issue is how hard it is to get from a question in your head to the answer on your screen.
Right now, getting an answer means applying filters, choosing dates, exporting CSV files, building a pivot table, and spending about ten minutes. Multiply that by every "quick question" you have during the week, and you've lost an entire day.
The Affise MCP closes that time distance. It connects Affise to an AI assistant (Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client), so you can ask for what you want in plain English and get the answer back in seconds, with the AI calling the right Affise API behind the scenes.
"Top 20 partners by revenue last week vs the week before." "Approved conversions from yesterday in the US for offer 95119." "Show trafficback for the last 7 days with the top reasons."
No exports, no SQL, no flipping between tabs. Just ask a question, then another one, and one more, because it flows like a real conversation.
And here's the best part: in clients that support MCP UI apps, the answers don't just show up as plain text. Stats turn into interactive tables you can sort through. Offers appear as easy-to-scan cards. Tracking links come ready to copy. And if you need to set up a connection, there's a simple form right there inline.
If your client doesn't support the UI features, no worries, the same info comes back as clean, readable text instead.
Each article below shows exactly what this looks like for different roles.
What you get across the series
The same engine works differently depending on what you do all day. This series breaks it down by role:
| Article | For you if you… |
|---|---|
| 1. Affiliate Managers | …you track partner performance, watch for fraud, and deal with tracking links all day. |
| 2. Account Managers | …you manage client relationships and live for those big quarterly review meetings. |
| 3. Advertiser Managers | …you protect the brand, verify payouts, and make sure campaigns are running smoothly. |
| 4. Network Owners & Directors | …you need a quick overview of the whole network and want your team to waste less time on busywork. |
| 5. Technical Integrators | …you're the one setting it up, writing scripts, and building extra tools on top of it. |
| 6. Prompt Library | …you want copy-paste prompts and the few patterns that make any question return the right answer. |
You don't have to read them in order; pick the one that fits your role.
One thing before you start
Connecting Affise MCP takes about two minutes. The hosted server lives at https://mcp.affise.com; with OAuth you click Add custom connector, log in once in the browser, and you're done. Find the full walkthrough in the Client Quickstart.
Go ahead, pick your role up there, and just start asking.