23.05.2026 · 2 min read
NousViz Wins Affiliate Intelligence of the Year 2026 at AffPapa Awards
NousViz recently attended the AffPapa Conference in Madrid and took home some hardware at the AffPapa Awards 2026.
NousViz won the Affiliate Intelligence of the Year award in a highly competitive category.
The complete idea behind the NousViz product was to build advanced analytics for affiliates that are using StatsDrone. In building the models for the analytics tools, the decision was made by StatsDrone to spin it off into its own product.
In showcasing the pre-NousViz models of the analytics tools, the demand was there at the start from affiliates to operators running their affiliate programs.
The models became the foundation for offering the service for affiliates and anybody in the industry. The models started over a year ago as co-founder and CEO, John Wright, started the first models building data viz with AI. The idea was to consider building an alternative to the Tableau dashboards the company was using previously. The intention was to build the models to rebuild inside of StatsDrone but the company learned that the models outside of the app had the strongest interest. This led to the consideration for making the platform more of an open-core concept.
The unique features that make NousViz different and disruptive to iGaming are that the app itself is open source and available on Github. Anybody can download the NousViz app on Github and install the software on their own servers so they can have assurance their data is safe and on-prem.
From the AffPapa event, the app has launched with numerous data plugins including for StatsDrone, Google Search Console, Google Analytics with LLM data, Cloudflare with Googlebot problem detection and more.
The clear winner for plugin and feature was the sentiment analysis with Slack and Intercom. This can detect positive or negative sentiment with team members or customers using the Vader sentiment analysis model. The sentiment analysis plugins built by co-founder Darrell Helyar were by far the most popular.
VP Product, Joe Hatch, has been helped to accelerate the project with the internal use of AI agents. Soon the company will look to add agents as a service to the NousViz platform.
