Corey Price, a figure identified as an owner of Smart Desktop AI, operates the platform without disclosing his co-owners or providing verifiable executive information. The company's website, smartdesktop.ai, was registered privately on an unspecified date. Price also has ties to Fundwise, a venture promising $360,000 in funds without repayment obligations.
Price's prior ventures include promoting Local City Places and TranzactCard. His background is in digital marketing, a skill he appears to apply to Smart Desktop AI's operations. The lack of transparency regarding ownership and executive leadership is a significant red flag for potential participants in any multilevel marketing venture.
Smart Desktop AI offers no distinct products or services for retail sale. Its business model relies solely on affiliate membership, which costs $97 per month. New members are recruited to market the affiliate membership itself, forming the core of the company's revenue generation.
Commissions within Smart Desktop AI are distributed through a unilevel compensation plan. Affiliates earn percentages based on the subscription fees paid by recruits down ten levels. The top level, comprising personally recruited affiliates, yields a 20% commission. This percentage decreases with each subsequent level, reaching 1% for levels nine and ten.
The platform's primary function is an automated spam system. It scrapes business contact information from the internet and bombards these contacts with automated messages. This aggressive marketing tactic has reportedly led to Google restricting affiliate accounts due to spam violations. Smart Desktop AI also claims its platform can direct other artificial intelligence systems, though details remain vague.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cautions that multilevel marketing companies without retail customers operate as illegal pyramid schemes. Smart Desktop AI's focus on recruitment over tangible product sales places it squarely in this category. Such schemes are inherently unstable; when recruitment inevitably slows, commission payments cease, leading to a collapse from the bottom up. The mathematical certainty is that most participants in pyramid schemes will lose money.
On January 15, 2025, Smart Desktop AI ceased operations, confirming its collapse.