Editorial Policy and Funding Disclosure

We review AI tools for specific jobs: accounting, law, hiring, and more. This editorial policy explains how we pick winners, how we make money, and how we fix mistakes. We label vendor claims as claims. We date every price. We name every source. When a link earns us a commission, we say so before you click it. The money never changes a verdict, and our honest-negative rule covers partners too.

How we make money

We plan to fund this site with affiliate commissions from some vendor links. As of July 10, 2026, that number is zero. We run no paid affiliate links yet. When they go live, we earn a small commission if you buy through them. It never costs you more.

Every page with a partner link shows this affiliate disclosure above the first link, not buried in a footer. The FTC requires it, and you deserve it. We will never dress an affiliate link up as neutral text.

Money never moves a verdict

A commission never changes what we recommend. We pick the winner by task fit, verified price, and honest limits. Then we attach a link, but only if a program exists. If the better tool pays us nothing, it still wins. That firewall between money and judgment is the core of our editorial policy.

Our honest-negative rule covers partners with no exception. If a tool that pays us is weak at a task, we write that it is weak. A "Neither, for now" verdict is allowed, and we use it. We would rather lose a click than lose your trust.

How we source facts

Every specific carries a date or a named source you can check. Prices show a "Last verified" date and the vendor page we pulled them from. Benchmarks name who published them. Community threads are cited as evidence of user experience, not as proof of fact.

We keep three things apart on purpose. Vendor marketing is labeled a claim. A verified fact carries a source. Our judgment is written as opinion. Say a vendor advertises "99% accuracy". We print that as a vendor claim, with the page and the date, and we do not repeat it as a fact. We never print an unverified price, feature, or limit. If we cannot check it, we say so.

How we use AI

We use AI as a drafting and research aid, never as an unchecked author. This is our AI-use disclosure, and it is plain. A person sets the angle, checks every figure against a primary source, and writes the verdict. No claim ships because a model asserted it. Fake screenshots and invented "hands-on" tests are banned outright.

We review tools built on AI, so pretending we never touch it would be dishonest. What we refuse is AI slop: filler, hallucinated stats, and made-up quotes. When we have not run a hands-on test, we say "not tested yet" and link the method on our how we test page.

How we fix mistakes

We correct errors in public. This is our corrections policy. When a fact changes, or we get one wrong, we edit the page and log it. A significant change gets a dated changelog entry at the bottom of that page. A price or feature update refreshes the "Last verified" date.

Found an error? Reach the editor through our about page and we will check it against the source. If we were wrong, we fix the text and note the correction. We do not quietly delete a mistake and pretend it never ran.

What we are not affiliated with

We are independent of every vendor we cover. That independence is the point of the whole site. No tool company owns this site, funds it, or reads an article before we publish. We are not sponsored by Digits, Booke, Harvey, OpenRouter, or any other product named here, unless a page says otherwise in its own disclosure.

If sponsored or advertorial content ever appears, we will label it clearly as sponsored, on the page, above the content. Right now, none exists.

How to hold us to this

This editorial policy is a living document. We date it, and we update it when our funding or our process changes. If you spot a claim without a source, a price without a date, or a link without a disclosure, tell us. These are our own rules, and we want them enforced.

Originally published July 10, 2026. Last updated July 10, 2026. This policy was last verified July 10, 2026. Our testing method is on the how we test page, and you can reach us through the about page.

This page describes our editorial standards. It is not legal or financial advice. Reviews on this site compare software from cited sources only; they are not tax, accounting, or legal advice. For decisions that affect your license or your money, consult a licensed professional.