Editorial approach

Every page starts from a content plan that records one search intent, one canonical URL and the specific contribution the page has to make. If a page cannot make that contribution, it is not published.

How a page is built

The decision framework, questions, comparison criteria and checklists are drafted with the help of a language model working under a strict contract: it is given the topic and the page type, and it is structurally unable to return a price, a statistic, a date, a source or a vendor name. Those fields do not exist in the format it fills in.

Every number you see on a page comes from a calculator in this site, run on stated inputs, and is labelled as arithmetic on an example rather than as a market rate. An automated check re-reads each finished page and blocks publication if a monetary figure appears that does not trace back to one of those calculations.

What is deliberately absent

No national averages, no cost ranges we cannot source, no statistics, no quotations from people we did not speak to, and no claim to have tested, attended or surveyed anything. Where a page would normally recite an average, it shows you how to compute your own number instead.

Commercial pages

Comparison pages that recommend providers stay unpublished until provider details have been verified and recorded with a check date. A page held for that reason is held, not softened.

Corrections

A correction produces a new revision with a record of what changed. The previous revision is retained. Dates on a page reflect real first publication and real substantive updates; nothing refreshes a date on a schedule.