Editorial Standards
How articles get researched, verified, sourced, updated, and corrected.
Sources
Pricing, feature availability, and vendor positioning is checked against the vendor's own page or product documentation at the time of writing. Where pricing is quote-only — most enterprise software is — the article says so explicitly rather than estimating a number that reads as verified.
Regulatory content (CSRD, GDPR, EU AI Act, German tax law, immigration policy) is sourced to the statutory text or the issuing agency's published guidance, not paraphrased from secondary commentary.
For open-source tools the source is the GitHub repository, the license file, and the maintainer list. License compatibility claims are checked against the actual license text, not the marketing page.
Where competing publications cover the same topic, we read them to understand what's been said and what gap remains. We don't republish or rewrite their analysis.
Verification dates
Every article shows a publish date under the byline. Articles in categories where information moves fast — cloud pricing, regulatory deadlines, AI model releases, ESG framework updates — carry a "verified [month year]" stamp inside the article body, near the pricing or claim being verified.
When an article is refreshed, the publish date stays as written and the updatedDate field is bumped. Both surface under the byline in the format "Published [date] · Updated [date]". The bump signals to readers and to search engines that something material has changed, not just a typo fix.
Corrections
Errors of fact, broken links, stale pricing, or misleading framing: hi@tinyctl.dev with the article URL and what's wrong.
Confirmed corrections on articles getting meaningful traffic are applied within a week. Each correction gets a dated note at the bottom of the affected article. We do not silently rewrite history — if a verdict changes, the change is acknowledged where readers can see it.
Trivial fixes (typo, broken link, wording clarity that doesn't change meaning) are applied without notation.
Advertising and affiliate links
Display advertising covers most of the operating cost of the publication. Display ads appear above and within articles. Their selection is handled by the ad network; we do not curate the specific advertisers shown.
Some articles carry affiliate links to products that would have been recommended on editorial merit. Where affiliate links appear, they are disclosed at the top of the article. They never appear on a product that we wouldn't otherwise recommend, and they never influence which product wins a comparison.
We have no exclusive partnerships with any vendor. We do not accept payment for placement, favorable coverage, or removal of negative coverage. There is no sponsored-content stream on this site.
Many of the products we recommend have no affiliate program and we recommend them anyway.
Scope limits
We do not provide individualized medical, legal, tax, or immigration advice. Articles touching those areas describe how the system works and point at licensed professionals when individualized advice is needed. A reader who needs a specific tax position taken on their specific facts needs a tax advisor, not a publication.
We do not cover cryptocurrency trading, token recommendations, or specific securities. Articles that mention crypto or finance describe mechanisms, not trades to make.
We do not write into categories saturated by larger publications where we couldn't add value over the existing SERP. Generic consumer software, lifestyle tooling, and product categories well-covered by Wirecutter or G2 are off our remit.
Contact
All editorial — corrections, topic suggestions, source pointers, press — goes through hi@tinyctl.dev.
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