Editorial standards

Methodology

This page describes exactly how software data on EveryAny.One is gathered, verified and maintained — and where money is and is not involved. If we ever depart from what is written here, treat it as an error and tell us.

Four commitments

1. Placement is never for sale. Not in profiles, not in categories, not in ranked guides.
2. Every fact carries a date. A price without a checked date is not information.
3. We publish the negative. Every profile states who the product is not for.
4. We say "not disclosed" rather than estimating. Gaps are recorded as gaps.

How a profile gets built

Products are selected on one criterion: are people searching for information about this, and can we do a better job of answering than what currently exists? Submissions are one input; so are search demand, category gaps and reader requests.

Each profile is then assembled in a fixed order:

1. Primary sources first. The vendor's own pricing, documentation and about pages.
2. Company facts. Founding year, headquarters, founders and funding, from company registries, investor pages and reputable press.
3. Hands-on use where we can. On free tiers and trials, we run the core task the product is bought for.
4. Assessment written last. After the facts, never before.
5. Dates stamped. Each source records the date it was read.

How we handle pricing

Pricing is the field that decays fastest and the one buyers most need to be accurate. Our rules:

• We record the vendor's own published figure, with its billing basis — per seat, per contact, per site, per usage unit.
• Where a page shows an annual-equivalent price, we say so rather than presenting it as the monthly cost.
• We record seat minimums, because they change the real entry price.
• "Contact us" is recorded as quote-only, not estimated.
• Currency is the vendor's own, normally USD. We do not convert.

How assessments are written

The assessment, pros and cons are editorial opinion formed after the factual work. Three rules govern them:

• Every criticism must be specific enough to act on. "Clunky interface" is not publishable; "seats cannot be shared and concurrent sessions are logged out" is.
• Every profile names situations where the product is the wrong purchase. If we cannot find any, we have not researched it properly.
• Where we score a product, the score is ours as a publication — it is not an aggregate of user reviews, and we do not present it as one.

This is why our structured data marks the verdict as a Review authored by EveryAny.One rather than an aggregateRating. We do not collect user ratings, so we do not imply that we do.

How ranked guides are ordered

Each best-of guide publishes its selection criteria before its conclusions. Order reflects our judgement against those criteria for the stated use case — not popularity, not market share, and not commercial relationships. No vendor is told its position before publication, and no vendor reviews a draft.

Where money is involved

Being direct about this matters more than sounding neutral:

• Listings are free. There is no paid tier for inclusion, no expedited review for money, and no way to buy a better position.
• Sponsorship exists and is labelled. Where a placement is paid, it says so on the placement itself, and it sits outside editorial rankings. See advertise.
• Affiliate links may be used. Where they are, they are disclosed on the page. A product's affiliate programme — including whether it has one — never affects whether or how we cover it. Several products we rate most highly, including Ahrefs, run no affiliate programme at all; several with generous programmes score lower.
• We record affiliate terms as data. On every profile, because founders and marketers search for it. Recording it is not participating in it.

How we write for AI answers

A growing share of readers reach software information through AI assistants rather than search results. We write to be quotable by both: short factual statements, tables, explicit prices, named people, dates and sources. We do not pad pages to hit a word count — a thousand words containing twenty verifiable facts is more useful, and more citable, than four thousand words of generic review. More on this at EveryAny.One AI.

Corrections

We publish facts that decay, so we will get some wrong. Email editorial@everyany.one with the page and the specific field. What happens next:

• Factual errors — wrong price, wrong founder, wrong date — are corrected and the verification date is updated.
• Material corrections are noted on the page rather than changed silently.
• Disagreement with our assessment is not a correction. We will publish a founder response; we will not remove the criticism.

What we do not do

• Sell links, exchange links or accept guest posts.
• Publish sponsored content that is not labelled as sponsored.
• Let a vendor approve a draft before publication.
• Remove a cons section, a "not recommended for" list, or a low score for payment.
• Publish AI-generated text as editorial without a human verifying every fact in it.

Who writes this

Profiles and guides are produced by the EveryAny.One editorial team and published under that name unless individually bylined. More on the publication at about.