§Methodology
The rules we can be held to
A category site run by a company with commercial interests needs published rules more than promises. These are ours, dated August 2026.
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Concepts are labelled, always
Anything not purchasable carries a visible status — concept, prototype, or beta — on the page itself. We use no 'buy', 'trial', or availability language, and no product structured data, for things that cannot be bought. A concept graduating to a real product keeps its URL and changes its label.
02
Experience before opinion
Category guidance comes from systems PFE builds and operates internally. Where we write about products we haven't operated, we say so. Product reviews and comparisons appear only after genuine hands-on testing under a written, reproducible method with versions and dates published.
03
No compensated recommendations — today
As of August 2026 we take no payment, affiliate commission, or consideration from any provider mentioned. If a commercial relationship ever exists, it will be disclosed inline wherever it could influence a recommendation.
04
Research is aggregate, published honestly
Findings from the Assistant Finder are published only in aggregate, only above minimum sample sizes, with small cells suppressed and collection channels reported. No individual response is ever published or shared.
05
Dates and corrections
Substantive pages carry meaningful update dates. Material errors are corrected in place with a note, not silently.
06
AI is a tool here, not the author of record
We use AI assistants in producing this site — it would be strange not to. Every published page is reviewed and stands on the operating experience of the people behind it; nothing is bulk-generated and shipped unread.