Editorial Policy
This page explains how our guides are made, so you can decide how much to trust them.
Independence
No vendor pays for coverage, placement or wording. We don't use affiliate links in our guides. The site is funded by display advertising, which is served by Google and is kept visually separate from the articles.
How we research
- Start from the decision, not the product. Each guide begins with the job a small business is trying to get done and the mistakes people commonly make.
- Read the primary sources. Vendor documentation, pricing pages, security pages, terms of service, and public guidance from bodies such as CISA, the FTC, NIST and the SBA.
- Use the tools where we can. Where we describe how a product category behaves, it's based on working with those tools in a real business or on free trials — not on press releases.
- Explain trade-offs. We would rather tell you which questions to ask than declare a single "winner" that won't fit most readers.
Pricing and facts
Prices, plan names and feature limits change frequently. We describe pricing models and give ranges only as a rough guide, and every guide reminds you to confirm current details with the vendor. Each guide shows the date it was last reviewed.
Use of AI
We may use AI tools to help with outlining, editing and checking consistency. Every guide is reviewed, edited and fact-checked by a person before publishing, and a person is responsible for what we publish.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix it and update the "Updated" date on the guide. Send corrections through our contact page.
Videos and images
Illustrations and diagrams on StackScope are created by us. Some guides embed short videos from public YouTube channels — usually the vendor's own channel or a government agency — because seeing a product in action helps. We are not affiliated with the publishers of embedded videos.