Editorial Policy
The standards we hold ourselves to, including an honest account of how we use AI.
This page sets out how content on Nexulab is produced and maintained. It is public so you can hold us to it.
Research and sourcing
Articles are researched before they are written. Where a claim is contested, we say so rather than presenting one side as settled. Where a claim rests on a regulator, a standards body or published research, we identify the source in the text so you can check it yourself.
We do not present marketing material as evidence. A manufacturer’s claim about its own product is reported as a claim, not as a fact.
Specificity over hedging
Vague writing hides ignorance. Where we can be specific — a temperature, a duration, a named tool, a concrete limit — we are. Where we genuinely cannot be specific, we say why.
Numbers that change over time (prices, free-tier limits, subscription costs) are marked as time-sensitive and we tell you to verify them at the source, because an article cannot stay current with a pricing page.
Recommendations
We recommend by criteria first and product second. A reader who understands the criteria can evaluate the products that exist next year; a reader given only a ranked list cannot.
Products with no affiliate program are recommended on the same footing as products with one. Free and open-source software regularly outranks paid alternatives here.
Where the correct answer is that no purchase is needed, that is the answer we publish.
Use of AI
We use AI tools in our workflow, for research assistance, drafting and editing. We think readers deserve to be told that plainly rather than discovering it.
We also apply firm limits, because an unsupervised language model is a confident fabricator:
- No published claim rests on an AI tool’s unverified assertion. Factual claims are checked against primary sources before publication.
- AI does not invent product experience. We do not publish sentences describing hands-on testing that did not happen. Where an article is a criteria-based buying guide rather than a hands-on review, we say so in the article.
- A human is responsible for every published page. Editorial judgement about what to claim, what to omit and what to caveat is not delegated.
- Specific numbers get verified or removed. If a figure cannot be confirmed against a source, it does not go in.
The test we apply is simple: would this sentence survive a reader who knows the subject well? If not, it does not get published.
Corrections
When we get something wrong we fix it. Substantive corrections — anything that changes the meaning or the advice — are noted on the page along with the date. Typos and formatting fixes are made silently.
Report an error to hello@nexulab.org. Include the page and what you believe is wrong. We check every report, and we do not need you to be polite about it.
Updates
Articles carry a publication date and, where revised, an updated date. We revise when the underlying facts change: software is discontinued, guidance is superseded, a product is reformulated.
We do not change the update date without changing the content. Refreshing a date to look current to a search engine, while leaving stale information in place, is a deception aimed at the reader.
Independence
No advertiser, affiliate partner or third party reviews our content before publication or has any right to. Commercial partners cannot request changes to editorial conclusions.
If we ever publish sponsored content, it will be labelled at the top of the page in a way you cannot miss.
Comments and contact
We do not currently run comments. Email reaches us directly and gets read: hello@nexulab.org