This document explains how Venture Harbour decides what to cover, how we test it, who signs it off, and how affiliate relationships do — and don’t — shape what you read. If we haven’t answered your question here, get in touch.
Who writes for us
Research on this site is written by a small group of contributors named on each article’s byline. Every author has a dedicated profile page with their background, what they write about, and links to their public work. We don’t run unattributed articles, AI-generated filler, or freelance-mill content.
Who reviews what we publish
The majority of articles go through a second pair of eyes before they’re published. A named reviewer checks facts, tests the claims against the live product, and flags anything that doesn’t match our own experience using the tool.
The byline at the top of each article shows both the author and the reviewer, when a reviewer is assigned. If the reviewer disagrees with the author’s verdict, the piece doesn’t ship until we resolve it.
How we pick what to cover
Tools are prioritised by the research we ourselves need to run the Venture Harbour portfolio. If a tool isn’t something we’d actually use in a venture, we don’t cover it. Inside a category, we test as many credible tools as we can and only include the ones worth writing about.
How we test
Every tool we recommend has been used inside at least one Venture Harbour venture, or tested hands-on for a piece of research. The testing framework we use is documented in how we test.
Sources
Where we quote numbers, prices, or features, we link to the vendor’s own public source (their pricing page, changelog, docs, or a dated announcement). If a vendor’s claim can’t be independently verified, we say so.
Affiliate relationships and independence
Some links on Venture Harbour are affiliate links: if you click through and buy, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Two rules we hold ourselves to:
- Ranking first, commercials second. We rank a category before we know which tools we can partner with. Where the top-ranked tool has no affiliate programme, it still ranks first.
- Full disclosure on every commercial page. Articles that contain affiliate links carry a disclosure at the top, and affiliate links themselves use a dedicated
/recommends/redirect withrel="sponsored nofollow"so search engines and readers can see them for what they are.
For the formal commission disclosure and the full list of the ways we may be compensated, see Commission and fees on our Terms of Use.
Updates and freshness
Software changes quickly. Every article shows the date it was last updated. When a tool’s pricing, features, or reliability shift enough to change a ranking, we do our best to revise the article and update the date.
Corrections
We’ve been publishing for 14 years and have hundreds of articles on the site — some things will inevitably be out of date. If you spot something, let us know and we’ll correct it.
If we publish something inaccurate, we fix it. Substantive corrections are called out in the article. Typos, broken links, and formatting fixes are made silently. Most changes get deployed within 2-3 days.
AI use
We use AI as a research and drafting assistant — the same way a professional writer would use search, spreadsheets, or a research assistant. Final judgement, product testing, ranking, and review sign-off are done by the humans named on the byline. We do not publish articles that haven’t been read end-to-end by a named author and reviewer.
Contact
Editorial questions, correction requests, and partnership enquiries: use our contact form.