Editorial methodology

1. Structured data first

Every broker, platform and fee lives as a database record with four fields: value, source, source URL, and verification date. Frontend pages render from these records — we never hard-code fees in articles or components.

2. Verification

• Fees are checked against official broker pricing pages (linked as sources where public).
• Each figure shows its status: verified with date, or “confirming” while re-verification is pending. Confirming figures are labelled in the UI — never presented as fact.
• Material pricing changes trigger a re-check of comparisons, calculators and verdicts that cite them.

3. Editorial ratings (x/5)

Ratings weigh pricing transparency, platform reliability, support quality, and cost for typical users of that product. They are editorial judgement, not measurements — two honest researchers can disagree by 0.2, and that's fine. App-store ratings are shown separately and labelled as such.

4. Affiliate separation

• Commercial relationships live in a separate affiliate-link table — updating a URL never touches editorial content.
• Ratings, sort orders and verdicts are set without reference to commission levels. Featured placements are editorial.
• Every monetised page carries an affiliate disclosure.

5. What we won't do

• No fake reviews or invented ratings. No Review schema on content that isn't genuine editorial evaluation.
• No programmatic SEO spam: every comparison page must add unique, useful differentiation or it doesn't ship.
• No personalised investment recommendations. Educational content only.

Corrections

Found a stale figure? Tell us with the official source link — verified corrections ship within days, not quarters.