Editorial Policy

We use AI, and a human reviews everything

Our guides are drafted with AI assistance. We say that plainly because we think how content is made should be no secret. AI tools help us research regulations and draft text. A human — Adithya Sudarsan, the site's founder — reviews every guide before it goes live and approves every change to a published guide.

Every fact starts with a source

Before we write a guide, we build a research file for that state or city. Each fact in the file records three things: the claim itself, the exact place it came from (the statute section, form number, or agency page), and the date we captured it.

We rank sources in three tiers:

• Primary — laws, regulations, and official government pages. Legal requirements, fees, and deadlines may only come from these.
• Secondary — industry associations and insurers. Used for market context, never for legal claims.
• Experiential — working operators sharing what the job is really like, for example in videos. We credit them and never present their experience as regulatory fact.

Writers can only use checked facts

Guide drafts are written from that research file — not from memory and not from open-ended web searches. Every citation you see in a guide points to a numbered reference, and every reference traces back to the research file and its original source. That two-step chain means you can follow any claim in a guide all the way to the statute or agency page behind it.

Then we try to break it

Before publication, a separate fact-checking pass goes claim by claim and asks: does the source really say this? Is a number overstated? Is a legal claim resting on a non-government source? Is the answer buried or written in jargon? Anything that fails goes back for fixes. Only after that does a human do the final review and publish.

We re-check published guides on a schedule

Rules change. Every guide shows two dates: last updated (when the text last changed) and facts verified (when we last re-checked every fact against its source). We re-verify guides on a rolling schedule and check the links in our guides for breakage. When something has changed in the real world, we update the guide. When we got something wrong, we fix it and say so — see our corrections policy.

Plain language, on purpose

We write so that someone new to the industry can follow along. Short sentences. Terms defined the first time they appear. Fees in tables, not buried in paragraphs. If a sentence needs a law degree to parse, we rewrite it.

What we do not do

• We do not publish AI output nobody has reviewed.
• We do not state legal requirements without a primary source.
• We do not give legal advice — see the disclaimer.
• We do not quietly refresh dates to look current. The "facts verified" date only moves when we actually re-check the facts.