How the guides are made

Each guide is written from public sources: vendor websites and documentation, filings, press releases and trade press. The sources are listed at the foot of every guide.

Before a guide is published, a second AI model from a different company reads the guide against the text of every source it cites, and against current search results. It reports any claim the sources do not support, contradict or have overtaken. Editors fix or delete each one.

When we cannot confirm a fact, we leave it out.

A guide names the vendors a buyer would put on a shortlist today, sorts them by how their products are built, and gives each one line on who it fits. Being named is free and is decided by editors.

Guides do not rank vendors or score them. They explain the category, the approaches within it, and what to ask, so the reader can decide.

Vendors can buy a Spotlight placement for $999 a year. It includes a slot in the Spotlight block on one guide (5 slots per guide), a vendor profile page in the vendor’s words, and a place in “Tools you can use” at the foot of related Stratrix reads (up to 3 per read).

Every paid element says “Paid listing” in its heading. Paid links are marked as sponsored for search engines.

Editors decide which reads show which categories. Vendors do not choose pages.

Payment does not change a guide’s text, the vendors it names, the order they appear in, or what it says about any of them. A vendor that stops paying keeps its editorial coverage.

If a guide gets something wrong, tell us. We check it against the source and correct it, whether or not the vendor is a customer. Each guide shows the month it was last reviewed.