How we write and check our guides
The rules every guide, study, comparison and glossary entry on this site follows: where the facts come from, how we use AI, how we handle our own interest, and how we correct mistakes.
Who writes them
The guides, studies, comparisons and glossary on this site are written by the team that makes Content Autopilot. They are drafted with AI from sources we have read, then checked against those sources before they are published.
No guide carries a named author yet, because no single person has reviewed each one from start to finish. When someone does, their name and background will go on the guides they reviewed. We will not put an invented name or a stock photo on a page.
Where the facts come from
- Primary sources. The policy page, the company's own documentation, the study itself: not an article about it.
- A source beside every figure, with what was counted, how many and when.
- A dated list of sources at the end of each guide, with the day we read them.
- Disagreements stated. Where two sources disagree, the page says so and says which one we used.
- Gaps stated. Where we looked for something and could not find it, the page says that instead of guessing.
What we measure ourselves
Our studies are small checks of the public web that we ran ourselves: which large sites block AI crawlers, which publish an llms.txt, and what Google's AI Overviews cite. Each one gives the date, the method, what was left out and why, and the result for every site or question as a file you can download. They describe the sample we chose, and say so.
We do not have a dataset from customer sites yet, and we do not write as if we had one.
How we use AI
AI drafts and helps with research. It does not decide what is true. Every number, quotation and claim about a product is checked by opening the source and reading it, and anything we cannot source comes out.
We do not invent statistics, customers, authors, credentials or test results, and we do not say we tested something we did not. We do not publish a page just because a keyword exists: a page needs something a reader would not get from the first few results already, such as a measurement, a worked example, a tool that does the job, or a judgement we will stand behind.
Our own interest
We sell Content Autopilot, which writes and publishes articles, tracks whether AI assistants recommend a business, and runs an opt-in link exchange. Where a guide discusses something we sell, it says so in the guide. Our comparisons say when the other product is the better choice, and list what we could not confirm about it.
No page on this site contains paid placements or affiliate links.
Updates and corrections
A guide's "Updated" date changes only when its content or its sources change, and the change is noted at the end of the guide. We do not move dates to make a page look fresh. The guides about AI search and crawlers cover platforms that change every month, so those are the ones we re-check first.
The rules behind this
These standards follow Google's guidance on helpful, reliable, people-first content and on using generative AI content, and Bing's Webmaster Guidelines.