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• A tool’s tier is set before we check whether it has an affiliate program.
• A Low Tier tool with an affiliate program stays Low Tier.
• Tools with no affiliate program are reviewed with the same depth and placed with the same rules.
• We only join affiliate programs for tools we’d recommend to a friend.
• We never rank a tool higher because it pays more.

What we never accept

• Payment for a review, a placement, or a better tier.
• Free plans, credits or gifts in exchange for coverage.
• Sponsored posts dressed up as reviews.
• Vendor approval or edits before a review is published.

If a vendor reaches out, the answer is always the same: we’ll look at the tool only if we’d genuinely use it, and we’ll publish whatever we find.

The insider view

The author has spent years inside SaaS: marketing tools for a living, building side projects (including websites), and working with clients across industries like legal and finance. That’s the edge here: you get the view from inside the industry, not from a trial account. It means knowing how tools get sold, where the marketing stretches the truth, and what users run into once the demo is over.

Being on the inside also means the author sometimes has a personal link to a tool. When that happens, the review says so at the top, so you always know where the opinion comes from. That covers tools from:

• a company the author works for now, or has worked for,
• a client the author has worked with,
• the author’s own side projects, or anything they helped build,
• a direct competitor of any of the above.

And if the author knows a tool well because they once marketed against it, the review says that too. Studying a competitor up close is often where the sharpest insight comes from.

Evidence levels

Every tool is labelled by how we know what we know: Ran it, Tested it or Researched it. “Researched it” tools never get a tier, and their sections link to the user reports they’re built on. The full rules are on How we review.

How content is written

The experiences, opinions and verdicts on this site come from real use by the author or verified contributors. We use AI tools to help draft, structure and edit, but every experience and verdict is ours.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix it and note the correction at the bottom of the page with a date. We don’t quietly rewrite verdicts. Vendors can point out factual errors like pricing or features through the contact page, and we’ll check and correct them. Opinions stay ours.

Last updated: 11 November 2026