How we use AI

Archived articles appear exactly as they did when first published. We strip out navigation menus, ad slots, and sidebar widgets so the text is easier to read, but we do not rewrite the prose or update the facts. That historical snapshot stays intact.

AI drafts new evergreen guides when we decide a topic needs another treatment. The tool works from an outline, a set of themes drawn from the archive, and a clear instruction: explain this the way you would to a neighbor who just bought their first flat.

We do not use AI to generate fake news, invent expert quotes, or manufacture case studies. If a detail cannot be verified, it does not go into the draft. The AI writes structure and sentences. We supply the boundaries and the facts.

Every AI draft goes through a human edit. Repetition gets cut. Vague phrases get replaced with concrete nouns. Anything that sounds like a chatbot greeting is rewritten or deleted.

Site structure, including navigation labels and category descriptions, may also be AI-assisted. The same rules apply: no fabrication, no jargon storms, no puffery.

We do not use AI to rewrite old posts and pass them off as updates. When an article is outdated, we write a new one and link the two. Readers deserve to know which version they are reading.

AI does not make editorial decisions. It does not choose which topics to cover, which corrections to publish, or how to respond to reader mail. Those calls remain human.

This page will be updated if our AI use changes in a way that affects what you read. The goal is simple: useful guides, written clearly, without inventing facts to fill space.