Editorial & AI policy

Sourcing and fact-checking

Each story starts from a question no article on this site has answered yet. It must add something original: our own test, reporting, analysis or data. Every claim is checked against a primary source, and those sources are listed at the end of the article. A story cannot be published until its fact check is confirmed in our CMS.

How we use AI

We are an AI-tooling newsroom and we use AI tools. Each article states, at the bottom, whether AI was used for nothing, for research and transcription, or for drafting. When AI helped draft, a named author edited and fact-checked every line and is accountable for it. We do not publish AI output without human review, and we do not create articles in bulk to rank in search.

Independence

HarnessUp sells developer tools, some of which compete with products we cover. Authors are HarnessUp employees or contractors, and every byline says so. When we write about our own product, the article says it plainly. We never present this site as an independent reviewer of our own products, and we never write reviews under invented personas.

Ads and sponsored content

Paid content is labeled Ad above the headline and in the article footer, names the sponsor, and is not written by the newsroom.

Corrections and updates

If we get something wrong, we fix it and note the change at the end of the article. The “Updated” date changes only for meaningful content changes, not typo fixes. Report errors at help@harnessup.dev or through our contact page.