Editorial policy

Every fact has a source

A factual sentence on this site comes from a source we opened and read: health services such as the NHS, peer-reviewed studies, a university research blog, a habit author's blog, Google and Microsoft help pages for the spreadsheet tools, crisis lines and eating disorder charities. Where we read only a study's abstract, we say no more than the abstract does. Each page that states facts lists its sources at the bottom. Our numbers are research ranges with their context, never a personal date, score or success rate.

Checked before it is published

A page is published only after its claims have been checked against every source it cites, in one of two ways. Either a named member of our team reads the page against the sources; the page then says “Fact-checked against its sources by” that person. Or an AI review that did not write the page opens every source and checks the page claim by claim against a fixed checklist; only if it finds nothing to fix does a named team member read its report and approve the page, and the page says “Sources checked claim by claim by an AI review. Approved for publishing by” that person. We keep every AI review report, and an approved page is checked on two separate clean passes.

Pages about the site itself, like this one and the about page, cite no sources, so their statements are checked against our code and documents instead. Until a page is checked it stays out of search results. We are not clinicians and do not claim to be: we never describe a page as “medically reviewed”.

What we won't publish

• Diagnoses, scores we made up, or promises that a tool treats or cures anything.
• Statistics we cannot trace to a source.
• Plans for habits we leave to others, such as eating, exercise, alcohol, smoking or gambling: the tool builds no plan and shows a short note instead. Some notes point to a free tool elsewhere or say support is available in the help section; they are not advice.

Corrections

If you find a mistake, email developyourself.studio@gmail.com. We check it against the source and correct the page; the date in a page's review line shows when it was last checked.