How we write, and how we use AI

We use AI tools to search for and read sources, to draft text from the notes we take, and to draw diagrams as code. People decide what each article argues, choose the sources, and check every sentence that states a fact against the source it came from.

AI is never used to invent a fact, a quotation, a statistic, a person or a source. Every figure on the site comes from a source we opened and name. Where a figure could not be checked, it was cut rather than softened.

"Reviewed by our editor" means the article passed every point of the checklist below before it was published, and passes it again at each review.

1. It answers a question people in the region really ask, found in search data or in readers' messages.
2. It adds something the web lacks for this reader: a local example, a comparison across our countries, a worked case or a picture that explains.
3. Its answer comes first, in plain words, so a reader or an AI assistant can quote it.
4. Every figure links to its source and carries the date it was read.
5. Companies are described by what they say and what was reported or decided about them, with dates, and never attacked.
6. No hype and no doom: what AI does well and what it does not, side by side.
7. It is reviewed again at least every three months, and changes are dated.

Our pictures are drawings and charts made from the facts in the article. Where a drawing shows an example, such as a conversation with an AI tool, its caption says it is an illustration. We never present an AI-made image as a photograph, and we do not use stock photos of people presented as local readers.

We prefer the original: a law on a government or legal site, a study in its journal, a company's own announcement, a regulator's decision. Where we rely on news reports, we name the outlet and the date. Each article lists its sources at the end.

If you find a mistake, tell us. We check it against the source, correct the article and change its date. A correction that changes the meaning of an article is noted on the article.

No company pays for a mention, and advertising, where it appears, never decides what we write. The people behind RootedPrompt also build software for small businesses, including website software, so we never rank or recommend a product of that kind by name. About us.