Editorial Policy

Last updated: 26 August 2026

This is the standard every article on TechSMK is held to. It exists so you can judge our work against something specific, and so you can tell us when we have fallen short of it.

What we will publish

TechSMK covers one subject: AI tools and the practical work of using them. An article gets commissioned only if it clears four questions:

1. Is it inside our subject? If it is not about using an AI tool, we do not write it — however well the keyword performs.
2. Is there a real question behind it? Articles start from a task someone is stuck on, not from a search volume report.
3. Can we add something first-hand? If we cannot open the tool, run the steps, or verify the claim against primary documentation, we do not have an article yet.
4. Would it beat what is already ranking? If the existing top results already answer it well, we either find the angle they missed or we move on.

How an article gets made

1. Perform the task. Where the tool is reachable, the steps published are the steps that were followed. The platform, browser and app version are stated when they affect the outcome.
2. Capture evidence. Screenshots come from the actual session, cropped to the relevant part of the screen and captioned to say what they show. We do not illustrate a step with a stock image of it.
3. Verify the facts. Prices, quotas, model names and feature claims are checked against the vendor’s own documentation and linked, so a reader can confirm them independently.
4. Edit for length by usefulness. Articles end when the question is answered. We do not pad to hit a word count, and we cut FAQ sections that only exist to hold keywords.
5. Date it. Every article shows when it was published and when it was last checked.

Our use of AI

We write about AI tools, so we will be direct about how we use them.

What AI is used for here: outlining a structure, tightening a draft, checking grammar, and suggesting what a guide might be missing.

What AI is never used for here: generating a finished article and publishing it, inventing test results or screenshots, fabricating personal experience, producing statistics, or mass-producing pages at volume. No article is published without a human reading every line, checking every claim and taking responsibility for it.

If we cannot verify something ourselves, we say so in the text rather than writing around it.

What we will not do

• No keyword stuffing. A phrase appears as often as the sentence needs it and no more.
• No fabricated experience. We do not write “in my testing” about a tool we did not open.
• No invented numbers. Any statistic is sourced and linked, or it is cut.
• No paid links. We do not sell dofollow links, sponsored posts, link insertions or placements in comparisons. Contributor links are marked rel="nofollow" as a matter of policy.
• No affiliate influence. If we ever add affiliate links, they will be disclosed at the top of the article, and the ranking in any comparison will still be decided before commercial terms are looked at.
• No copied content. Nothing is republished, spun or translated from another site. Quotations are short, marked and attributed.
• No undisclosed changes. Substantive edits to a published article are noted, not made silently.

Independence

TechSMK is funded by display advertising. No advertiser, vendor or PR representative sees an article before publication or has any say in what it concludes. We accept no payment, gift, free hardware or extended licence in exchange for coverage. Where we use a paid subscription to test a tool, we pay for it ourselves.

Corrections

We correct errors rather than quietly deleting them.

• Minor fixes — a typo, a broken link, a renamed menu item — are made without a note.
• Substantive corrections — a wrong step, an incorrect price, a claim that turned out to be false — are made and marked with a dated correction note on the article.
• Withdrawals. If an article cannot be made accurate, it is unpublished and its URL redirected to the closest useful guide, rather than left up.

To report an error, email techsmkofficial0@gmail.com with the article title and what is wrong. We aim to respond within 48 hours on working days.

Reviewing what we have already published

Guides about fast-moving tools are re-checked periodically, and the “last checked” date is updated when they are. Where an article no longer meets the standard on this page, it is rewritten or removed — including articles that were published before this policy existed.

Who is accountable

Every article is written and edited by Sajid, who is responsible for its accuracy. There is no anonymous byline on this site.