Editorial Policy

Last updated: November 3, 2026

BravoTech publishes practical how-to guides, explainers and comparisons about cloud storage, productivity software, Apple devices, Windows, everyday software and AI tools, for individuals and small teams. This page explains who writes our articles, how they are made, how we check them, how we label them and how we fix mistakes.

Who writes our articles

• Fawad Malik is the founder of BravoTech. He is the author of our Apple articles: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods and iCloud.
• Syed Saud Ahsan is a WordPress developer and technical SEO strategist with 20+ years of experience across WordPress development, technical SEO, operating systems and servers. He is the author of our Windows, software and AI articles, and he sets and maintains BravoTech’s editorial standards.

Each author page lists that author’s articles and a short bio. Some older articles carry the names of former writers or guest contributors. One of them is Saad Shah, a former BravoTech editor and writer who has since left the team. These articles keep their original author’s name, and we review them under this policy when we update them (see “How we keep articles up to date” below).

How our articles are made

1. We choose a topic (see “How we choose topics” below).
2. We gather official sources. For every article we collect the official pages that cover the topic: the vendor’s help center or support documentation, product and pricing pages, and release notes. For security topics we also use government and standards bodies such as CISA and NIST.
3. We draft with AI assistance. We use AI tools to help turn those sources into a first draft: structure, step lists, tables and plain-language explanations. We don’t use AI to invent facts, experiences, test results, quotes, statistics or reviews.
4. We check the facts, and an editor approves. Before an article goes live, our team checks its prices, plan limits, feature details and steps against the official sources linked in the article, corrects anything that doesn’t match, and removes anything that can’t be sourced. A BravoTech editor (Syed Saud Ahsan or Fawad Malik) then reviews the article and approves it for publishing. The date of the fact check appears in the byline as “Facts checked”.
5. We publish with clear labels (see “How every article is labeled” below), and we list the sources we used at the end of the article.

What we don’t claim

Our articles are based on official documentation and published sources, not on lab tests or hands-on product testing. We don’t write “we tested”, “in our testing” or “hands-on” in our articles. If you find an older article that still makes a claim like this, please tell us and we’ll correct it.

Some of our reviews and comparisons end with a short verdict, and some include an editorial score. A verdict or score is our judgment based on official documentation, listed prices and published sources, not on tests, and every article with a score explains how it was scored. How-to guides and explainers don’t carry verdicts or scores.

If we ever add hands-on testing to an article, the article will say exactly what was tested, on which device and when, and this page will be updated first.

How we use AI

• We use AI tools to help draft many of our articles from official sources. New and updated articles drafted this way are labeled AI-assisted and have a “How this article was made” note before their Sources. Some articles published before November 2026 don’t show the label yet; we add it when we next update them.
• A person is responsible for every article. Our team checks the facts against the linked sources, a BravoTech editor approves each new article before it is published, and AI is never listed as an author.
• We don’t use AI to make up test results, personal experiences, quotes, statistics or reviews, and our author photos and bios describe real people.
• We use AI so a small team can keep how-to guides and comparisons current when vendors change their prices, plans and menus. We don’t use it to publish large numbers of pages on topics we don’t cover.

How every article is labeled

New and updated articles start with a byline in this format:

By

About the author

· Updated [date] · Facts checked: [date] · AI-assisted

• By
  About the author

  links to the author’s page. The author is the BravoTech team member responsible for the article. Every new article is approved by a BravoTech editor before it is published.
• Updated [date] is the date of the last real content update. New articles show Published [date] instead. We don’t change this date for small edits, such as typo fixes or credit corrections.
• Facts checked: [date] is the date the prices, plan limits and steps were last checked against the official sources linked in the article.
• AI-assisted links to the “How this article was made” note in that article.

Older articles may show an earlier byline format, such as By

About the author

· Reviewed by Syed Saud Ahsan (Editor) · Published [date] · Last updated: [date], or only the author name and date shown by our theme. In the earlier format, the reviewer is the editor who checked the article. We move articles to the current format when we next update them.

Sponsored articles also start with “Disclosure: This is a sponsored post.” (see “How we make money” below).

How we check facts

• Official and primary sources. Prices, storage limits, specifications and steps link to the vendor’s own pages. Security advice links to vendor security documentation, CISA, NIST or the original research.
• Dates. New and updated articles show when their facts were last checked, and their Sources section lists the pages used.
• No unsourced numbers. If we can’t source a statistic, a price or a limit, we leave it out.
• Safety warnings. When a step can delete data, reset a device or change account security, we include the vendor’s own warning and tell you to back up first.
• Regional differences. Prices and plans are shown as listed on the vendor’s US pages unless an article says otherwise. They can differ in your country, so check the linked vendor page before you buy.

How we choose topics

We write about questions people actually have about the tools we cover. To find them we use:

• questions people search for, including Google Search Console data for our own site;
• vendor help centers, release notes and community forums, which show what changes and what confuses people;
• reader email;
• changes to products, plans and prices that affect people who already use them.

We only cover topics we can source properly from official documentation. Companies and PR agencies can suggest topics, but a suggestion doesn’t guarantee coverage, and nobody can pay to be included in an article or to change what it says.

Editorial independence

• We decide what we cover and what we say about it.
• Companies can’t pay to be covered, to be included in a list, to be ranked higher or to have an article changed.
• Vendors don’t see or approve articles before we publish them. We may contact a vendor to confirm a specific fact.
• Authors tell us about any personal or financial connection to a company they write about. If it is relevant, we disclose it in the article or assign the article to someone else.

How we make money, and how we disclose it

• No affiliate links. BravoTech does not use affiliate links and does not earn commissions from the products we write about.
• Sponsored content. We publish a small number of sponsored articles. Every sponsored article starts with “Disclosure: This is a sponsored post.”, and every link to the sponsor carries rel="sponsored" (a few older sponsored articles use rel="nofollow" instead, which also tells search engines not to pass ranking credit). Payment never buys a recommendation, a ranking or a change to another article. The full rules are in our Contributor & Sponsored Content Policy.
• Free products. If a vendor gives us a free account, product or extended trial, the article says so.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix it and say so.

How to report an error: email [email protected] with the article URL, what’s wrong and, if you have one, a source. We read every report and fix confirmed errors as soon as we can.

• Material errors, such as a wrong price, limit, step or recommendation, are fixed and get a correction note at the top of the article.
• Minor errors that don’t change the meaning, such as typos or broken links, are fixed without a note.
• Credit errors, such as a wrong byline or label, are fixed without changing the article’s “Updated” date.
• We don’t silently change a recommendation.

Correction notes use this format:

Correction, [Month Day, Year]: An earlier version of this article said [what was wrong]. [The correct fact], according to [source]. We’ve updated [the section or table].

How we keep articles up to date

Software, prices and plans change often. When we update an article, we re-check its facts against the official sources, update the “Facts checked” date, and show the new “Updated” date. Articles that can’t be kept accurate, or that fall outside the topics above, are updated, merged into a better article, removed from search results, or deleted.

Contact

• Corrections and questions about this policy: [email protected]
• Other questions: Contact us
• How outside contributors and sponsors work with us: Contributor & Sponsored Content Policy and Write for Us