Editorial standards

Trust is the whole product. These are the rules every page on this site follows.

What "verified" means

Every workflow and stack on this site comes from a direct conversation with the church that runs it. We ask what they actually use, what it actually costs, and how the work actually gets done — then we write it down and the church reviews it before anything is published. Verified means a real church confirmed this is how they really do it, not that a vendor told us so.

Last-verified dates

Tools change, prices change, and churches change their setups. Every page carries the date it was last confirmed true. When a page passes six months without re-verification, it says so — pages age in the open here, never silently. If you're about to build from an older page, verify the details before you start.

Complete or unpublished

A page ships only when it has everything you need to act on it: the ordered steps, the named tools, the real costs, the setup difficulty, the church-size context, and a verified date. If we can't complete a page, it doesn't ship. We'd rather publish three true pages than ten thin ones.

Corrections

If you catch an error, tell us — reply to any digest email and a person reads it. When we get something wrong, we correct it publicly and note the date on the page. That's what a field guide does with a new edition.

Never for sale

Rankings and placement are never for sale. No church or vendor can pay to appear, to rank higher, or to shape what a page says. If sponsorship ever appears on this site, it will be labeled, and it will never touch what's published. See ourconflict-of-interest policy for the firewall behind that promise.