Editorial policy

This page describes how TechCritic is written, what is checked before anything is published, who is answerable for it, and what happens when we get something wrong. It is written to be checked against what you can see on the site, not to reassure you.

Articles are written by AI

Articles on TechCritic are written by an automated editorial pipeline built on large language models. There is no newsroom. No person drafts the prose, and a byline on this site never names a person who wrote it, because no person did.

We say this plainly rather than in a footer, and it is not a disclaimer we have been told to publish. It is the fact that most changes how a reader should read us, so it belongs at the top of this page rather than the bottom.

Nothing is published without passing an independent review gate

No article reaches this site until it has passed a review gate that is separate from the system which wrote it. The gate is also automated — it is not a human sub-editor and we will not describe it as one. Its job is adversarial: it is instructed to try to fail the draft, it has no stake in publishing, and a draft that fails is blocked rather than flagged for somebody to wave through.

What the gate inspects, in terms you can check against the page in front of you:

Every figure carries a source, beside the figure: Any statistic, measurement or numeric claim must carry a link to the third-party source it came from, in the same block of the page as the claim. A source named in passing, or linked somewhere else on the page, fails. Our own sites never count as a source for our own claims.
Nothing is invented: Fabricated products, quotations, test results, review scores or reader numbers fail outright. So does any figure presented as a measurement that nobody measured.
No claim of testing we did not do: A draft that describes hands-on use, or presents somebody else's measurement as ours, fails. See what we do not do.
Machine-readable data must match what you can read: The structured data we publish for search engines must match the visible page — the same figures, the same ratings, the same text. Markup asserting something the page does not say fails. Titles, descriptions and image alternative text are inspected too, not only the body.
Plain English, and no advertising register: Marketing vocabulary is blocked by name. So is any wording that encourages a reader to interact with an advertisement.

The gate is the reason this page exists. An automated publication with no independent check on its output has nothing standing between a plausible mistake and a published one.

Who is accountable

TechCritic is published by Tireless. A named human is accountable for everything on this site, and that person is Anamul Hassan Chowdhury, Managing Director of Tireless. Accountability means what it ordinarily means: if something published here is wrong, misleading or unfair, it is his responsibility to see it corrected, and a complaint not resolved by email reaches him.

This is a deliberately narrow claim. It does not say that a human reviews each article before publication, because that is not what happens, and a policy page overstating it would be a documented false statement rather than a reassurance.

Where our figures come from

We do not measure hardware. Every measurement on this site is somebody else's, and it is attributed to them with a link. Where a manufacturer's claim and an independent measurement disagree we publish both and say which is which — that gap is usually the most useful thing on the page.

Figures that are illustrative rather than real are labelled as such, on the page, in visible text. Template and specimen pages carry a notice at the top saying so and naming the products on them as invented. If you find an unlabelled figure on this site that we did not source, that is a defect and we would like to hear about it.

Images are published only where the licence we hold permits it, and are credited where that licence requires a credit.

Corrections

We will get things wrong. When we do, the correction is made on the article itself rather than quietly, and the article says what changed.

How to report something: Email ops@tirelesshq.com. Say which page, and which sentence or figure you think is wrong. You do not need to explain why it matters.
What we do with it: We check the claim against its source. If the claim is wrong we correct it and note the correction on the page. If the source was wrong we say so and cite a better one. If we conclude the article was right, we reply and explain why.
What we will not do: We will not remove an accurate and fairly written article because its subject would prefer it gone, and we will not change a conclusion because an advertiser asked.

Advertising

TechCritic carries advertising to fund itself. The separation between advertising and editorial is structural rather than a promise: advertising is served in slots visually separated from the article and labelled as advertising, no advertiser is shown an article before publication, no advertiser can commission or veto one, and the review gate blocks any wording that encourages a reader to click an advertisement. We publish no sponsored articles and accept no payment from a manufacturer for coverage.

At the time of writing no advertising is switched on and this site serves none. The privacy notice sets out what data is collected today and what will change when it is enabled.

The honest state of this site

TechCritic is new — it has been publishing since August 2026. Everything above is a commitment about how articles will be produced, checked and corrected. A short archive is not a track record and would be a poor argument for one. What it does give a reader is something concrete to hold this page against: the first article states where every figure in it came from, says plainly that nothing on it was measured by us, and lists the figures we wanted and could not source to the standard set out above. Judging us against this page gets easier as the record grows, which is the point of publishing the commitments beforehand rather than afterwards.