Editorial policy

This page describes how Abode & Grove is made and the rules everything we publish follows.

How we use AI

We use AI tools to research, draft and organise our content. AI agents read official guidance, makers' documentation and the independent sources we name, and draft our articles, news and guides from them. Nothing made this way is published automatically: a person decides whether each draft goes live.

A short note at the end of a piece tells you which of these applies:

• “This article was created with the help of AI.” No editor has checked it against its sources.
• “Created with the help of AI and checked against its sources by…” An editor has verified the facts against the sources and is named, with the date. Correcting grammar or skimming the text does not count as a check, and if the text changes after the check, the first notice comes back until it is checked again.

A piece written by a person without AI drafting carries neither notice.

Some illustrations are made with AI image tools. We caption these images to say how they were made.

Sources

Primary sources come first. Independent reporting is used when the source is named and the claim can be traced. When reliable sources disagree, the article explains that rather than picking a side without saying so.

What we do not do

Unless a page says otherwise and gives the dates, nobody here has used what it describes, and our pages never describe an experience we have not had. If you find wording that suggests otherwise, tell us and we will correct it.

We do not invent figures, results or reader comments. When the sources disagree or say nothing, the page says so.

Independence

No advertiser or brand can pay to change what we choose to cover. We do not accept payment for coverage. Commercial content, if there is ever any, will be labelled as such and kept apart from editorial work.

Editorial responsibility

We take editorial responsibility for the content published on this website, including anything produced with AI tools. The site is published by Ciprian Jitaru, whose details are in our terms of use. If something we published is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Corrections

We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we fix it promptly and, for anything material, note the change on the page. If you spot an error, please tell us.