Sets the research method, decides what gets ranked, and answers for what is published.

Sebastiaan started The Knowledge Engineers after finding that most software comparison sites never explain how they ranked anything. He sets the method the site works to, edits the category guides, and is the person a vendor talks to about a listing.

Areas of focus

• Research method
• Rankings
• Vendor relations
• Editorial policy

How Sebastiaan works

Every page on this site passes through three people: one writes it, a second edits it, and a third checks the claims against the vendor's own documentation. Sebastiaan takes each of those roles across different pages, so no one person both writes and signs off the same guide. Which role falls to whom is fixed per page, so a page keeps the same names when it is rebuilt. Our editorial process sets out what each role checks.

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