Disclosure

How this site makes money, stated in full, because a ranking you cannot audit is worth nothing.

Commissioned analysis

A vendor can commission an analysis of their own product. Where that happens the page names the commissioner at the top and keeps naming them. The commissioner can correct a factual error about their own product; the judgements in the piece remain ours, including the drawbacks.

We do not sell edits to an existing guide, and we do not publish sponsored work that is dressed up as independent.

Commercial relationships and rankings

This is the specific version of the notice that sits above every ranked list. A vendor can pay for visibility, and that includes where a product appears in the order as well as how prominently it is shown. So the position of a product in one of our rankings is influenced by whether its vendor pays us.

A vendor can also be listed without paying, at position eleven or lower, in return for a link to that category page from its own site. That listing gets the same entry as every other product.

What payment does not touch is the writing. It does not change a word of what an entry says about a product, including the criticism and the section on who the product is wrong for, and it cannot buy a place in a category the product does not belong in.

Every ranked list carries the short version of this directly above it, with a link here. We do not put it only in the footer, because a reader scrolling a ranking should not have to go looking for it.

What we do not earn

We take no commission on anything you buy after leaving this site. There are no affiliate links, no tracking redirects and no revenue share with a vendor whose product you clicked. If you buy something we ranked, we do not find out and we are not paid for it.

Every vendor link on the site carries rel="nofollow", so none of the ranking credit a search engine might otherwise pass travels with a paid placement. They are all marked identically, whatever the arrangement behind them, which means the markup tells you nothing about who pays and neither does anything else on the page.

What money cannot buy

A vendor cannot buy inclusion in a category if the product does not belong there, cannot buy removal of criticism, cannot buy the removal of a competitor, and cannot review a page before it is published. Editorial change requests are accepted where a factual claim is wrong; they are declined where the disagreement is about our judgement.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you believe a page is not following it, write to business@gcas-digital.com and we will answer.

Who publishes this

The Knowledge Engineers is published by G-Cas B.V., Fladderiepvliet 3, 3545 AJ Utrecht, Netherlands, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under KvK 42008661. Correspondence and corrections go to business@gcas-digital.com.