How we pick, check and correct stories

How stories are picked

• We read primary sources: company blogs, release notes, research papers and model cards.
• We rank stories by usefulness to people with a day job: can you use it, does it change a risk you carry, or will you hear about it in your next meeting.
• We cover global AI news, not local politics, and we skip hype with nothing to try or nothing to learn.

How stories are checked

• Every story shows its source and date, with a link.
• Code checks that every number we state appears in the source, and that no run of 12 or more words is copied.
• Claims from a company or a paper are labelled as theirs ("per the paper", "according to Wiz").
• A person on our team checks the rundown before each show.
• Every "try it safely" step says what not to paste into the tool.

How we rate

Status is where the thing really is, not where the press release says it is: announced, alpha, available, patch out. Useful to you is how much a busy professional or business owner can act on it this week:

• Worth knowing, nothing to do yet.
• Useful to some readers, or soon.
• Act on it or try it this week.

Ratings are never paid for.

Our labels: Reviewed and Tried

When we recommend a tool, it carries 1 of 2 labels.

• Reviewed (the default): we read the product page, the pricing, the privacy policy and the terms, and checked the claims against sources. It does not mean we used it.
• Tried: someone on our team actually used it. We give the date, the plan, what we did, what broke, and a screenshot. An AI summary never earns a Tried label.

No guarantees

AI tools change quickly. Prices, features and terms may differ from what we show. We write "may", "in our try" and "prices checked on" a date, and we pull any tool with a data breach or a misleading claim within 24 hours of finding out. Nothing here is financial, legal or medical advice.

Paid links and sponsors

Today this site has no paid links and no sponsors. If we add them, usefulness still ranks the list, never commission, at least 1 in 3 listed tools will have no paid deal, and every paid link is labelled where it appears, like this:

Paid link: we may earn a commission at no cost to you. It never changes our ranking.

In videos we say it in the video itself and in the description, as early as we reasonably can. Sponsored segments are marked "Ad" or "Sponsored" on screen. This follows the US FTC's guidance that a disclosure must be clear and sit next to the link, and the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore's guidance to disclose as early as reasonably possible.

Corrections ledger

If we get something wrong, we fix the page, add it here, and Annie corrects it at the start of the next show. Report a mistake to hello@aibeforecoffee.com.

No corrections yet. When there are, every one is listed here with the date, what we said and what the source says.