Who is accountable for what appears here, how it gets reviewed, and how the site is funded.
Every page is published under the FigureDeck Editorial byline. The byline is not decorative, and it is not a person's name: it identifies the publishing party that is answerable for the page — the team that decides what gets published, checks the arithmetic and answers corrections.
We do not attach a professional credential to this byline, because we would have to invent one. On a site about money, a fabricated qualification is a misrepresentation, and it would undercut the only thing this site actually offers, which is arithmetic a reader can check. What is verifiable here is the formula, the source behind every external figure and the correction record — all of them public on every page, and all of them auditable without trusting us.
This content is not anonymous. The publishing party is identified, the review process is described below, and a working contact address is published so that a reader who finds an error has somewhere to send it. Where a page touches tax, regulation or a figure set by an issuing authority, it does not go live until the modelling has been checked against that authority's own documentation rather than against commentary about it.
A calculator page goes through five checks before it can go live: sources present and dated, differentiation from anything already published in the same cluster, a stated reason for the page to exist, formula tests passing, and an identified publishing party with a link to the page describing who is answerable. Failing any one of them blocks the page, and the checks are enforced by the build rather than by intention.
This site is intended to be funded by advertising. As of the date on this page there is no advertising on any page of this site, and no third-party advertising script is loaded. That is deliberate: the site is being tested first, on whether the calculators are useful enough to be found at all, before any commercial element is added.
If and when advertising is introduced, it will be labelled, kept visually separate from editorial content, and will have no influence on which calculators exist, what they compute, or how a result is described. We do not publish sponsored articles, and we do not sell placement inside a calculator's results.
We do not accept payment to feature a lender, and we do not operate affiliate links that pay us when you take out a product. If that ever changes, the change will be disclosed on this page and marked at the point of the link.
No commercial relationship can change a formula. The mathematics on a page follows from the cited source, and a disagreement with a source is resolved by following the source, not by following a sponsor.
This site is produced with heavy use of language and code generation tools, and we say so plainly, because a reader is entitled to know how the text in front of them was made. Draft explanations, page structure and calculator code are generated and then checked by the team accountable for the byline. Every formula is verified against the source it cites, every worked example is re-run against an independent second implementation of the same mathematics written separately from the code that runs in your browser, and every external figure is taken from the issuing authority's own publication with a retrieval date.
Automation is bounded in one specific way: a tool can propose a page, an explanation or a formula, but it cannot change the rules a page must satisfy in order to publish. Those rules — sources present and dated, worked examples passing, the limits of a result stated on the page itself — are enforced by the build, and a page that fails any of them does not publish regardless of how it was written. Checking that sources are still reachable and re-running the formula tests are also automated, for the same reason: a process that never forgets is better at it than a process that has to remember.
Corrections, disputes and questions go to the contact page. Reports of a wrong number are treated as priority.