JAVIS exists to help you choose AI tools and software based on evidence, not marketing. This page explains exactly how we research, score, and publish, so you can judge our work rather than just trust it.
Fact, estimate, score, recommendation: never the same thing
Every claim on JAVIS falls into one of four categories, and we label which one it is:
- Fact – something we verified directly (official pricing page, official documentation, a live product screenshot).
- Estimate – a number we or a third party calculated from public signals, always marked as an estimate, never presented as an official figure.
- Score – our own editorial judgment (the JAVIS Score or a Fit Score), built from a documented rubric.
- Recommendation – our opinion on who should or should not use a product, which can differ from the score.
If we do not have a real source for something, we show “Unavailable” rather than inventing a number. This applies to every product on the site, with no exceptions for products that pay us.
How we produce a review
Each flagship review follows a fixed pipeline: discovery, product research against official sources, market and pricing verification, real user feedback from public forums and review sites, a written editorial draft, a fact-check pass, and a self-QA pass before publishing. We do not fabricate hands-on testing. If our review is based on documentation and public evidence rather than direct usage, we label it “Verified editorial review,” not “hands-on.”
Money never buys ranking
An affiliate relationship can change which products we cover first, but it never changes a score, a pro/con, an alternative we suggest, or a written verdict. See our Affiliate Disclosure for how we handle commercial links.
Freshness
Every product page shows a “last verified” date. Pricing, feature and company facts change quickly, especially for AI products, so a claim without a recent verification date should be treated with more caution.