Standards

Editorial standards

Short enough to hold us to. Every rule here is also a check that runs before a page can be published.

Sourcing

Every figure traces to a primary or named source: a vendor's own page, an SEC filing, a fund document, or a person speaking on the record. The link and the date we read it appear with the figure.
A claim we cannot source, we do not publish. This kills clean-sounding sentences regularly.
Prices are only ever what the vendor publishes. If nothing is published, the cell says "Quote-based", never an estimate.
Estimates and ranges, where unavoidable, are labelled as such.

Every page carries a visible "Updated" date and a machine-readable one, and they are the same date.
Every table row carries the date it was last verified. A row older than a quarter gets re-checked or flagged.

The GP Ledger is an independent publication. Every table row comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the date shown, and rankings are never for sale.
Rankings are never for sale. Sponsored content, if we ever run it, is labelled at the point of presentation and uses rel=sponsored links.
Vendors may correct facts about their own product. They may not influence methodology, conclusions, or order.

The editorial desk is responsible for every page. No invented contributor personas, no fabricated credentials.
Research, extraction and drafting are AI-assisted. Judgment, sourcing and publication are not. Nothing publishes unread.

Material errors are corrected in place with a dated note in the text. Substantive ones are logged on the corrections page. We do not silently edit.
Report an error through the contact form. We review within one business day.