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How AdviceGuru works

We are transparent about how this site is made because our readers deserve to know what they are reading.

The columns are beats, not bylines

AdviceGuru is written and edited by a small editorial team — the AdviceGuru Editors. Our coverage is organized into five named columns: The Caregiver's Notebook, The Pragmatist, Showing Up, Ask the Contrarian, and Modern Etiquette. Each column is anchored to a kind of writing this site does well: caregiving, money and work, hard conversations, contrarian analysis, and the small mechanics of adult life.

Columns are editorial beats, not personal bylines. They are how we keep the writing coherent across a subject area — so that a Pragmatist piece on savings sounds like a Pragmatist piece on credit — not like a magazine where every article is written in a different register.

The editorial responsibility for what is published on this site belongs to the AdviceGuru Editors, contactable at editors@adviceguru.com.

How pieces are drafted

Most pieces on AdviceGuru begin as a research brief written by an editor: the specific reader problem, the concrete claims that must be true, the mechanic to explain, and any citations the piece needs.

That brief is drafted into a first pass with the help of large language models, then edited to fit the column, checked for factual accuracy, and cross-referenced against primary sources where possible. The result is a piece where the framing is the editors' and the facts are checked before publication.

We use AI to draft the way most publications now use AI to draft. We do not use it to invent claims, and we do not use it as a substitute for editorial judgment. When a piece cites a number or a fact, that number or fact has been checked against a primary source before publication.

What you can trust

Factual claims — we cite where the fact comes from, or we don't publish it.
Verbatim scripts — the sentences we suggest you say are the sentences we would say ourselves.
Recommendations — when we recommend a product or service, we say so plainly, and we say whether there is an affiliate relationship. Read the disclosures.

What you should double-check

Legal and medical specifics. We give general orientation, not licensed advice. When your situation involves your name on a document or your body in a doctor's office, get a real professional.
State- or country-specific rules. We aim for the general case and flag jurisdictional variance where it matters, but rules move.
Anything that would materially affect your life. Take our piece as a starting point, not a final answer.

Interactive tools

The ask and how-to-say-it tools let you send your specific situation to the editors and get back a piece written in the style of one of the columns. Those tools use the Claude model from Anthropic. Your prompts are not stored, and we do not use them to train anything.

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Last updated August 11, 2026.