How we build a guide.
Useful buying advice starts with clear evidence, explicit limits, and a willingness to correct the record.
1. Begin with a real buying decision
Each guide should answer a defined commercial buying question and help the reader take a useful next step. We distinguish requirements, product facts, supplier terms, founder observations, and recommendations.
2. Prefer original sources
Product specifications, manufacturer documentation, published warranties, government procurement materials, and applicable standards are preferred to unsourced summaries. Sources are linked in the guide and listed with an evidence check date.
3. Say what we did
Research is not hands-on testing. This site includes researched guides and original editorial illustrations. It does not contain product-testing claims, measured comparative scores, awards, or simulated customer endorsements.
If we conduct testing in the future, the product configuration, acquisition method, conditions, protocol, measurements, limitations, and review date must be documented before publishing results.
4. Treat prices as time-bound evidence
A price needs a source, date, currency, configuration, quantity, buyer eligibility, and inclusion or exclusion of freight, installation, and tax. A manufacturer list price, government contract benchmark, dealer quote, and consumer checkout price are different things.
Calculators show arithmetic on user-entered values. They do not establish fair-market prices or promised savings.
5. Make commercial relationships visible
Founder experience, former employers, sponsorship, affiliate links, or other material relationships should be disclosed next to relevant content. Compensation must not be presented as evidence of performance.
6. Review before publication
Guides are researched and drafted with AI assistance from the sources cited on each page, and the publisher approves each one before it goes live. Each guide shows the date its sources were checked. A person is credited as an author or reviewer only if they did that work.
7. Correct and maintain
Material corrections should be recorded on the article with the change and date. Price and policy information should be rechecked when it is used, not treated as permanently current. Send corrections to hello@officefurniturebuyersguide.com.