Editorial Policy
Data first, words second
Every city guide starts as a research brief: city building-department fee schedules, permit and impact-fee amounts published for that market, public permit records, and lot-development rules (setbacks, lot coverage, ADU-specific ordinances) that affect what can be built and what it costs. If research can't surface enough distinct, verifiable local data for a city, we don't publish a page for it.
AI-assisted, human-reviewed
We use AI tools to help draft guides from those research briefs. Drafts are bound by hard rules: every price, fee, or permit fact must come from the research brief — nothing invented. Each page then passes an automated quality gate and editorial review before publication. Pages that fail are rejected, not patched.
Independence
- We are not a builder or contractor and do not perform construction work.
- Named local builders appear as examples found in research — never as endorsements.
- Referral partnerships (see disclosure) never change a page's data or rankings. We do not accept payment for coverage.
Corrections
Permit fees and lot-development rules change. If you spot an error, use the quote form on any page to reach us with a note — corrections ship in our regular content-update cycle, and materially wrong pages are pulled until fixed.