How we work

Editorial standard

Cited Cents is an educational field-guide library. It does not provide individualized financial, investment, tax, legal, or insurance advice and does not claim professional credentials it does not hold.

Source hierarchy

Claims that may affect a financial decision begin with current primary sources: regulators, government agencies, official plan or product disclosures, and original legal or tax guidance. Secondary explanations can help with context but do not replace current rules.

Automation policy

Cited Cents is an AI-generated publication. Automation may propose topics, research primary sources, write and expand guides, check structure, and prepare deployments. Every guide must identify its assumptions, explain the decision in substantive detail, and describe what each official validation link confirms.

A page must pass gates for minimum depth, source relevance, duplicate language, prohibited claims, disclosure, reachable validation links, route generation, and a successful production build. A failed gate stops publication. Passing a gate does not turn general education into individualized advice or professional review.

Prohibited shortcuts

• No invented readership, testimonials, comments, savings, or returns.
• No fabricated authors, credentials, quotes, or product experience.
• No guaranteed outcomes or undisclosed paid placement.
• No date-sensitive limit or rate presented without a current source.
• No copying or lightly rewriting another publisher’s article.

Corrections and updates

Each guide displays its publication and update baseline. Material rule changes should trigger a source recheck. If a page cannot be verified, the safer action is to remove or withhold the claim rather than publish an uncertain answer.

Our full correction policy explains how material changes are labeled and how source-backed corrections are handled.