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01 / Editorial standards

How we write our guides.

Obra publishes guides, comparisons, a glossary and free calculators for contractors. This page says who writes them, where the numbers come from and what we do when something is wrong.

02 / Who writes them

The team that builds Obra.

Guides and comparisons are published under the Obra team's name rather than a personal byline. They are written by the people who build the product.

Nothing is published until a person at Obra has read it and checked what it says about Obra against what Obra actually does.

Every guide and comparison is published in English and in Spanish.

03 / The rules

What you can hold us to.

  1. 01

    Numbers name their source

    Benchmark figures say where they come from, next to the number. Where the original publication is public (CFMA, NAHB, a state licensing board) we link it, and when a figure comes from someone else's summary we say so.

  2. 02

    Competitor facts carry a date

    Each comparison shows the date its facts were last checked against the vendor's own site. Prices and plans change, so we tell you to check the vendor's site before you buy.

  3. 03

    We say where others fit better

    We make Obra, so we are not neutral. Every comparison says what the other product does that Obra doesn't, and which kind of business it suits better.

  4. 04

    "Not yet" means not yet

    When a page says Obra does something, it does it today. Anything we haven't built, like a QuickBooks sync, is called "not yet" instead of being hinted at.

  5. 05

    Dates mean something

    A guide's updated date moves when its content changes, not when we only adjust a link or a title.

  6. 06

    No paid placements

    Nobody pays to appear in a guide or a comparison, and our pages carry no affiliate links.

04 / Corrections

Found a mistake? Tell us.

Email us with the page and what's wrong. We fix factual errors, and when a fix changes what a page says, its updated date changes with it.

support@tryobra.com

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