1. One data file, four tables
Everything numeric on the site is read from a single file with four tables: programmes that pay for data, disclosed deals, unit prices, and SaaS retention rules. Pages, the price CSV and the comparison tools all read the same file, so a figure cannot say one thing on one page and another elsewhere. Each row records the source URL, the kind of source and the date it was checked.
2. What counts as a source
In order of preference:
- The organisation's own page: a programme's terms, a vendor's help centre, a press release.
- Regulatory filings and company reports, such as annual reports and stock-exchange announcements.
- Reporting by a named outlet. Where the original blocks reading, we use a faithful republication and name both (for example, a Reuters story read through a syndication partner).
We do not use figures that appear only in secondary commentary, in social posts, or behind a paywall we have not opened. When a figure was dropped for that reason, the row's notes say so.
3. How we quote
- Wording stays as published, in quotation marks where it matters, so the firmness of a claim is visible.
- Currency stays as published. We do not convert, average or adjust for inflation.
- Floors stay floors: “$10m+” or “more than $250 million” are never rounded into totals.
- Offers, estimates and settlements are labelled as such and kept apart from closed licences.
4. Dates
Each figure shows the date we last read its source. Each page also shows the date its text last changed. The two differ on purpose: a page can be rewritten without its figures changing, and the reverse.
5. What gets a page
A programme gets its own profile only when its rows hold at least 4 sourced facts, out of: what it takes, published figures, payment model, exclusivity, referral terms and other notes such as eligibility. Below that it stays in the directory, so there are no thin pages. Comparisons are built only between two profiled programmes.
6. What the tools do and do not do
The payout range filter and the offer check line up figures that programmes publish. They contain no valuation model of our own. The retention day counter adds a vendor's published windows to a date you enter. All three run in the browser and send nothing.
7. Conflicts and independence
Who publishes the site, and the conflict that comes with it, is set out on the about page. Programmes do not pay to be listed, and listing is not an endorsement.
8. Corrections
Send the page, the figure and a better source to hello@aitrainingdata.broker. Confirmed corrections go into the data file, the row gets a new checked date, and the change is listed in the next monthly update.