How we write and review our guides
We draft with large language models and edit by hand. Every guide is grounded in sources we retrieved from the live web at writing time, and the fast-moving topics sit on a fixed review clock. This page describes the whole process, including the parts most sites keep quiet.
How a guide gets made
1. We research the topic with live web search and collect candidate sources before any drafting starts.
2. A language model drafts the guide against a per-theme writer brief with hard editorial rules: active voice, short sentences, concrete numbers over adjectives, no filler.
3. A citation gate checks every source link. If the model invents a link that was not in the retrieved set, the pipeline throws it away. Each kept source is tied to the specific claim it supports.
4. We review, edit, and publish. The same rules apply to guides we write entirely by hand.
The dates you can trust
Published is when the guide first went live. Updated means the content materially changed. Reviewed means we re-checked the guide against current sources and changed nothing. When a review changes nothing, we say so: the guide shows a Reviewed date, not a fake Updated one.
The review clock
Six fast-moving themes are re-checked automatically: AI Literacy & Digital Citizenship and Cybersecurity & Privacy every 30 days, AI Productivity & Prompting and Agentic Coding every 45 days, Automation & No-Code every 60 days, and Coding & Software Fundamentals every 90 days. Evergreen themes like gardening and home repairs do not sit on the automatic clock; we review those when something in the topic actually changes.
What we refuse to publish
No personal financial, medical, or legal advice. Money guides cite primary sources such as tax authorities and central banks, never influencers, and never make buy or sell calls. Health guides defer to peer-reviewed research and public health bodies, not wellness fads. If a claim cannot be tied to a source we retrieved, it does not ship.
Corrections
Found an error? Email [email protected]. We correct the guide and the Updated date changes, so you can see we did.
Who writes this
Taim.io is run by its two co-founders: Lars Nyman (business strategy, AI, cloud, SaaS) and Valeria Nyman (product design, learning design, gardening). They set the editorial rules, own the review pipeline, and answer for what gets published.