Editorial policy
How our editorial team works.
Who writes our guides, questions, tools and news, how we check facts and when we update a page.
Who writes
- Jesper Van BondtWrites on this site about custom software, apps and web apps, automation and building with AI.
- Laurens Van De WieleWrites on this site about marketing: SEO and visibility in Google and AI search, Google Ads and Meta Ads, social media, content and websites that bring in clients.
- VBS EditorialWrites about rules and law (Peppol, the AI Act, accessibility, cookies), running a business, and what the rest of the site does not cover.
A page has to be right on the day you read it.
That is why every guide, question, tool, comparison and news item shows who wrote it, when it went online and when we last checked its facts against the source.
Jesper Van Bondt writes about software, apps and building with AI. Laurens Van De Wiele writes about marketing: SEO, advertising, social media, content and websites. Rules, law and everything else carry the name of the editorial team.
How a fact reaches the page
Four rules for every piece, from a price guide to a news item on e-invoicing.
- We start at the official sourceA rule we read at the Belgian tax authority, the European Commission, EUR-Lex, the national cybersecurity centre or the data protection authority. A Google update at Google itself. Another blog is never the source.
- Every claim gets a source recordFor every figure, price, date and rule we note in the page file where it comes from and the day we read it. We do not show that record, but it exists for every claim.
- What we cannot back up, we do not writeOther companies' prices appear as a range with the date they applied. When something is not decided yet, such as a law still in parliament, the page says so.
- When something changes, we updateWhen a rule, a price or a date changes, we update the page and put a new date under the title. Fixing a typo does not count as a fact check.
What the dates under a title mean
- PublishedThe day the piece first went online.
- Updated and fact-checkedThe day we checked every fact on the page against its source again. When there is only one date, that day was the day of publication.
- News with a day of its ownA news item carries the day it is about at the top: when an update rolled out or a rule takes effect. We write about what is coming in advance, and check the piece again on the day itself.
Independent
Nobody pays us for a mention and we use no affiliate links. When we are one of the options in a comparison, the page says so clearly, and we never top a list of our own.
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