Editorial Policy

One person, named on every article they write: Teodoro Pickett. The byline on a post, the author page, and the structured data a search engine reads all come from one record, so they cannot disagree about who wrote something.

We describe our author as an author and nothing else. No invented job titles, no credentials nobody has verified, no certifications, no profiles we do not actually hold. An impressive biography is easy to write and worth less than nothing if it is not true, so this site would rather look thin than look decorated.

Every material claim we publish should be traceable to something you can open yourself. In practice that means:

• Prices are the vendor's own published list price, linked to the page we read it on and dated. Where a vendor publishes no number, we write "contact only" and name them, rather than guessing or repeating a figure from a directory.
• Facts about other companiessuch as acquisitions, product retirements, and founding dates link a primary source: the company's own announcement, an investor release, or a regulatory filing.
• Statistics link the research they come from, with the sample and the field dates named where the publisher gives them. We would rather carry one statistic we can stand behind than ten we cannot.
• Our own judgment is labelled as ours. Where a page groups a market, ranks a trade-off, or estimates a range, it says so in the copy, because a reader and an answer engine should both be able to tell our opinion from a sourced fact.

There are widely repeated numbers in this category that we deliberately do not use, because chasing them back leads to a blog post citing a blog post citing nothing. An article of ours with fewer statistics than a competitor's usually means we could not verify theirs.

We sell CPQ and configurator software, so any comparison we publish includes it. Pretending otherwise would be the dishonest option, and leaving ourselves out would make the comparison incomplete. What we do instead:

• The scoring criteria and their weights are published on the page, before the results, so you can see what we rewarded and disagree with it.
• Our entry sits in category order rather than at the top, and it is marked as ours.
• Every comparison carries a section on where each option is the wrong choice, including ours, naming the buyers we are not right for.
• Our own pricing is described on the same terms we demand of everyone else. Where we publish a structure rather than a number, the page says that plainly instead of implying a figure.

No vendor pays to appear in anything we publish, to be positioned within it, or to be left out of it. We run no sponsored placements, no paid reviews, and no affiliate links: an outbound link to another company's site is there because a reader should check the claim it supports, and it earns us nothing either way.

Every page carries a "Last updated" date, and it moves when the content moves. It is never generated at build time, so it does not advance just because the site was deployed. The date you see on the page is the same date we publish to search engines.

Pages whose value depends on facts that decay carry their own re-check schedule. Comparison pages built on published prices have their sources re-verified quarterly, and any figure that moved is corrected with the date on the page when it is.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will check it: info@dealect.com. If we got it wrong, the page changes and its "Last updated" date changes with it. This applies to what we write about competitors as much as to what we write about ourselves. If you work for a vendor we describe and we have described you inaccurately, write to us with the correction and a source, and we will fix it.

Most of the buying guides in this category are written by companies that sell into it, and almost none of them say so. That is the norm, not a scandal. But it means a reader has no way to tell a methodology from a marketing document, and the only useful response is to publish the method and let it be checked. That is what this page is for, and it is why our comparisons show their weights, name their sources, and say where our own product is the wrong answer.