Browse the live directory, try Stumble, or suggest a business. All submissions require editorial review. The reference material below describes the published standard; it is not evidence that an individual business has been checked. No public dataset export or automated check log is offered.
\\nFirst-person accounts from people running small independent things, published as they said them. There are none on the site, so this page publishes the rules any interview must follow before anyone is asked to take part.
\\nNo interviews have been conducted, so there are no stories. There will be none until real people have agreed to real conversations.
\\nWe are not going to fill this page with composites, illustrative examples, or anything produced by a model. A fabricated operator story on a site whose entire claim is that someone checked would be the single worst thing we could publish, and it would be undetectable to you — which is exactly why the rule has to be absolute.
\\nThese are two entirely separate things and neither is a route to the other. Talking to us does not improve your position with the entry bar, and being in the register does not put you in a queue to be interviewed.
\\nWe state this first because it is the rule most likely to be doubted, and because anyone deciding whether to talk to us deserves to know that nothing is being traded.
\\n| You can | \\nWe can | \\n
|---|---|
| Correct anything you said, including changing your mind about it. | \\nEdit for length, and for the ordinary repetitions of speech. | \\n
| Withdraw any quote, for any reason or none. | \\nAsk you to reconsider once, and then accept the answer. | \\n
| Withdraw the whole piece before publication. | \\nDecline to run a piece that has become misleading through withdrawals. | \\n
| Ask for the piece to be removed after publication. | \\nSay plainly, in the piece, where you declined to answer. | \\n
| Be anonymous, if being named would cost you something. | \\nNot attribute a quote to someone who did not agree to it. | \\n
The capture-date rule is the one that looks pedantic and is not. Businesses change; a thing that was true when someone said it may not be a year later, and the date is what stops a quote quietly becoming a claim about the present.
\\nWe do not pay for interviews, and we do not ask for anything in return for one. No link back, no badge, no mention, no reciprocal anything. If we ever start paying, this page says so before the first paid piece runs.
\\nUnconditional, before or after publication, with no reason required and no attempt to talk you out of it. Read the removal procedure. A piece someone regrets is not worth keeping, whatever its editorial merit.
\\n\\nSo that the first person asked can read the terms before deciding, rather than being told them by the person who wants the interview. A policy written after the first conversation tends to describe whatever happened in it.
\\nYou can, and it will not move you up any queue because there is no queue. It also has no effect on register consideration, in either direction.
\\nYes. The two are separate on purpose, and a story about someone we would not list is a perfectly reasonable thing to publish.
\\nCorrect it at the approval stage, or withdraw it later. Neither requires a reason and neither will be argued with.
\\nYes, and for the ordinary hesitations of speech. What we do not do is change what you meant, reorder your words to make a different point, or tidy your voice into ours.
\\nNo. Drafting elsewhere on this site is AI-assisted and we say so plainly. Anyone's quoted words are handled by a person, from the recording to the page.
\\nYes, where being named would cost you something. We would rather run a piece without a name than not run it, and we would much rather that than run it and cause someone a problem.
\\nNo story on this site is fabricated, composited or model-generated. Where there are no stories, the page says so.
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