What has to be true before we hit send.

What we publish, and why

Off Script Wire covers business, money, and markets for a general audience — the news that matters, explained in plain English. We publish the same brief to every reader, because clarity and consistency are the whole point. The rules below keep it honest; their legal versions live at Terms of Use and Disclosures, and where this page and those ever differ, those control.

We're pre-launch — this page describes the standard we're holding ourselves to starting with Issue #001, not a track record we're claiming yet.

Accuracy first

We work hard to get it right, and we'd rather be slow than wrong. Facts get traced to a credible source before they run, numbers get double-checked, and when something is uncertain, we say so plainly instead of dressing a guess up as a finding.

How an issue is checked before it sends

Until August 2026 this page promised that no issue would go out checked only by the person who wrote it — a second human reading every issue before every send. That promise is withdrawn. We are saying so here rather than deleting the sentence, because a standard that quietly stops applying is worse than one we never claimed.

What is true now: the claim-by-claim checking is done by tools, run separately from whatever produced the draft — every claim traced to the source it cites, every number checked against the primary document, every link opened. A named person decides the issue goes, sends it, and is answerable for what is in it; when we get something wrong, the correction runs in the next issue and on the web version, under that name. If a check fails, the issue waits.

Email and the site now hold the same standard. This page used to draw a line between them — on the site the checker may be one of our tools rather than a second person, while the email always had a second human behind it. That line is gone, and it is gone because the email side came down to meet the site, not because the site side went up.

How this is actually made

We use AI tools here — for research, for drafting, and for checking. We're saying so because a standards page that leaves it out isn't a standards page. Here is the division of labour, stated exactly: the claim-by-claim checking is done by tools, run separately from whatever produced the draft, against the primary sources a piece cites. A named person commissions each piece, decides whether it runs, and is answerable for it afterwards. Nothing publishes without that person's approval.

What we are not telling you is that a human re-reads every sentence against every source. That would be a nicer sentence and it would not be true. What is true is that the checking is real, it is separated from the writing, a named person owns the decision to publish, and when we get something wrong it gets corrected in public under that person's name.

Which means a byline is a claim about responsibility, not about typing. You won't find a name on a story who doesn't stand behind it, and you won't find a name we made up — no personas, no house pseudonyms, no staff we don't actually have. Every story links to its author's page, and if there's only one name on this masthead writing, that's simply the true number.

Corrections happen in public

When we get something wrong, we'll fix it where it happened and say so. A material error — a wrong fact, a misstated number, a misleading headline — will get a dated correction note on the piece itself and a mention in the next issue. We won't quietly rewrite history; a correction nobody can see is just a second mistake. Typos and formatting get fixed silently, but anything touching a fact or a claim gets the label.

Spot something we got wrong? Email [email protected] with "Correction" in the subject line and point us at it. We'd rather hear it from you than leave it standing, and we read every one.

Independent from advertisers

Advertising keeps the brief free, and it never touches what we cover. Sponsors buy a clearly-labeled slot, not a sentence of the reporting, and no advertiser sees or steers a story before it runs. The honest state of that program lives at Advertise.

We do not accept compensation — cash, securities, tokens, or anything else — to promote or favorably cover any specific security. If that ever changed, we'd disclose the arrangement in the piece itself, not bury it in a policy page.

Independent from our own positions, too

The person who owns Off Script Wire trades securities for his own account. We say so plainly on our ownership page rather than leaving you to find it, and every piece that names a specific company as its subject carries a position disclosure at the top — naming the writer and the owner, saying long or short, and saying so even when the answer is that nobody holds anything. The timing rules behind it live in our disclosure policy. That is a different regime from the advertising one above, answering to different rules, and we keep the two apart on purpose.

Sponsored means labeled

When paid placements run, every one carries a visible Sponsored label and sits apart from editorial. Nobody should need a magnifying glass to tell an ad from our work — and we decline any placement we wouldn't put in front of our own readers.

How we use market data

The quotes on our markets pages come from third-party providers on a delayed basis, and we treat them as context, not gospel. Delayed data can lag, break, or disagree between sources, so when a number carries a story we check it against the primary source and timestamp it rather than trusting the ticker alone. It's there to orient you, never to time a trade — the full version lives in our disclosures.

What we never do

• Give personal advice. Off Script Wire explains what's happening in business and markets. Nothing we publish is aimed at your account, and we don't tell anyone what to buy, sell, or do with their money.
• Run hidden ads. Paid is always labeled paid, and never disguised as reporting.
• Fabricate or inflate. No made-up quotes, no cherry-picked figures, no numbers we can't source.
• Invent a newsroom. No byline over a piece that person didn't stand behind, no fictional staff, no credentials we don't have. If it says a human is responsible for something, a human is.
• Fix things silently. See the corrections policy above.

Found daylight between this page and our disclosures or terms? The legal pages control — and we'd genuinely like to know so we can fix this one: [email protected].