Editorial Policy
This page explains how PromptedGrad researches, writes, sources, and corrects its content — including where AI tools fit into that process. We'd rather over-explain this than leave anyone guessing.
AI-assisted. Human researched. Human edited. Human accountable. That's the short version. The rest of this page is the long version.
1. Who Writes This Site
Every article on PromptedGrad is written by Mahesh Ramanujam, a Fellow Chartered Accountant with 25+ years of professional experience in audit, taxation, and business advisory — with the assistance of AI tools, including ChatGPT and Claude, for research, drafting, and editing. Every article is reviewed, edited, and signed off by Mahesh before publication. The professional judgement, the practical insights from a career spent watching technology reshape a profession, and the lived experience behind the advice are entirely human. See the About page for full background.
2. How We Use AI in the Writing Process
We don't hide AI assistance, because hiding it would be dishonest and because it isn't the part of the process that matters most. AI tools help with first drafts, structuring long explanations, and tightening prose. They do not generate the underlying opinions, the professional judgement calls, or the specific claims about regulation, salaries, or company actions — those are researched, checked, and taken responsibility for by a human.
This is the same workflow PromptedGrad recommends to graduates in its own articles on AI at work: use AI as an accelerator for human thinking, never as a replacement for it.
3. How We Source Factual Claims
Articles that make specific factual claims — salary figures, regulatory deadlines, company announcements, statistics — link to the primary or most authoritative source we could find for that claim. Where we can, we prioritise:
- Government and regulatory sources (PIB, MeitY, RBI, SEBI, ICAI) for law, policy, and compliance claims
- Official company sources (press releases, product documentation) for claims about a specific company or product
- Established research and analyst firms (Gartner, IAPP, established news wires) for market data and trend claims
- Multiple independent sources cross-checked against each other, especially for numbers that vary by methodology
Articles published before this policy was introduced are being upgraded in batches — look for the "✓ Reviewed" badge near the top of an article and a "Sources & Further Reading" box near the end. If an article doesn't have these yet, it's on our list, not intentionally excluded.
4. What "Reviewed" Means
The "✓ Reviewed" badge and date on an article means the factual claims in that article were checked against current public sources as of that date — not that the entire article was rewritten. The original publish date reflects when the article's core argument was first written; the reviewed date reflects when its facts were last verified.
5. Corrections & Updates Policy
We correct factual errors when they're identified — by us, by readers, or by events overtaking what we published. How a correction is handled depends on what changed:
- Minor factual corrections (a wrong figure, a broken link, a typo) are fixed directly in the article without a separate note, since they don't change the article's meaning or conclusions.
- Material corrections — anything that changes a claim's substance, a number readers might rely on, or a conclusion — are noted at the point of correction in the article itself, along with the date. We don't silently rewrite claims that readers may have already acted on.
- Overtaken-by-events updates (a regulation's deadline passes, a company changes a stated plan) are updated with a brief note explaining what changed and when.
If you spot something that looks wrong or outdated, we'd genuinely like to know — see the contact details below.
6. Affiliate & Sponsorship Disclosure
A small number of pages include affiliate product links, clearly labelled where they appear. We have no paid or sponsored article placements at this time. Full detail is in our Disclaimer.
7. What Counts as Opinion
Where an article expresses a view — a recommendation, a prediction, a judgement about whether something is overhyped or underrated — that's presented as the author's professional opinion, not as settled fact. We try to signal this in the writing itself (phrases like "I'd argue," "in my experience," "the honest counter-case") rather than relying on a disclaimer to do that work.
8. Contact
Questions about how a specific article was researched, or a correction to report, can go to promptedgradteam@promptedgrad.com.