Research policy
How AppsVerified research tools are built
Our free tools organize public rules into a useful first answer. Paid reports preserve the customer’s answers and turn them into a more detailed checklist, evidence plan, or filing roadmap. We do not invent approvals, credentials, or guarantees.
Prepared by AppsVerified Research · Reviewed July 13, 2026
1. Start with the controlling authority
- We prefer government agencies, licensing boards, tax departments, and other primary public sources.
- We record the source review date shown on the tool or report.
- When city, county, state, and federal responsibilities overlap, we keep those layers separate.
2. Separate facts from planning help
- Rule summaries describe what the public source currently says.
- Checklists, risk flags, templates, and filing order are planning aids, not official decisions.
- Unclear or property-specific questions are labeled for confirmation with the named authority.
3. Personalize only from submitted answers
- Meaningful customer answers must change the paid output.
- Detailed answers remain in the AppsVerified order record and are not copied into Stripe metadata or analytics.
- Paid reports freeze the report and source version used for that order.
4. Review and correct
- Pages display a review date and links to official sources.
- Source changes are reviewed before affected guidance is updated.
- Readers can submit a correction with the page, claim, and official supporting source.