Editorial standards

Editorial standards & corrections

By Tyler Buck, Founder · Last updated: October 2026

Credit card benefits are money, and getting a number wrong is a trust failure. This page is our public contract for how we keep every published number accurate.

How we verify benefit data

Every benefit figure we publish — credit amounts, reset dates, enrollment requirements — is checked against the issuer's own published terms pages before it goes live. We don't trust third-party roundups, forum posts, or memory. If we can't confirm it in the issuer's terms, it doesn't ship as a fact.

"As of" dating

Benefits change: fees rise, credits shrink, enrollment steps move. Every post carries a "Benefits verified" date next to the byline, and we re-verify changing facts quarterly. A date you see on a page means a human re-checked it then — not that the page was merely opened.

Named review

Everything published here is reviewed by Tyler Buck, Founder, before it goes out. Drafts may be AI-assisted — that help is never a substitute for verification: every fact is human-verified against issuer sources before publishing. AI doesn't get to publish unreviewed, ever.

How to report an error

If you spot a mistake, email support@getperkwatch.com with the page URL and what you found. Reports from readers are the fastest way we learn about a change an issuer made quietly.

Correction log commitment

When we fix something, we note the correction on the page itself — what changed and when. We don't silently rewrite numbers and pretend the old one never existed. The "as of" date updates only after the fact has been re-verified.

No affiliate influence on coverage

Coverage decisions are made on accuracy alone. We currently carry no affiliate links anywhere on the site. If that ever changes, any affiliate relationship will be disclosed on the page it appears on — and it will never change what we write about a card.

The standard we hold

If the AI-assisted drafting disappeared, every page here should still stand on useful, distinct, verified data. That's the test before anything publishes.